Appearances
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September 13, 2011
Ray (Not?!) Saluting Stevie At 9th American Music Awards (1982)
Read moreThe American Music Awards were created for ABC by Dick Clark in 1973 to compete with the Grammys. The 9th edition was aired live from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on 25 January 1982. According to many sources (even including content descriptions of illegal DVDs, and a script of the show that’s currently for […]
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September 11, 2011
America The Beautiful (2002?)
Read moreThis is the Ray Charles Marketing Group‘s gift to people who want to commemorate 9/11. It was uploaded earlier today to their new RMCG account at Vimeo, and is promoted through their official Ray Charles pageon Facebook. The Genius, uncharacteristically, is playbacking. He looks like 72+ here. My best guess is that this clip (where […]
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September 10, 2011
Another ‘Last’ Live Tele-Recorded Concert By Ray Charles (2003)
Read moreHere’s a new candidate for the title ‘last tele-recorded Ray Charles concert’ (cf. what I wrote here): iTunes offers a 13-minute video from a concert by Ray Charles and his Trio (Peter Turre – drums, Brad Rabuchin – guitar, Tom Fowles – bass) at the 42nd Annual International Achievement Summit on 4 May 2003, in […]
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September 9, 2011
Ray Charles Discussing 9/11 On The Today Show (2001)
Read moreThe weeks after the 9/11 attack the American airwaves were filled with patriotic songs. Ray’s America The Beautiful was probably the song that was most frequently played. On 3 october 2001 NBC’s Today Show had a 5-minute item titled Singer Ray Charles Discusses His Tribute to America With His Patriotic Music (IDs: 5114045222_s40; NY-TDY-20011004-0001; Ardome […]
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September 8, 2011
Singular Genius, A 5-CD Box With All Of Ray Charles’ ABC Singles
Read moreThe 5-disk box Singular Genius was released on 15 November 2011 by Concord Music Group. The set offers all of Ray Charles’ 106 ABC single tracks, remastered in mono. Most of it, Conmcord’s John Burl claimed, comes from the RPM vaults, some tracks came from dubs that were sent abroad for local distribution, some even […]
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September 5, 2011
Ray Charles, His Band & Peter Nero On Local TV In Philadelphia (1997)
Read moreIn a Keyboard Magazine interview Ray Charles, when asked about his favorite pianist, was quoted as saying, “Art Tatum could play anything he wanted to. He’s one of the few people who I truly believe could play anything he thought of… and Peter Nero plays his buns off!” Probably the first time the two of […]
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September 4, 2011
Ray Charles Band Promoting Pepsi Clothing Line In Glendale (1991)
Read moreIn April 1991 Ray Charles and his Orchestra performed in a series of promotional gigs at U.S. shopping malls, showing Pepsi’s Uh-huh clothing line. For PR footage of such a promotional concert at the Galleria mall in Glendale, California on 29 April 1991, see this. You’ll hear bits of Riding Thumb, Busted and Georgia. For […]
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September 3, 2011
Ray Charles Co-Billed With Louis Armstrong At Kent State Gig (1967)
Read more(c) Kent Stater With his special talent to get the most out of duets and other forms of collaboration, Ray Charles has recorded with an impressive longlist of other stars – singers as well as instrumentalists (also see the “With”-labels in the sidebar of this page). And in the almost sixty years of his career, […]
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August 29, 2011
Ray Charles Live In Berlin And Frankfurt (1967)
Read morePhoto from concert in Milan, during the same tour. The year 1967 has long been a barren time zone in the history of documented live performances by Ray Charles. Only recently, I was happily surprised to find a (partial) copy of a concert in Paris, on 18 April 1967, in my inbox – even though […]
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August 28, 2011
Ray Charles Interviewed At A Graveyard In 1976
Read moreThe person who put up these photos for auction suggested they are stills from a 1976 shoot, and had reason to nominate comedian-actor Stu Gilliam for the director’s role. A couple of photos were shot at a graveyard… Who knows more?
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August 27, 2011
Ray Charles In Nîmes (1985)
Read moreAudience in the Nîmes Arena during a Ray Charles concert in 1999. Between 1976 en 1988 Jazz70, a group of jazz enthousiasts, organized the International Jazz Festival in Nîmes, at the local Amphitheater. Jazz70 are now sharing their documentary video archives on Vimeo. On 20 July 1985 (according to my database, but two of the […]
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August 26, 2011
Ray & B.B.’s Superband Tour (1990)
Read moreRay and BB at press conference in New York, on or around 1 October 1990 (photo from: Jet magazine, 3 December 1990). In July 1990 a press release was published to announce that the “Superband tour” of that year would be headlined by B.B. King and Ray Charles. The official title of the series was […]