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• November 6, 2014

  I Want To Know

  Single (A): Atlantic 1143, January 1957 b/w Ain’t That Love.Album: Yes Indeed, Atlantic 8025, October 1958. Recorded on 16 May 1956 in New York with Joe Bridgewater,  John Hunt – tp; David Newman – as, ts; Emmett Dennis – bs; William Peebles – ds; Roosevelt Sheffield; The Cookies (Margie Hendricks, Dorothy Jones, Darlene McCrea) – backing vocals. […]

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• November 6, 2014

  I Want To Talk About You

  Single (A): ABC 10901, February 1967, b/w Something Inside Me.Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Recorded at United Studios in Hollywood in February 1965. The rhythm section included Rene Hall on guitar, and Earl Palmer on drums.

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  November 6, 2014

  I Want To Thank You (By The Raelettes, Ray Charles On Keyboards)

  Single (A): Tangerine 986, 1968, b/w It’s Almost Here.Album3: The Raelettes, Souled Out, Tangerine 1511, 1971. Recorded at RPM International, Los Angeles, with uncredited musicians (all or mostly from the Ray Charles orchestra). Ray Charles on piano. The Raelettes: Merry Clayton (lead), Clydie King (contralto), Gwen Berry (alto) and Alex Brown (tenor).

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• November 6, 2014

  I Want Your Love (With The Raelettes, Ft Estella Yarbrough)

  Unreleased. Estella Yarbrough picked up thic Chic tune when it came out, and sang it until the end. Live:’79 LC Antibes’80 LC Northsea’81 LC Barcelona’81 LC Sanremo’82 LC Antibes’83 CL Antibes’84 LC Warsaw’85 LC NewHaven’85 LC Antibes’86 LC Lugano’89 LC Ghent’95 LC Greenville’95 LC Tramps’99 LC Rome NM00 LC Basel

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• November 6, 2014

  I Was On Georgia Time

  Album: Do I Ever Cross Your Mind, Columbia 38990, July 1984. Recorded in Nashville and RPM International in Los Angeles. With Buddy Emmons – steel guitar; Fred Newell, Bucky Barrett, Phil Baugh, James Capps – guitar; Terry McMillan – Harmonica; Hoot Hester, Buddy Spicher – Fiddle; Matt Morris – Bass; James Gadson – drums. Arranged by […]

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• November 6, 2014

  I Will Be There (Virtually With Idina Menzel)

  Album: Genius And Friends, Rhino/WEA, 20 September 2005. Ray Charles laid down most of the songs for this 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.

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• November 6, 2014

  I Wish I Didn’t Love You So (By Jimmy Scott, Ray Charles On Piano)

  Album3: Jimmy Scott, Falling In Love Is Wonderful, Tangerine TRC 1501, 1963. Recorded at the United Recordings Studios in Hollywood, in 1962. Arranged by Gerald Wilson.

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• November 6, 2014

  I Wish You Were Here Tonight

  Album: Wish You Were Here Tonight, Columbia 38293, March 1983.Single (B): Columbia 4297, November 1983, b/w We Didn’t See A Thing. Arranged by James Polk and Ray Charles, recorded with Nashville session musicians. Columbia really believed in Ray Charles’ ‘second country career’. For the album Wish You Were Here Tonight (peaking at #29 on the Country Album Chart) they […]

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  November 6, 2014

  I Wonder

  Single (B): ABC 10141, August 1960, b/w Them That Got.Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Steve Hoffman discovered that at ABC the compiler of the Greatest Hits album (at least of the stereo version, ABC-Paramount ABCS-415, 1962) used or received the wrong take. Greatest Hits (ABCS-415), 1962: Update 13.02.2021: the video of this performance […]

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• November 6, 2014

  I Wonder Who

  Single (B): Atlantic 2118, September 1961 b/w Hard Times.Compilation: The Genius Sings The Blues, Atlantic 8052, September 1961 (1952 – 1959). Taped in New Orleans on August 18, 1953, with Edgar Blanchard’s Band: Auguste “Bimes” Dupont – as; Warren Hebrew – ts; Elandro Smart – d; Edgar Blanchard – g; Frank Fields – b. Live:Surprisingly, but obviously […]

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  November 6, 2014

  I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now

  Single (A): Swing Time 249, 1951, b/w All To Myself.Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007.Also listen to the album Ray Charles: Unreleased for two alternative takes. Recorded in Los Angeles, November 24, 1950. Ray Charles Trio: Ray Charles – voc, p (= “88”), cel; Oscar Moore –  g; Johnny Miller – b.

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• November 6, 2014

  I Won’t Leave

  Album: A Portrait Of Ray, ABC/Tangerine 625, March 1968. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. With The Ray Charles Orchestra, studio musicians, and The Raelettes (all uncredited, but here possibly with Bobby Womack on guitar). Live:’68 CL Bluesthing – Released (bootleg CD)’68 LC Bakersfield

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