RAY HENRY STARTED IN THE 50'S WITH A BAND CALLED THE CORVAIRS. THIS BAND PLAYED A LOT OF COUNTRY CLUBS AND WEDDING DATES EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE VERY YOUNG. THE BAND DID SOCK HOPS, THEATERS AND PLAYED AT STERLING FOREST WITH FAMOUS JAZZ MUSICIAN DIZZY GILLESPY. IN THE 1960S RAY TEAMED UP WITH HIS CURRENT DRUMMER AND BACK UP VOCALIST JOHN DOSS (JOHNNY D). CALLED "RAY AND THE RAMBLERS" THEY PLAYED CLUBS AND APPEARED WITH JOEY DEE AND THE STARLITHTERS (PEPPERMINT TWIST) AT CLUB 211 IN MIDDLETOWN NY; THEN HOME OF ROCK AND ROLL!!
LATER, RAY AND JOHN TEAMED UP WITH BOB SKELLETT, BASS PLAYER FOR THE NEXT 25 YEARS. DIFFERENT SIDE MEN WERE EMPLOYED, SAX, KEYBOARD, ETC. THE BAND, NOW CALLED RAY AND THE REVOLUTION, PLAYED THE FAMOUS CATSKILLS IN HOTELS SUCH AS THE CONCORD, BROWNS (THEN OWNED BY JERRY LEWIS), KUTCHERS AND MANY MORE. SUBSEQUENTLY THE BAND PLAYED THE POCONOS IN PLACES LIKE HONEYMOON HAVEN A FAMOUS RESORT WHERE HE JOINED BUDDY HACKET, FRANKIE AVALON AND EDDY FISHER TO MENTION A FEW. THE BAND PLAYED THE FAMOUS FERNWOOD, MT.AIRY LODGE, PARADISE DREAM AND COVE HAVEN (NOW CEASERS COVE HAVEN) ALSO POCMONT NOW OWNED BY RAY'S FRIEND DARIO BALARDI, MANAGER AT HONEYMOON HAVEN WHERE RAY PLAYED FOR 12 YEARS. HE IS NOW MANAGER OF CEASERS INT.
THE BAND DID SOME RECORDING ON THE APCO LABEL AND SOLD SOME ORIGINAL SONGS TO A NASHVILLE PUBLISHING CO.
APPEARING IN THE 70S AT THE EMBERS ON FAMOUS PRINTERS ALLEY IN NASHVILLE, HE WORKED WITH ELVIS'S PIANO AND BASS PLAYER ALONG WITH HBO SHOW COUNTRY MIMIC ROY CLAYBURN. HE ALSO APPEARED AT THE NASHVILLE PALACE WHERE RANDY TRAVIS GOT HIS START.
IT WAS, AT THAT TIME, RAY WAS STRUCK DOWN WITH HEART DISEASE, AND ENDED UP HAVING A BAD BOUT WITH HEART SURGERY IN 1978. IT TOOK HIM A YEAR TO RECOVER. HE STARTED PLAYING AGAIN ONLY TO BE HINDERED BY CHORIDERIAMA, A BLINDING DISEASE FROM WHICH HE IS NOW ALMOST COMPLETELY BLIND. RAY WAS ONCE MORE HOSPITALIZED IN 89 FOR OPEN HEART SURGERY AFTER WHICH HE HAS MADE A COMEBACK AGAIN.
RAY AND THE BAND, CURRENTLY CALLED "NITE LIFE", ARE CURRENTLY WORKING AGAIN; PLAYING AND ENTERTAINING IN THE TRI-STATE AREA FEATURING DRUMMER -JOHN DOSS, BASS PLAYER- -DON LANE AND KEYBOARD PLAYER- -JOE FOSS DOING A VARIETY OF TUNES FROM THE 50'S, COUNTRY STANDARDS, AND LIGHT ROCK. RAY AND THE BAND HAVE TEAMED UP WITH RECORDING ARTIST BOBBY LOUIS AND THE BOBBY LOUIS COUNTRY SHOW APPEARING AT RODEOS, CLUBS ETC. BOBBY CREATES A GREAT VARIETY OF ORIGINALS AND COUNTRY FAVORITES AND ALONG WITH RAY AND "NITELIFE" CREATE A GALA EVENING FOR ALL.
RAY AND THE BAND HAVE BEEN NAMED JUVENILE DIABETES BAND FOR 93! CURRENTLY THE BAND IS PLAYING THE POCONOS AND CATSKILLS IN THE TRI-STATE AREA.
AS MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID WE SHALL OVERCOME
AND WE SHALL CONCUR ALL ODDS WITH GODS HELP.