Appearances
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October 21, 2014
Rocky Top Tennessee (With Lynn Anderson And Larry Gatlin)
Read moreUnreleased. Ray Charles contributed to this song when he guested in the CBS show The Unbroken Circle – A Tribute to Mother Maybelle Carter (taped in Nashville, aired on November 28, 1979).
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October 20, 2014
Roll In G (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. This simple (and not overly brilliant) rock tune was probably written by Ray Charles (the author’s rights have never been claimed). During the October 1961 series at the Palais des Sports in Paris, it got two lengthy performaces, starring the members of Ray’s old ‘small band’. The full line-up was: Marcus Belgrave, Wallace Davenport, […]
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October 20, 2014
Route 66 (With Ella Fitzgerald)
Read moreUnreleased. Recorded at Le Gala Du Siècle, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Moulin Rouge in Paris on October 6, 1989.
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October 20, 2014
Running Out (Ft. Mable John)
Read moreMable John and Ray Charles, backstageat a concert in San Francisco, on December 5, 1971. Photo by Robert Altman. Unreleased (but downloadable). Recorded once, at the Fillmore East on 18 April 1970. From Wolfgang’s Vault: “The Raelet[te]s sequence begins with a funky, Memphis soul-driven take on Ashford & Simpson’s Running Out, one of the singles Mable John recorded […]
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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
Satin Doll (Solo/By The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. Ray played Satin Doll during Duke Ellington’s Sold On Soul Tribute, on 23 February 1970 at Madison Square Garden in New York. It’s highly uncertain if any recording of this performance has survived. In these years Satin Doll was also on the repertoire of the band (i.e. as one of the show openers, without Ray). One low quality […]
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October 20, 2014
Satisfaction (I Can’t Get No) (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreAlbum3 (VHS): The Big T.N.T. Show, Anchor Bay, 1988. Album3 (DVD): The Big T.N.T. Show, March 2011. For most of 1965 Ray Charles limited his public appearances to a few high profile TV shows and films, such as Murray The K’s It’s What’s Happening, Shindig! and The Big T.N.T. Show. The latter was shot before a live audience at the Moulin Rouge […]
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October 19, 2014
Say No More
Read moreAlbum: Strong Love Affair, Qwest Records 9362-46107-2, January 1996. Recorded in Paris (instruments) and at RPM International in Los Angeles (voice). Produced by Jean-Pierre Grosz. For the session’s personnel, follow the album link, above. On 13 February 1996 France 2 News had an item with interviews of the team that wrote Say No More for Ray Charles: Jean-Pierre Grosz, Ronnie […]
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October 19, 2014
Secret Love
Read moreUnreleased. The song from the film Calamity Jane, recorded during the 72nd Annual Academy Awards Show at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on March 26, 2000. Brief version, as a part of a bigger past’s original songs medley presented by Bert Bacharach, in which Dionne Warwick, Queen Latifah, Isaac Hayes, Faith Hill and Garth Brooks also contributed.
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October 17, 2014
Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours [Partial]
Read moreUnreleased. During the finale of their concert in Antibes on July 22, 1979, Ray and The Raelettes wove a few swinging phrases from this Stevie Wonder song into their intro to What’d I Say.
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October 17, 2014
Simple Melody
Read moreUnreleased. On February 1, 1973 Ray guested at the Flip Wilson Show, playing a little musical skit with the host. One of his contributions was a 10-second version of Simple Melody.
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October 17, 2014
So Soon (With John Henderson)
Read moreUnreleased. When Ray Charles had keyboardist and singer John Henderson in his band, from 1972 to 1974, they developed a routine that I’ve titled So Soon, after the frequently repeated (but rather meaningless) chorus line. Sometimes it was just a little ditty, used as an intro to What’d Say. Other times Ray turned it into a […]