Appearances
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October 7, 2014
You Don’t Love Me No More (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. The […]
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October 6, 2014
?You’ve Got My Number?
Read moreProbably a fantasy title for a not-existing song. Presented as a separate track on a bootleg CD (that I haven’t been able to listen to), but no doubt just a few bluesy verses as an intro to I Can’t Stop Loving You.
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October 6, 2014
You’ve Got The Right One, Baby, Uh-huh
Read moreTV & radio commercial jingle (several variations) for Pepsi, unreleased. Ray sang it, but I’m not so sure he also played the piano in the numerous variations. The musicians nor the real backing singers for any of the commercials were credited (but they were certainly not the “Paylettes” posing with Ray in this campaign). Given […]
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October 6, 2014
Ray Charles Live In Antibes (1976)
Read moreOn July 18th, 1976 the Ray Charles entourage gave one show at the Jazz à Juan festival in Antibes/Juan-les-Pins. The setlist was: 01. Nothing Wrong (Ray Charles Orchestra) 02. Captain Perfect (Ray Charles Orchestra) 03. Metamorphosis (Ray Charles Orchestra) 04. For Her 05. I’m Gonna Go Fishin’ 06. Let The Good Times Roll 07. Georgia On My […]
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October 6, 2014
Ray Charles Live In Antibes (1978)
Read moreOn 16 and 17 July 1978 Ray Charles once again headlined the Jazz à Juan festival in Antibes/Juan-les-Pins. The concert on the 16th was dedicated (by the festival organization, but of course happily endorsed by Ray) to special guest Ella Fitzgerald. She is “not here to sing,” Ray explained to the audience, “but to listen […]
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October 6, 2014
Ray Charles (Complete!) Concert In Antibes In 1982
Read moreVideo still. On July 20, 1982 Ray Charles performed at the Jazz à Juan Festival in Antibes/Juan-les-Pins. I’ve posted before about a selection of 6 tunes (#6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 in the list presented below) that survived from a TV broadcast by France 1. It turns out that the – sumptuous, 1h 54m […]
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October 6, 2014
Ray Charles Live In Antibes (1983)
Read moreIn 1983, during their short European summer tour which began on July 7 in Reykjavik (!), and also led them to Andorra, the Ray Charles aggregation made their “usual” stop in Antibes, on July 19. The setlist was not adventurous in any sense, but the reed players (Don Wilkinson was on board!) were red hot. […]
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October 5, 2014
Ray Charles Live In Antibes (1985)
Read moreCover festival program. A concert in Antibes in 1985, that I speculated about before, has survived in the INA archives (ID PHY11006183*). The show took place on July 20th. The band did an inspired job with the instrumentals. Ray got the French audience on their knees with For Mamma. 1. Woody ‘n’ Bu (Ray Charles Orchestra) […]
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September 12, 2014
Ray Charles Interviewed On BBC Worldwide (2001)
Read moreIn an episode of Meridian Masterpiece, a BBC Worldwide radio news program, Ray Charles talked about his life and his music. “Throughout his life he has shown great strength and has fought to get what he wants. He’s a black man from a segregated town in the USA who performed in apartheid South Africa; a […]
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June 6, 2014
Rare footage of the Ray Charles Band in 1988
Read moreOn June 23d, 1988 the Ray Charles Group played a private concert at CNIT La Défense, in Puteaux. To announce another – public – concert (on June 30, at the Palais des Sports in Paris), TF-2 broadcast a small reportage by Yoba Grégoire, on the 24th.
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June 6, 2014
Ray Charles At La Salle Pleyel In Paris (1970)
Read moreOn 1, 2 and 4 October 1970 Ray Charles gave a total of six concerts at La Salle Pleyel in Paris.* Audio recordings of two shows have survived (see below). A third concert was the subject of a 4m15s news item by Gérard Duclos, broadcast by TF 1 on 3 October, covering Ray’s preparations for […]
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April 11, 2014
Johnny Farnham And Ray Charles At The Crown Casino (1997)
Read moreAustralian pop singer John Farnham (a.k.a. ‘Jack’) has always had a healthy taste for the more pompous soul classics (and for comebacks). On May 8th, 1997 he performed at the opening of the Crown Casino in Melbourne. At the same occasion the venue also dedicated a bar (‘Jack’s Bar’) to John. I guess that Ray […]