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October 26, 2014
My Baby Don’t Dig Me
Read moreSingle (A): My Baby Don’t Dig Me, ABC 10557, May 1964, b/w Something’s Wrong. Compilation: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. One of the 16 Percy Mayfield-penned tunes that Ray Charles delivered on vinyl. Here with his big band.
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October 26, 2014
My Bonnie
Read moreSingle (B): Atlantic 1196, August 1958, b/w You Be My Baby. Compilation: What’d I Say, Atlantic 8029, September 1959. Recorded in New York on 20 February 1958 with Marcus Belgrave, Lee Harper – tp; David Newman – as, ts; Emmett Dennis – bs; Richie Goldberg – d; Edgar Willis – b. The Raelettes – backing vocals. O […]
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October 25, 2014
My Buddy
Read moreAlbum3: Quincy Jones, Q – The Musical Biography, Rhino R2 74363-2, 1991. DVD: Quincy Jones & Claude Nobs Present: Montreux Jazz Festival 1991 & 1992, Montreux, S.a. (track #20). In the 1984 documentary I Love Quincy, the protagonist surprised the film makers by giving them a tape that he had just found back, advising them to let Ray Charles […]
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October 25, 2014
My Cup Runneth Over (By Rita Graham, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreAlbum3: Rita Graham, Vibrations, Tangerine TRCS 1507, 1969. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with uncredited musicians. Arranged by Sid Feller.
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October 25, 2014
My First Night Alone Without You
Read moreAlbum: Through The Eyes Of Love, ABC/Tangerine 765, August 1972. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. The musicians remained uncredited. Arrangement by Sid Feller.
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October 25, 2014
My Friend (With Take 6)
Read moreAlbum3: Take 6, Join The Band, Reprise Entertainment 9 45497-2, 1994. Ray Charles joined the close harmony group Take 6 for the 3d track on their album Join The Band. In September 2014 their successful Ray Charles tribute show in Las Vegas premiered. Soundclip:
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October 25, 2014
My God And I
Read moreCompilation album: Recorded Live At Newport In New York, Buddah BDS5616, 1974 (1973). Album: Renaissance, Crossover 9005, June 1975. This is one of the rare cases where a live rendition sooner found its way to vinyl than the studio version. Ray’s delivery in the studio was excellent, but the live version is superior. This beautiful song was recorded twice on […]
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October 25, 2014
My Heart Cries For You
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10530, February 1964, b/w Baby, Don’t You Cry. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Sid Feller produced the tune with strings and choir. It’s one of the very few tracks that Ray remixed later “because he hated the strings on the original mix”.
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October 25, 2014
My Jug And I (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Organ)
Read moreSingle (A): Tangerine TRC 957, 1965, b/w Give Me Time To Explain. Album3: Percy Mayfield, My Jug And I, Tangerine TRC 1505, 1966. Recorded in Los Angeles on January 20, 1964. Percy Mayfield – vocals; Ray Charles – piano; Edgar Willis – bass; Other personnel unidentified. Arranged by Gerald Wilson.
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October 25, 2014
My Melancholy Baby (With The Ray Charles Band)
Read moreAlbum: The Great Ray Charles, Atlantic 1259, August 1957. Recorded on 26 November 1956 in New York at the Coastal Recording Studios. Ray Charles – p; Joe Bridgewater, John Hunt – tp; David Newman – as, ts; Emmett Dennis – bs; William Peebles – d; Roosevelt Sheffield – b. Arranged by Ray Charles.
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October 25, 2014
My World
Read moreAlbum: My World, Warner Bros 26735 (CD), WE 833 (vinyl), March 1993. Recorded at Rat Cherokee, House of Soul, Capitol, Summa, Studio Ultimo, Clinton Recording Studio B, and Peter Rafelson Studio. For the names of the session musicians, follow the link to the album description, above.
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October 25, 2014
Nancy (With The Laughing Face)
Read moreAlbum: Dedicated To You, ABC/Paramount 355, January 1961. Recorded at the United Studios in Hollywood on August 23 or 24, 1960. With uncredited strings and (Jack Halloran’s?) singers. Marty Paich – arranger, conductor. Live: According to concert souvenir booklets from 1961 to 1964, this number was part of the live repertoire then, but no recordings with […]