1977
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November 18, 2014
Anonymous Love
Read moreAlbum: True To Life, Crossover/Atlantic 19142, October 1977. Single (B): Crossover/Atlantic 3443, November 1977, b/w I Can See Clearly Now Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with a mix of road musicians from his Orchestra, and studio musicians. Ray sang his own backing vocals.
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November 17, 2014
Be My Love
Read moreAlbum: True To Life, Crossover/Atlantic 19142, October 1977. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with a mix of road musicians from his Orchestra, and strings. An audiotape of a working session where Sid Feller and Ray Charles discussed and worked on the arrangement of the song has survived. ’99 LC Tulsa
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November 11, 2014
Game Number Nine
Read moreAlbum: True To Life, Crossover/Atlantic 19142, October 1977.Single (A): Crossover/Atlantic 3473, March 1978, b/w A Peace That We Never Before Could Enjoy. . Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with a mix of road musicians from his Orchestra and session cats, and… one girl with a speaking role.
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November 9, 2014
Heavenly Music
Read moreAlbum: True To Life, Crossover/Atlantic 19142, October 1977. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with a mix of road musicians from his Orchestra, The Raelettes and studio musicians.
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November 8, 2014
How Long Has This Been Going On
Read moreAlbum: True To Life, Crossover/Atlantic 19142, October 1977. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with a mix of road musicians from his Orchestra, The Raelettes and studio musicians. Arranged by Larry Muhoberac. Trumpet intro by Johnny Coles. Toyohashi 1986: Live: ’73? LC Germany – Pseudo Basie – Released’76 LC Antibes’76 LC Stuttgart’80 LC Northsea’85 LC NewHaven’86 […]
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November 8, 2014
I Can See Clearly Now
Read moreAlbum: True To Life, Crossover/Atlantic 19142, October 1977.Single (A): Crossover/Atlantic 3443, November 1977, b/w Anonymous Love. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with a mix of road musicians, The Raelettes and studio musicians. The performance in Stuttgart, in late September of 1976, may imply that the song was already studio-recorded by then. Gladys 1977 (sorry for […]
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October 31, 2014
Let It Be
Read moreAlbum: True To Life, Crossover/Atlantic 19142, October 1977. The True To Life-album was recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with a mix of road musicians from his Orchestra, some studio musicians, and The Raelettes. The two known live performances were also brilliant, maybe even more so.* To me it’s a miracle why Brother Ray didn’t sing […]
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October 25, 2014
Neither One Of Us (With Gladys Knight & The Pips)
Read moreAlbum3 (DVD): Gladys Knight & The Pips – Featuring Ray Charles: Live In Los Angeles, Immortal, 13 January 2008. Filmed at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, on or around September 1977. (Starts at 4’00):
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October 24, 2014
Oh, What A Beautiful Morning
Read moreAlbum: True To Life, Crossover/Atlantic 19142, October 1977. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with a mix of road musicians from his Orchestra, The Raelettes, and studio musicians. Roger Neumann wrote the chart. Bass player Cliff Hugo* remembers: “I did play on Oh ,What A Beautiful Morning [… with] Harold Mason on drums. I did a bunch […]
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October 22, 2014
On Saturday Night (A Little Fun —) (With SNL Cast)
Read moreAlbum 3 (VHS): Saturday Night Live, Warner Home Video 085392902132, 23 August 1989; DVD: Universal Studios, 13 March 2011 – both with this SNL episode (#051, aka season 3, episode 5). The show aired on 12 November 1977. At the end Ray performed a 1-minute ditty – titled (A Little Fun) On Saturday Night – with the cast of […]
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October 12, 2014
The Jealous Kind
Read moreAlbum: True To Life, Crossover/Atlantic 19142, October 1977. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with a mix of road musicians (from his Orchestra), session musicians, and The Raelettes. Arranged by Roger Neumann. Live: ’78 LC Antibes ’79 LC Antibes ’80 TV TS