Appearances
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November 14, 2014
Deep In The Heart Of Texas
Read moreAlbum: Album: Genius Hits the Road, ABC/Paramount 335, July 1960. Recorded at the Capitol Studios in New York City on 29 March 1960. With John Hunt, Marcus Belgrave, Martin Banks – trumpet; David Newman – tenor saxophone, Hank Crawford – alto saxophone, Leroy Cooper – baritone saxophone; Milt Turner – drums; Edgar Willis – bass.According to […]
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November 14, 2014
Doesn’t Anybody Hurt Anymore (With Travis Tritt)
Read moreUnreleased. On 10 September 2002 CMT paired up Travis Tritt with “doctor” Ray Charles for an episode of CMT Crossroads, first aired on 6 December of that year. Tritt wrote this song. Ray Charles (ep, vo); Travis Tritt (g, vo); Aubrey Haynie (vln); John Jarvis (o); Dan Dugmore (pedal steel g); Brent Mason, Reggie Young (g); […]
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November 13, 2014
Doodle-de-do (With Flip Wilson)
Read moreUnreleased. From the Flip Wilson Show broadcast on February 1, 1973. A cross talk and a few ditties (Play A Simple Melody, Doodle-de-do, and If You Wouldn’t Be My Lady) in this clip:
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November 13, 2014
Doxy
Read moreUnreleased. Ray played this Sonny Rollins standard from 1954* during one of his many guest appearances on the Mike Douglas Show (season 12, episode 115) on February 8, 1974. The footage of this important gig still hasn’t surfaced yet. Who knows more? * On alto sax maybe? Or did Ray scat some Ja Da, Ja Da, Jing, Jing, Jing?! The melody of Doxy is […]
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November 12, 2014
Every Day I Have the Blues (With Chris Thomas) (Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreAlbum: More Music From Ray, Atlantic/WEA, 29 October 2004. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, probably in 2003. Chris Thomas singing in Lowell Fulson style, Ray backing him on piano, for a scene in the biopic Ray. Update 01.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available on YouTube, please let me know in the […]
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November 12, 2014
Everybody Has The Blues (With Tony Bennett)
Read moreAlbum3 (LP, CD, MC): The Art Of Excellence, Columbia FC 40344, 1986. The Art Of Excellence was Bennett’s first album after re-signing with Columbia Records, “sold in compact disc, cassette, and album simultaneously, an unusual marketing strategy”. The tune was also added, as a bonus song, to the 2005 re-issue of Ray’s Friendship album. But for some reason someone chose […]
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November 12, 2014
Everything’s All Right
Read moreUnreleased. Timefiller (to get Ernest “The Deacon” Vantrease front stage). It could easily have evolved into a fully fledged song. (Starts at 1’09’40):Update 01.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available on YouTube, please let me know in the comments below if you have any footage, thanks — Cyd Live:’75 LC Madrid’75 LC […]
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November 12, 2014
Feeling Inside
Read moreUnreleased A bluesy theme (“I made that just up”) improvised by Ray during the photo shoot with Norman Seeff in 1985.
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November 12, 2014
Flying Home (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. A typical Lionel Hampton tune – written by him, Benny Goodman and Eddie DeLange. It was recorded only once, during one of the concerts at the Olympia Theatre in Paris, from 22 to 28 May 1963. Live:’63 LC Paris
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November 12, 2014
For Every Dream There’s A Jackpot (Jingle)
Read moreUnreleased. This is one of the commercials Ray played in for the New Jersey Lottery, in 2000. The press release announcing the campaign, treated it as a work of art. ‘Composed’ by Victor Vanacore, ‘lyrics’ by Jon Harcharek of the New Jersey Lottery’s advertising agency, Grafica. Musicians participating in the recording session included Wayne Bergeron, Mike […]
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November 12, 2014
For The Future (Jingle)
Read moreUnreleased. In 2000 the Austin Kelley agency produced three 30-second commercials for the Georgia Lottery. One of them, claiming the Lottery’s contributions to education, was themed For The Future.
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November 11, 2014
Forty Pound Limit (aka I Don’t Know, aka Mr. Ray Charles) (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreAlbum DVD: Ray Charles Live At The Montreux Jazz Festival, November 2004; DVD/CD: Geneon/Pioneer B000667GDM, November 2004; DVD: SHE B0000648YH, June 2006; DVD: Eagle Rock B000VZBCVU, October 2007; Blu Ray DVD: Eagle Rock B001JL2V2E, December 2008. In an earlier article on this tune I presented it as an unidentified instrumental. I wrote that “In many sources, […]