1963

  • November 25, 2014

    Sunday, Monday Or Always (By Jimmy Scott, Ray Charles On Piano)

    Album3: Jimmy Scott: Falling In Love Is Wonderful, Tangerine, TRC 1501, 1963. Taped at the United Recordings Studios in Hollywood, in 1962. Arranged by Gerald Wilson.

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  • November 20, 2014

    A Stranger In Town

    Album: Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul, ABC/Paramount 465, August 1963. Recorded on 10 and 13 July 1963 in New York. Oliver Beener, Wallace Davenport, Phil Guilbeau, John Hunt, Roy Burrows, Floyd Jones, Curtis Miller – trumpets; Henderson Chambers, James Lee Harbert, Keg Johnson, Julian Priester, Fred Morden – trombones; Hank Crawford, Bill Pearson, Harold Minerve, […]

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  • November 17, 2014

    Birth Of A Band (With The Ray Charles Orchestra)

    Album (DVD): O Gênio, Rhino/WEA, 16 November 2004. This was one of the charts donated by Quincy Jones to the book of the new Ray Charles big band in 1961. Don’t miss the tenor chase with Fathead and Tina Brooks in the O Gênio clip, from 1963. The full line-up in São Paulo: Musicians: Oliver Beener, Roy Burrows, […]

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  • November 16, 2014

    Born To Be Blue

    Album: Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul, ABC/Paramount 465, August 1963. The album was recorded on 10 and 13 July 1963 in New York. With strings and the Ray Charles Orchestra. Oliver Beener, Wallace Davenport, Phil Guilbeau, John Hunt, Roy Burrows, Floyd Jones, Curtis Miller – trumpets; Henderson Chambers, James Lee Harbert, Keg Johnson, Julian Priester, […]

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  • November 16, 2014

    Busted

    Album: Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul, ABC/Paramount 465, August 1963.Single (A): ABC 10481, August 1963, b/w Making Believe. The album was recorded on 10 and 13 July 1963 in New York. With Oliver Beener, Wallace Davenport, Phil Guilbeau, John Hunt, Roy Burrows, Floyd Jones, Curtis Miller – trumpets; Henderson Chambers, James Lee Harbert, Keg Johnson, Julian […]

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  • November 8, 2014

    How Deep Is The Ocean (How High Is The Sky) (By Jimmy Scott, Ray Charles On Piano)

    Album3: Jimmy Scott, Falling In Love Is Wonderful, Tangerine TRC 1501, 1963. Recorded at the United Recordings Studios in Hollywood, in 1962.Jimmy later remembered that Ray wanted him to record this song as it was Ray’s all-time favorite. Arranged by Gerald Wilson.

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  • November 7, 2014

    I Didn’t Know What Time It Was (By Jimmy Scott, Ray Charles On Piano)

    Album3: Jimmy Scott, Falling In Love Is Wonderful, Tangerine TRC 1501, 1963. Recorded at the United Recordings Studios in Hollywood, in 1962. Arranged by Gerald Wilson.

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  • November 6, 2014

    I Wish I Didn’t Love You So (By Jimmy Scott, Ray Charles On Piano)

    Album3: Jimmy Scott, Falling In Love Is Wonderful, Tangerine TRC 1501, 1963. Recorded at the United Recordings Studios in Hollywood, in 1962. Arranged by Gerald Wilson.

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  • November 6, 2014

    If I Should Lose You (By Jimmy Scott, Ray Charles On Piano)

    Album3: Jimmy Scott: Falling In Love Is Wonderful, Tangerine, TRC 1501, 1963. Recorded at the United Recordings Studios in Hollywood, in 1962. As arranger Gerald Wilson told it in the liner notes to the 2003 reissue of the album, “Ray supervised, but he did so from the piano. He played on every track. And he made […]

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  • November 5, 2014

    I’m Getting Sentimental Over You (By Jimmy Scott, Ray Charles On Piano)

    Album3: Jimmy Scott, Falling In Love Is Wonderful, Tangerine TRC 1501, 1963. Recorded at United Recordings Studios in Hollywood, in 1962. Arranged by Gerald Wilson.

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  • November 4, 2014

    In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down)

    Album: Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul, ABC/Paramount 465, August 1963.Album: Live In Concert, ABC/Paramount 500, 1964. Recorded on 10 or 13 July 1963 in New York. Ray’s take on this song almost seemed like a personal lesson in blues (re-)interpretation for Ella Fitzgerald, who released the song on her These Are The Blues album that same year. Where […]

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  • October 24, 2014

    Ol’ Man River

    Album: Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul, ABC/Paramount 465, August 1963. Recorded on 10 or 13 July 1963 in New York with uncredited strings and The Jack Halloran Singers. Arranged by Marty Paich. In 1988 and 1989 Ray recreated the 1963 chart of Ol’ Man River with the orchestra and choir of the New York Ballet […]

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