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November 8, 2014
How Long Has This Been Going On
Read moreAlbum: True To Life, Crossover/Atlantic 19142, October 1977. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with a mix of road musicians from his Orchestra, The Raelettes and studio musicians. Arranged by Larry Muhoberac. Trumpet intro by Johnny Coles. Toyohashi 1986: Live: ’73? LC Germany – Pseudo Basie – Released’76 LC Antibes’76 LC Stuttgart’80 LC Northsea’85 LC NewHaven’86 […]
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November 8, 2014
I Ain’t Got Nobody
Read moreCompilation album: Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings, Atlantic, 2005 (1952-1959). From the rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertegun, on 10 May 1953, in New York.
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November 8, 2014
I Believe To My Soul
Read moreSingle (B): Atlantic 2043, October 1959 b/w I’m Movin’ On.Compilation: The Genius Sings The Blues, Atlantic 8052, September 1961 (1952 – 1959). Recorded in New York on 26 June 1959. Ray Charles – piano, vocals, backing vocals; Marcus Belgrave, John Hunt – tp; Hank Crawford – as, bs; David Newman – ts; Teagle Fleming – ds; Edgar […]
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November 8, 2014
I Can Make It Thru The Days (But Oh Those Lonely Nights)
Read moreAlbum: Through The Eyes Of Love, ABC/Tangerine 765, August 1972.Single (A): ABC 11351, April 1973, b/w Ring of Fire. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. The musicians and backing vocals remained uncredited. Arrangement by Sid Feller.An audiotape of a working session where Feller and Charles discussed and worked on the arrangement of the song has survived. […]
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November 8, 2014
I Can See Clearly Now
Read moreAlbum: True To Life, Crossover/Atlantic 19142, October 1977.Single (A): Crossover/Atlantic 3443, November 1977, b/w Anonymous Love. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with a mix of road musicians, The Raelettes and studio musicians. The performance in Stuttgart, in late September of 1976, may imply that the song was already studio-recorded by then. Gladys 1977 (sorry for […]
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November 8, 2014
I Can’t Change It
Read moreAlbum: Brother Ray Is At It Again, Crossover/Atlantic SH 8546, March 1980. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. Arranged by Ray Charles. This is how the Genius churchified this Frankie Miller song (who wrote it when he was 12):
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November 8, 2014
I Can’t Do No More
Read moreSingle (A): Sittin’ In With 651, b/w Roly Poly. Recorded in Miami (?), usually dated in 1951 (but see date of Billboard clip, below).Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 October 2007. Ray Charles – voc, p; possibly Gosady McKee – g; Otto McQueen – b; Manzy Harris – ds. I Can’t Do No More was originally released as […]
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November 8, 2014
I Can’t Get Enough
Read moreAlbum: Would You Believe? Warner Bros 26343, October 1990.Single (B): Warner Bros. 18611, March 1993, b/w A Song For You. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. Musicians remained uncredited. I Can’t Get Enough by Ray Charles on Grooveshark
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November 8, 2014
I Can’t Get Started
Read moreUnrecorded. From Joël Dufour’s interview with Ray Charles’ first band leader, Renald Richard, published in Soul Bag (January 2004, #176/177): JD: Was your repertoire all R&B and jazz, or would Ray Charles sing a few standard ballads as well?RR: He wrote the Bunny Berrigan version of I Can’t Get Started as a feature trumpet solo, and he did […]
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November 8, 2014
I Can’t Stop Loving You
Read moreSingle (A): ABC 10330, April 1962, b/w Born To Lose.Album: Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, ABC/Paramount 410, April 1962. The album was recorded on 5 and 7 February 1962 at the Capitol Studios in New York City, and on 15 February at the United Recording Studios in Hollywood. Arranged by Marty Paich. For the little […]
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November 8, 2014
I Can’t Stop Loving You, Baby
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 11239, August 1969, b/w We Can Make It.Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. With a-typical male backing vocals (by Jimmy Lewis?).
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November 8, 2014
I Chose To Sing The Blues
Read moreSingle (A): ABC 10840, August 1966, b/w Hopelessly.Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Recorded in June 1966 at RPM in Los Angeles. Carol Kaye played bass. She remembered: “We cut [this tune] about the same time as I Don’t Need No Doctor – mid 60s; live band in the studio… Raelettes were there […]. A […]