Ronnie Ray's Playboys

Ronnie Ray & The Playboys recorded the first significant instrumental to emerge from Fargo – “The Vulture.” Ron Rekken, then a freshman at Concordia College, took a Playboys lineup that included Larry McCrehin, Pete Beck and Bruce Carney to the Circle-Dot Studio in Minneapolis and recorded “The Vulture” (a McCrehin composition) in October 1959. “The Vulture” was released in January 1960 and nearly edged out “Muleskinner Blues” by The Fendermen atop KXGO’s Fabulous Fifty Survey, settling in one week at #2.