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2 unusual facts about Don Raye


Don Raye

He also composed the song "(That Place) Down the Road a Piece," one of his boogie woogie songs, which has a medium bright boogie tempo.

, in Washington, D.C., was an American vaudevillian and songwriter, best known for his songs for the Andrews Sisters such as "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar", "The House of Blue Lights", "Just for a Thrill" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."


Complete Live at the Spotlight Club 1958

# "You Don't Know What Love Is (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) - 3:30 Originally released on Portfolio of Ahmad Jamal

She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor

She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor is a 1940 comic song by Don Raye and Hugh Prince and was recorded by Dick Robertson, Pearl Bailey and the British bandleader and clarinetist Harry Roy.


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