Album

• October 29, 2014

  Love Me Or Set Me Free

  Album: Ain’t It So, Crossover/Atlantic 19251, September 1979.Single (B): Crossover/Atlantic 3634, November 1979, b/w Just Because. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles with uncredited members of the Ray Charles Orchestra, The Raelettes (probably) and session musicians. Update 14.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available, please let me know in the comments below […]

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• October 29, 2014

  Love Me Tonight (Turn Out The Lights And —)

  Album: Ain’t It So, Crossover/Atlantic 19251, September 1979. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles with members of the Ray Charles Orchestra and session musicians. Update 14.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available on YouTube, please let me know in the comments below if you have any footage, thanks — Cyd

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• October 29, 2014

  Love Of My Life

  Album: Do I Ever Cross Your Mind, Columbia 38990, July 1984. Recorded in Nashville and RPM International in Los Angeles. With Buddy Emmons – steel guitar; Fred Newell, Bucky Barrett, Phil Baugh, James Capps – guitar; Terry McMillan – Harmonica; Hoot Hester, Buddy Spicher – Fiddle; Matt Morris – Bass; James Gadson – drums. Arranged by […]

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• October 29, 2014

  Love On My Mind (With Milt Jackson)

  Album: Soul Meeting, Atlantic 1360, February 1961 (1957 – 1958). Recorded on April 10, 1958 at the Atlantic Studio in New York City. Milt Jackson – vibraharp; Ray Charles – piano; Kenny Burrell – guitar; Percy Heath – bass; Art Taylor – drums. Update 14.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available on YouTube, […]

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• October 29, 2014

  Love Train (Ft Dorothy Berry, Ray Charles On Keyboards)

  Album3: (Ray Charles Presents The) Raeletts, Yesterday… Today… Tomorrow, Tangerine 1515, 1972. The Raelettes (probable line-up): Vernita Moss, Susaye Green, Mable John, Dorothy Berry and Estella Yarbrough. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with uncredited members of the Ray Charles Orchestra (and maybe some session musicians). Live:’72 LC San Carlos’73 LC Arbor’75 LC Paris’75 LC […]

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• October 29, 2014

  Love Walked In

  Album: Ray Charles Invites You To Listen, ABC/Tangerine 595, June 1967. A beautifully intense interpretation of the Gershwin song, and a world record falsetto singing. Recorded at RPM International in 1966 or 1967. With The Ray Charles Orchestra, and a strings section. Arrangement by Sid Feller.

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• October 29, 2014

  Lover’s Blues (By The Raelettes, Ray Charles On Piano)

  Single (B), Tangerine TRC 976, July 1967, b/w Into Something Fine.Album3: The Raelettes, Souled Out, Tangerine 1511, 1971. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with members of the Ray Charles Orchestra. The Raelettes (probable line-up): Merry Clayton (lead), Clydie King (contralto), Gwen Berry (alto) and Alex Brown (tenor). Ray Charles on piano. On the compilation album Hits […]

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• October 29, 2014

  Love’s Gonna Bite You Back

  Compilation album: Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters, Concord Records, 25 October 2010. Recorded with uncredited (band and session?) musicians at RPM International in Los Angeles in March 1980.

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• October 29, 2014

  Love’s Gonna Live Here

  Single (B): ABC 10700, June 1965, b/w I’m A Fool to Care.Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Ray stayed close to the original Buck Owens song. The backing vocals sound as if The Raelettes were dubbed over the slick (Jack Halloran?) studio singers who were featured in most of Ray’s country song recordings in […]

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• October 29, 2014

  Low Society Blues

  Compilation album: Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings, Atlantic, 2005 (1952-1959). From the rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertegun, on 10 May 1953. Released on Disk 7 (3 tracks) of the Pure Genius box set (titled Low Society). Ray knew the tune from Lowell Fulson, probably by performing it with him in the period they toured together.

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• October 29, 2014

  Luvbug (With Susaye Greene & Scherrie Paine)

  Album3: Susaye Greene & Scherrie Paine, Partners, Motown M7-920R1, 1979. Susaye and Ray were lovers when she was a Raelette, from 1968 to 1975. After that she became part of The Supremes.After The Supremes disbanded in 1977, Scherrie Payne and Susaye Greene released their debut album, Partners. Guest vocals: “The Great Ray Charles As The Luvbug”. Susaye […]

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• October 29, 2014

  Ma (She’s Making Eyes At Me)

  Album: Have A Smile With Me, ABC/Paramount 495, June 1964. Recorded in New York in the first week of May 1964. With the Ray Charles band: Curt Miller, Oliver Beener, Floyd Jones, Philip Guilbeau, John Hunt, Roy Burrowes, Wallace Davenport – trumpets; Henderson Chambers, Julian Priester, Keg Johnson – trombones; Danny Turner, Harold Geezil Minerve, Bill […]

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