Appearances
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December 14, 2010
Ray Charles On Canadian News (1986)
Read moreOn 23 October 1986 Ray Charles played two sold out concerts at the Copa, Toronto. CBC covered the event twice. On the 23d, Newshour had an item with the following shotlist: */ls/ musician Ray Charles performing on stage at Toronto’s Copa club */pan/ audience at the Copa claps */mcu/ Charles playing piano */ls/ protestors in […]
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December 13, 2010
Ray Charles On TV In Genoa (1985)
Read moreOn 4 December Ray Charles stayed at theSavoia Majestic Hotelin Genoa, where he hired Luca Begonia, a local trombone player, as a stand-in 2 hours before his concert started. Cf. this; review here. The concert was taped, or broadcast live, by a “private tv station”. Afterwards one of the spectators went to court to get a […]
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December 12, 2010
Ray Charles Celebrating Christmas On TBN (c 1988)
Read moreThe clips below require some more internet archeology to identify them with certainty, but since this is the right time of the year, I’ll share what I can guess about their origin. Both clips contain a gold-colored crown-logo. The phone number in the second clip leads to TBN (the Trinity Broadcasting Network), the largest Christian […]
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December 11, 2010
Ray Charles In Concert In Prato (1970)
Read moreJohnny Coles and Leroy Cooper. On 20 January 1970 RAI 2 aired “an encounter with a famous jazz musician, Ray Charles: Ray with his band perform eight tracks […]”. The program was presented by Sergio Fantoni and Minnie Minoprio. “The famous blind black man, here with his orchestra, in a recent Italian tour, will be […]
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December 11, 2010
Ray Charles Live At Montreux Jazz Festival 1991, July 16th
Read moreVideo still: Khan, Charles, Benson. I already had quite some – and quite confusing* – information on Ray Charles’ contributions to the 1991 edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival. It now is (though not yet in all details) becoming clear that Ray actually performed twice. Read this for some context. The Concert Database of the […]
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December 10, 2010
Ray Charles In A TVE Show (1973)
Read moreFrom 14 to 17 September 1973, stopping over on his way from London to Italy, Ray Charles stayed in Madrid to do a concert (his first in Madrid, probably on the 15th) and a taping for a TVE show (his first in Spain) on the 16th. My only source is here. Can anybody tell me […]
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December 10, 2010
Ray Charles Interviewed On A-uan-ba-buluba-balam-bamboo (1985)
Read moreA-uan-ba-buluba-balam-bamboo was a Spanish music magazine series, hosted by Sandra Milhaud and Carlos Tena, and broadcast by TVE 2. It mainly recycled music clips. On 24 October 1985 they featured Ray Charles, with an exclusive interview, and a recent video clip. Source here. The interview may have been shot at Ray’s concert in San Sebastián […]
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December 10, 2010
Ray Charles Ft. In Musical Express-Amigos (1981)
Read moreMusical Express-Amigos was a weekly 1-hour music magazine with lots of jazz, blues, and soul, hosted by Angel Casas, and broadcast by TVE. Ray Charles was featured in one of the episodes, with an interview (dubbed in Spanish), taped backstage at his concert from 26 May 1981, at the Palacio Municipal de los Deportes in […]
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December 9, 2010
Ray Charles Live In Versilia (1984)
Read moreOn 1 November 1984 Ray Charles gave a concert in the Bussola Domani series at the Palcoscenica in Versilia. The show was (live, semi-live or later?) broadcast by Rai Uno. La Stampa of 2 November suggested that Ray received 100,000,000 lire for the performance (“3,000 spectators in a religious silence under the big tent […], […]
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December 9, 2010
Ray Charles Ft. In KFBE Bio’s Bahnhof (1982)
Read moreOn 15 July 1982 Ray Charles performed in the 28th episode of the German variety show KFBE Bio’s Bahnhof, hosted by Alfred Biolek (nicknamed Bio), and taped at the Railway Depot in Frechen. KFBE was an acronym for the Köln-Frechen-Benzelrather Eisenbahn. The other guests were Alexander Arnz, Supercharge, Mario and Romano Colombaioni, Majorie Barnes, the […]
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December 8, 2010
Ray Charles Ft. In Envoyé Spécial (1996)
Read moreEnvoyé Spécial was a 43m20s documentary about Jean-Pierre Grosz, and his working relationship – and friendship – with Ray Charles. The program was first aired by France 2 on 15 May 1996. Source here. Also read this. I found an automated (French to English) translation from the description of this documentary in the INA archive […]
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December 8, 2010
Ray Charles Ft. In NBC Music Legends (1997)
Read moreMusic Legends was an NBC series of 13 double documentaries on major popular musicians, each episode featuring two artists in 2 times 12 minutes. It aired in 1997. Among the other musicians were Quincy Jones, Curtis Mayfield, Mark Knopfler, Phil Collins, Robby Krieger, and Nick Cave. Source here. Who knows more?