1966
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November 7, 2014
I Reached For A Tear (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreAlbum3: Percy Mayfield, My Jug And I, Tangerine TRCS 1505, 1966.Single (B). Tangerine 923, 1962, b/w Never No More. B-side to Percy’s first single on Tangerine. Recorded in New York City on March 23, 1962. Percy Mayfield – vocals; Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; Teddy Edwards – tenor saxophone; Ray Charles – piano; Chuck Norris (?) – […]
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November 3, 2014
It’s A Man’s World
Read moreAlbum: Ray’s Moods, ABC/Paramount/Tangerine 550, 1966. Recorded in 1965 at RPM International, in Los Angeles. With unnamed members of The Ray Charles Orchestra (probably Bobby Womack on guitar). Update 13.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available on YouTube, please let me know in the comments below if you have any footage, thanks — […]
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October 31, 2014
Let’s Go Get Stoned
Read moreAlbum: Crying Time, ABC/Paramount/Tangerine 544, January 1966.Single (A): ABC 10808, May 1966, b/w The Train. Recorded the second fall session in 1965 at RPM International in Los Angeles.Ray may have* listened to Ronnie Milsap’s interpretation before he taped his own. With The Raelettes. Billy Preston on organ. Bass and drums uncredited. Carole Kaye remembers that Rene Hall […]
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October 31, 2014
Life Is Suicide (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Organ)
Read moreAlbum: Percy Mayfield, My Jug And I, Tangerine TRCS 1505, 1966.Single (B). Tangerine 927, 1963, b/w Never Say Naw. Possibly the saddest sample of Percy’s fantastic body of song lyrics. Life Is SuicideRecorded in Los Angeles in 1962. Percy Mayfield – vocals; Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; David Newman – tenor saxophone; Ray Charles – […]
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October 27, 2014
Maybe It’s Because Of Love
Read moreAlbum: Ray’s Moods, ABC/Paramount/Tangerine 550, 1966. A nice, brassy arrangement of Percy Mayfield’s song, recorded during the first fall session in 1965 at RPM International, in Los Angeles. With woodwinds (uncredited – probably session – musicians) and a rhythm section (also uncredited, including Rene Hall on guitar and Earl Palmer on drums). Update 14.02.2021: the video […]
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October 27, 2014
Maybe It’s Because Of Love (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreAlbum3: Percy Mayfield, My Jug And I, Tangerine TRCS 1505, 1966.Single (B): Tangerine 941, 1964, b/w Stranger In My Own Home Town. Recorded in Los Angeles on January 20, 1964. Percy Mayfield – vocals; Ray Charles – piano; Edgar Willis – bass; Other personnel unidentified. Arranged by Gerald Wilson. Maybe It’s Because of Love by […]
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October 27, 2014
Memory Pain (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreSingle (B): Tangerine 935, 1964, b/w You Don’t Exist No More.Album3: Percy Mayfield, My Jug And I, Tangerine TRCS 1505, 1966. Recorded in Los Angeles in 1962. Percy Mayfield – vocals; Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; David Newman – tenor saxophone; Ray Charles – piano; Sonny Forriest, guitar. Arrangement by Gerald Wilson.
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October 25, 2014
My Jug And I (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Organ)
Read moreSingle (A): Tangerine TRC 957, 1965, b/w Give Me Time To Explain. Album3: Percy Mayfield, My Jug And I, Tangerine TRC 1505, 1966. Recorded in Los Angeles on January 20, 1964. Percy Mayfield – vocals; Ray Charles – piano; Edgar Willis – bass; Other personnel unidentified. Arranged by Gerald Wilson.
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October 25, 2014
Never Say Naw (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreAlbum: Percy Mayfield, My Jug And I, Tangerine TRCS 1505, 1966. Single (A): Tangerine 927, 1963, b/w Life Is Suicide. Recorded in Los Angeles in 1962. Percy Mayfield – vocals; Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; David Newman – tenor saxophone; Ray Charles – piano; Sonny Forriest, guitar.
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October 24, 2014
No Use Crying
Read moreAlbum: Crying Time, ABC/Paramount/Tangerine 544, January 1966. One of Ray’s darkest masterpieces. Recorded during the second fall session of 1965 at RPM International in Los Angeles. With Rene Hall on guitar, Earl Palmer on drums, probably Billy Preston on organ, and The Raelettes. Don Peake remembers playing the guitar intro on his 1931 Gibson L5 acoustic […]
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October 22, 2014
Peace Of Mind
Read moreAlbum: Crying Time, ABC/Paramount/Tangerine 544, January 1966. Recorded during the first fall session of 1965 at RPM International in Los Angeles. With woodwinds (probably all session musicians), a rhythm section including Rene Hall on guitar and Earl Palmer on drums, and The Raelettes. Live: According to concert souvenir booklets from c. 1966 and 1968, this number […]
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October 22, 2014
Please Say You’re Fooling
Read moreAlbum: Ray’s Moods, ABC/Paramount/Tangerine 550, 1966. Single (A): ABC 10865, October 1966, b/w I Don’t Need No Doctor. Recorded in August 1966 at RPM International, in Los Angeles. With strings and singers (uncredited); Rene Hall on guitar, Carol Kaye on bass, Earl Palmer on drums. Live: According to a concert souvenir booklet from 1968, this number was […]