1960
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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
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
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.
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October 7, 2014
Worried Life Blues (Someday Baby)
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10118, May 1960, b/w Sticks And Stones. Compilation album: Pure Genius, Atlantic/WEA, 20 September 2005. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Worried Life Blues is one of the most ‘waxed’ blues songs of all time, first recorded by Major “Big Maceo” Merriweather in 1941 (Bluebird 8827). It was inspired by Someday Baby Blues, recorded by […]
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October 7, 2014
Worried Mind
Read moreAlbum: Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, ABC/Paramount 410, April 1962. The album was recorded on 5 and 7 February 1962 at Capitol Studios in New York City, and on 15 February at United Recording Studios in Hollywood. Arranged by Marty Paich. For the little that is known about the personnel, follow the link to […]
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October 7, 2014
X-Ray Blues (With Milt Jackson)
Read moreAlbum: Soul Meeting, Atlantic 1360, February 1961 (1957 – 1958). Recorded in New York on April 10, 1958. Ray Charles – (to the end of guitar solo:) piano, alto saxophone, (after that:) electric piano; Milt Jackson – vibraphone, piano); Kenny Burrell – guitar; Percy Heath – bass; Art Taylor – drums.
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October 7, 2014
Yes Indeed
Read moreSingle (A): Atlantic 1180, March 1958, b/w I Had A Dream. Album: Yes Indeed, Atlantic 8025, October 1958. Recorded in New York on 20 February 1958 with Marcus Belgrave, Lee Harper – tp; David Newman – ts, as; Emmett Dennis – bs; Edgar Willis – b; Richie Goldberg – ds; The Raelettes – backing vocals. Yes […]
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October 7, 2014
Yesterday
Read moreAlbum: Ray Charles Invites You To Listen, ABC/Tangerine 595, June 1967. Single (A): ABC 11009, November 1967, b/w Never Had Enough Of Nothing Yet. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles in 1966 or 1967. With The Ray Charles Orchestra, a strings section, and The Raelettes (all uncredited; Bobby Womack on guitar). Arrangements by Sid Feller. ’67 […]
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October 7, 2014
Yesterdays
Read moreAlbum: A Portrait Of Ray, ABC/Tangerine 625, March 1968. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles in February 1968. With strings, woodwinds, a choir, and a rhythm section consisting of session musicians (all uncredited, but possibly including Carol Kaye on bass). Arranged by Sid Feller. Live: According to contemporary concert souvenir booklets, this number was part […]
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October 7, 2014
You And I (With Betty Carter)
Read moreAlbum: Ray Charles And Betty Carter, ABC/Paramount 385, July 1961. Recorded at the United Studios in Hollywood on June 13 – 14, 1961. Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; David Fathead Newman – tenor saxophone; Leroy Cooper – baritone saxophone; Bill Pittman – guitar; Edgar Willis – bass; Mel Lewis, Bruno Carr – drums; The Jack Halloran […]