Collaborations
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November 10, 2014
Goodbye/We’ll Be Together Again (With Betty Carter)
Read moreAlbum: Ray Charles And Betty Carter, ABC/Paramount 385, July 1961. Single (B): ABC 10298, January 1962, b/w Baby, It’s Cold Outside. Brilliant duet-doubletake in an arrangement by Marty Paich. The album was recorded at the United Studios in Hollywood on June 13 and 14, 1961. With Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; David Fathead Newman – tenor saxophone; […]
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November 10, 2014
Goodness Gracious (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. Goodness Gracious is a nice riff turned into a rocking big band ditty. Ray Charles called the tune only so now and then, but it stayed on the repertoire of the Orchestra well into the 1990s. Taped twice, at the 1967 Berlin concert (the best of the two surviving recordings), with Barry Rillera taking excellent care […]
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November 10, 2014
Good Vibrations (With The Beach Boys, The Everly Brothers, A.O.)
Read moreRay never liked finales, but he seemed to have a good time in this one. Filmed at Waikiki Beach, Hawaii on 12 December 1986, aired on 13 March 1987, on ABC-TV. (Starts at 1’04’16): Update 10.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available on YouTube, please let me know in the comments below […]
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November 10, 2014
Guess Who I Saw Today (With The Raelettes)
Read moreUnreleased. The song, written by Murray Grand and Elisse Boyd, is best known in Nancy Wilson’s version. Ray dictated or ordered for a great big band arrangement. The Raelettes made it into a beautiful show piece (Ray of course turning the intro into a bawdy dialogue). Live:’75 LC Brussels’76 LC Antibes’78 LC Antibes’84 LC Ithaca’90 […]
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November 10, 2014
Ha Ha In The Daytime (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreSingle (B). Tangerine 977, 1967, b/w Long As You’re Mine.Album3: Percy Mayfield, Bought Blues. Tangerine TRCS 1510, 1971. Recorded in New York City on March 23, 1962 (other source says: circa Spring of 1967). Percy Mayfield – vocals; Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; Teddy Edwards – tenor saxophone; Ray Charles – piano; Chuck Norris (?) – guitar.
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November 10, 2014
Hallelujah I Love Her So (With Milt Jackson)
Read moreAlbum: Soul Meeting, Atlantic 1360, February 1961 (1957 – 1958). Recorded on April 10th, 1958 at the Atlantic Studio in New York City. Milt Jackson – vibraphone; Ray Charles – piano; Kenny Burrell – guitar; Percy Heath – bass; Art Taylor – drums. Update 10.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available on YouTube, […]
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November 10, 2014
Happy Faces (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreAlbum:Ray Charles Orchestra – Zurich 1961. TCB (Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series #41), [2016]. The Ray Charles Big Band, on their first brief Europe tour in October 1961, played this Sonny Stitt composition at least four times. Arranged by Quincy Jones. David Fathead Newman solo’ed on tenor saxophone. With Marcus Belgrave, Wallace Davenport, Phil Guilbeau, […]
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November 10, 2014
Hard Times (By David Fathead Newman, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreAlbum3: Fathead, Atlantic 1304, November 1958 (1960).Single (A, Part 1; B, Part 2): Atlantic 5002, 1960. Soul jazz pur sang. Recorded on November 5, 1958 at Atlantic Recording Studios, New York. David Newman – alto saxophone; Ray Charles – piano; Marcus Belgrave – trumpet; Hank Crawford – baritone saxophone; Edgar Willis – bass; Milt Turner – […]
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November 9, 2014
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (By Stefanie Minatee, Ray Charles On Keyboards)
Read moreAlbum (DVD): Ray Charles Celebrates A Gospel Christmas, Urban Works, 23 November 2004 (2002). Filmed at the Resch Center in Green Bay (WI), on 8 December 2002, with the Voices of Jubilation Gospel Choir of Newark. Update 10.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available on YouTube, please let me know in the comments below […]
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November 9, 2014
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (By Harold Dudley, Ray Charles On Keyboards)
Read moreAlbum (DVD): Ray Charles Celebrates A Gospel Christmas, Urban Works, 23 November 2004 (2002). Filmed at the Resch Center in Green Bay (WI), on 8 December 2002, with the Voices of Jubilation Gospel Choir of Newark. Update 10.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available on YouTube, please let me know in the comments below […]
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November 9, 2014
He Called Me Baby (All Night Long) (The Raelettes)
Read moreUnreleased. This is the only known recorded performance by The Raelettes of this country song (written in 1962 by Harlan Howard). Live:’73 LC Arbor
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November 9, 2014
Heaven Help Us All (With Gladys Knight)
Read moreAlbum: Genius Loves Company, Concord, August 2004. The album was recorded at RPM International (and some of the orchestral parts elsewhere) in Los Angeles between mid 2003 and March 2004. For an unabridged personnel listing see Wikipedia. Ray probably never sounded so unlike himself, but Gladys carried the tune – and the terrific arrangement – like the […]