Collaborations
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October 9, 2014
Way Down Home On The Farm (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreCompilation album3: Percy Mayfield, His Tangerine And Atlantic Sides, Rhino Handmade RHM2 7828, 2003. Recorded in Los Angeles on January 20, 1964. Percy Mayfield – vocals; Ray Charles – piano; Edgar Willis – bass; other personnel unidentified. Listen here.
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October 9, 2014
We Are The World (With USA For Africa)
Read moreWe Are The World was a charity single originally recorded by the supergroup USA For Africa in 1985. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and co-produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian. 45 artists participated. Single (A): USA For Africa, We Are The World, Columbia US&-04839, 1985, b/w Grace One of the legends around the production […]
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October 9, 2014
We Didn’t See A Thing (With Chet Atkins And George Jones)
Read moreSingle (A): Columbia 4297, November 1983, b/w I Wish You Were Here Tonight. Album: Friendship, Columbia 39415, February 1985. Also released on George Jones’ album By Request, Epic FE39546, 1984. The Friendship album was 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 […]
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October 9, 2014
Wee Baby Blues (By Big Joe Turner, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreSingle3 (B): Atlantic 1167, b/w Teenage Letter. Compilation album3: Big Joe Turner, Rhythm & Blues Years, Atlantic 81663, 1986. Big Joe Turner recorded Wee Baby Blues several times. This one was taped by Atlantic in New York on October 2, 1957. Joe Turner (vocals) with the “Jesse Stone Orchestra”: Ray Charles (piano), unidentified (trombone), Jerome Richardson (alto saxophone), Sam […]
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October 9, 2014
Well I Done Got Over It (By Guitar Slim, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreSingle3 (B): Specialty 482, 1953, b/w The Things I Used To Do. Recorded in New Orleans at Cosimo Matassa’s Studio on 27 October 1953. With Lloyd Lambert’s band (including Charles Burbank, Joe Tillman, and Gus Fontenotte on saxes, Frank Mitchell on trumpet, Lambert on bass, Oscar Moore on drums), helped by Ray Charles (who had been working with […]
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October 9, 2014
What Kind Of Man Are You (With Mary Ann Fisher)
Read moreSingle (B): Atlantic 1172, January 1958, b/w Talkin’ ‘Bout You. Compilation: What’d I Say, Atlantic 8029, September 1959. Recorded on 28 May 1957 in New York with Joe Bridgewater, Ricky Harper – tp; David Newman – as, ts; Emmett Dennis – bs; William Peebles – ds; Edgar Willis – b. Mary Ann Fisher; The Cookies – voc. […]
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October 9, 2014
What Kind Of Man Is This (With James Cleveland)
Read moreUnreleased. This was a brief pre-taped segment of the TV show Ray Charles – A Man And His Soul, with Jimmy Cleveland and Ray Charles playing one piano, produced in the early summer of 1983. Watch it here (and this for the 1955 original). Ray played the song with a big choir, at the Ray Charles Celebrates A […]
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October 8, 2014
Who Cares (With Janie Frickie)
Read moreAlbum: Friendship, Columbia 39415, February 1985. Single (B): Columbia 4751, December 1984. 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. With session musicians Hargus Pig Robbins, Robert Ogdin, Bobby Wood – […]
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October 8, 2014
Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On (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. […]
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October 8, 2014
Why Me, Lord (With Johnny Cash)
Read moreCompilation album: Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters, Concord Records, 25 October 2010. This duet track with Why Me, Lord was discovered in the Sony vaults; the Kristofferson song was produced by Billy Sherrill in Nashville in 1981 for a Johnny Cash CBS album – which never was released. Ray added some fantastic keyboard licks. Hear this Johnny Cash version, […]
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October 8, 2014
Why Try To Change Me Now (By Jimmy Scott, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreAlbum3: Jimmy Scott: Falling In Love Is Wonderful, Tangerine, TRC 1501, 1963. Taped at United Recordings Studios, Hollywood, California in 1962 Jimmy Scott: “The record was completed in just a few sessions. I don’t think we did more than two takes on any one tune. There wasn’t any overdubbing either. It was all-the-way live. The fiddlers […]
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October 8, 2014
Will I Ever Get Back Home (By Madelyn Quebec, Ray Charles On Keyboards)
Read moreSingle3 (A): Tangerine TRC 1023, [1971], b/w I’m So In Love. Madelyn Quebec was a Raelette between 1979 and 1987. In the early 1970s she cut two singles for Ray Charles’ Tangerine label. Ray co-wrote the song (with Jimmy Holiday) and played keyboards. To listen to the song, click here. To read more on Madelyn, follow this link.