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Ray Pollard

The Barons (members Bob Yarborough (died 7-July-2007 --- cause: ?), Alfonso Brown, Frank Joyner and Sheppard Grant (died 1965, cause: brain hemorrhage) group formed around 1950 in Harlem.

The Singing Wanderers
(members Bob Yarborough, Ray Pollard, Frank Joyner and Sheppard Grant) this was the 1953 group line-up.
 
The Wanderers (members Bob Yarborough, Ray Pollard, Frank Joyner and Sheppard Grant)
 
Savoy 1109 - We Could Find Happiness/ Hey Mae Ethel - 1953 .
 
Dolly Cooper
 
Savoy 1121 - You Gotta Be Good To Yourself / Love Can't Be Blind - 1954 (The Wanderers sing back-up vocals)
 
The Singing Wanderers (members Bob Yarborough, Ray Pollard, Frank Joyner and Sheppard Grant)
 
Decca 29230 - Say Hey, Willie Mays  / Don't Drop It  - 1954 
Decca 29298 - Three Roses / The Wrong Party Again - 1954
 
The Wanderers (members Bob Yarborough, Ray Pollard, Frank Joyner and Sheppard Grant)
 
Onyx 518 - Thinking Of You / Great Jumpin' Catfish - 1957 
Orbit 9003 - A Teenage Quarrel / My Shining Hour - 1958  (Green Label 45 Is Scarcer Than Red Label 45)
Cub 9003 - A Teenage Quarrel / My Shining Hour - 1958 
Cub 9019 - Two Hearts On A Window Pane / Collecting Hearts - 1958 
Cub 9023 - Please / Shadrach, Meshack And Abednego - 1959 
Cub 9035 - I'm Not Ashamed / Only When You're Lonely - 1959 
Cub 9054 - I Walked Through A Forest / I'm Waiting In Green Pastures - 1959 

Cub 9075 - I Could Make You Mine / I Need You More – 1960
Cub 9089 - For Your Love / Sally Goodheart - 1961 (the "A" side was a cover of the 1958 recording by Ed Townsend on Capitol 3926)
Cub 9094 - I'll Never Smile Again / A Little Too Long - 1961 
Cub 9099 - Somebody Else's Sweetheart / She Wears My Ring - 1961 (the "A" side was credited to David Bacharach, one of the first recorded songs by Hal David and Burt Bacharach which probably explains why the dash was left out between the two names) 
 
Cub 9109 - As Time Goes By / There Is No Greater Love - 1962 
MGM 13082 - As Time Goes By / There Is No Greater Love - 1962 
United Artists 570 - After He Breaks Your Heart* / Run Run Senorita - 1963 (lead on both sides Ray Pollard) *also recorded on 8-January-1964 by Roy Hamilton but unissued until track was released in the U. K. on a 2007 POKER Cd "Roy Hamilton Warm Soul" DECKCD 104.  
United Artists 648 - I'll Know / You Can't Run Away From Me - 1963 

Ray Pollard (born 25-August-1930 --- died 26-January-2005 in Las Vegas --- cause: cancer)
 

Shrine 103 - No More Like Me / This Time (I'm Gonna Be True) - 1965
United Artists 856 - Darling Take Me Back I'm Sorry* / My Girl And I - 1965 *Also released in 1965 by Lenny Welch on Kapp 662
United Artists 916 - The Drifter / Let Him Go (And Let Me Love You) - 1965
United Artists 50012 - All The Things You Are / It's A Sad Thing - 1966
Decca 32111 - Lie, Lips, Lie / This Is My Song - 1966
Decca 32189 - This Is No Laughing Matter / Wanderlust – 1966
 
Joe Cuba Sextet (members Joe Cuba, Ray Pollard (joined group 1972), ............................)

Ray Pollard

Omnipotent 1001 - Soulmate / I Am Now - 1973

Additions from David Wapples