1960
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October 6, 2014
Yours
Read moreAlbum: I’m All Yours Baby, ABC/Tangerine 675. 1969-02. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles with uncredited musicians (incl. strings). Produced by Sid Feller. Live: ’70 LC Paris ’72 LC San Carlos ’78 LC Montreux ’87 TV TS ’87 LC Antibes ’88 LC Masson ’90 LC Lloret ’91 LC Milan’95 LC Greenville ’95 LC Tramps ’99 […]
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October 6, 2014
You’ve Got A Problem
Read moreAlbum: Crying Time, ABC/Paramount/Tangerine 544, January 1966. Recorded in Q3 of 1965 at RPM International in Los Angeles. With the Ray Charles Orchestra and The Raelettes. The album doesn’t credit any of the musicians or backing vocalists. Billy Preston’s distinct organ playing is the major factor in the great sound of the bluest tracks on the […]
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October 6, 2014
You’ve Got Me Crying Again
Read moreAlbum: Sweet And Sour Tears, ABC/Paramount 480, August 1964. Recorded on 8 May 1964 at United Studios, Hollywood. With strings and the Gene Lowell Choir.
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June 14, 2013
Ray Charles Live At The Olympia In Paris (1962)
Read moreIn June 2013, in one massive effort, the obscure ‘record’ label Body & Soul released a plethora of digital albums (only distributed as downloads and streaming audio) with concerts recorded Live In Paris in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The list entails Louis Armstrong, Gerry Mulligan, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, […]
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September 8, 2012
The Ray Charles – Yes Indeed DVD (2009)
Read moreObvious errors in DVD’s credits corrected in list below. In 2009 Genesis published a limited edition book-and-DVD-set titled Ray Charles:Yes Indeed![Book:]The Photographs Of Joe Adams;[DVD:]Performances by Ray Charles, presenting “the unseen archive of Ray’s friend and manager”. Because I didn’t feel any sympathy for this (Adams’) vanity project, I never bought a copy. But I’m […]
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October 27, 2011
Ray Charles Live In Antibes (1961)
Read moreThe 1961 Festival French Ray Charles fans (video still). The 1961 edition of the Antibes Jazz Festival, in later years also known as Jazz à Juan, was the second in its history. It had Ray Charles, Count Basie, and Les McCann as headliners, but Ray was given a super star treatment, and actually fulfilled the […]
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October 9, 2011
Birth Of A Big Band: Ray Charles’ October 1961 Concerts In Paris
Read moreDavid Newman Hank Crawford. Don Wilkerson. John Hunt. Phil Guilbeau. Keg Johnson. Leroy Cooper. Sonny Forriest. Bruno Carr. In 1961 Ray Charles conquered France. End of July he was the “artist in residence” (as we would now call it) at the Antibes festival, where he performed with his “small big band” (although he had established […]
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September 8, 2011
Singular Genius, A 5-CD Box With All Of Ray Charles’ ABC Singles
Read moreThe 5-disk box Singular Genius was released on 15 November 2011 by Concord Music Group. The set offers all of Ray Charles’ 106 ABC single tracks, remastered in mono. Most of it, Conmcord’s John Burl claimed, comes from the RPM vaults, some tracks came from dubs that were sent abroad for local distribution, some even […]
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February 20, 2011
Rita Graham, Vibrations (Ray Charles On Piano) (1969)
Read moreYou Better Go Now Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (There Is) No Greater Love Meditation P.S. I Love You Charade The Genie My Cup Runneth Over You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To Cover photo by Howard Morehead. If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight) Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, […]
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February 20, 2011
My Jug And I (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Piano) (1966)
Read moreMy Jug And I River’s Invitation Baby Please Stranger In My Own Home Town Never Say Naw The Hunt Is On Memory Pain I Reached For A Tear Life Is Suicide Maybe It’s Because Of Love Give Me Time Fading Love Recorded between 1963 and c. 1966 at unidentified studios, prob. in Los Angeles. […]