Sugar Daddy

Lynette
with
Kai-Ray & Crew
(Richard A. Caire, Lingua-Musica BMI)


Sugar Daddy

Backed by Kai-Ray and his Crew. Kai-Ray is Richard Caire, of "Trashman's Blues,"  The song was the namesake for the Trashmen, a Minneapolis group widely known for the 1963 hit "Surfin' Bird," and for whom Caire would later write songs.

Richard Caire, by all accounts, was not a very talkative guy about his own music. There was an (unsuccessful) interview attempt by James Marshall (ironically titled Kai Ray, the legend tells James Marshall everything) published in 1992 by Kicks Magazine #7, p.19, followed by a short discography. And according to his daughter Julie Devereaux, a Boston radio DJ :

Although conversations with her father always revolved around music, she didn't learn of his own musical accomplishments until the internet emerged."It was surprising that he didn't talk about it," she said. "It's just something that he had, that he maybe didn't realize how important it was."

Richard Caire died in 1981 (see StarTribune article). We can therefore no longer count on him to have some info on Lynette . . .