Collaborations
-
November 12, 2014
Fading Love (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreSingle (B): Tangerine TRC 950, 1965, b/w Stand By.Album: Percy Mayfield, My Jug And I, Tangerine TRCS 1505, 1966. Recorded in Los Angeles in circa 1964. The other musicians were not credited. Fading Love by Percy Mayfield on Grooveshark
-
November 12, 2014
Falling In Love All Over Again (The Raelettes, Ft Dorothy Berry)
Read moreUnreleased (i.e. not with Ray Charles). Berry performed the song at least 2 times during the series of six concert in Paris, from 1 to 3 October, 1971. The tune was penned by Jimmy Holiday and Jackie DeShannon, and originally released by Tangerine Records (#1020) in 1971 – Ray wasn’t actively involved in the production. […]
-
November 12, 2014
Fever (With Natalie Cole)
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. (Read this if you want to understand a) how the conga, drums, finger snaps, and bass guitar were synchronized with each other to […]
-
November 12, 2014
Fire Up (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. Show opener – much mellower than the title suggests. Number 323 in the Orchestra’s book. But who wrote it? Live:’89 LC Paris’90 LC ArtPark’95 LC Tramps – Stream available
-
November 12, 2014
Flying Home (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. A typical Lionel Hampton tune – written by him, Benny Goodman and Eddie DeLange. It was recorded only once, during one of the concerts at the Olympia Theatre in Paris, from 22 to 28 May 1963. Live:’63 LC Paris
-
November 12, 2014
For All We Know (With Betty Carter)
Read moreAlbum: Ray Charles And Betty Carter, ABC/Paramount 385, July 1961. The album was recorded at the United Studios in Hollywood on June 13 and 14, 1961. Session personnel: Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; David Fathead Newman – tenor saxophone; Leroy Cooper – baritone saxophone; Bill Pittman – guitar; Edgar Willis – bass; Mel Lewis, Bruno Carr […]
-
November 12, 2014
For Her (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreAlbum: The Ray Charles Orchestra, My Kind Of Jazz Part 3, Crossover 9007, October 1975. The album was recorded with the Ray Charles Orchestra in late 1974 and early 1975 at RPM International in Los Angeles. Johnny Coles, Jack Evans, Phil Guilbeau, Bob Coassin – trumpets; Ken Tussing, Glenn Childress, Steve Davis, Wally Huff – trombones; […]
-
November 11, 2014
Forty Pound Limit (aka I Don’t Know, aka Mr. Ray Charles) (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreAlbum DVD: Ray Charles Live At The Montreux Jazz Festival, November 2004; DVD/CD: Geneon/Pioneer B000667GDM, November 2004; DVD: SHE B0000648YH, June 2006; DVD: Eagle Rock B000VZBCVU, October 2007; Blu Ray DVD: Eagle Rock B001JL2V2E, December 2008. In an earlier article on this tune I presented it as an unidentified instrumental. I wrote that “In many sources, […]
-
November 11, 2014
Frenesi (With The Ray Charles Sextet)
Read moreAlbum: Ray Charles In Person, Atlantic 8039, May 1960 (1959). Ray recorded this Alberto Dominguez tune only once, live, in Atlanta at the Herndon Stadium on May 29, 1959. (Charles Carpenter in 1939 added lyrics to the song, using the pseudonym Ray Charles…). Marcus Belgrave, John Hunt – trumpet, David Newman – tenor saxophone, alto saxophone; Hank […]
-
November 11, 2014
Friendship (With Ricky Skaggs)
Read moreAlbum: Friendship, Columbia 39415, February 1985. Recorded at the Eleven Eleven Studios and the Soundshop Studio in Nashville, and the Pedernales Studio in Spicewood, with c&w veteran Billy Sherrill. Ray finished things off at RPM International in Los Angeles. The album was produced with session musicians Hargus Pig Robbins, Robert Ogdin, Bobby Wood – keyboards; Jose […]
-
November 11, 2014
From The Heart
Read moreAlbum: Genius + Soul = Jazz, Impulse 2, February 1961. Recorded at the Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, on 26 and 27 December 1960. I’ll never forget first hearing these first few Hammond notes. Ray Charles – organ; Philip Guilbeau (solo), Thad Jones, Joe Newman, Clark Terry, Eugene (Snooky) Young – trumpets; Henry Coker, Urbie […]
-
November 11, 2014
Games People Play (With Andy Williams)
Read moreUnreleased. On the Andy Williams Show that was broadcast on October 18, 1969, Ray ended his mini concert singing a not very convincing duet with the host.The Raelettes stood there, I think, just clapping their hands – the shrieking backing vocals must come from someone else (Mama Cass?!). Live:’70 LC Geneva