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October 25, 2014
My Friend (With Take 6)
Read moreAlbum3: Take 6, Join The Band, Reprise Entertainment 9 45497-2, 1994. Ray Charles joined the close harmony group Take 6 for the 3d track on their album Join The Band. In September 2014 their successful Ray Charles tribute show in Las Vegas premiered. Soundclip:
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October 25, 2014
My Funny Valentine (With Susaye Greene)
Read moreUnreleased. Susaye’s operatic interpretation was filmed for TV at La Salle Pleyel in Paris, on 8 October 1968, broadcast by ORTF. A second rendition, that same night, taped for a radio broadcast, has also survived. With Wallace Davenport (bandleader), Phil Guilbeau, Virgil Jones, David Philips – trumpet; Fred Johnson, Jay Clyde Miller – alto saxophone; Nathan […]
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October 25, 2014
My God And I
Read moreCompilation album: Recorded Live At Newport In New York, Buddah BDS5616, 1974 (1973). Album: Renaissance, Crossover 9005, June 1975. This is one of the rare cases where a live rendition sooner found its way to vinyl than the studio version. Ray’s delivery in the studio was excellent, but the live version is superior. This beautiful song was recorded twice on […]
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October 25, 2014
My Heart Cries For You
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10530, February 1964, b/w Baby, Don’t You Cry. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Sid Feller produced the tune with strings and choir. It’s one of the very few tracks that Ray remixed later “because he hated the strings on the original mix”.
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October 25, 2014
My Jug And I (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Organ)
Read moreSingle (A): Tangerine TRC 957, 1965, b/w Give Me Time To Explain. Album3: Percy Mayfield, My Jug And I, Tangerine TRC 1505, 1966. Recorded in Los Angeles on January 20, 1964. Percy Mayfield – vocals; Ray Charles – piano; Edgar Willis – bass; Other personnel unidentified. Arranged by Gerald Wilson.
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October 25, 2014
My Melancholy Baby (With The Ray Charles Band)
Read moreAlbum: The Great Ray Charles, Atlantic 1259, August 1957. Recorded on 26 November 1956 in New York at the Coastal Recording Studios. Ray Charles – p; Joe Bridgewater, John Hunt – tp; David Newman – as, ts; Emmett Dennis – bs; William Peebles – d; Roosevelt Sheffield – b. Arranged by Ray Charles.
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October 25, 2014
My Soul
Read moreUnreleased. My Soul is an original Ray Charles composition. This instrumental was never released (Ray never even claimed the copyrights). The first known performance of this song was filmed for TV at the Pleyel Room in Paris, on 8 October 1968. A second rendition that same night, taped for a radio broadcast, has also survived. Ray Charles […]
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October 25, 2014
My World
Read moreAlbum: My World, Warner Bros 26735 (CD), WE 833 (vinyl), March 1993. Recorded at Rat Cherokee, House of Soul, Capitol, Summa, Studio Ultimo, Clinton Recording Studio B, and Peter Rafelson Studio. For the names of the session musicians, follow the link to the album description, above.
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October 25, 2014
My Yiddishe Mama
Read moreUnreleased. In his role as Sammy, Ray played and sang a few blue notes of this song for Yetta (Ann Morgan Guilbert), in Fair Weather Fran, an episode of The Nanny, first aired on 19 November 1997.
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October 25, 2014
Nancy (With The Laughing Face)
Read moreAlbum: Dedicated To You, ABC/Paramount 355, January 1961. Recorded at the United Studios in Hollywood on August 23 or 24, 1960. With uncredited strings and (Jack Halloran’s?) singers. Marty Paich – arranger, conductor. Live: According to concert souvenir booklets from 1961 to 1964, this number was part of the live repertoire then, but no recordings with […]
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October 25, 2014
Natural Woman (You Make Me Feel Like A –) (With Lynda Carter)
Read moreUnreleased. Taped for Lynda Carter’s Celebration, broadcast by CBS on Monday, 11 May 1981. (LQ video & audio:) WMV file (with better audio) here.
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October 25, 2014
Nature Boy
Read morePerformed at the the induction ceremony of Nat King Cole in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on March 6, 2000. The ceremony took place at the Waldorf Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. “Ray Charles […] tore up the Waldorf when he admitted that he ‘tried to steal Nat Cole’s voice. I even tried to steal his […]