The Sunrays were an American

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 band from Pacific Palisades, California.

Career

Their first job as the Renegades (in the late 1950s) was at the Seaside Session at Palisades Park in Pacific Palisade. In 1961 they teamed up with Larry Tremaine, and became Larry Tremaine and the Renegades, a rock and roll

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 cover

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 band, consisting of: Larry Tremaine, Steve O'Riley (now deceased), Marty DiGiovanni, Rick Henn, Eddy Medora (now deceased), and Vince Hozier (now deceased). Tremaine was able to keep them working every week at radio dances, UCLA, clubs, celebrity parties and corporate events.

They starred at Crescendo Interlude on Sunset Strip

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 with Joey Dee and the Starlighters, the Teen Age Fair at Pacific Ocean Park

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, the after party for the 1963 Academy Awards

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, The Bob Eubanks

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 TV Dance Party, and every Friday night the house dance party band in San Bernardino, California

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 Civic Auditorium.

In 1963, Tremaine went into the radio stations KBLA

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 and KRLA

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, and later television, and became the host of the syndicated nationwide "Casion Royale Dance Party". In 1964, the group changed their name to The Sunrays, and Mendora switched from the saxophone to rhythm guitar. O'Riley left the band and they appointed a new lead guitarist. The Sunrays were managed by Murry Wilson

Murry Wilson

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.

Their hits included the hit "I Live for the Sun

I Live For The Sun

"I Live for the Sun" is a 1965 single performed by American pop band The Sunrays. It reached #51 on the Billboard Hot 100, #20 on the Australian Singles Chart and was also a Top 20 hit in the UK. It was included on their 1966 studio album, Andrea, under Tower Records...

" (1965) (#51 US

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, #20 Australia

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), "Andrea" (1966) (#41 US) and "Still" (1966) (#93 US).

They toured around the US and opened for the Beach Boys in the US and Canada.