Appearances
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July 6, 2013
Ray Charles Live At The ArtPark (1990)
Read moreOn 20 June 1990 Ray Charles played at the ArtPark in Lewiston. An audience-taped recording can be found here. 1. Sister Sadie – partial (The Ray Charles Orchestra); solo Scott Frillman – bs 2. Fire Up (The Ray Charles Orchestra) 3. The Shadow Of Your Smile (The Ray Charles Orchestra) 4. Unidentified instrumental (The Ray Charles […]
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July 4, 2013
The Ray Charles Big Band’s First Concert In Europe (1961)*
Read moreFor an update of this article, read this. Ad for Ray Charles’ first big band concert in Europe, on October 18, 1961 at the Kongresshaus-Bühne in Zurich. From the Hans Philippi Collection (curated by Mario Schneeberger). Pages from the Zurich concert’s souvenir brochure. Collection Mario Schneeberger. Invitation and ticket for exclusive ‘after party’ organized by […]
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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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June 4, 2013
Ray Charles Singing Georgia For Designing Women (1991)
Read moreDesigning Women was a CBS sitcom about the working and personal lives of four Southern women and one man in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia. It aired from September 29, 1986 until May 24, 1993. The series’ theme song was Georgia On My Mind. During the first five seasons, the the producers just […]
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April 10, 2013
Ray Charles Interviewed In Rock, Roll And Remember (1984)
Read moreCopy of the show on elpee, offered for sale on Ebay. It could be from a rerun of the show. In 1984 Columbia Records put serious effort in promoting Ray’s country & western album Do I Ever Cross Your Mind. Obviously, canvassing radio shows was part of the package. Ray also appeared in the long-running […]
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April 8, 2013
Ray Charles Live In Saratoga Springs (1988)
Read moreOn 20 and 21 August 1988 the Ray Charles aggregation headlined the JVC Jazz Festival at the Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs (NY). Someone in the audience taped the show on the 21st. Here you can listen to it. The setlist* was: Bacio (Ray Charles Orchestra) (Jeff Kaye – tp; Armin Marmolejo – tb) […]
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March 16, 2013
Ray Charles Interviewed By KTLA (2002)
Read moreIn 2002 KTLA‘s Morning News sent actress-reporter-bimbo Mindy Burbano to RPM to interview Brother Ray – who was surprisingly patient with her. Here’s a 20-minute edit, offering nothing new, except for a few words on the Ray Charles Doll, and on Bally’s Ray Charles slot machines, plus Ray’s – not necessarily entirely true – claim […]
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March 12, 2013
Ray Charles 3x At La Salle Pleyel In Paris (1972)
Read morePhoto by Michel Artault/Corbis. On 16 and 17 October 1972 the Ray Charles Band once again played a series of – probably four – concerts at the Pleyel Room in Paris. Three of the shows were recorded by Europe-1. It’s not clear whether and when any of them was aired by the station. The setlists […]
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March 12, 2013
Ray Charles 2x At La Salle Pleyel In Paris (1971)
Read moreSo far, I had 1971 only covered by one professionally recorded live concert – the one at the Turin Jazz Festival on August 8, known from the oddly titled bootleg CD Blues Connotation. But I’ve just listened to two concerts (i.e. the after-intermission parts) from Ray Charles’ yearly visit (during the late 1960s and the […]
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March 11, 2013
Ray Charles At La Salle Pleyel In Paris (1975)
Read moreIn 1975 the Ray Charles big band had one of the strongest line-ups in history, and Ray’s voice was possibly better than ever (even The Raelettes, despite quite a few personnel changes, maintained a consistently high level). On April 21 the Ray Charles troupe played a double concert at La Salle Pleyel in Paris. An […]
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March 3, 2013
Ray Charles Singing America For Black & Decker (1984)
Read moreIn 1984 Roy Eaton created the musical track for America The Beautiful that accompanied “[…] Ray Charles’ emotional rendition of the classic in a new 30-second spot for Black & Decker”. “Eaton said it was a challenge reducing a 2 1/2-minute song to a 29-second musical track without losing the spirit of the composition. He […]
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March 3, 2013
Ray Charles ‘Rapping’ In ‘Electronic Video Recording’ (1970)
Read moreKay Bourne, in an article titled Black TV Programming As Art – published in the Boston based newspaper the Bay State Banner on 3 September 1970 – described a video production by Steve Hussein (a.k.a. Hemingway) in which Ray Charles was interviewed (and that bit of information is about the only thing I understand from his […]