1960

• October 10, 2014

  Understanding

  Album: A Portrait Of Ray, ABC/Tangerine 625, March 1968. Single (A): ABC 11090, May 1968, b/w Eleanor Rigby. Recorded on April 11, 1967, at RPM International in Los Angeles. With Bill King, Walter Miller – tp; Fred Murrell, Henry Coker – tb; Curtis Amy – ts; Leroy Cooper – bs; Rene Hall (or Barry Rillera?) – g; […]

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• October 10, 2014

  Unidentified Instrumental (Ray Charles On Alto)

  Album (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 9, 2014

  Untitled Blues

  Album: Ray Charles – Live In Paris, Frémeaux FA5466, 2013. During the Olympia concert in Paris on May 18, 1962, Ray Charles played a marvelous (piano & hum & scat) blues which was only recently released.

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• October 9, 2014

  Watch It Baby

  Album: Country And Western Meets Rhythm And Blues (aka Together Again), ABC/Paramount 520, August 1965. Ray recorded this typical Percy Mayfield song at RPM International in Los Angeles. The musicians were not credited. Arranged by Gerald Wilson. Listen here. 

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• October 9, 2014

  We Can Make it

  Album: Ray Charles Doing His Thing, ABC/Tangerine 695, May 1969. Single (A): ABC 11239, August 1969, b/w I Can’t Stop Loving You, Baby. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. With The Raelettes, The Ray Charles Orchestra (all musicians remained uncredited. Doug “Doctor Music” Riley contributed as arranger and “second keyboardist” (for the single version; the album version didn’t […]

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• October 9, 2014

  We Don’t See Eye To Eye

  Album: Crying Time, ABC/Paramount/Tangerine 544, 1966-01. Recorded in Q3 of 1965 at RPM International in Los Angeles. With the Ray Charles Orchestra. The album doesn’t credit any of the musicians. Listen here. Live: According to a concert souvenir booklets from c. 1966 and 1968, this number was part of the live repertoire then, but no recordings have […]

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• October 9, 2014

  Weird Beard (With David Fathead Newman)

  Album3: Fathead, Atlantic 1304, 1960. Recording date: November 5, 1958 at Atlantic Recording Studio, New York. Ray Charles (p), David Newman (ts), Marcus Belgrave (tp); Hank Crawford (bs), Edgar Willis (b), Milt Turner (ds). Arranged by Hank Crawford. Recording engineer: Tom Dowd.

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• October 9, 2014

  What-Cha Doing In There (I Wanna Know)

  Album: Ray’s Moods, ABC/Paramount/Tangerine 550, 1966. Recorded between August and September 1966 at RPM International, in Los Angeles. With session musicians (incl. Rene Hall – guitar; Carol Kaye – bass; Earl Palmer – drums), and The Raelettes.

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• October 8, 2014

  When I Stop Dreamin’

  Album: A Portrait Of Ray, ABC/Tangerine 625, March 1968. Single (B): When I Stop Dreaming, ABC 11170, December 1968, b/w If It Wasn’t For Bad Luck. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles in February 1968. With strings, choir, and probably a rhythm section with studio musicians (all uncredited, but possibly with Carol Kaye on bass). Arranged […]

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• October 8, 2014

  When My Dreamboat Comes Home

  Single (B): ABC 10739, October 1965, b/w Crying Time. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Recorded at the United Studios in Hollywood in June 1965. With woodwinds (probably freelancers), a rhythm section including Rene Hall on guitar and Earl Palmer on drums, and the Jack Halloran Singers.

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• October 8, 2014

  Where Can I Go

  Album: 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

  Who Cares (For Me)

  Album: Have A Smile With Me, ABC/Paramount 495, June 1964. Recorded in Los Angeles in the first week of May, 1964. Arranged by Gerald Wilson. Follow album link to check on personnel. Background vocals on this one: The Raelettes. Move It On Over and Who Cares (For Me) were recorded in 1962 at the Capitol Studios in New […]

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