1970

  • November 21, 2014

    Your Love Is So Doggone Good

    Album: Love Country Style, ABC/Tangerine 707, June 1970.Single (B): ABC 11308, July 1971, b/w Feel So Bad. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles in May 1970. A remarkable, strings dominated arrangement by Sid Feller. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. The choir, and the rhythm section remained uncredited (Carol Kaye possibly on bass). Ray added […]

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  • November 20, 2014

    A Little Bitty Tear

    Compilation album: Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters, Concord Records, 25 October 2010. A tune from the Ray Charles Vaults at the RPM International studio in Los Angeles. The basic tracks were laid down by Ray himself, sometime in the ’70s or  ’80s. You can almost touch how little energy he put into his voice.  I […]

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  • November 18, 2014

    Angel City (With The Ray Charles Orchestra)

    Album: My Kind Of Jazz, Tangerine 1512. April 1970. The album was 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 […]

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  • November 17, 2014

    Bluesette (With The Ray Charles Orchestra)

    Album: My Kind Of Jazz, Tangerine 1512, April 1970. The album was 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 […]

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  • November 16, 2014

    Booty Butt (With The Ray Charles Orchestra)

    Album: My Kind Of Jazz, Tangerine 1512, April 1970.Single (A): Tangerine 1015, March 1971, b/w Sidewinder. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, from January 1 to 10, 1970. Ray Charles – vocal and piano (solo); J. Lloyd Miller – alto saxophone, oboe; Curtis Peagler – alto saxophone; Andy Ennis (solo), Albert McQueen, Clifford Scott – […]

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  • November 14, 2014

    Don’t Change On Me

    Album: Love Country Style, ABC/Tangerine 707, June 1970.Single (A): ABC 11291, February 1971, b/w Sweet Memories. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles in May 1970. The musicians and singers remained uncredited. But Carol Kaye played bass on this one. On her forum she wrote: “I did follow the arrangement in the intro only; then Ray told […]

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  • November 10, 2014

    Golden Boy (With The Ray Charles Orchestra)

    Album: My Kind Of Jazz, Tangerine 1512, April 1970. The album was recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, from January 1 to 10, 1970. Ray Charles – piano; Bobby Bryant, Bill King, Marshall Hunt, Blue Mitchell, trumpets; Glen Childress, Henry Coker, Joe Randazzo, (+ Edward Comegys? or Fred Murrell? or David Phelps?) – trombones; J. […]

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  • November 10, 2014

    Good Morning Dear

    Album: Love Country Style, ABC/Tangerine 707, June 1970. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles in May 1970. Arranged by Sid Feller. With strings, a choir and a rhythm section. The musicians remained uncredited (Carol Kaye possibly on bass). Who delivered that operatic backing vocal, and who the whispering speaking voice? Update 10.02.2021: the video of […]

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  • November 8, 2014

    Hopelessly

    Single (B): ABC 10840, August 1966, b/w I Chose to Sing the Blues.Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Recorded with strings, a choir and a rhythm section (including Rene Hall on guitar, and Earl Palmer on drums) at RPM in Los Angeles in February 1965.

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  • November 7, 2014

    I Don’t Want No One But You

    Compilation album: Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters, Concord Records, 25 October 2010. Recorded with uncredited (band and sesson) musicians at RPM International in Los Angeles from the ’70s to the ’90s. According to the album’s press release, “Adding a little sweetening to some of the sparse, stripped-down tracks was a team of top-notch musicians and […]

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  • November 7, 2014

    I Keep It Hid

    Album: Love Country Style, ABC/Tangerine 707, June 1970. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles in May 1970. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles in May 1970. Arranged by Sid Feller. With strings, choir and rhythm section. The musicians remained uncredited (Carol Kaye possibly on bass). Update 13.02.2021: the video of this performance is no […]

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  • November 7, 2014

    I Remember Clifford (With The Ray Charles Orchestra)

    Album: My Kind Of Jazz, Tangerine 1512. April 1970. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, from January 1 to 10, 1970. Arranged by Quincy Jones. Ray Charles – piano; Bobby Bryant, Bill King, Marshall Hunt, Blue Mitchell, trumpets; Glen Childress, Henry Coker, Joe Randazzo, (+ Edward Comegys? or Fred Murrell? or David Phelps?) – trombones; […]

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