Collaborations
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July 4, 2012
Ray Charles Live In Cagliari (1983)
Read moreVideo still: Ray Charles with Georges Moustaki. A friend send me a DVD with a charming compilation of better, lesser and un-known TV performances by the Genius. Entirely new to me was a RAI program from 1983. According to the guy who compiled the DVD it contains footage of a show in ‘Taoramina’, but I […]
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May 19, 2012
A Great Day In San Francisco – Ray & Rea @ The Fillmore West, Unabridged (1971)
Read moreKing Curtis, Aretha, Ray, Billy. This video – in my perception truly the Holy Grail in the History of Soul Music – suddenly popped up in my inbox yesterday. This morning I was informed* that, since a few months, it can also be watched online. (I keep on wondering how some uploads, although they are […]
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May 15, 2012
When Ray Charles Met Ray Charles (1961)
Read moreFrom The Milwaukee Sentinel, Feb. 22, 1961. Video still from the show. …and when The Raelettes met The Ray Charles Chorus. It all happened at The Perry Como Kraft Music Hall Show, telecast from the NBC Studios (in color; prod. no. 61-380) in Brooklyn, N.Y., on February 22, 1961. The program was directed by Dwight […]
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May 14, 2012
Ray Charles’ UGC From The Wyndham Estate (2002)
Read moreNowadays, whenever a musician picks up his instrument, people flip on their mobile phone cams, tape it, and share the footage on the Interweb. The phenomenon of audience-taped, web-shared concert recordings really took off in 2005, with the launch of YouTube. Just a bit too late for Ray. Of Ray Charles’ concerts I only know […]
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May 11, 2012
Ray Charles On The Joey Bishop Show (1968, 1969)
Read moreRay with Joey Bishop. The Joey Bishop Show had a few runs, in different formats – first as a sitcom broadcast by NBC (1961–64) and CBS (1964–65), then as a late night talkshow aired from April 1967 to December 1969, taped at the ABC Studios in Hollywood. Ray Charles guested at least four times in […]
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April 6, 2012
Ray Charles Guesting In Smokey Robinson’s Motown Revue (1985)
Read moreThe Motown Revue Starring Smokey Robinson (a.k.a. The Motown Revue) was a Friday night musical series, broadcast in the summer and autumn of ’85. The format was nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. Ray Charles, Smokey, Chaka Khan and Tears For Fears starred in the show that aired on September 13. Arsenio Hall and George Solomon […]
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March 19, 2012
Ray Charles Ft. In A Special Kenny Rogers (1979)
Read morePhoto taken during this show. Ray Charles with Kenny Rogers, Dottie West and The Oak Ridge Boys. In early 1979 Kenny Rogers toured in the U.S. One of the tunes on his setlist was Oh Lady Luck. This set was one of the elements in a variety TV show titled A Special Kenny Rogers, where […]
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March 9, 2012
Ray Charles Live In Paris (1973)
Read moreFrom Billboard, Aug. 11, 1973. The tour was extended to more countries. In the autumn of 1973 the Ray Charles group toured Europe together with the Oscar Peterson Trio and the Count Basie Orchestra. Most of the concerts were booked for Germany, but on October 9 they also played at the Palais des Sports in […]
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February 27, 2012
A Lost Apollo Concert Taping From 1960 (With Clark Terry In The Orchestra)
Read moreIn 1960 two writers of French jazz magazines came to New York to report about Ray Charles, preparing the ground for his triumphant concerts in Antibes in the summer of 1961 (and both possibly sponsored by Vega, the French distributor of Ray’s records?). Franck Ténot published a well known article in the December 1960 issue […]
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February 20, 2012
Ray Charles In Brussels (1975)
Read moreA collector of Ray Charles records and recordings recently provided me with a copy of an odd tape, with an uncertain provenance. What he knows is that the five tunes that are on the recording come from a radio program that was aired by the French station France Inter, and presented by Julien Delli Fiori. […]
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February 18, 2012
The All New Ray Charles Show 1968 In Fresno
Read morePoster for the “The All New! Ray Charles Show ’68”, Munich, Sep. 30. The “Revue” gig, with the John Bishop Trio and comedian Billy Wallace. Between 1967 and 1969 Ray Charles Enterprises experimented a lot with packaging evening-filling shows, not only bringing The Genius himself, his Orchestra and The Raelettes on stage, but also other […]
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January 11, 2012
Ray Charles In A Fool For You With The NYC Ballet (1988, 1989)
Read moreIn 1988 and 1989 Ray Charles starred in A Fool For You, a concert dansant with the New York City Ballet, set to his music. 1988 Martins and Charles. Article from Esquire, May 1988. The first time, on 14 and 15 May 1988, the performance was a closing part of the American Music Festival, at […]