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October 6, 2014
You’ve Got Me Crying Again
Read moreAlbum: Sweet And Sour Tears, ABC/Paramount 480, August 1964. Recorded on 8 May 1964 at United Studios, Hollywood. With strings and the Gene Lowell Choir.
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October 6, 2014
You’ve Got The Longest Leaving Act In Town
Read moreAlbum: Wish You Were Here Tonight, Columbia 38293, 1983-03. Recorded between 1981 and 1983 with uncredited Nashville session musicians in Nashville, finished at RPM International in Los Angeles.
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October 6, 2014
You’ve Still Got A Place In My Heart
Read moreAlbum: Love Country Style, ABC/Tangerine 707, 1970-06. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. The musicians remained uncredited (but David T. Walker and Steve Guillory contributed on guitar).
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October 6, 2014
Zig Zag
Read moreAlbum: My Kind Of Jazz, Tangerine 1512. 1970-04. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, from January 1 to 10, 1970. Ray Charles – piano; J. Lloyd Miller – alto saxophone, oboe; Curtis Peagler – alto saxophone; Andy Ennis, Albert McQueen, Clifford Scott – tenor saxophone; Leroy Cooper – baritone saxophone; Bobby Bryant, Bill King, […]
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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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December 24, 2013
A Second Version Of Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town (1994)
Read moreSanta Claus Is Comin’ To Town was part of Ray Charles’ The Spirit Of Christmas album, recorded in the Fall of 1984, and officially released in early 1986. Today, hearing this – radically different – version came as a big surprise: This rendition was produced for the movie Miracle On 34th Street (1994). Ray almost […]
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September 2, 2013
Ray Charles 6 Times Live At Tramps, NYC (1995)
Read moreRay Charles at Tramps. David Hoffman in the background. Photo by Rahav Segev. In 1995, from September 7 to 9, Ray Charles and his band were booked for Tramps’ 20th Anniversary Celebration in New York. I posted before about one – bootlegged – concert in these series (identical to show #5, below). But recently Wolfgang’s […]
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June 14, 2013
Ray Charles Live At The Olympia In Paris (1962)
Read moreIn June 2013, in one massive effort, the obscure ‘record’ label Body & Soul released a plethora of digital albums (only distributed as downloads and streaming audio) with concerts recorded Live In Paris in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The list entails Louis Armstrong, Gerry Mulligan, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, […]
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November 7, 2012
Ray Charles Singing More Love Than Ordinary In Manor Commercial (1999)
Read moreAd by one of Manor’s retail chains. Groupe Manor is a Swiss retail group. In 1999 they broadcast a Millennium commercial. The agency was Frei. Partner. The production company was Wirz Fraefel Paal. The film was shot at Studio Primetime in Zürich; directed by Ernst Wirz, creative direction by Mäni Frei, Martin Furhrer held the […]
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September 8, 2012
The Ray Charles – Yes Indeed DVD (2009)
Read moreObvious errors in DVD’s credits corrected in list below. In 2009 Genesis published a limited edition book-and-DVD-set titled Ray Charles:Yes Indeed![Book:]The Photographs Of Joe Adams;[DVD:]Performances by Ray Charles, presenting “the unseen archive of Ray’s friend and manager”. Because I didn’t feel any sympathy for this (Adams’) vanity project, I never bought a copy. But I’m […]
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February 8, 2012
The Two Ray Charles Concerts At The Warsaw Jazz Jamboree (1984)
Read moreInterior of 2-CD booklet. The release & media history of the concerts at the 1984 Warsaw Jazz Jamboree is really (really!) complicated. For me it started, quite simply, a few years ago, when I found two or three clips from a live concert on Youtube. Investigating the provenance of these clips a bit further for […]
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January 27, 2012
Ray Charles In Newport (1993)
Read moreUpdate January 22, 2017: ConcertVault.com has made the whole concert available. Watch it here. The setlist was: 01. [Intro band +] Metamorphosis (Ray Charles Orchestra) 02. [Intro RC + Walk-on +] Then We’ll Be Home (Sadies Tune) 03. Busted 04. Georgia On My Mind 05. Mississippi Mud 06. How Long Has This Been Going On* […]