Appearances
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October 9, 2014
We Are The World (With USA For Africa)
Read moreWe Are The World was a charity single originally recorded by the supergroup USA For Africa in 1985. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and co-produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian. 45 artists participated. Single (A): USA For Africa, We Are The World, Columbia US&-04839, 1985, b/w Grace One of the legends around the production […]
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October 9, 2014
Wee Baby Blues
Read moreUnreleased. Ray gave this tune a sloooooow performance during a concert in Stockholm on 2 October 1973. John Henderson on piano, Ray on electric piano. I assume the guitar solo was played by Harvey Sarch (who doesn’t remember that, though). In 1957 Ray had contributed to a recording of the song by Big Joe Turner.
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October 9, 2014
What Kind Of Man Is This (With James Cleveland)
Read moreUnreleased. This was a brief pre-taped segment of the TV show Ray Charles – A Man And His Soul, with Jimmy Cleveland and Ray Charles playing one piano, produced in the early summer of 1983. Watch it here (and this for the 1955 original). Ray played the song with a big choir, at the Ray Charles Celebrates A […]
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October 8, 2014
Whisper Not (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreNot released. This instrumental, composed by Bennie Golson, was performed twice (concerts B and C) during the series in October 1961 in Paris. Golson’s account of writing the piece is that “I wrote it in Boston at George Wein’s Storyville club when I was with Dizzy Gillespie’s big band. I wrote that tune in 20 […]
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October 8, 2014
Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On (With Legends Of Rock ‘n’ Roll)
Read moreAlbum3 (DVD): Legends Of Rock ‘n’ Roll Live, Image Entertainment, 5 December 2000. Part of an all-star jam, recorded by Cinemax in Rome in February 1989. Ray had a good time sitting behind his keyboards. The other legends were James Brown, B.B. King, Bo Diddley, Esther Phillips, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard. […]
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October 8, 2014
Will The Circle Be Unbroken (With The Carter Family, Waylon Jennings A.O.)
Read moreUnreleased. On November 29, 1979, Ray Charles guested in The Unbroken Circle – A Tribute to Mother Maybelle Carter – taped in Nashville, Kalispell, Lake Tahoe and other places.
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October 8, 2014
Willie The Weeper (With George Burns, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreUnreleased. In the Joey Bishop Show of March 26, 1968, Ray accompanied George Burns a bit on 2 tunes. Burns’ performance was part of a not-so-funny stand-up; Charles had a minor role, both talking and playing the piano.
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October 8, 2014
With You On My Mind (With The Raelettes)
Read moreAlbum (DVD): Ray Charles – Live in France 1961, Eagle Rock, 24 October 2011. This wonderful song, written by Nat Cole and Charlotte Hawkins, never made it to vinyl, but it was recorded twice during Ray Charles’ concerts at the Jazz À Juan Festival in 1961: once on film (the version of 21 July that made it to the […]
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October 7, 2014
Woody ‘n’ Bu (Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreNot released. This instrumental was written by trombonist Steve Turre, who had played in Ray’s band in 1972, and later involved The Genius as a side man in his album In The Spur Of The Moment (1999). The audio quality of the file that survived from the Warsaw gig in 1984 is better than the video’s. ’84 LC Warsaw (track […]
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October 7, 2014
Wrinkled, Crinkled, Wadded Dollar Bill (By Johnny Cash, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreNot released. Part of a mash-up with Them That Got and Busted. Played in the first week of February 1970, in Nashville, during the taping of the Johnny Cash Show that aired on 11 February (Season 1, Episode 19).
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October 7, 2014
You Are So Beautiful (With Joe Cocker)
Read moreUnreleased. Performed at the TV show Ray Charles – A Man And His Soul, taped at the Cocoanut Grove club in LA in the early summer of 1983, first aired on 30 October 1983. In 1982 Cocker had recorded the duet Up Where We Belong with Jennifer Warnes for the soundtrack of An Officer and a Gentleman, winning an […]
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October 7, 2014
You Don’t Know Me
Read moreAlbum: Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, ABC/Paramount 410, April 1962. Single (A): ABC 10345, July 1962, b/w Careless Love. 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. The tune was also used […]