Collaborations
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October 14, 2014
Tempo
Read moreAlbum3 (DVD): Blues Clues: Blue’s Big Musical Movie, Paramount, 3 October 2000. Album3 (CD + Book): Rhino/WEA, 17 October 2000. I’ve also seen VHS and Playstation versions. Performed by Ray Charles (in his audio-only role as G-Clef) and The Persuasions. The tracks Notes, Rhythm, and Tempo (and Dynamics, to which Ray didn’t contribute) represent a basic element of music, […]
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October 13, 2014
That’s A Lie
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 11045, January 1968, b/w Go On Home. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Recorded on April 1, 1967, at RPM International in Los Angeles. With Bill King, Walter Miller – tp; Fred Murrell, Henry Coker – tb; Curtis Amy – ts; Leroy Cooper – bs; Barry Rillera – g; Edgar Willis […]
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October 13, 2014
That’s What I Want (With Smokey Robinson, Chaka Khan A.O.)
Read moreUnreleased. On 13 September 1985 Ray Charles guested in the music TV show Smokey Robinson’s Motown Revue. He also starred in the big finale, a mash-up of That’s What I Want and What’d I Say.
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October 13, 2014
That’s Where It’s At (With Lou Rawls)
Read moreAlbum3: Lou Rawls, At Last (Blue Note B2-91937, 1989). David Fathead Newman on tenor sax. Rawls: “I did a number on Ray’s last album, called Save The Bones For Henry Jones*, so he was happy to do this for me.” *For the album Just Between Us (1988). Ray initially wanted to do that song with B.B. King.
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October 13, 2014
The Alphabet Song (With Sesame Street Children Choir, And Celebrities)
Read moreThe 2014 compilation DVD. Album 3 (DVD): Sesame Street, Alphabet Songs, Warner Home Video, 6 May 2014 [Ray’s 1996 performance]. On 2 February 1979 (episode 1235) Ray Charles performed The Alphabet Song, with the help of a few cute Sesame Street extras. In 1996 (episode 3663) he played a second version. In later edits various celebrities […]
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October 13, 2014
The Blues Ain’t Nothing (With B.B. King)
Read moreUnreleased (but available thru digital bootleg). Ray and B.B. performed the song during the 1990 Superband tour, on 6 November, at the Teatro Olimpico in Rome.
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October 12, 2014
The Hunt Is On (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Organ)
Read moreSingle3: Tangerine TRC 934, 1963, b/w Cookin’ In Style. Album3: Percy Mayfield, My Jug And I, Tangerine TRCS 1505, 1966. Recorded in Los Angeles on February 21, 1963. Percy Mayfield – vocals; Ray Charles – organ; Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; David Fathead Newman – tenor saxophone; Marcus Belgrave – trumpet; Sonny Forriest – guitar; […]
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October 12, 2014
The Man I Love (With Marian McPartland)
Read moreUnreleased. Ray first recorded the tune in 1956, for The Genius After Hours. This intimate version was played during the wonderful Piano Jazz meeting with Marian McPartland on January 9, 1990, taped at the Manhattan Beach Studios in New York. Ray Charles – voc, p., el.p.; Marian McPartland – p. Here you can listen to it.
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October 12, 2014
The Preacher (With The Ray Charles Quartet)
Read moreUnreleased. In February 2003 Ray Charles opened his concert in Melbourne with this Horrace Silver tune. He was accompanied by Turre on drums, Tom Fowler on bass, Brad Rabuchin on guitar and Jean Michel-Bernard on Hammond.
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October 12, 2014
The Right Time (Night Time Is –) (With Margie Hendricks)
Read moreSingle (B): Atlantic 2010, November 1958 b/w Tell All The World About You. Compilation album: The Genius Sings The Blues, Atlantic 8052, September 1961 (1952 – 1959). Recorded on 28 October 1958 in New York with Marcus Belgrave, John Hunt – tp; David Newman – ts; Hank Crawford – bs; Teagle Fleming – d; Edgar Willis – […]
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October 12, 2014
The Sandblaster (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. This theme, written by Roger Neumann*, was played for many decades every time that Ray Charles entered the stage.** The audience-tape of the San Carlos concert in 1971 captured one of the few known full versions. Ray Charles – piano; the line-up of the band must have been very similar to the known personnel of the October 1971 […]
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October 12, 2014
The Shadow Of Your Smile (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. The Johnny Mandel tune, in a robust arrangement for big band, penned by Steve Huffsteter. Live: ’69 LC Paris ’84 LC Ithaca ’90 LC ArtPark ’90 LC Antibes ’94 LC ValleyForge 02 LC Pasadena