Comments by Tim Hollingworth | Eastern North Carolina Now

Comments by Tim Hollingworth

Hi Bobby, Rays daughter in law has contacted the website and tells me that Rays son Christopher has his dads guitar and is looking to find some original sheet music to go with it. What a great idea of togetherness if we can help in the search. Maybe you have some connections in the right places. Cheers...
Commented: Wednesday, August 9th, 2023 @ 2:32 am By: Tim Hollingworth
I was a young boy in the 60's and grew up loving his music. It wasn't until a few years ago when I was helping out my partner on her 60's BBC local radio show, when I was researching Ray Whitley. I had chosen one of three songs to play and talk about and discovered he had passed away in such sad circumstances.

There was also no information about him on Wikipedia except for a 1930's singing cowboy with the same name, which caused lots of confusion for me. I'm not sure but the guitar you mentioned may well be connected to the singing cowboy 'Ray Whitley,' also from Georgia.

So I created a new Wikipedia page for him and his vast amount of music which stopped him getting mixed up with the old black and white film star. I also started collecting all his music from YouTube and made a home for it on his website www.raywhitley.com

It will be four years tomorrow since his passing and I would just like to give something back to the memory of a man and his music that touched myself and countless others all over the world.
Commented: Thursday, May 4th, 2017 @ 1:14 pm By: Tim Hollingworth
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