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October 8, 2014
Woman Sensuous Woman
Read moreSingle (A): Columbia 4500, June 1984, b/w I Was On Georgia Time. Album: Do I Ever Cross Your Mind, Columbia 38990, July 1984. Recorded in Nashville and finished at 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 […]
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October 7, 2014
Workin’ Man’s Woman
Read moreAlbum: Do I Ever Cross Your Mind, Columbia 38990, July 1984. Recorded in Nashville and finished at 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. […]
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October 7, 2014
Worried Life Blues (Someday Baby)
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10118, May 1960, b/w Sticks And Stones. Compilation album: Pure Genius, Atlantic/WEA, 20 September 2005. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Worried Life Blues is one of the most ‘waxed’ blues songs of all time, first recorded by Major “Big Maceo” Merriweather in 1941 (Bluebird 8827). It was inspired by Someday Baby Blues, recorded by […]
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October 7, 2014
Worried Mind
Read moreAlbum: Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, ABC/Paramount 410, April 1962. 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. For the little that is known about the personnel, follow the link to […]
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October 7, 2014
X-Ray Blues (With Milt Jackson)
Read moreAlbum: Soul Meeting, Atlantic 1360, February 1961 (1957 – 1958). Recorded in New York on April 10, 1958. Ray Charles – (to the end of guitar solo:) piano, alto saxophone, (after that:) electric piano; Milt Jackson – vibraphone, piano); Kenny Burrell – guitar; Percy Heath – bass; Art Taylor – drums.
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October 7, 2014
Yes Indeed
Read moreSingle (A): Atlantic 1180, March 1958, b/w I Had A Dream. Album: Yes Indeed, Atlantic 8025, October 1958. Recorded in New York on 20 February 1958 with Marcus Belgrave, Lee Harper – tp; David Newman – ts, as; Emmett Dennis – bs; Edgar Willis – b; Richie Goldberg – ds; The Raelettes – backing vocals. Yes […]
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October 7, 2014
Yesterday
Read moreAlbum: Ray Charles Invites You To Listen, ABC/Tangerine 595, June 1967. Single (A): ABC 11009, November 1967, b/w Never Had Enough Of Nothing Yet. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles in 1966 or 1967. With The Ray Charles Orchestra, a strings section, and The Raelettes (all uncredited; Bobby Womack on guitar). Arrangements by Sid Feller. ’67 […]
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October 7, 2014
Yesterdays
Read moreAlbum: A Portrait Of Ray, ABC/Tangerine 625, March 1968. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles in February 1968. With strings, woodwinds, a choir, and a rhythm section consisting of session musicians (all uncredited, but possibly including Carol Kaye on bass). Arranged by Sid Feller. Live: According to contemporary concert souvenir booklets, this number was part […]
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October 7, 2014
You 20th-Century Fox
Read moreUK single. Album: Love And Peace, Crossover/Atlantic 19199, September 1978. Single (B): Crossover/Atlantic 3611, August 1979. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. The musicians were not credited (but James Gadson was on drums).
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October 7, 2014
You And I (With Betty Carter)
Read moreAlbum: Ray Charles And Betty Carter, ABC/Paramount 385, July 1961. Recorded at the United Studios in Hollywood on June 13 – 14, 1961. Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; David Fathead Newman – tenor saxophone; Leroy Cooper – baritone saxophone; Bill Pittman – guitar; Edgar Willis – bass; Mel Lewis, Bruno Carr – drums; The Jack Halloran […]
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October 7, 2014
You Are My Sunshine (With The Raelettes, Ft Margie Hendricks)
Read moreAlbum: Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music Volume 2, ABC/Paramount 435, October 1962. Single (A): ABC 10375, November 1962, b/w Your Cheating Heart. Jimmy Davis, the country music singer and later Louisiana governor, and Charles Mitchell were credited for the song. Two versions were released before Jimmie Davis’ recording was released on February 5, 1940: on […]
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October 7, 2014
You Be My Baby
Read moreSingle (A): Atlantic 1196, August 1958, b/w My Bonnie. Compilation album: What’d I Say, Atlantic 8029, September 1959. Song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. “Ray Charles recorded it only after getting a third of the song” (source here). Recorded in New York on 20 February 1958 with Marcus Belgrave, Lee Harper – tp; David Newman – […]