1960
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October 29, 2014
Love Walked In
Read moreAlbum: Ray Charles Invites You To Listen, ABC/Tangerine 595, June 1967. A beautifully intense interpretation of the Gershwin song, and a world record falsetto singing. Recorded at RPM International in 1966 or 1967. With The Ray Charles Orchestra, and a strings section. Arrangement by Sid Feller.
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October 29, 2014
Love’s Gonna Live Here
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10700, June 1965, b/w I’m A Fool to Care.Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Ray stayed close to the original Buck Owens song. The backing vocals sound as if The Raelettes were dubbed over the slick (Jack Halloran?) studio singers who were featured in most of Ray’s country song recordings in […]
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October 29, 2014
Ma (She’s Making Eyes At Me)
Read moreAlbum: Have A Smile With Me, ABC/Paramount 495, June 1964. Recorded in New York in the first week of May 1964. With the Ray Charles band: Curt Miller, Oliver Beener, Floyd Jones, Philip Guilbeau, John Hunt, Roy Burrowes, Wallace Davenport – trumpets; Henderson Chambers, Julian Priester, Keg Johnson – trombones; Danny Turner, Harold Geezil Minerve, Bill […]
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October 28, 2014
Makin’ Whoopee
Read moreAlbum: Live In Concert, ABC/Paramount 500, 1964.Single (A – vocal; B – piano): ABC 10609, November 1964. Ray Charles – piano; Don Peake – guitar; Edgar Willis – bass; Wilbert Hogan – drums. Live:’64 LC Copenhagen’64 LC England’70 TV Humperdinck’91 LC Montreux
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October 28, 2014
Making Believe
Read moreAlbum: Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music Volume 2, ABC/Paramount 435, October 1962.Single (B): ABC 10481, August 1963, b/w Busted. Recorded on 7 September 1962 in Hollywood. Arranged by Marty Paich. Musicians not credited. Update 14.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available on YouTube, please let me know in the comments below if […]
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October 28, 2014
Mama Caleba’s Blues
Read moreAlbum3: In The Heat Of The Night, United Artists Records 1C 064-82 893, 1967. Ray never sounded better on piano. Quincy Jones remembered that “the microphone was placed behind the piano, to create a somewhat ‘surreal’ echo effect”. Ray Charles – piano; Billy Preston – organ; ?Ray Brown? – base; ?Don Elliot? or ?Earl Palmer? – drums; ?Toots […]
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October 27, 2014
Margie
Read moreAlbum: Dedicated To You, ABC/Paramount 355, January 1961. Recorded at the United Studios in Hollywood on August 23 or 24, 1960. John Hunt – trumpet; Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; David Fathead Newman – tenor saxophone; Leroy Cooper – baritone saxophone; Martin Banks, Bill Pittman – guitar; Edgar Willis – bass; Irving Cottler – drums. Marty […]
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October 27, 2014
Marie
Read moreAlbum: Dedicated To You, ABC/Paramount 355, January 1961. Recorded at the United Studios in Hollywood on August 23 or 24, 1960. John Hunt (trumpet); Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; David Fathead Newman – tenor saxophone; Leroy Cooper – baritone saxophone; Martin Banks, Bill Pittman – guitar; Edgar Willis – bass; Irving Cottler – drums. Marty Paich […]
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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
Maybe It’s Nothing At All
Read moreAlbum: Country And Western Meets Rhythm And Blues (aka Together Again), ABC/Paramount 520, August 1965. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. The Raelettes took care of the backing vocals. Arranged by Onzy Matthews. Update 14.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available, please let me know in the comments below if you have any […]
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October 27, 2014
Mean to Me (By David Fathead Newman, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreAlbum3: Fathead, Atlantic 1304, 1960. Recording Date: November 5, 1958 at the Atlantic Recording Studio, in New York. Ray Charles (p), David Newman (as), Marcus Belgrave (tp); Hank Crawford (bs), Edgar Willis (b), Milt Turner (ds). Arranged by Hank Crawford.