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November 11, 2014
Get On The Right Track Baby
Read moreSingle (B): Atlantic 1143, June 1957 b/w It’s All Right.Album: Yes Indeed, Atlantic 8025, October 1958. Recorded on 27 November 1956 in New York with Joe Bridgewater, John Hunt – tp; David Newman – as, ts; Emmett Dennis – bs; William Peebles – ds; Roosevelt Sheffield – b. Update 01.02.2021: the video of this performance is no […]
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November 11, 2014
Getting Your Lovin’ From The Streets
Read moreUnreleased (lost master). Ray recorded the tune (by an unidentified writer) in 1968, but the Tangerine master is lost.
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November 11, 2014
Ghana (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreRay Charles Orchestra – Zurich 1961. TCB (Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series #41), [2016]. The band was only recorded playing this instrumental during their brief Europe tour in October 1961. Written by Ernie Wilkins, arranged by Quincy Jones. David Fathead took the solo on flute, Leroy Cooper on bari, and Sonny Forriest on guitar. The […]
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November 11, 2014
Give The Poor Man A Break
Read moreAlbum: Love And Peace, Crossover/Atlantic 19199, September 1978. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. Scott von Ravensberg on drums.
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November 11, 2014
Give Me Time To Explain (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreSingle (A): Tangerine 957, 1965 , b/w My Jug And I.Album: Percy Mayfield, My Jug And I, Tangerine TRCS 1505, 1966. Recorded in Los Angeles in circa 1964. Ray Charles – piano; other musician unnamed. Arrangement by Gerald Wilson. Give Me Time to Explain by Percy Mayfield on Grooveshark
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November 11, 2014
Giving Up (With The Raelettes, Ft. Trudy Cohran / Tonette McKinney)
Read moreUnreleased. Based on Donny Hathaway’s 1972 re-interpretation of Gladys Knight’s minor hit from 1964. Ray and the girls kept on to Donny’s tempo: a long, slow, soaring love lament. It was performed many times by Trudy Cohran, and (after she left The Raelettes) also by Tonette McKinney. Tokyo 1990 (starts at 1’14’40) with Trudy Cohran: Moscow 1994 with […]
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November 11, 2014
Gloomy Sunday
Read moreAlbum: I’m All Yours Baby, ABC/Tangerine 675, February 1969. Beware: this is the English version of the “Hungarian suicide song” by Rezső Seress, recorded in February 1968 at RPM International in Los Angeles. With strings, and possibly Carol Kaye on bass. Arranged and produced by Sid Feller.
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November 11, 2014
Go On Home
Read moreSingle (A): ABC 11045, January 1968, b/w That’s A Lie.Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Recorded in January 1967 at RPM International in Los Angeles. All musicians remained uncredited: woodwinds, Billy Preston on organ, Carol Kaye on bass, Rene Hall on guitar, Earl Palmer on drums, and The Raelettes (Gwen Berry, Alex Brown, Merry Clayton, […]
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November 11, 2014
God Bless America Again (With Billy Preston, Slash A.O. aka The American Rebels)
Read moreCompilation album: Ray Charles Sings for America, Rhino/WEA, 3 September 2002.[After the album release, the song was remixed for radio DJs; see below]. The weeks after the 9/11 attack the American airwaves were filled with patriotic songs. Ray’s America The Beautiful was probably the song that was most frequently played.A year later Rhino/WEA released a compiler, Ray Charles Sings for […]
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November 11, 2014
Go Tell It On The Mountain (With Sara Jordan Powell A.O.)
Read moreAlbum (VHS, France): Ray Charles Live, Cinéthèque VCV 402, S.a. Typically the kind of up-tempo spiritual where Ray always stayed away from. For good reasons. Also with singers Donna Lynton, Rick Abao, Joe Bourne, John Waddel, Charles Williams, and the München Gospel Choir. The musicians were Sal Nistico – tenor saxophone; Carmell Jones, Benny Baily – […]
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November 11, 2014
God Bless The Child (With Dizzy Gillespie A.O., Ft Esther Philips)
Read moreAlbum (CD): Ray Charles Meets Dizzy Gillespie, Jazz File JF1005, S.a. Most of this concert was a mess, and Esther didn’t make it any better. With Dizzy Gillespie (tp), Hank Crawford (as) and David Newman (fl, ts), Mickey Roker (ds), Kenny Burrel (g); George Duvivier (b), Esther Phillips (voc).
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November 11, 2014
Going Down Slow
Read moreAlbum: Crying Time, ABC/Paramount/Tangerine 544, January 1966. Recorded during the second fall sessions of 1965, at RPM International in Los Angeles. With Ray on piano, Billy Preston on organ, Rene Hall on guitar and Earl Palmer on drums. The 1968 rendition in Paris, with Billy, is a monument for all the times they worked together. Live:’67 […]