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November 18, 2014
Baby Please (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Organ)
Read moreAlbum: Percy Mayfield, My Jug And I, Tangerine TRCS 1505, 1966. Recorded in Los Angeles in 1962. With Percy Mayfield – vocals; Marcus Belgrave – trumpet; Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; Ray Charles – organ; Howard Roberts – guitar; Edgar Willis – bass; Al McKibbon – bass; Milt Turner – drums.
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November 18, 2014
Baby Won’t You Please Come Home
Read moreSingle (A): Swing Time 297, b/w Hey Now. Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Los Angeles, in 1951. Ray Charles “with Orchestra”: Ray Charles – voc, p; Unidentified – g, b, d. Sy Oliver – arranger. The brief Billboard review from 20 September 1952 could have influenced Charles’ decision to find his own voice: “Again […]
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November 18, 2014
Baby, It’s Cold Outside (With Betty Carter)
Read moreAlbum: Ray Charles And Betty Carter, ABC/Paramount 385, July 1961. Single (A): ABC 10298, January 1962, b/w We’ll Be Together Again One of the most brilliant duets ever recorded. Produced at the United Studios in Hollywood on June 13 or 14, 1961. With Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; David Fathead Newman – tenor saxophone; Leroy Cooper – […]
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November 18, 2014
Bad Water (The Raelettes, Ft Estella Yarbrough, Ray Charles On Keyboards)
Read moreSingle (A): Tangerine 1014, 1970, b/w That Goes To Show You. Album3: (Ray Charles Presents The) Raeletts, Yesterday… Today… Tomorrow, Tangerine 1515, 1972. The Raelettes (probable line-up): Vernita Moss, Susaye Green, Mable John, ?Dorothy Berry? and Estella Yarbrough. Ray Charles also contributed backing vocals. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with uncredited members of the […]
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November 17, 2014
Bag’s Guitar Blues (With Milt Jackson)
Read moreCompilation album: Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings, Atlantic, 2005 (1952-1959). Recorded on 12 September 1957, in New York. Milt Jackson – guitar, Ray Charles – piano; Billy Mitchell – tenor saxophone; Skeeter Best – guitar; Oscar Pettiford – bass; Connie Kaye – drums.
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November 17, 2014
Bags Of Blues (With Milt Jackson)
Read moreAlbum: Soul Meeting, Atlantic 1360, February 1961 (1957 – 1958). Recorded on September 12, 1957 in New York. Milt Jackson – vibraharp; Ray Charles – piano; Billy Mitchell – tenor saxophone; Oscar Pettiford – bass; Connie Kaye – drums.
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November 17, 2014
Basin Street Blues
Read moreAlbum: Album: Genius Hits the Road, ABC/Paramount 335, July 1960. Recorded at the Capitol Studios in New York on March 25, 1960. With John Hunt, Marcus Belgrave, Martin Banks – trumpet; David Newman – tenor saxophone, Hank Crawford – alto saxophone, Leroy Cooper – baritone saxophone; Milt Turner – drums; Edgar Willis – bass. According to […]
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November 17, 2014
Be My Love
Read moreAlbum: True To Life, Crossover/Atlantic 19142, October 1977. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with a mix of road musicians from his Orchestra, and strings. An audiotape of a working session where Sid Feller and Ray Charles discussed and worked on the arrangement of the song has survived. ’99 LC Tulsa
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November 17, 2014
Beatrice (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreAlbum (Blu Ray DVD): Ray Charles Live At Montreux 1997, Eagle Rock B001JL2V2E, December 2008. Arranged by Wayne Coniglio. 1997 personnel: Ted Murdock, Roger Ingram, David Hoffman, Ken Scharf – trumpets; Mike Guerrier, Steve Sigmund, Clay Lawrey, Wayne Coniglio – trombones; Al Waters, Al Jackson, Steve Elliott, Rudy Johnson, James Farnsworth – saxophone; Kenny Carr – guitar; […]
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November 17, 2014
Beaucoup Love
Read moreAlbum: From The Pages Of My Mind, Columbia 40388, September 1986. Recorded in Nashville, and mixed in Los Angeles, at RPM International. With Bobby Odgin, Timmy Tappan – piano; William Puett – horns; Hargus Pig Robbins, Bobby Wood – keyboards; Pete Bordonali, Pete Drake, Jerry Kennedy, Weldon Myrick, Dale Sellers – guitar; Billy Sanford, Henry Strzelecki, […]
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November 17, 2014
Bess, You Is My Woman Now (With Cleo Laine)
Read moreAlbum: Porgy & Bess, RCA 1831, November 1976. Cleo and Ray recorded together from 20 to 23 April 1976 at RCA Recording Studio in Hollywood. Joe Pass on Guitar. For the further line-up, click on the album’s link.
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November 17, 2014
Big Bad Love (With Diana Ross)
Read moreAlbum: Genius And Friends, Rhino/WEA, 20 September 2005. The tune has also been part of several Diana Ross compilations. Big Bad Love is a duet with Diana Ross, recorded in ’91 [or was it ’94?]. It was used for the soundtrack of The Favor, a 1994 film directed by Donald Petrie.