Appearances
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June 6, 2011
Ray Charles On American Routes (2001)
Read moreAmerican Routes is a weekly public radio program produced in New Orleans, presenting a broad range of American music, exploring the shared musical and cultural threads of American music. On 4 July 2001 they aired an interview with Ray Charles. Listen to it here.
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June 5, 2011
Ray Charles In Paris (1995)
Read moreThe Ina Media Archive has a copy of a 2m12s France 2 news cast (ID CAB95039768), reported by Jean Jacques Dufour, from 7 July 1995, showing a.o. Ray Charles on the stage of the “Conference hall in Paris”, a hotel lobby, Ray and his entourage entering an elevator, and some live footage of Ray, his […]
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May 9, 2011
Ray Charles Live In Japan (1992)
Read moreAlthough he is not 200% positive (only recognizing the contours of a familiar Moon bass, but not his own profile), Nils Johnson thinks this footage may originate from the concert for Earth Day that was produced by the Japanese public broadcasting organisation (NHK) in Tokyo, in 1992. The program was either broadcast live on 22 […]
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April 30, 2011
Video Of Legendary Spirit In The Dark Duet (1971, With Aretha)!
Read moreWolfgang’s Vault, those wonderful guys who, since a few years, regularly give us supposedly long-lost audio recordings of live concerts, last year pleasantly surprised Rea & Ray-lovers with the unabridged 25m05s audio version of Spirit In The Dark, formerly only known through Jerry Wexler’s cut for the Atlantic album Aretha Franklin, Live At The Fillmore […]
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April 24, 2011
Hit The Road Jack (1969)
Read moreOn 7 October 1969 the program Midi Magazine on TF1 had one or two items announcing Ray Charles’ concerts at La Salle Pleyel in Paris, on 8 and 9 October. They had an interview with Ray that was recorded in Salon de Provence, and showed an archival performance, filmed somewhere in France, probably also in […]
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April 21, 2011
Ray Charles On The Dinah Shore (Chevy) Show (1963)
Read moreThe integral 58m47s Dinah Shore Show that was aired by NBC on January 23, 1963, is embedded below. I strongly advise to watch the whole show; it’s a gem. It seems to be totally in tact, as originally broadcast (although I suspect that the original was in color). With filmed and inscripted studio commercials and […]
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April 19, 2011
Ray Charles Live At The Nassau Coliseum (1973)
Read moreTony Horowitz (his mother was in the audience), on trumpet. George Wein’s bill of the last night of the second Newport Jazz Festival, on 8 July 1973 at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale on Long Island, carried the names of Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Donny Hathaway, Aretha Franklin, and Tito Puente. Cf. this squib, this […]
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April 6, 2011
Ray Charles On The Soto Tapes (c 1980)
Read moreMarci Soto’s book Ray & Me(Monograph Publishing, 2011, ISBN-10: 0979948274) so far only attracted some attention from gossip writers. The first more or less respectful article on it appeared in the blog of the Riverfront Times, written by Aimee Levitt. It comes with a surprising “Exclusive“, entailing 3 home-audiotapes from 1979 – 1981, where Marci, […]
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April 1, 2011
Ray Charles Interviewed By Michael Jackson (c 1997)
Read moreMichael Jackson is famous for his radio interviews with celebrities and politicians. He made his reputation as a longtime morning talk host on KABC, and also worked for KNX-AM in Los Angeles. The Museum of Broadcast Communications has archived a KNX episode from 27 August 2005, titled Spike Lee & Ray Charles Tribute (archive ID […]
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March 27, 2011
Ray Charles Live In Rome (1999)
Read moreOn 28 July 1999 Ray Charles, the Ray Charles Orchestra and The Raelettes played a concert at the RomaLive Festival. Read review here; according to this source a.o. the following tunes were on the setlist: Angelina I Can’t Stop Loving You I Want Your Love Smack Dab In The Middle People Will Say We’re In […]
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March 24, 2011
Ray Charles Live At Salute To Freedom (1963)
Read moreI’ve written a few times about Ray Charles’ position and actions against racism. One of these actions was his contribution to Salute To Freedom, a concert against segregation, held on 5 August 1963 in Birmingham, the capital of U.S. racism in the 1960s. Today I found a contemporary article that I will quote below because […]
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February 26, 2011
Ray Charles Live in Antibes (1961 – 2001)
Read moreRay’s concerts at Antibes span his whole international live career. After his debut at the edition of 1961 it took him 15 years to return, but after 1976 he came back every 2 or 3 years: in 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1997, 1999, and 2001. All of his visits to Antibes […]