Appearances
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August 20, 2011
Рей Чарлз Interviewed On Bulgarian TV (1981)
Read moreYancho Takov interviewed Ray Charles in Every Sunday, aired by BT, the national Bulgarian TV station, in 1981. Ray toured Europe in May and November of that year. Who knows more? Yancho Takov interviewing Ray Charles. Original caption: “This is a picture of my friend Lucy with Ray Charles on a TV show in Bulgaria. […]
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August 15, 2011
DVD Of Ray Charles’ Antibes 1961 Concerts To Come Out in October
Read moreGood news #1: Reelin’ In The Years Productions To Represent Ina’s TV Music Footage Archive. Readers of this blog must be aware that Ina, the French state TV’s archive, is by far the most important source for vintage Ray Charles footage in the world. Up till today most of their treasures were well hidden in […]
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June 30, 2011
Ray & Raita Landing In Geneva (1964)
Read moreIn the 60s Ray Charles’ – sometimes almost yearly – arrival at a local national airport regularly made it to TV news broadcasts (in France it would even remain a yearly ritual well until the 90s). Here is a 17-second clip with footage from his landing at Cointrin Airport in Geneva, together with his girlfriend […]
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June 27, 2011
Ray Charles À Paris – One More Concert À La Salle Pleyel (1967)
Read moreOne of the Ray Charles concerts at La Salle Pleyel in Paris, on 18 April 1967 was broadcast by the French radio station Europe N°1 (in the Musicorama series). 1967 was the only year in history that Paris got the full (‘American’ version of the) Ray Charles Show, meaning not only the band before the intermission, […]
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June 24, 2011
Ray Charles Live In Charlotte Pops Concert (1998)
Read moreOn October 1, 1998 Ray Charles performed with his trio and The Charlotte Philharmonic (conductor Albert-George Schram) at Ballroom C of the Charlotte Convention Center. There must be a bootleg out there. (The week before, on September 29, Ray had already performed nearby, at the North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center – probably with his […]
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June 21, 2011
Ray Charles Ft. In Téléthon (1988)
Read moreVideo still from the show. On December 3, 1988 Ray Charles guested in an Antenne 2 Téléthon in Paris (INA ID CPB88015483), entitledChamps Elysées. The show – presented by Michel Drucker, Claude Serillon and Gérard Holtz – was raising funds for children. Ray performed a beautiful version of If You Go Away (even inserting a one-time “ne […]
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June 21, 2011
Ray Meets Ahmet In Embarquement Porte N°1 (2000)
Read moreEmbarquement Porte N°1 was a TF1 series of 26 minute cultural documentaries. In 2000 they aired an episode titled La Nouvelle Orléans, bringing Michael White, Allen Toussaint, Aaron Neville, and Ahmet Ertegun on camera. The latter acted as a guide for the film makers. There’s one sequence in a hotel lobby where he briefly introduces […]
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June 9, 2011
Ray Charles Interviewed By The Times Leader (1998)
Read moreTape of telephone interview by Alan Stout of The Times Leader, a few days before his concert at the Scranton Cultural Center (at the Masonic Temple) on 5 August 1998, which was canceled “because the Cultural Center could not authorize a final settlement to pay Mr. Charles”. No pay, no Ray.
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June 7, 2011
Ray Charles On The Bell Telephone Hour (c 1968)
Read moreThe Bell Telephone Hour was a long-running (1959 – 1968) NBC music program. Stock footage agency Research Video mentions a performance on this show of Yesterday by Ray Charles, from “1970”. Stills from this performance can be seen here: 1, 2, 3. The correct year must be 1967 or 1968 (Ray’s original studio recording of […]
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June 7, 2011
Ray Charles At Dinah’s Place (1973)
Read moreRay Charles’ and Dinah Shore’s TV relationship went back as far as 1956. In 1963 Ray brought his orchestra and the Raelettes to the Dinah Shore Show for an excellent mini concert, and in 1967 they did a duet on The Nashville Sound special. On 15 August 1973 Ray guested in Dinah’s Place, an NBC […]
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June 6, 2011
Visions of Genius: Remembering Ray Charles (2006)
Read moreAmerican Routes is a weekly public radio program produced in New Orleans, presenting a broad range of American music, exploring the shared musical and cultural threads of American music. On 28 June 2006 they aired a 2-hour program on Ray Charles, Visions of Genius: Remembering Ray Charles – a montage of Ray’s earlier contributions to […]
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June 6, 2011
Ray Charles And Slash Teaching Kids Some Soul In The Blues Lab (2002)
Read moreAmerican Routes is a weekly public radio program produced in New Orleans, exploring the shared musical and cultural threads of American music. On 22 August 2002 they broadcast a reportage, titled I Didn’t Learn That In School!, taped at Ray Charles’ RPM studios in Los Angeles. Ray that year was contributing to the Sir Charles […]