1974
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November 16, 2014
C.P. Time (By Billy Brooks, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreBilly Brooks (1926 – 2003) was the inventor and held the patent of the skoonum horn – a double-barreled trumpet (read this).Brooks was one of the many great trumpetists who played with Ray. Together, they even went back to the early to mid Fifties. Windows is one of the Top 50 most sampled albums in history. Ray Charles co-produced […]
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November 15, 2014
Come Live With Me
Read moreAlbum: Come Live With Me, Crossover 9000, January 1974.Single (A): Crossover/Atlantic 973, October 1973, b/w Everybody Sing. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. Sid Feller took care of the arrangement. (An audiotape of a working session where Feller and Charles discussed and worked on the arrangement of the song has survived). With The Ray Charles […]
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November 12, 2014
Everybody Sing
Read moreEverybody SingAlbum: Come Live With Me, Crossover 9000, January 1974.Single (B): Crossover/Atlantic 973, October 1973, b/w Come Live With Me. Beautiful song by Ray’s friend Sadye Shepard, recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. Sid Feller took care of the arrangement. Ray sang his own second voice and the (but not all?) male backing vocals. With The […]
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November 6, 2014
If You Go Away
Read moreAlbum: Come Live With Me, Crossover 9000, January 1974. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. Arranged by Sid Feller. An audiotape of a working session where Feller and Charles discussed and worked on the arrangement of the song has survived. Exclusif 1978 – just Ray and his piano, unplugged, unique: Update 13.02.2021: the video of […]
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November 3, 2014
It Takes So Little Time
Read moreAlbum: Come Live With Me, Crossover 9000, January 1974. Recorded with strings and singers at RPM International in Los Angeles. Arranged by Sid Feller. (An audiotape of a working session where Feller and Charles discussed and worked on the arrangement of the song has survived). Update 13.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available, […]
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October 30, 2014
Louise
Read moreAlbum: Come Live With Me, Crossover 9000, January 1974.Single (A): Crossover/Atlantic 974, March 1974, b/w Somebody. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. Arranged by Sid Feller. This one was with The Raelettes (did they also do the whistling?) and the band. The live version was marvelously churched up. Live:’73 LC Arbor’73 TV Follies’74 TV TS
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October 25, 2014
My God And I
Read moreCompilation album: Recorded Live At Newport In New York, Buddah BDS5616, 1974 (1973). Album: Renaissance, Crossover 9005, June 1975. This is one of the rare cases where a live rendition sooner found its way to vinyl than the studio version. Ray’s delivery in the studio was excellent, but the live version is superior. This beautiful song was recorded twice on […]
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October 22, 2014
Problems, Problems
Read moreAlbum: Come Live With Me, Crossover 9000, January 1974. Recorded at RPM International with the Ray Charles Orchestra. Ray also filled in a second voice and backing vocals.
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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 10, 2014
Till There Was You
Read moreAlbum: Come Live With Me, Crossover 9000, January 1974. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. With strings and singers. All individuals remained uncredited. Sid Feller took care of the arrangements Live: ’75 LC Madrid ’75 LC Japan – Released ’94 TV World ’99 LC Miami – Released (DVD) Miami 1999 (with filmed rehearsals):
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October 8, 2014
Where Was He
Read moreAlbum: Come Live With Me, Crossover 9000, January 1974. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. With members of The Ray Charles Orchestra and The Raelettes, strings and singers. All individuals remained uncredited, but Tony Horowitz and Ken Tussing (both on trumpet), Henry Coker (trombone) and David T. Walker (guitar) contributed. Sid Feller arranged.