He was not a musician, yet spent some 60 years in the commercial music business beginning as a stock boy and rising to become the nation's first African-American executive of a major record company. The grandson of a former slave, Eddie Ray takes you from the rural foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains to the top executive suites of the burgeoning music industry of the 1950s and 1960s. You'll get a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the music business and how Ray became a formidable force in helping shape that dynamic industry. Starting as a stock boy for Decca Records in Milwaukee,...
He was not a musician, yet spent some 60 years in the commercial music business beginning as a stock boy and rising to become the nation's first Afric...