Appearances
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April 2, 2012
Ray Charles’ Tribute To Nelson Mandela (2000)
Read moreOn 8 September 2000 the Australian Radly Center, a non profit organization that focuses on assisting people in the poorest nations on the planet, organized World Reconciliation Day (WRD 2000), raising US$1 million for the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund. WRD 2000 was held in Melbourne. Nelson Mandela gave keynote speeches at two events of the […]
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March 28, 2012
Ray Charles In São Paulo (1970)
Read moreIn late November or early December 1970 Ray Charles performed at the Teatro Municipal in São Paulo. Vega Magazine reported that “he played some snippets of Corcovado, by Antônio Carlos Jobim, on piano – commenting, in a relaxed way: ‘It’s pleasant music. I like it!’” TV Tupi was present, and probably aired (parts of?) […]
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March 26, 2012
Ray Charles With Gladys Knight In Dinah! & Friends (1980)
Read moreThis photo (right), originally from the Philadelphia Tribune archive, has Ray Charles, Dinah Shore, and Gladys Knight. A copytight sign on the backside reveals the year 1980. A 20th Century Fox publicity photo caption helps to identify the scene as part of an episode of Dinah! & Friends. Fernando Lamas co-hosted the show. The other […]
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March 23, 2012
Ray Charles Live In Viareggio (1984)
Read moreVideo still from Eleanor Rigby. This article in the newspaper Unita suggests that this concert in Viareggio was taped for TV in July 1984. In another source I found that Raidue aired it on August 3, 1985, as a #1 in a series of six live concerts broadcast by that network. …But I’m not entirely […]
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March 19, 2012
Ray Charles Ft. In A Special Kenny Rogers (1979)
Read morePhoto taken during this show. Ray Charles with Kenny Rogers, Dottie West and The Oak Ridge Boys. In early 1979 Kenny Rogers toured in the U.S. One of the tunes on his setlist was Oh Lady Luck. This set was one of the elements in a variety TV show titled A Special Kenny Rogers, where […]
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March 9, 2012
Ray Charles Live In Paris (1973)
Read moreFrom Billboard, Aug. 11, 1973. The tour was extended to more countries. In the autumn of 1973 the Ray Charles group toured Europe together with the Oscar Peterson Trio and the Count Basie Orchestra. Most of the concerts were booked for Germany, but on October 9 they also played at the Palais des Sports in […]
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March 2, 2012
Ray Charles Live In Rio (1986)
Read morePhoto by Sergio Amara. On 2 and 3 September 1986 Ray Charles performed at the Free Jazz Festival(at the Teatro do Hotel Nacional) in Rio de Janeiro. (The event was not about free jazz, but the jazz was free). One of the shows was taped for TV. Gregorio Robin directed the program. Before the concert […]
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February 27, 2012
A Lost Apollo Concert Taping From 1960 (With Clark Terry In The Orchestra)
Read moreIn 1960 two writers of French jazz magazines came to New York to report about Ray Charles, preparing the ground for his triumphant concerts in Antibes in the summer of 1961 (and both possibly sponsored by Vega, the French distributor of Ray’s records?). Franck Ténot published a well known article in the December 1960 issue […]
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February 21, 2012
Ray Charles In Bakersfield (1968)
Read moreClockwise, starting left: Alex Brown, Clydie King, Gwen Berry, Merry Clayton. Compared to the impressive number of Ray Charles concerts that were recorded in Europe and Japan, American “live” recordings are relatively rare, especially where it concerns shows from the 1960s and 1970s. But after my recent ‘report’ on the taping of the Fresno concert, […]
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February 20, 2012
Ray Charles In Brussels (1975)
Read moreA collector of Ray Charles records and recordings recently provided me with a copy of an odd tape, with an uncertain provenance. What he knows is that the five tunes that are on the recording come from a radio program that was aired by the French station France Inter, and presented by Julien Delli Fiori. […]
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February 18, 2012
The All New Ray Charles Show 1968 In Fresno
Read morePoster for the “The All New! Ray Charles Show ’68”, Munich, Sep. 30. The “Revue” gig, with the John Bishop Trio and comedian Billy Wallace. Between 1967 and 1969 Ray Charles Enterprises experimented a lot with packaging evening-filling shows, not only bringing The Genius himself, his Orchestra and The Raelettes on stage, but also other […]
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February 16, 2012
Ray Charles Live In Milan (1991)
Read moreThe YouTube video clips below come from a concert at the Milanofiori Forum di Assago on December 4, 1991. They were part of a television program, directed by Giancarlo Nicotra, that was aired on December 6, by TMC(Telemontecarlo). A good copy of the 59-minute video that I already knew from this source recently landed in […]