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Liner Notes: Revealing Chats With Canada's Retro Music Makers
RayMan Ramsay, Promo Man and author, Part 2
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8 months agoRayMan Ramsay worked for decades as a promo man for top record companies such as Quality Records, RCA, and is a BCCMA Hall of Fame inductee. In part 2 of this chat with Dan Hare, RayMan shares tales from his second book Promo Monkey: Monkey See, Monkey Two: Personas and Prima Donnas including: experiences with artists such as Sammy Davis Jr., Charlie Pride, The Stampeders, The Tragically Hip and many others; the unique promotion he staged for Crash Test Dummies; the challenges and rewards of his job; which band proved to be “a bit of a train wreck”, and much more. Check out RayMan on Facebook @Monkey House: The Written Word.
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