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October 8, 2014
Where’re The Stars
Read moreAlbum: Would You Believe? Warner Bros 26343, October 1990. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. Musicians remained uncredited.
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October 8, 2014
Who Cares (With Janie Frickie)
Read moreAlbum: Friendship, Columbia 39415, February 1985. Single (B): Columbia 4751, December 1984. Recorded at the Eleven Eleven Studios and the Soundshop Studio in Nashville, and the Pedernales Studio in Spicewood, with c&w veteran Billy Sherrill. Ray finished things off at RPM International in Los Angeles. With session musicians Hargus Pig Robbins, Robert Ogdin, Bobby Wood – […]
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October 8, 2014
Who Cares (For Me)
Read moreAlbum: Have A Smile With Me, ABC/Paramount 495, June 1964. Recorded in Los Angeles in the first week of May, 1964. Arranged by Gerald Wilson. Follow album link to check on personnel. Background vocals on this one: The Raelettes. Move It On Over and Who Cares (For Me) were recorded in 1962 at the Capitol Studios in New […]
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October 8, 2014
Why Did You Go
Read moreThe Miami-based music business veteran Henry Stone has claimed several times that he recorded and released the tune in 1950 or 1951, together with St. Pete’s Blues, Walkin’ And Talkin’, and I’m Wonderin’ And Wonderin’. In the excellently researched liner notes of the “early years” compilation album The Way I Feel, though, only Walkin’ And Talkin’ and I’m Wonderin’ And Wonderin’ are located in […]
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October 8, 2014
Why Me, Lord (With Johnny Cash)
Read moreCompilation album: Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters, Concord Records, 25 October 2010. This duet track with Why Me, Lord was discovered in the Sony vaults; the Kristofferson song was produced by Billy Sherrill in Nashville in 1981 for a Johnny Cash CBS album – which never was released. Ray added some fantastic keyboard licks. Hear this Johnny Cash version, […]
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October 8, 2014
Why Try To Change Me Now (By Jimmy Scott, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreAlbum3: Jimmy Scott: Falling In Love Is Wonderful, Tangerine, TRC 1501, 1963. Taped at United Recordings Studios, Hollywood, California in 1962 Jimmy Scott: “The record was completed in just a few sessions. I don’t think we did more than two takes on any one tune. There wasn’t any overdubbing either. It was all-the-way live. The fiddlers […]
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October 8, 2014
Wichita Lineman
Read moreAlbum: Volcanic Action Of My Soul, ABC/Tangerine 726, April 1971. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. The musicians remained uncredited (but it has the great Buddy Emmons playing pedal steel guitar). Arranged by Sid Feller.
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October 8, 2014
Willow Weep For Me (With David Fathead Newman, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreAlbum: Fathead, Atlantic 1304, 1960 (November 1958). Album (DVD): Ray Charles à Montreux 1978, S.p., S.a. Recording Date: November 5, 1958 at Atlantic Recording Studios, New York. Ray Charles (p), David Newman (as), Marcus Belgrave (tp); Hank Crawford (bs), Edgar Willis (b), Milt Turner (ds). Arranged by Hank Crawford. Recording engineer: Tom Dowd. Live: Twenty […]
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October 8, 2014
Willow Weep For Me
Read moreAlbum: Sweet And Sour Tears, ABC/Paramount 480, 1964-08. A gorgeous big band version, in a slow tempo exercise, recorded on 8 May 1964 at the United Studios in Hollywood and arranged by Calvin Jackson. Follow the album link above for details.
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October 8, 2014
Winter Wonderland
Read moreAlbum: The Spirit Of Christmas, Columbia 39415, January 1986. The album was recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with members of the Ray Charles Orchestra, The Raelettes and session musicians in the fall of 1984 (maybe into early 1985). Mark Curry, Jim Seeley, Robbie Kwock, Jeff Kaye, Freddie Hubbard, Johnny Coles – trumpets; Mayo Tiana, […]
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October 8, 2014
Without A Song
Read moreSingle (A – Part 1, B – Part 2): ABC 10663, April 1965. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Recorded on July 10, 1963, in Los Angeles (in the session for A Recipe For Soul). Irving Carter – drums; Al Hendrickson – guitar; Joe Comfort – bass; Armand Kaproff, Eleanor Slatkin, Harold Schneier, […]
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October 8, 2014
Without Love (There Is Nothing)
Read moreDutch single. Single (B): ABC 10453, May 1963, b/w No One. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. One of Ray’s darkest renditions, and one of my all time favorites. Incredible that this tune didn’t make it to his live repertoire.