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October 10, 2014
Touch (Virtually With John Legend)
Read moreAlbum: Genius And Friends, Rhino/WEA, 20 September 2005. This ‘virtual duet’ was produced post mortem.
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October 10, 2014
Trouble In Mind (By Lula Reed, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreSingle3 (A). Tangerine TRC 932, 1963, b/w Ain’t That Love. Album3: Lula Reed, The Soulful Side Of Lula Reed, Titanic Records CD-6501, 2011. In 1962 Ray Charles produced several singles with Lula Reed (born Lula Marietta McClelland, 1921 – 2008), and played keyboards on 4 tracks. This is one of these. Lula Reed (vocals); Marcus Belgrave, […]
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October 10, 2014
Try A Little Kindness (By The Raelettes, Ft Vernita Moss, Ray Charles On Keyboards)
Read moreSingle (B): Tangerine 1024, 197?, b/w Come Get It, I Got It. Album3: The Raelettes, Hits And Rarities, Titanic TR-CD 4422, 1993. Ray Charles on keyboard with The Raelettes, ft. Vernita Moss. The other Raelettes (probable line-up): Susaye Green, Mable John, Dorothy Berry and Estella Yarbrough. Recorded at RPM International, Los Angeles, with uncredited musicians (all or […]
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October 10, 2014
Two Old Cats Like Us (With Hank Williams, Jr.)
Read moreAlbum: Friendship, Columbia 39415, February 1985. Single (A): Columbia 4860, April 1985, b/w Little Hotel Room. The album was recorded with session musicians at the Eleven Eleven Studios and the Soundshop Studio in Nashville, and the Pedernales Studio in Spicewood, with c&w veteran Billy Sherrill. Ray finished things off at RPM International in Los Angeles.
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October 10, 2014
Two Ton Tessie
Read moreAlbum: Have A Smile With Me, ABC/Paramount 495, June 1964. Recorded in New York in the first week of May 1964. Follow link to album for line-up. Arranged by Johnny Parker. The live version only came to light thanks to the extended re-issue (from 2011) of the Shrine album. Live: ’64 LC Shrine – Released Album: Live:
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October 10, 2014
Two Years Of Torture
Read moreAlbum: The Genius Of Ray Charles, Atlantic 1312, 1959-10. Percy Mayfield tune, recorded in New York on 23 June 1959. Arranged by Johnny Parks. Tenor solo by Paul Gonsalves.
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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 10, 2014
Undecided
Read moreAlbum: The Great Ray Charles, Atlantic 1259, August 1957. A fine instrumental (solos by Fathead and Ray), recorded at the Coastal Recording Studios in New York on 26 November 1956 with Joe Bridgewater, John Hunt – tp; David Fathead Newman – as, ts; Emmett Dennis – bs; William Peebles – d; Roosevelt Sheffield – b. Arranged by Quincie […]
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October 10, 2014
Understanding
Read moreAlbum: A Portrait Of Ray, ABC/Tangerine 625, March 1968. Single (A): ABC 11090, May 1968, b/w Eleanor Rigby. Recorded on April 11, 1967, at RPM International in Los Angeles. With Bill King, Walter Miller – tp; Fred Murrell, Henry Coker – tb; Curtis Amy – ts; Leroy Cooper – bs; Rene Hall (or Barry Rillera?) – g; […]
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October 10, 2014
Unfinished Song
Read moreCompilation album: Pure Genius, Atlantic/WEA, 20 September 2005. Named “Unknown Title” in Pure Genius‘ liner notes. Just a few slivers of lyrics and some chords; probably an unfinished original song. From the rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertegun (New York, 1953).
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October 10, 2014
Unidentified Instrumental (Ray Charles On Alto)
Read moreAlbum (DVD): O Gênio, Rhino/WEA, 16 November 2004. The clip below shows the “unidentified instrumental” from the São Paulo concerts on 19 September 1963 at the Cultura Artística theater in São Paulo. It’s one of the oldest Ray Charles live-clips on YouTube. It keeps on amazing people who didn’t know that The Genius also could bop on his alto […]
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October 9, 2014
Untitled Blues
Read moreAlbum: Ray Charles – Live In Paris, Frémeaux FA5466, 2013. During the Olympia concert in Paris on May 18, 1962, Ray Charles played a marvelous (piano & hum & scat) blues which was only recently released.