Appearances
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May 19, 2012
A Great Day In San Francisco – Ray & Rea @ The Fillmore West, Unabridged (1971)
Read moreKing Curtis, Aretha, Ray, Billy. This video – in my perception truly the Holy Grail in the History of Soul Music – suddenly popped up in my inbox yesterday. This morning I was informed* that, since a few months, it can also be watched online. (I keep on wondering how some uploads, although they are […]
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May 15, 2012
When Ray Charles Met Ray Charles (1961)
Read moreFrom The Milwaukee Sentinel, Feb. 22, 1961. Video still from the show. …and when The Raelettes met The Ray Charles Chorus. It all happened at The Perry Como Kraft Music Hall Show, telecast from the NBC Studios (in color; prod. no. 61-380) in Brooklyn, N.Y., on February 22, 1961. The program was directed by Dwight […]
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May 14, 2012
Ray Charles’ UGC From The Wyndham Estate (2002)
Read moreNowadays, whenever a musician picks up his instrument, people flip on their mobile phone cams, tape it, and share the footage on the Interweb. The phenomenon of audience-taped, web-shared concert recordings really took off in 2005, with the launch of YouTube. Just a bit too late for Ray. Of Ray Charles’ concerts I only know […]
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May 11, 2012
Ray Charles On The Joey Bishop Show (1968, 1969)
Read moreRay with Joey Bishop. The Joey Bishop Show had a few runs, in different formats – first as a sitcom broadcast by NBC (1961–64) and CBS (1964–65), then as a late night talkshow aired from April 1967 to December 1969, taped at the ABC Studios in Hollywood. Ray Charles guested at least four times in […]
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May 10, 2012
Ray Charles Live In Copenhagen (1964)
Read morePhotos by Jan Person. I’ve listened to an obviously partial copy from a Ray Charles concert in Copenhagen in 1964. I don’t know the exact date of the show, but overseeing the little we know of the ’64 Europe Tour, late July or mid August are the most feasible bets. The tracks were: Birth Of […]
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May 10, 2012
Ray Charles In The Mitch Thomas Show (c 1955 – 1958)
Read moreThe rise to mass popularity of Rhythm & Blues music was a long and bumpy one. Since it emerged as a genre, it took all of the late 1940s and most of the ’50s to generate true mass appeal among black audiences. A substantial cross over to white audiences didn’t even start before the early […]
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May 6, 2012
Ray Charles Live In Comblain-La-Tour (1964)
Read moreThese photos were made by David Redfern, who later remembered the conditions at Comblain-la-Tour as “a mud bath”. With Joe Napoli. The International Jazz Festival in Comblain-La-Tour, in the Belgian Ardennes, built a huge international reputation in the years between 1959 and 1966 (its tradition was revived in 2009). Ray Charles first performed here in […]
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May 6, 2012
Ray Charles Live In England (1964)
Read moreAFN* Stars Of Jazz Come in, come in, come in, Ray Charles Come in, the high priest In the days before rock ‘n’ roll From Ballad in Blue. Some of Van Morrison’s song lyrics remind us that rhythm & blues music first reached the ears of audiences in Europe over the radio. Voice of America’s […]
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May 1, 2012
Ray Charles Live In Osaka (1989)
Read moreCover of the Japan 1989 tour brochure. At a concert in Osaka, on December 27, 1989 a board mix was recorded*. The setlist was: Woody ‘n’ Bu (Jeff Helgesen – tp; Rudy Johnson – ts; Ernest Vantrease – p) Samba De Elencia Easy Living (Jeff Helgesen – fl, Scott Frillman – bs; Ted Murdock – […]
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April 20, 2012
Ray Charles Surprising Michel Leeb In C’est Votre Vie (1994)
Read moreCharles Aznavour, Michel Leeb, Ray Charles (video still). In the January 29 episode of C’est Votre Vie (This Is Your Life), aired by Antenne 2 in 1994, Ray Charles was among the guests (together with Charles Aznavour) to surprise the German-French comedian, singer and actor Michel Leeb. Ray delighted him with a heart warming rendition […]
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April 19, 2012
Ray Charles Live In Mexico, singing Cherry (1975)
Read moreAfter a Japan tour in November (leading to the famous live album) and a stop in Honolulu on 2 December, the Ray Charles group played a concert in Mexico City, on 6 and 7 December 1975, at the Teatro Degollado. Friends of trumpet player Jack Evans, who were in the audience, taped a magnificent version […]
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April 6, 2012
Ray Charles Guesting In Smokey Robinson’s Motown Revue (1985)
Read moreThe Motown Revue Starring Smokey Robinson (a.k.a. The Motown Revue) was a Friday night musical series, broadcast in the summer and autumn of ’85. The format was nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. Ray Charles, Smokey, Chaka Khan and Tears For Fears starred in the show that aired on September 13. Arsenio Hall and George Solomon […]