Collaborations
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October 7, 2014
You Have A Way With Me (The Raelettes, Ft Susaye Greene, Ray Charles On Keyboards)
Read moreSingle3 (B): Tangerine 1029, January 1973, b/w You Must Be Doing Alright. Album3: (Ray Charles Presents The) Raeletts, Yesterday… Today… Tomorrow, Tangerine 1515, 1972. Ray Charles on piano. Featuring Susaye Greene. The Raelettes (probable line-up): Vernita Moss, Susaye Green, Mable John, Dorothy Berry and Estella Yarbrough. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with uncredited members […]
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October 7, 2014
You Must Be Doing Alright (The Raelettes, Ft Mable John, Ray Charles On Keyboards)
Read moreDJ promo. Single3 (A): Tangerine 1029, January 1973, b/w You Have A Way With Me. Album3: (Ray Charles Presents The) Raeletts, Yesterday… Today… Tomorrow, Tangerine 1515, 1972. Mable John, backed by Ray – kb and voc. The Raelettes: Vernita Moss, Susaye Green, Mable John, Dorothy Berry and Estella Yarbrough. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, […]
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October 6, 2014
You Were There (With Gladys Knight)
Read moreAlbum: Genius And Friends, Rhino/WEA, 20 September 2005. Ray Charles laid down most of the songs of the later Genius And Friends album at his own studio, RPM International in Los Angeles, in 1997 and 1998. Post mortem, duet parts of these tunes were dubbed in by virtual duet partners. I doubt if Gladys would have cooperated with […]
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October 6, 2014
You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To (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 6, 2014
You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To (With Diane Schuur)
Read moreAlbum (DVD): Ray Charles In Concert With Special Guest Diane Schuur, Image Entertainment B000059H8R, 2001. CD (Brazil): O Gênio Lendario Da Soul Music – Ray Charles In Concert, USA 300.045. Filmed at the James L. Knight Center in a benefit for the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind, first aired on 8 August 1999.
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October 6, 2014
You’re My Mule (By Louis Jordan, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreSingle3 (A): Tangerine TRC 924, June 1962, b/w Texarcana Twist. (Second track):
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October 6, 2014
Zip A Dee Do Dah
Read moreNot released in any form. The tune comes from the 1946 Disney film Song Of The South. Music by Allie Wrubel, lyrics by Ray Gilbert. Live: ’63 TV Shore (with Dinah Shore, Liberace, Peter Nero and Big Tiny Little) ’78 TV Disney
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September 10, 2014
Genius Loves Company’s 10th Anniversary Reissues (2014)
Read moreThe 10th anniversary of the 2004 album Genius Loves Company will be celebrated with three deluxe reissues, in variant packages – one of them in (2-LP, 45RPM, 180-gram) vinyl* – and a 192/24 hi-res digital download-version. Another version is packaged with the film Ray; all packs will be including “interviews with guest artists from then and now”; […]
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June 6, 2014
Ray Charles At La Salle Pleyel In Paris (1970)
Read moreOn 1, 2 and 4 October 1970 Ray Charles gave a total of six concerts at La Salle Pleyel in Paris.* Audio recordings of two shows have survived (see below). A third concert was the subject of a 4m15s news item by Gérard Duclos, broadcast by TF 1 on 3 October, covering Ray’s preparations for […]
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April 11, 2014
Johnny Farnham And Ray Charles At The Crown Casino (1997)
Read moreAustralian pop singer John Farnham (a.k.a. ‘Jack’) has always had a healthy taste for the more pompous soul classics (and for comebacks). On May 8th, 1997 he performed at the opening of the Crown Casino in Melbourne. At the same occasion the venue also dedicated a bar (‘Jack’s Bar’) to John. I guess that Ray […]
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October 4, 2013
Ray Charles In A Rhythm Group With Preston Epps And Jackie Wilson (1959/60)
Read moreRay Charles playing his Wurlitzer, with (f.l.t.r.) DJ and promoter Art Laboe, bongo player Preston Epps, and singer Jackie Wilson, shaking samba balls – probably posing for a promotional photo for “the season’s most cosmopoliton event” at the Hollywood Palladium on July 23d, 1959.
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September 2, 2013
Ray Charles 6 Times Live At Tramps, NYC (1995)
Read moreRay Charles at Tramps. David Hoffman in the background. Photo by Rahav Segev. In 1995, from September 7 to 9, Ray Charles and his band were booked for Tramps’ 20th Anniversary Celebration in New York. I posted before about one – bootlegged – concert in these series (identical to show #5, below). But recently Wolfgang’s […]