Collaborations
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October 21, 2014
Rocky Top Tennessee (With Lynn Anderson And Larry Gatlin)
Read moreUnreleased. Ray Charles contributed to this song when he guested in the CBS show The Unbroken Circle – A Tribute to Mother Maybelle Carter (taped in Nashville, aired on November 28, 1979).
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October 20, 2014
Roll In G (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. This simple (and not overly brilliant) rock tune was probably written by Ray Charles (the author’s rights have never been claimed). During the October 1961 series at the Palais des Sports in Paris, it got two lengthy performaces, starring the members of Ray’s old ‘small band’. The full line-up was: Marcus Belgrave, Wallace Davenport, […]
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October 20, 2014
Route 66 (With Ella Fitzgerald)
Read moreUnreleased. Recorded at Le Gala Du Siècle, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Moulin Rouge in Paris on October 6, 1989.
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October 20, 2014
Running Out (Ft. Mable John)
Read moreMable John and Ray Charles, backstageat a concert in San Francisco, on December 5, 1971. Photo by Robert Altman. Unreleased (but downloadable). Recorded once, at the Fillmore East on 18 April 1970. From Wolfgang’s Vault: “The Raelet[te]s sequence begins with a funky, Memphis soul-driven take on Ashford & Simpson’s Running Out, one of the singles Mable John recorded […]
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October 20, 2014
Salt Peanuts (With Dizzy Gillespie A.O.)
Read moreAlbum (CD): Ray Charles Meets Dizzy Gillespie, Jazz File JF1005, S.a. Here Dizzy and his boys learned Ray how to play Salt Peanuts… With Dizzy Gillespie (tp), Mickey Roker (ds), Kenny Burrel (g), George Duvivier (b).
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October 20, 2014
Samba De Elencia (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreAlbum: The Ray Charles Orchestra, My Kind Of Jazz Part 3, Crossover 9007, October 1975. Recorded by the Orchestra in late 1974 and early 1975 at RPM International in Los Angeles. Ray didn’t play. Andy Ennis played the tenor solo. Arranged by Alf Clausen. With Johnny Coles, Jack Evans, Phil Guilbeau, Bob Coassin – trumpets; Ken Tussing, […]
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October 20, 2014
Satin Doll (Solo/By The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. Ray played Satin Doll during Duke Ellington’s Sold On Soul Tribute, on 23 February 1970 at Madison Square Garden in New York. It’s highly uncertain if any recording of this performance has survived. In these years Satin Doll was also on the repertoire of the band (i.e. as one of the show openers, without Ray). One low quality […]
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October 20, 2014
Satisfaction (I Can’t Get No) (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreAlbum3 (VHS): The Big T.N.T. Show, Anchor Bay, 1988. Album3 (DVD): The Big T.N.T. Show, March 2011. For most of 1965 Ray Charles limited his public appearances to a few high profile TV shows and films, such as Murray The K’s It’s What’s Happening, Shindig! and The Big T.N.T. Show. The latter was shot before a live audience at the Moulin Rouge […]
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October 20, 2014
Save The Bones For Henry Jones (With Lou Rawls And Milt Jackson)
Read moreAlbum: Just Between Us, Columbia 40703, September 1988. Recorded at RPM International in the first week of 1988. With uncredited members of the Ray Charles Orchestra (i.e. Mark Curry, Jeff Helgesen, Ted Murdock, Jeff Kaye – trumpets; Mike Christianson, Armin Marmolejo, Steve Sigmund, Charlie Schofner – trombones; Al Jackson, Chris Lega, Ricky Woodard, Rudy Johnson, Leroy Cooper – […]
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October 19, 2014
See See Rider (aka C.C. Rider)
Read moreSingle (A): Swing Time 217, b/w What Have I Done. Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Los Angeles in 1950. “With The Ray Charles Trio”: Ray Charles – voc, p; Gosady McKee – g; Milton S. Garred – b.
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October 19, 2014
Senor Blues (With The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreAlbum: My Kind Of Jazz, Tangerine 1512, April 1970. The album was recorded with the Ray Charles Orchestra at RPM International in Los Angeles, from January 1 to 10, 1970. Bobby Bryant, Bill King, Marshall Hunt, Blue Mitchell, trumpets; Glen Childress, Henry Coker, Joe Randazzo, (+ Edward Comegys? or Fred Murrell? or David Phelps?) – trombones; J. Lloyd […]
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October 19, 2014
Seven Spanish Angels (With Willie Nelson)
Read moreAlbum: Friendship, Columbia 39415, February 1985. Single (A): Columbia 4715, November 1984, b/w Who Cares. Recorded at the Eleven Eleven Studios and the Soundshop Studio in Nashville, and (on Willie’s invitation) at the Pedernales Studio in Spicewood (Austin). Ray finished things off at RPM International in Los Angeles. With session musicians Hargus Pig Robbins, Robert Ogdin, Bobby […]