- One of Ireland's most successful singers of all time, her first five single releases were all in the UK top twenty simultaneously. She had a number one in 1955 with "Softly, Softly". More recently her name has come to be used as Cockney slang for a curry.
- A plaque commemorating her was unveiled on the wall of Ulster Hall in Belfast on 29th March 2006 with her first husband and their children in attendance.
- Met her husband Bernie Burgess when they appeared in the same Summer season show in Blackpool and he was a member of the vocal group The Jones Boys.
- Murray's popularity led to her name being adopted in Cockney rhyming slang as a rhyme for "curry". The phrase "have a ruby" appears in various episodes of the BBC TV comedy series Only Fools and Horses.
- The 1950s was a busy period for Murray, during which she had her own television show, starred at the London Palladium with Norman Wisdom, appeared in a Royal Command Performance (1955), and toured the world.
- After being again spotted by Ray Martin[11] on the first "Quite Contrary" show, Murray was signed to Columbia and her first single, "Heartbeat", reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1954. "Softly, Softly", her second single, reached number one in early 1955.
- Spending her last couple of years in Asprey's Nursing Home, she often delighted her carers with a song, and was visited by her friend Max Bygraves.
- EMI put together a compilation album of her hits on CD in 1989, including songs that regularly featured in her act; "Mr. Wonderful", "Scarlet Ribbons" and "It's the Irish in Me". They updated this with the release of EMI Presents The Magic of Ruby Murray in 1997 and a four CD album, Anthology - The Golden Anniversary Collection, in 2005, the 50th anniversary of her peak successes on the charts.
- For the last two years she had totally given up drinking, but her liver had become irreparably damaged and for the eight months until her death she was a patient in a nursing home. The LBC broadcaster Lee Stevens, her manager for 12 years, said, "She gave happiness to millions of people, but sadly she never found real happiness herself.".
- In 1957, while working in Blackpool, Murray met Bernie Burgess, a member of a successful television and recording vocal quartet, the Four Jones Boys. Shortly afterwards she left Northern Ireland to marry him and live with him in Northampton. Burgess, contrary to press reports, did not become her manager, but rather his role was that of a supporting husband. The couple included a song-and-dance segment in Murray's act during the 1960s.
- She also made pop chart history in March 1955 by having five hits in the Top Twenty in a single week, a feat unmatched for many years. In 2014, the Guinness Book of World Records issued three certificates confirming that at the date of issue, nobody had beaten this record, although it was shared with three other singers. The record by a female singer still stands at the date of 26 February 2019.
- Murray struggled with alcoholism for most of her life and this contributed to the breakdown of her marriage in 1974. The divorce was finalised in 1976 and Murray moved to Torquay to live with an old friend, Ray Lamar, a former stage dancer and theatre impresario, who was 18 years her senior. They married in 1991 and spent the evening with a small party of friends and family at an Italian restaurant in Babbacombe.
- When Murray fell in love with the comedian Frank Carson, who was both married and a Roman Catholic, the stresses it put on her marriage increased her reliance on alcohol. She joined Alcoholics Anonymous and twice spent time in a psychiatric hospital after nervous breakdowns. When she and Bernard Burgess divorced in 1977, he alleged that she was prone to physical violence and he was awarded custody of their two children Julie and Tim (now the singer Tim Murray).
- In 1982 she was arrested and fined for being drunk and disorderly - she spent a night in a cell and is alleged to have entertained the police with her hit songs.
- In 1993 she married Ray Lamarr. Though it was a loving relationship, the chronic alcoholism persisted, despite repeated attempts by Murray to stop. (When she did stop, she would smoke 80 cigarettes a day.).
- In a period of 52 weeks, starting on 3 December 1954 and lasting until the end of November 1955, Murray constantly had at least one single in the UK charts - this at a time when only a Top 20 was listed.
- Although her days as a major star were long over, Murray continued performing until close to the end of her life.
- Her final London appearance, at Brick Lane Music Hall in March 1993, revealed a frail, halting performer.
- Son Tim and daughter Julie by Bernie Burgess.
- A biography on her "The True Story of Ruby Murray" co written by Bernie Burgess was published in 2006.
- Owing to laws governing children performing, Murray had to delay her start in the entertainment industry.
- A performance at the Ballymena Variety Theatre in February 1948 received a wonderful reception and she then toured in Northern Ireland as a child singer.
- Still fondly remembered, she received a standing ovation in 1985 when she appeared in the concert Forty Years of Peace in the presence of Princess Anne.
- She returned to Belfast and full-time education until she was 14.
- Murray first appeared on television at the age of 12, having been spotted by producer Richard Afton.
- She had surgery at six weeks of age due to swollen glands, and as a result, had a very husky voice.
- Entering a public speaking contest run by Eglinton Young Farmers Club, Londonderry in March 1947, she won a special prize for the youngest competitor under 18.
- Murray kept busy on the variety stage in Northern Ireland in the early 1950s[8] and in 1954 she joined a touring revue called "Yankee Doodle Blarney" which gave her very useful exposure on the English variety stages.
- A play about Murray's life, Ruby, written by the Belfast playwright Marie Jones, opened at the Group Theatre in Belfast in April 2000. A second play, by Michael Cameron, opened in Belfast on 13 February 2019 and was sold out at all performances.
- Richard Afton offered her the position of resident singer on the BBC's Quite Contrary television show, to replace Joan Regan.
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