2002
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October 24, 2014
Oh Happy Day
Read moreAlbum (VHS, DVD): Ray Charles Celebrates A Gospel Christmas, Urban Works, 23 November 2004; CD: EMI Records, 27 November 2006. Recorded on 8 December 2002 at the Resch Center in Green Bay (WI) with the Voices of Jubilation Gospel Choir. Live: ’78 LC Montreux – Partial, in medley
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October 21, 2014
Ray Reflects On America [Parlando]
Read moreCompilation album: Ray Charles Sings for America, Rhino/WEA, 3 September 2002. The weeks after the 9/11 attack the American airwaves were filled with patriotic songs. Ray’s America The Beautiful was probably the song that was most frequently played. The album was released a year after the 9/11 attack (read this for context). Only one song track, God Bless America Again, was […]
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October 21, 2014
Really Got A Hold On Me
Read moreAlbum: Thanks For Bringing Love Around Again, Crossover 4000, May 2002. Recorded at Ouistiti Studios and Plus XXX Studios in Paris, RPM International in Los Angeles, and Lighthouse Recording Studio, Studio City, California. For session details, follow the album link, above.
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October 20, 2014
Save Your Lovin’ Just For Me
Read moreAlbum: Thanks For Bringing Love Around Again, Crossover 4000, May 2002. Recorded at Ouistiti Studios and Plus XXX Studios in Paris, RPM International in Los Angeles, and Lighthouse Recording Studio, Studio City, California. For details, click the album link, above. A 30-second sample is here.
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October 17, 2014
Silent Night
Read moreAlbum (VHS, DVD): Ray Charles Celebrates A Gospel Christmas, Urban Works, 23 November 2004; CD: EMI Records, 27 November 2006. Recorded on 8 December 2002 at the Resch Center in Green Bay (WI) with the Voices of Jubilation Gospel Choir.
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October 13, 2014
Thanks For Bringing Love Around Again
Read moreAlbum: Thanks For Bringing Love Around Again, Crossover 4000, May 2002. Recorded at Ouistiti Studios and Plus XXX Studios in Paris, RPM International in Los Angeles, and Lighthouse Recording Studio, Studio City. For the line-up, follow the album link, above.
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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; […]