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October 9, 2014
Way Down Home On The Farm (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreCompilation album3: Percy Mayfield, His Tangerine And Atlantic Sides, Rhino Handmade RHM2 7828, 2003. Recorded in Los Angeles on January 20, 1964. Percy Mayfield – vocals; Ray Charles – piano; Edgar Willis – bass; other personnel unidentified. Listen here.
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October 9, 2014
What Kind Of Man Is This (With James Cleveland)
Read moreUnreleased. This was a brief pre-taped segment of the TV show Ray Charles – A Man And His Soul, with Jimmy Cleveland and Ray Charles playing one piano, produced in the early summer of 1983. Watch it here (and this for the 1955 original). Ray played the song with a big choir, at the Ray Charles Celebrates A […]
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October 8, 2014
What’d I Say
Read moreAtlantic vault’s single masters #3263, 3264: Single (A) and (B): What’d I Say (Part 1)/What’d I Say (Part 2), Atlantic, 2031, 1959-06. Atlantic vault’s first album edit master #3363: Album: What’d I Say, Atlantic 8029, 1959-09. Recorded on 18 February 1959 in New York with David Newman – as, ts; Hank Crawford – bs; Milt Turner – d; […]
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October 7, 2014
You Are My Sunshine (With The Raelettes, Ft Margie Hendricks)
Read moreAlbum: Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music Volume 2, ABC/Paramount 435, October 1962. Single (A): ABC 10375, November 1962, b/w Your Cheating Heart. Jimmy Davis, the country music singer and later Louisiana governor, and Charles Mitchell were credited for the song. Two versions were released before Jimmie Davis’ recording was released on February 5, 1940: on […]
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October 7, 2014
You Don’t Know Me
Read moreAlbum: Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, ABC/Paramount 410, April 1962. Single (A): ABC 10345, July 1962, b/w Careless Love. The album was recorded on 5 and 7 February 1962 at Capitol Studios in New York City, and on 15 February at United Recording Studios in Hollywood. Arranged by Marty Paich. The tune was also used […]
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October 7, 2014
You Don’t Love Me No More (With Legends Of Rock ‘n’ Roll)
Read moreAlbum3 (DVD): Legends Of Rock ‘n’ Roll Live, Image Entertainment, 5 December 2000. Part of an all-star jam, recorded by Cinemax in Rome in February 1989. Ray had a good time sitting behind his keyboards. The other legends were James Brown, B.B. King, Bo Diddley, Esther Phillips, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard. The […]
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October 6, 2014
You Were There (With Gladys Knight)
Read moreAlbum: Genius And Friends, Rhino/WEA, 20 September 2005. Ray Charles laid down most of the songs of the later Genius And Friends album at his own studio, RPM International in Los Angeles, in 1997 and 1998. Post mortem, duet parts of these tunes were dubbed in by virtual duet partners. I doubt if Gladys would have cooperated with […]
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September 10, 2014
Genius Loves Company’s 10th Anniversary Reissues (2014)
Read moreThe 10th anniversary of the 2004 album Genius Loves Company will be celebrated with three deluxe reissues, in variant packages – one of them in (2-LP, 45RPM, 180-gram) vinyl* – and a 192/24 hi-res digital download-version. Another version is packaged with the film Ray; all packs will be including “interviews with guest artists from then and now”; […]
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March 21, 2011
Genius And Friends (2005)
Read moreWhen a recording artist dies, their record company always gets squeezed between their (and the artist’s heirs’) commercial interests and their integrity. The questions they usually (have to) ask themselves are: Should we issue these songs, although the artist didn’t explicitly approve any release? Should we (re)mix those tunes to our own tastes, since the […]
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September 5, 2010
Ray Charles Was In Town – Chronology 2004>
Read moreLate 2003 or Early 2004 At RPM Studio. Photo by Patrik Anderson. Interviewed for Tom Dowd And The Language Of Music (DVD released in August 2004). See this. 2004 Contributing to a PSA for Mentoring.org, with Quincy Jones. See this. Genius Loves Company peaks at #1 on Pop Album Chart. Release of Ellis Hall’s […]