2004
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October 16, 2014
Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word (With Elton John)
Read moreAlbum: Genius Loves Company, Concord, August 2004. Ray’s last recording, at RPM International in Los Angeles in March 2004. For an unabridged personnel listing check Wikipedia. Making of:
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October 15, 2014
Sweet Potato Pie (With James Taylor)
Read moreAlbum: Genius Loves Company, Concord, August 2004. Recorded at RPM International (and some of the orchestral parts elsewhere) in Los Angeles between mid 2003 and March 2004. For an unabridged personnel listing see Wikipedia.
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October 10, 2014
Unchain My Heart
Read moreSingle (A): ABC 10266, 20 November 1961, b/w But On The Other Hand, Baby. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Steve Hoffman wrote that “Ray Charles recorded both Hit The Road Jack and Unchain My Heart on one 30-minute reel of tape in real ‘reel’ time. In other words, both songs finished, recorded […]
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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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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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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 […]