Appearances
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November 17, 2012
Ray Charles In Oslo (1968)
Read moreOn January 6, 1969 a Norwegian (radio or TV?) station aired a 50-minute Ray Charles concert, taped at the Njårdhallen in Oslo. Almost certainly, this concert was recorded the year before, on September 25, 1968. During that show, just as in Amsterdam (and probably at other venues during the European tour), a 21-year old local […]
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November 11, 2012
Six Instrumentals From The Mexico Concert (1975)
Read moreOn 6 and 7 December 1975 the Ray Charles group played a series of concerts in Mexico City. I wrote earlier about a ‘board mix’ version of Cherry, but it turns out that all of the instrumentals that were performed by the Ray Charles Orchestra have also survived, coming from the same tape recording. The […]
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November 7, 2012
Ray Charles Singing More Love Than Ordinary In Manor Commercial (1999)
Read moreAd by one of Manor’s retail chains. Groupe Manor is a Swiss retail group. In 1999 they broadcast a Millennium commercial. The agency was Frei. Partner. The production company was Wirz Fraefel Paal. The film was shot at Studio Primetime in Zürich; directed by Ernst Wirz, creative direction by Mäni Frei, Martin Furhrer held the […]
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October 26, 2012
Ray Charles Live In Copenhagen (1972)
Read moreUp till now we only knew an 87-seconds clip from Going Down Slow, but the Danish public TV website DR has suddenly brought the complete, unabridged, Tivoli concert recording of October 10, 1972 online. You can watch all of it here. Nothing Wrong (Ray Charles Orchestra) (Mike Conlon – ct; James ‘Heavy’ Clay – ts; […]
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October 9, 2012
Ray & Dee Dee Performing Precious Thing & O Sole Mio In Italian TV Show (c 1989)
Read moreAround 1990 Ray Charles and Dee Dee Bridgewater performed their duet Precious Thing several times in French and Italian concerts and TV shows. The clip below is from an Italian show, presented by Pippo Baudo and Renzo Arbore; this may well have been an episode in Baudo’s Rai 2 TV Show series Serata d’Onore. They […]
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September 19, 2012
Ray Charles At The North Sea Jazz Festival (1980)
Read moreLive Concert: Northsea Jazz Festival, Prins Willem Alexanderzaal, Congresgebouw, The Hague – July 13, 1980. Period: The Tangerine/Crossover/Atlantic Years (1973 – 1980). Artist: Ray Charles (with The Raeletts, The Ray Charles Orchestra). Label: Unissued. Personnel: Ray Charles – vocals, piano, electric piano; Mitch Manker, Doug Crescimano, Tom Swayzee, Doug Martin – trumpets; Art Velasco, Dan […]
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September 16, 2012
Ray Charles In Concert At The Valley Forge Music Fair (1994)
Read moreOn July 1, 1994 the Ray Charles group performed at the Valley Forge Music Fair, near Devon. The concert was recorded from the audience. The audio tape is of a decent quality. Ray and the band sounded tight. The section with the Raelettes (“all 5”) was unusually brief – often a sign of recent changes […]
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September 16, 2012
Ray Charles Live In Atlantic City (1996)
Read moreFrom 19 to 21 January 1996 Ray Charles played a series of symphony concerts at the Mark G. Etess Arena (in the Trump Taj Mahal), in Atlantic City. Ray flew in his orchestra’s rhythm section – with Peter Turre on drums, Kenny Carr on guitar, and Curtis Ohlson on bass – and Victor Vanacore as […]
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September 14, 2012
Ray Charles Live At The Blue Note (1991)
Read moreAd from New York Amsterdam News, Oct. 26, 1991. From 22 to 27 October 1991 the Ray Charles group played a series of shows at the famous Blue Note club in New York (“reported to be the only nightclub in the world where Charles still performs”). One of the shows on the 26th was taped […]
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September 10, 2012
Ray Charles In New Haven (1985)
Read moreSource: Topfoto. On 8 June 1985 Ray Charles and his group gave a concert at the Shubert Performing Arts Center in New Haven. The show was taped from the audience. The audio quality is a little less than mediocre. The setlist was: Project S (Ray Charles Orchestra) Intro Let the Good Times Roll Georgia On […]
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September 2, 2012
Ray Charles Live At Caneção In Rio (1990)
Read moreOn 30 November 1990 the Ray Charles group flew in (with a delay, and problems with escalators and elevators at the airport and at his hotel, that made headlines in the local press) from Santiago de Chile to Rio de Janeiro. That same or the next night he gave a concert at the famous show […]
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August 29, 2012
Ray Charles Live In San Carlos (1971)
Read moreIn my last post I wrote about a recording of a Ray Charles & B.B. King concert at the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos, in late November of 1972. A reader remembered that a similar (audience) audio recording was made at the same location about a year earlier (the precise date is not known), […]