Collaborations
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October 27, 2014
Milk Cow Blues (With Willie Nelson)
Read moreUnreleased. Willie taking the lead on this Sleepy John Estes song (1930), recorded for the TV show Willie Nelson, Texas Style, first broadcast by CBS on 5 March 1988.
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October 26, 2014
Misty (The Ray Charles Band, Ft Hank Crawford)
Read moreAlbum: Ray Charles Orchestra – Zurich 1961. TCB (Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series #41), [2016]. Recorded during the Ray Charles Big Band’s first concert in Europe by Radio Basel at the Kongresshaus in Zürich on October 18, 1961. The performance of Misty is the only known live recording of this song by the Ray Charles Band. Crawford’s original studio version was released on […]
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October 26, 2014
Misty (with Steve Turre) (Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreAlbum3: Steve Turre, In The Spur Of The Moment, Telarc 83484, 1999. The sessions with Ray Charles were recorded at Avatar Studios, Studios A & C, New York, New York on August 14 and October 8, 1999. Steve Turre – shells, trombone; Ray Charles – piano; Peter Washington – bass; Peter Turre – drums.
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October 26, 2014
Monster In The Mirror (With Grover)
Read moreUnreleased. In 1991 Ray appeared in the Sesame Street music video for Monster in the Mirror (watch good copy here), a Sesame Street song sung by Grover, who wakes up one morning and sees a monster in his mirror (his reflection). Instead of being scared, he sings, “Wubba wubba wubba wubba, woo woo woo”. In Season 22, […]
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October 26, 2014
Morning Of Carnival (With The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreAlbum: Jazz Number II, Tangerine 1512, January 1973-01. Recorded at RPM International, in December 1971. Arranged by Roger Neumann. Ray Charles – piano; Frank Szabo (lead), Tomas Cortez, Jack Walrath, Marcus Belgrave – trumpets; Mayo Tiano (lead), Jules Rowell, Glenn Childress, Dana Hughes (bass) – trombones; J. Lloyd Miller (alto, lead), James Clay (alto), David Newman […]
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October 26, 2014
Mountain Dew (With Willie Nelson)
Read moreAlbum3 (VHS): The Willie Nelson Special With Special Guest Ray Charles, Embassy Home Entertainment, S.a. (Laser Disc: Rhino/WEA, 9 July 2002). Ray, Willie & band in rehearsal and for real. Recorded at the Austin Opry House on 17 and 18 May 1984, first aired in November 1985.
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October 26, 2014
Music, Music, Music (With The Ray Charles Band)
Read moreAlbum: The Genius After Hours; Atlantic 1369, June 1961. Recorded on 30 April 1956 in New York. Ray Charles – p; Joe Harris – d; Oscar Pettiford – b. Live: In 1962 the tune was listed in a concert souvenir brochure as being part of the band’s book, but no live recording has been made.
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October 26, 2014
My Baby (I Love Her, Yes I Do) (With Margie Hendricks)
Read moreSingle (A): ABC 10081, January 1960, b/w Who You Gonna Love. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. The first release on ABC-Paramount. Phil Guilbeau – trumpet, John Hunt – flugelhorn; Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; David Fathead Newman – tenor saxophone; Leroy Cooper – baritone saxophone; Edgar Willis – bass; Milton Turner – drums. […]
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October 25, 2014
My Cup Runneth Over (By Rita Graham, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreAlbum3: Rita Graham, Vibrations, Tangerine TRCS 1507, 1969. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with uncredited musicians. Arranged by Sid Feller.
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October 25, 2014
My Funny Valentine (With Susaye Greene)
Read moreUnreleased. Susaye’s operatic interpretation was filmed for TV at La Salle Pleyel in Paris, on 8 October 1968, broadcast by ORTF. A second rendition, that same night, taped for a radio broadcast, has also survived. With Wallace Davenport (bandleader), Phil Guilbeau, Virgil Jones, David Philips – trumpet; Fred Johnson, Jay Clyde Miller – alto saxophone; Nathan […]
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October 25, 2014
My Melancholy Baby (With The Ray Charles Band)
Read moreAlbum: The Great Ray Charles, Atlantic 1259, August 1957. Recorded on 26 November 1956 in New York at the Coastal Recording Studios. Ray Charles – p; Joe Bridgewater, John Hunt – tp; David Newman – as, ts; Emmett Dennis – bs; William Peebles – d; Roosevelt Sheffield – b. Arranged by Ray Charles.
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October 25, 2014
Natural Woman (You Make Me Feel Like A –) (With Lynda Carter)
Read moreUnreleased. Taped for Lynda Carter’s Celebration, broadcast by CBS on Monday, 11 May 1981. (LQ video & audio:) WMV file (with better audio) here.