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October 8, 2014
Wichita Lineman
Read moreAlbum: Volcanic Action Of My Soul, ABC/Tangerine 726, April 1971. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. The musicians remained uncredited (but it has the great Buddy Emmons playing pedal steel guitar). Arranged by Sid Feller.
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October 7, 2014
You 20th-Century Fox
Read moreUK single. Album: Love And Peace, Crossover/Atlantic 19199, September 1978. Single (B): Crossover/Atlantic 3611, August 1979. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. The musicians were not credited (but James Gadson was on drums).
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October 7, 2014
You Have A Way With Me (The Raelettes, Ft Susaye Greene, Ray Charles On Keyboards)
Read moreSingle3 (B): Tangerine 1029, January 1973, b/w You Must Be Doing Alright. Album3: (Ray Charles Presents The) Raeletts, Yesterday… Today… Tomorrow, Tangerine 1515, 1972. Ray Charles on piano. Featuring Susaye Greene. The Raelettes (probable line-up): Vernita Moss, Susaye Green, Mable John, Dorothy Berry and Estella Yarbrough. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with uncredited members […]
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October 7, 2014
You Leave Me Breathless
Read moreAlbum: Through The Eyes Of Love, ABC/Tangerine 765, 1972-08. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. The musicians remained uncredited. Arrangements by Sid Feller.
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October 7, 2014
You Must Be Doing Alright (The Raelettes, Ft Mable John, Ray Charles On Keyboards)
Read moreDJ promo. Single3 (A): Tangerine 1029, January 1973, b/w You Have A Way With Me. Album3: (Ray Charles Presents The) Raeletts, Yesterday… Today… Tomorrow, Tangerine 1515, 1972. Mable John, backed by Ray – kb and voc. The Raelettes: Vernita Moss, Susaye Green, Mable John, Dorothy Berry and Estella Yarbrough. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, […]
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October 6, 2014
You’ve Still Got A Place In My Heart
Read moreAlbum: Love Country Style, ABC/Tangerine 707, 1970-06. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. The musicians remained uncredited (but David T. Walker and Steve Guillory contributed on guitar).
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October 6, 2014
Zig Zag
Read moreAlbum: My Kind Of Jazz, Tangerine 1512. 1970-04. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, from January 1 to 10, 1970. Ray Charles – piano; J. Lloyd Miller – alto saxophone, oboe; Curtis Peagler – alto saxophone; Andy Ennis, Albert McQueen, Clifford Scott – tenor saxophone; Leroy Cooper – baritone saxophone; Bobby Bryant, Bill King, […]
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April 19, 2011
Ray Charles Live At The Nassau Coliseum (1973)
Read moreTony Horowitz (his mother was in the audience), on trumpet. George Wein’s bill of the last night of the second Newport Jazz Festival, on 8 July 1973 at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale on Long Island, carried the names of Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Donny Hathaway, Aretha Franklin, and Tito Puente. Cf. this squib, this […]
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February 20, 2011
Bought Blues (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Piano) (1971)
Read moreNever No More* Ha Ha In The Day Time* I Reached For A Tear* My Bottle Is My Companion We Both Must Cry River’s Invitation* Pretty Eyed Baby Long As You’re Mine You Don’t Exist Anymore Fading Love * Ray played on these tracks. Known personnel on Percy’s earliest Tangerine tracks: Percy Mayfield – […]
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December 17, 2010
Ray Charles Live In Torino (1971)
Read moreMy sources on the contents of this bootleg-CD are highly contradictive. For documental reasons I’ve described them all below. But let’s start with the correct track list: Collection André Monnot. Intro + Tears Inside(erroneously, titled Blues Connotation on the bootleg CD) (Ray Charles Orchestra; Ray on piano) The Bright Lights And You Girl Georgia On […]
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September 13, 2010
Love And Peace (1978)
Read moreYou 20th-Century Fox (James Gadson on drums) Take Off That Dress She Knows Riding Thumb We Had It All No Achievement Showing A Peace That We Never Before Could Enjoy Is There Anyone Out There Give The Poor Man A Break Love And Peace was the first Ray Charles album produced on 24 tracks, at […]
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September 10, 2010
Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters (2010)
Read moreRare Genius was yet another post mortem album, released on 26 October 2010. The album was announced as a “treasure trove of newly discovered recordings”, “culled from four decades worth of demos and other previously unreleased material”, from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. According to the press release, “Adding a little sweetening to some of the sparse, […]