Appearances
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September 29, 2010
Ray Charles In An American Pageant Of The Arts (1962)
Read more“President and Mrs. Kennedy are shown as they film a nationwide closed circuit television show, “An American Pageant of the Arts,” to boost a National Culture Center [at] the National Guard Armory.” On 29 November 1962 Ray Charles contributed to An American Pageant Of The Arts, a closed-circuit TV show from Carnegie Hall, staged to […]
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September 29, 2010
The Many Worlds Of Ray Charles (1983)
Read moreOn 19 September 1983 ABC aired The Many Worlds Of Ray Charles. “The winner of ten Grammy Awards is joined by a star-studded cast”, the Kentucky New Era announced in its tv guide section. Who knows more?
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September 25, 2010
Ray Charles On The Pop Chronicles (1969)
Read moreThe radio rockumentary The Pop Chronicles was conceptualized by John Gilliland in 1967. It traces the history of popular music from the 1950’s through the 1960’s. Gilliland wrote, narrated and produced 55 hours of radio broadcasting, first airing at KRLA in Pasadena in February 1969. He interviewed Ray Charles on 3 August 1968, in Los Angeles. […]
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September 21, 2010
Ray Charles America (2010)
Read moreRay Charles America is a 90-minute documentary, directed by Alexis Manya Spraic, “examining the social and political context of Ray Charles’ work, and how he changed the cultural landscape”. It contains rare and never-before released music and footage (the recording of It Hurts To Be In Love; the performance of Ring Of Fire on The […]
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September 20, 2010
Anti-AIDS Campaign With Ray Charles Rejected (1992)
Read moreIn April 1992 a series of proposed anti-AIDS ads starring Whoopi Goldberg, George Burns and Ray Charles was rejected by the Centers for Disease Control as “the wrong approach”. In the ads, the stars urged condom use with such pleas as: “I wouldn’t be seen without one” (Charles), and “Ain’t no making Whoopi without one” […]
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September 20, 2010
Ray Charles On Telethon For Arthritis Foundation (1995)
Read moreOn 2 or 9 April 1995 Ray Charles participated in the yearly Arthritis Foundation Telethon, in Fiesta, Texas, the first national telethon ever to originate from San Antonio. The event was produced by KENS-TV. Crystal Gayle was the telethon’s national host; she was assisted by John Davidson and Fred Travalena. The other stars were a.o. […]
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September 17, 2010
Ray Charles Live In Transylvania (1994)
Read moreOn 5 September 1994 Ray Charles performed at the 7th Golden Stag International Music Festival, on Sfatului Square in the Transylvanian town of Brasov, Romania. The festival was broadcast by the Canadian, Spanish, and Japanese television. The live audience of more than 7,000 people and more than 18 million viewers were served every night with […]
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September 16, 2010
Ray Charles In 5 for $5 Arby’s Commercial (1997)
Read moreIn 1997 Ray made a commercial for the fast-food chain Arby’s. The few traces that still can be found on the web indicate that the TV commercial with Charles was highly irritating. The commercial also ran in 1999. In 2000 “Guy Incognito” remembered: “I believe I’ve seen the first sign of the apocalypse. It’s in […]
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September 10, 2010
Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters (2010)
Read moreRare Genius was yet another post mortem album, released on 26 October 2010. The album was announced as a “treasure trove of newly discovered recordings”, “culled from four decades worth of demos and other previously unreleased material”, from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. According to the press release, “Adding a little sweetening to some of the sparse, […]
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September 5, 2010
Ray Charles Was In Town – Chronology 2004>
Read moreLate 2003 or Early 2004 At RPM Studio. Photo by Patrik Anderson. Interviewed for Tom Dowd And The Language Of Music (DVD released in August 2004). See this. 2004 Contributing to a PSA for Mentoring.org, with Quincy Jones. See this. Genius Loves Company peaks at #1 on Pop Album Chart. Release of Ellis Hall’s […]
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September 5, 2010
Ray Charles Is In Town – Chronology 2003
Read moreValerie Ervin, Muhammad Ali, Ray Charles (c. 2003). c. 2003. Series of four awkward publicity photos by Robert Banks, probably from 2003. Photo by Greg Segal, from Esquire, August 2003. “This is a girl’s bike, man. Why would I be riding a girl’s bike? You didn’t think I was gonna notice that, right? You guys […]