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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 21, 2014
Rockhouse
Read moreSingle (A/B; Part 1/2) Atlantic 2006, October 1958. Compilation album: What’d I Say, Atlantic 8029, September 1959. Recorded on 27 November 1956 in New York with Joe Bridgewater, John Hunt – tp; David Newman – as, ts (solo); Emmett Dennis – bs; William Peeples – d; Roosevelt Sheffield – b. Read this about the authorship of the tune. […]
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October 21, 2014
Rockin’ Chair Blues
Read moreSwing “Beat” as label name. Single (B): Swing Beat 212. B/w Let’s Have A Ball. Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Seattle, February 1949. Ray Charles – voc, p; Gosady McKee – g; Milton S. Garred – b. Review in Billboard on November 12, 1949. Note “Maxim” Trio.
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October 20, 2014
Roly Poly (aka Back Home) (?)
Read moreFrom Billboard, October 11, 1952. Mentioning release of Sittin’ In With 651: I Can’t Do No More and Roly Poly. Single (B): Sittin’ In With, 651, b/w I Can’t Do No More. Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Los Angeles, 1952. Ray Charles – p (?); Rufus Beacham – p; Jack McVea – […]
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October 20, 2014
Rosetta
Read moreAlbum: Dedicated To You, ABC/Paramount 355, January 1961. Recorded at the United Studios in Hollywood on August 23 and 24, 1960. John Hunt (trumpet); Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; David Fathead Newman – tenor saxophone; Leroy Cooper – baritone saxophone; Martin Banks, Bill Pittman – guitar; Edgar Willis – bass; Irving Cottler – drums. Marty Paich […]
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October 20, 2014
Route 66
Read moreAlbum (DVD): Ray Charles à L’Olympia, Music Video Distributors, 2006 (2000). Album (CD): Ray Charles à L’Olympia, XIII Bis Records, 11 January 2005 (2000), 640543 2. After singing the song with Ella Fitzgerald at the Moulin Rouge in 1989, Ray kept the song on his repertoire for trio gigs. But the scene in the biopic Ray, where ‘he’ plays […]
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October 20, 2014
Ruby
Read moreSingle (A): ABC 10164, November 1960, b/w Hard Hearted Hannah. Album: Dedicated To You, ABC/Paramount 355, January 1961. Recorded at United Studios in Hollywood on August 23 or 24, 1960. The single version was cut back to a little less than 3 minutes. With strings and singers. Marty Paich – arranger, conductor. Antibes 1961 (starts at 57:30): […]
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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 Away
Read moreAlbum: Renaissance, Crossover 9005, June 1975. The album was recorded in late 1974 and early 1975 at RPM International in Los Angeles. This recording probably has Brother Ray’s most bone chilling scream-shout ever. With The Ray Charles Orchestra, The Raelettes, on a few tracks also with some alumni of the band and other studio musicians. For […]
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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.
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October 20, 2014
Salt Peanuts (With Dizzy Gillespie A.O.)
Read moreAlbum (CD): Ray Charles Meets Dizzy Gillespie, Jazz File JF1005, S.a. Here Dizzy and his boys learned Ray how to play Salt Peanuts… With Dizzy Gillespie (tp), Mickey Roker (ds), Kenny Burrel (g), George Duvivier (b).
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October 20, 2014
Samba De Elencia (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreAlbum: The Ray Charles Orchestra, My Kind Of Jazz Part 3, Crossover 9007, October 1975. Recorded by the Orchestra in late 1974 and early 1975 at RPM International in Los Angeles. Ray didn’t play. Andy Ennis played the tenor solo. Arranged by Alf Clausen. With Johnny Coles, Jack Evans, Phil Guilbeau, Bob Coassin – trumpets; Ken Tussing, […]