Appearances
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January 11, 2012
Ray Charles Live In Lloret De Mar (1990)
Read moreStill from the TV program. On 20 April 1991 TVE2 broadcast a Ray Charles concert held the year before on 20 July, sponsored by the Casino in Lloret de Mar, at the Campo Municipal de Deportes (cf. this). The program was directed by P.P. Vila-San-Juan. The copy that I saw had many sequences where the sound […]
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January 11, 2012
Ray Charles In A Fool For You With The NYC Ballet (1988, 1989)
Read moreIn 1988 and 1989 Ray Charles starred in A Fool For You, a concert dansant with the New York City Ballet, set to his music. 1988 Martins and Charles. Article from Esquire, May 1988. The first time, on 14 and 15 May 1988, the performance was a closing part of the American Music Festival, at […]
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January 11, 2012
Ray Charles Live In Antibes 1979 – Now Complete
Read moreThe contents of Ray Charles’ concert on 22 July 1979 in Antibes have so far surfaced in bits and pieces. All footage goes back to four tapes in the the INA archive (ID numbers CPC79057920, CPC93007107, CPC83052338, CPC90008470), titled Ray Charles N° 1, Ray Charles N° 2, Ray Charles N° 3, and Ray Charles N° […]
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January 11, 2012
Ray Charles, B.B. King & The Superband Live In Dresden (1990)
Read moreOn 30 October 1990 the Superband entourage (cf. this post) landed in Dresden. That day’s concert at the Kulturpalast was broadcast live by Radio Saxen (and, simultaneously, was put through by Radio Dresden). A 2-CD bootleg (of mediocre quality) with the complete concert has survived. The setlist (with a few obvious corrections) was: Don’t Get […]
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January 9, 2012
Ray Charles Live In Lugano (1986)
Read moreThe ‘cover artwork’ that comes with the audio torrent has photos of Ray from the 1990s. The list of song titles has lots of errors. On 1 July 1986 Ray Charles, his Orchestra and The Raelettes performed at the Estival Jazz Lugano, at the Piazza Della Riforma. The show, a French voice over said, was […]
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January 2, 2012
Ray Charles NOT Telecast At 5-4 Ballroom (Or Was He?) (1955, 1956)
Read moreThe California Eagle, Dec. 21, 1955. On December 21, 1955, The California Eagle ran a page-wide ‘advertorial’ banner on its entertainment page, announcing: “Ray Charles ‘weeking’ at 5-4”. The stint brought the “Sightless 88’er* Back On B’way” for the weekend (alternatively specified as a “4-Day Stay” and a “three-day stand”, probably coming down to Friday […]
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December 27, 2011
Ray Charles Live In Antibes (1992)
Read moreSpread from the 1992 European Tour itinerary from promoter DIBA (collection Steve Sigmund). Things always changed after the printing was done; therefore the data on the personnel were never entirely correct. x Ray Charles connoisseur J.P. Verger was so kind to let me listen in to a rare private recording of a live France-Inter radio […]
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December 21, 2011
There’s A Ray Charles Riot Going On (1960)
Read moreDocumentary footage about the on-tour adventures of the Ray Charles troupe is extremely rare. This makes a news clip from 1960 even more special. In a comment to this article, a reader has convincingly established that the footage of this clip was shot in Portland, at and around the local Palais Royale Ballroom. These riots […]
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December 21, 2011
Ray Charles Makes 3 Bucks In The Scene (1971?)
Read moreStill from watermarked archive clip. The Scene was a dance show that ran on WKY-TV (now KFOR) in Oklahoma from 1966 to 1974. The program was hosted by DJ Ronnie Kaye. The Dr. Pepper sponsored format ran for 8 years, and was syndicated in 10 markets in the southwestern United States including California and Texas. […]
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December 13, 2011
Ray Charles & Lucio Dalla In Two Duets At The Teatro Greco In Taormina (2000)
Read moreLucio Dallais an Italian singer-songwriter and musician. On 20 August 2000 he performed “the most exciting duets” of his career during a Ray Charles concert with a symphony orchestra at the Teatro Greco in Taormina. The two gentlemen sang O Sole Mio and Yesterday. In the video below Dalla reflects on this event. The Rai […]
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December 11, 2011
One More Superband Concert In Italy (With B.B. King) (1990)
Read moreThe program’s logo (still). I thought I had covered all there is to know about Ray Charles’ and B.B. King’s 1990 Philip Morris Superband tour inthis article*. But today yet another TV taping of yet another one of their concerts popped up in my inbox. This show was broadcast by the Monagasque TV station TMC […]
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December 11, 2011
Ray Charles In Symphony Concert In Bourges (1987)
Read moreStill from video copy. Ray Charles’ symphony concert at the 11th Bourges festival in April 1987 is best known from the excellent documentary Printemps De Bourges by Serge Ginsbourg. I was also aware of some more reels with footage of the festival, mainly with contemporary news items, that are kept by the INA archive (cf. […]