1963
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October 23, 2014
Ol’ Man Time
Read moreAlbum: Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul, ABC/Paramount 465, August 1963. Single (B): ABC 10509, November 1963, b/w That Lucky Old Sun. Recorded on 10 or 13 July 1963 in New York. The big band tracks were produced with members of the Ray Charles Orchestra, and a few session musicians: Oliver Beener, Wallace Davenport, Phil Guilbeau, […]
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October 22, 2014
Over The Rainbow
Read moreAlbum: Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul, ABC/Paramount 465, August 1963. Ray solo, in a majestic arrangement, recorded on 10 or 13 July 1963 in New York. With strings (uncredited) and The Jack Halloran Singers. Arranged by Marty Paich. Live: ’72 LC San Carlos – With Susaye Greene
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October 17, 2014
Someone To Watch Over Me (By Jimmy Scott, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreAlbum: Jimmy Scott, Falling In Love Is Wonderful, Tangerine, TRC 1501 (Monaural)/TRCS 1501 (Stereo), 22 June 1963. Recorded with uncredited musicians at the United Recordings Studios, Hollywood, California in 1962. Arranged by Gerald Wilson. David Ritz wrote (in The Guardian of 9 January 2003): “Charles thought Scott’s problem was that he didn’t have the right material. That was […]
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October 13, 2014
That Lucky Old Sun
Read moreFull page ads in Billboard (above) and Cashbox (below). Album: Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul, ABC/Paramount 465, August 1963. Single (A): ABC 10509, November 1963, b/w Ol’ Man Time. For session details, follow the album link, above. The single version was cut back to a little longer than 3 minutes. The performance of this song at the Shrine […]
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October 11, 2014
There Is No Greater Love (By Jimmy Scott, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreAlbum3: 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. 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 […]
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October 11, 2014
They Say It’s Wonderful (By Jimmy Scott, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreAlbum3: Jimmy Scott: Falling In Love Is Wonderful, Tangerine, TRC 1501, 1963. Taped at the United Recordings Studios in Hollywood, in 1962. Arranged by Marty Paich. 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 […]
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October 10, 2014
Unidentified Instrumental (Ray Charles On Alto)
Read moreAlbum (DVD): O Gênio, Rhino/WEA, 16 November 2004. The clip below shows the “unidentified instrumental” from the São Paulo concerts on 19 September 1963 at the Cultura Artística theater in São Paulo. It’s one of the oldest Ray Charles live-clips on YouTube. It keeps on amazing people who didn’t know that The Genius also could bop on his alto […]
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October 8, 2014
Where Can I Go
Read moreAlbum: Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul, ABC/Paramount 465, August 1963. Ray’s marvelous interpretation of Leo Fuld’s Wo Ahin Soll Ich Geh’n (Tell Me Where Shall I Go). Arranged by Johnny Parker. The album was recorded on 10 and 13 July 1963 in New York. Follow the link to the album (above) to check on […]
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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 6, 2014
You’ll Never Walk Alone
Read moreAlbum: Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul, ABC/Paramount 465, 1963-08. 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, Dan […]