Appearances
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November 4, 2014
In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down)
Read moreAlbum: Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul, ABC/Paramount 465, August 1963.Album: Live In Concert, ABC/Paramount 500, 1964. Recorded on 10 or 13 July 1963 in New York. Ray’s take on this song almost seemed like a personal lesson in blues (re-)interpretation for Ella Fitzgerald, who released the song on her These Are The Blues album that same year. Where […]
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November 4, 2014
In The Heat Of The Night
Read moreSingle (A): ABC/Tangerine 10970, August 1967. B/w Something’s Got To Change.Album3 (soundtrack): United Artists Records, 1C 064-82 893, 1967.Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. The song was arranged and produced by Quincy Jones for the 1967 film with the same title. Director Norman Jewison recalled songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman singing their bluesy tune […]
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November 3, 2014
It Couldn’t Be Anything But Maxwell House (Jingle)
Read moreUnreleased. Maxwell House worked with Ray from 1981 to 1985. The jingle was composed (uh-uhm) by Joseph Brooks (source: New York Times, August 29, 1982).In this interview, Ray speaks about the reason why his name wasn’t mentioned when the campaign ran. (Last commercial on this reel): Ray also contributed to a Maxwell House radio commercial (or was it with the […]
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November 3, 2014
It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) (With Cast)
Read moreAlbum3 (VHS, France): Duke Ellington – We Love You Madly, VRV 1124, S.a. Opening of the 1973 CBS TV special Duke Ellington… We Love You Madly, recorded at the Shubert Theatre in Los Angeles, on 10 and 11 January 1973. With Roberta Flack, Sarah Vaughan, Peggy Lee, Count Basie, Ray Charles, Sammy Davis Jr., Billy Eckstine, Quincy Jones, Joe […]
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November 3, 2014
It’s A Miracle (With Barry Manilow)
Read moreAlbum3 (DVD): Barry Manilow – The First Television Specials, Rhino, 6 November 2007. Ray Charles performed this duet with the “casually-dressed” host of the Second Barry Manilow Special, first broadcast by ABC on February 24, 1978. Update 13.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available on YouTube, please let me know in the comments below if […]
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November 3, 2014
It’s America’s Game (The One And Only PowerBall) (Jingle)
Read moreUnreleased. Commercial jingle, produced in five (rather poorly produced, but entertaining) 30-second variations for several state lottery campaigns in 2002. Cf.this article. The New Mexico and Oregon Powerball campaigns entailed a series of five commercials, all with musical and visual variations on the jingle’s theme. The New Mexico campaign ran in 2002, and was marketed […]
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November 3, 2014
I’ve Got A Woman (aka I Got A Woman, I Gotta Woman)
Read moreSingle (A): Atlantic 1050, December 1954 b/w Come Back Baby.Compilation album: Ray Charles, Atlantic 8006, June 1957.Live single with 1964 Shrine version (A: Part 1/B: Part 2) ABC 10649, March 1965. Charles told that he performed the song for about a year before he recorded it in Atlanta at the studio of Georgia Tech radio station WGST on […]
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November 2, 2014
Jealous Heart (With Buck Owens & Roy Clark)
Read moreUnreleased. In December 1980 Ray Charles guested in an episode (aired in March 1981) of Hee Haw where he performed Jealous Heart. It was the first and only time that I know of that he did the song. Source here.
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November 2, 2014
Kid From Red Bank (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. The Count Basie, Neal Hefti instrumental recorded for the TV show taped on 13 May 1975, at the Teatro Monumental in Madrid. Solo: Ernest Vantrease – keyboards. With Jeff Conrad, Bob Coassin, Phil Guilbeau, Jack Evans – trumpets; Wally Huff, Ken Tussing, Glen (Champ) Childress, Steve Davis – trombones; Andy Ennis, Clifford Solomon, Ed Pratt, James […]
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November 2, 2014
La Bruja Negra (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. Composed by Steve Huffsteter. Filmed at La Salle Pleyel in Paris, early October 1969. Soloists: Ernest Elly – drums; Andy Ennis – tenor saxophone; and the incredible Blue Mitchell – trumpet. The full line-up: Johnny Coles, Bill King, Marshall Hunt, Blue Mitchell – trumpet; Edward Lee Comegys, Henry Coker, Glenn Childress, Joe Randazzo – trombone; Curtis […]
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November 1, 2014
Laughin’ And Clownin’
Read moreSingle (A): ABC 11259, January 1970, b/w That Thing Called Love.Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Sam Cooke would’ve been proud. Live:’70 TV Duke – With B.B. King’70 TV Tom’72 LC San Carlos – With B.B. King
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November 1, 2014
Le Blues Du Dentiste/Dentist Blues (With Henri Salvador)
Read moreUnreleased. Taped for the TV show Victoires De La Musique at the Palais des Congrès in Paris on February 13, 1996. The original tune was written by Henri Salvador and Boris Vian, and charted (in 1960) by Quincy Jones. Le Blues Du Dentiste:Update 14.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available on YouTube, please let […]