Collaborations
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October 8, 2014
Will The Circle Be Unbroken (With The Carter Family, Waylon Jennings A.O.)
Read moreUnreleased. On November 29, 1979, Ray Charles guested in The Unbroken Circle – A Tribute to Mother Maybelle Carter – taped in Nashville, Kalispell, Lake Tahoe and other places.
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October 8, 2014
Willow Weep For Me (With David Fathead Newman, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreAlbum: Fathead, Atlantic 1304, 1960 (November 1958). Album (DVD): Ray Charles à Montreux 1978, S.p., S.a. Recording Date: November 5, 1958 at Atlantic Recording Studios, New York. Ray Charles (p), David Newman (as), Marcus Belgrave (tp); Hank Crawford (bs), Edgar Willis (b), Milt Turner (ds). Arranged by Hank Crawford. Recording engineer: Tom Dowd. Live: Twenty […]
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October 7, 2014
Woody ‘n’ Bu (Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreNot released. This instrumental was written by trombonist Steve Turre, who had played in Ray’s band in 1972, and later involved The Genius as a side man in his album In The Spur Of The Moment (1999). The audio quality of the file that survived from the Warsaw gig in 1984 is better than the video’s. ’84 LC Warsaw (track […]
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October 7, 2014
Wrinkled, Crinkled, Wadded Dollar Bill (By Johnny Cash, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreNot released. Part of a mash-up with Them That Got and Busted. Played in the first week of February 1970, in Nashville, during the taping of the Johnny Cash Show that aired on 11 February (Season 1, Episode 19).
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October 7, 2014
X-Ray Blues (With Milt Jackson)
Read moreAlbum: Soul Meeting, Atlantic 1360, February 1961 (1957 – 1958). Recorded in New York on April 10, 1958. Ray Charles – (to the end of guitar solo:) piano, alto saxophone, (after that:) electric piano; Milt Jackson – vibraphone, piano); Kenny Burrell – guitar; Percy Heath – bass; Art Taylor – drums.
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October 7, 2014
You And I (With Betty Carter)
Read moreAlbum: Ray Charles And Betty Carter, ABC/Paramount 385, July 1961. Recorded at the United Studios in Hollywood on June 13 – 14, 1961. Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; David Fathead Newman – tenor saxophone; Leroy Cooper – baritone saxophone; Bill Pittman – guitar; Edgar Willis – bass; Mel Lewis, Bruno Carr – drums; The Jack Halloran […]
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October 7, 2014
You Are My Sunshine (With The Raelettes, Ft Margie Hendricks)
Read moreAlbum: Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music Volume 2, ABC/Paramount 435, October 1962. Single (A): ABC 10375, November 1962, b/w Your Cheating Heart. Jimmy Davis, the country music singer and later Louisiana governor, and Charles Mitchell were credited for the song. Two versions were released before Jimmie Davis’ recording was released on February 5, 1940: on […]
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October 7, 2014
You Are So Beautiful (With Joe Cocker)
Read moreUnreleased. Performed at the TV show Ray Charles – A Man And His Soul, taped at the Cocoanut Grove club in LA in the early summer of 1983, first aired on 30 October 1983. In 1982 Cocker had recorded the duet Up Where We Belong with Jennifer Warnes for the soundtrack of An Officer and a Gentleman, winning an […]
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October 7, 2014
You Better Watch Them Dogs (aka Watch Them Dogs) (Ft Estella Yarbrough)
Read moreRaelettes-tune, claimed by Estella Yarbrough, only known from concerts in the second half of the ninetees. Written by Melvin Williams. Live: ’95 LC Tramps – 2x ’97 LC Saratoga ’97 LC Montreux – Released on DVD ’99 LC Glasgow ’97 LC Montreux:
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October 7, 2014
You Don’t Know Me
Read moreAlbum: Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, ABC/Paramount 410, April 1962. Single (A): ABC 10345, July 1962, b/w Careless Love. The album was recorded on 5 and 7 February 1962 at Capitol Studios in New York City, and on 15 February at United Recording Studios in Hollywood. Arranged by Marty Paich. The tune was also used […]
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October 7, 2014
You Don’t Love Me No More (With Legends Of Rock ‘n’ Roll)
Read moreAlbum3 (DVD): Legends Of Rock ‘n’ Roll Live, Image Entertainment, 5 December 2000. Part of an all-star jam, recorded by Cinemax in Rome in February 1989. Ray had a good time sitting behind his keyboards. The other legends were James Brown, B.B. King, Bo Diddley, Esther Phillips, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard. The […]
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October 7, 2014
You Don’t Understand (With The Raelettes)
Read moreAlbum: Ray’s Moods, ABC/Tangerine 550, 1966. Recorded in June 1966 at RPM International, in Los Angeles. Ray on organ! With session musicians Rene Hall on guitar, Carol Kaye on bass, Earl Palmer on drums, and one of The Raelettes (Lilian Fort or Merry Clayton?). Arranged by Rene Hall. You Don't Understand by Ray Charles on Grooveshark