1980
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October 24, 2014
Nothing Like A Hundred Miles (With B.B. King)
Read moreAlbum: Just Between Us, Columbia 40703, September 1988. B.B. only played guitar, Ray did all the singing. Recorded at RPM International with uncredited musicians.
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October 24, 2014
Now I Don’t Believe That Anymore
Read moreAlbum: Just Between Us, Columbia 40703, September 1988. The album was recorded at RPM International with uncredited members of the Ray Charles Orchestra’s rhythm section (i.e. Kenny Carr – guitar; Anders Swanson – bass; Paul Kreibich – drums), and some strings.
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October 24, 2014
Now That We’ve Found Each other
Read moreAlbum: Brother Ray Is At It Again, Crossover/Atlantic SH 8546, March 1980. Single (B): Crossover/Atlantic 3762, August 1980, b/w Compared To What. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. Arranged by Larry Muhoberac.
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October 22, 2014
Ophelia
Read moreAlbum: Brother Ray Is At It Again, Crossover/Atlantic SH 8546, March 1980. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. Arranged by Mike Post. [Low quality audio]:
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October 22, 2014
Over And Over (Again)
Read moreAlbum: From The Pages Of My Mind, Columbia 40388, September 1986. Recorded in Nashville, and mixed in Los Angeles, at RPM International. With Bobby Odgin, Timmy Tappan – piano; William Puett – horns; Hargus Pig Robbins, Bobby Wood – keyboards; Pete Bordonali, Pete Drake, Jerry Kennedy, Weldon Myrick, Dale Sellers – guitar; Billy Sanford, Henry Strzelecki, […]
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October 22, 2014
Over The Top
Read moreAlbum: Just Between Us, Columbia 40703, September 1988. Recorded at RPM International with uncredited members of the Ray Charles Orchestra (i.e. Mark Curry, Jeff Helgesen, Ted Murdock, Jeff Kaye – trumpets; Mike Christianson, Armin Marmolejo, Steve Sigmund, Charlie Schofner – trombones; Al Jackson, Chris Lega, Ricky Woodard, Rudy Johnson, Leroy Cooper – saxophones; Ernest Vantrease – keyboards; Kenny […]
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October 22, 2014
Poor Butterfly (With Quincy Jones A.O.)
Read moreAlbum3 (VHS): Quincy Jones – A Celebration In Seattle, VC II VC133, S.a. (c. 1983) or Front Row Video, 15 November 1990. During this TV concert, taped on 12 or 13 March 1983 in Seattle, as an extra surprise, Quincy brought Bumps Blackwell, Floyd Standifer, Buddy Catlett, Major Pickford and Ernestine Anderson on stage, presenting them, together with Ray, […]
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October 22, 2014
Precious Thing (Till The Next Somewhere) (with Dee Dee Bridgewater)
Read moreGerman single. Album3 (LP, CD): Dee Dee Bridgewater, Victim Of Love, Polydor 841 199, 1989. Single3: Polydor 889 130, 1989, b/w Sunset And Blue. The musicvideo version (4:44) of Pecious Thing, produced by NBdC and directed by Bertrand Antoine Fevre, is about 20 seconds shorter than the single and album version(s). There’s also an instrumental mix. Arranged by Kjetil […]
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October 22, 2014
Questions
Read moreAlbum: Brother Ray Is At It Again, Crossover/Atlantic SH 8546, March 1980. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. Arranged by Ray Charles & Sid Feller. The song is also known from a demo that Ray made to brief arranger Sid Feller. Also read this. questions by Ray Charles on Grooveshark
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October 21, 2014
Rock And Roll Shoes (With B.J. Thomas)
Read morePromo disk for radio stations. Album: Friendship, Columbia 39415, February 1985. Single (A): Columbia 4531, July 1984, b/w Then I’ll Be Over You. Recorded with session musicians led by c&w veteran Billy Sherrill at the Eleven Eleven Studios and the Soundshop Studio in Nashville, and the Pedernales Studio in Spicewood. Ray finished things off at RPM International […]
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October 20, 2014
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
Read moreAlbum: The Spirit Of Christmas, Columbia 39415, January 1986. The album was recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with members of the Ray Charles Orchestra and session musicians in the fall of 1984 (maybe into early 1985). Mark Curry, Jim Seeley, Robbie Kwock, Jeff Kaye, Freddie Hubbard, Johnny Coles – trumpets; Mayo Tiana, John Boice, […]
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October 20, 2014
Sail On Sailor (With The Beach Boys)
Read moreAlbum3 (DVD): The Beach Boys 25 Years Together, 22 November 2005. Ray performed Sail On Sailor on special request of Brian Wilson, and gave it a brilliant rendition. Filmed at Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, and directed by Marty Pasetta, on 12 December 1986. The concert was aired on 13 March 1987, on ABC-TV.