1970
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October 19, 2014
She Knows
Read moreAlbum: Love And Peace, Crossover/Atlantic 19199, September 1978. Recorded with members of the Ray Charles Orchestra and strings at RPM International in Los Angeles. Magnificent trumpet solo by Johnny Coles. The live version had an even slower and further stripped down arrangement (like a ‘duet between Genius and bass’), and an even more virtuoso end (see […]
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October 18, 2014
She’s Gone (aka The Heartaches Just Began)
Read moreCompilation album: Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters, Concord Records, 25 October 2010. This song emerged from the RPM vaults after Ray’s death, and was released with the Rare Genius album. Among a few conaisseurs the tune was already known before, through a demo tape that Ray made to brief Sid Feller on the arrangement. The […]
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October 18, 2014
Show Me The Sunshine
Read moreAlbum: Love Country Style, ABC/Tangerine 707, June 1970. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles in May 1970. Arranged by Sid Feller. With organ, strings, (a ‘black sounding’) choir (Raelettes + Ray?) and a rhythm section. The musicians remained uncredited (Carol Kaye possibly on bass). Live: ’70 LC Paris ’70 LC Geneva
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October 18, 2014
Sidewinder (With The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreBillboard trade ad for Ray Charles, Orchestra, Raelettes – April 3. Album: My Kind Of Jazz, Tangerine 1512, April 1970. Single (B): Tangerine 1015, March 1971, b/w Booty Butt. This Lee Morgan composition (fully known as The Sidewinder) was recorded with the band at RPM International in Los Angeles, between January 1 to 10, 1970. More than […]
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October 17, 2014
Sister Sadie (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreAlbum: The Ray Charles Orchestra, My Kind Of Jazz Part 3, Crossover 9007, October 1975. Recorded with the Ray Charles Orchestra in late 1974 and early 1975 at RPM International in Los Angeles. Johnny Coles, Jack Evans, Phil Guilbeau, Bob Coassin – trumpets; Ken Tussing, Glenn Childress, Steve Davis, Wally Huff – trombones; Eddie Pratt, Clifford […]
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October 17, 2014
Some Enchanted Evening
Read moreAlbum: Ain’t It So, Crossover/Atlantic 19251, September 1979. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. Arranged by James Polk. With uncredited members of the Ray Charles Orchestra and session musicians. Tenor solo by Clifford Solomon. 1979 Austin: Live: ’79 LC Antibes ’79 LC Viareggio ’79 LC Austin ’80 TV TS ’80 LC Northsea ’81 LC Edmonton […]
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October 17, 2014
Somebody
Read moreAlbum: Come Live With Me, Crossover 9000, January 1974. Single (B:) Crossover/Atlantic 974, March 1974, b/w Louise. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. With The Ray Charles Orchestra and The Raelettes (uncredited), but Tony Horowitz and Ken Tussing (both on trumpet), Henry Coker (trombone) and David T. Walker (guitar) contributed. The song, written by Ray, sounds […]
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October 17, 2014
Someone To Watch Over Me
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 11251, November 1969, b/w Claudie Mae. Album: Through The Eyes Of Love, ABC/Tangerine 765, August 1972. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles (note that the single was released 3 years before the album). The musicians remained uncredited. Arrangement by Sid Feller.
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October 17, 2014
Something
Read moreAlbum: Volcanic Action Of My Soul, ABC/Tangerine 726, April 1971. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. The musicians remained uncredited. Arranged by Sid Feller. George Harrison’s wrote the tune in 1969. He later stated: “It has probably got a range of five notes, which fits most singers’ needs best. When I wrote it, in my […]
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October 16, 2014
Spain (Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreAlbum: Live In Japan, Crossover/London (Japan) #535/#536, July 1976. Great big band arrangement of Chick Corea’s signature composition, in a great arrangement by Alf Clausen. Solo’s on the Japan and Mexico 1975 live recordings: Jack Evans – flugelhorn, trumpet; Ed Pratt – alto saxophone. Live: ’75 LC Mexico ’85 LC Antibes ’90 LC Tokyo
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October 16, 2014
Spirit In The Dark (With Aretha Franklin)
Read moreAlbum3: Aretha Franklin, Live At The Fillmore West (Atlantic, SD 7205). Album 3: Don’t Fight The Feeling: The Complete Aretha Franklin & King Curtis Live At Fillmore West, Rhino Handmade, 3 May 2005. Audio stream: Aretha Franklin – Fillmore West, Concert Vault, S.a. Video stream: Aretha Franklin, Spirit In The Dark, Concert Vault, S.a. Line-up: King Curtis’s the […]
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October 15, 2014
Stormy Monday (With Dizzy Gillespie A.O.)
Read moreAlbum (bootleg CD): Ray Charles Meets Dizzy Gillespie, Jazz File JF1005, S.a. Ray Charles fooled around several times with citations from Stormy Monday (Madrid 1975, The Hague 1980), but this version with a combo led by Dizzy Gillespie came closest to a complete rendition (although Ray had trouble again to get the rhythm section in the right […]