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October 21, 2014
Riding Thumb
Read moreAlbum: Love And Peace, Crossover/Atlantic 19199, September 1978. Single (B): Crossover/Atlantic 3527, October 1978, b/w You Forgot Your Memory. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. Not at all a typical Ray Charles song, but he must have loved it to pieces. When he called the “Big 3” for a concert, it meant that his part of […]
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October 21, 2014
Ring Of Fire
Read moreAlbum: Love Country Style, ABC/Tangerine 707, June 1970. Single (B): ABC 11351, March 1973, b/w I Can Make It Thru the Days (But Oh Those Lonely Nights). Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles in May 1970. Arranged by Sid Feller. With strings, woodwinds and rhythm section. The musicians remained uncredited (Carol Kaye possibly on bass). The […]
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October 21, 2014
River’s Invitation (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreSingle (A): Tangerine 931, 1963, b/w Baby Please. Album3: Percy Mayfield, My Jug And I, Tangerine TRCS 1505, 1966. Recorded in Los Angeles on February 21, 1963. Brother Ray replaced Maxwell Davis’ sax break from Mayfield’s 1952 version with a pretty piano solo. With Percy Mayfield – vocals; Marcus Belgrave – trumpet; Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; […]
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October 21, 2014
Road Rats (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. This tune, penned by Roger Neumann, was only captured once, during the concert on 16 July 1978 in Antibes/Juan-les-Pins. Solos by Bob Harris – p, Johnny Coles – tp, Don Wilkerson ts, Peter Turre – d, Steve Beskrone – b. Full line-up of the band: Johnny Coles, Mark Hatch (or James Smith?), David Hines, […]
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October 21, 2014
Rock And Roll Shoes (With B.J. Thomas)
Read morePromo disk for radio stations. Album: Friendship, Columbia 39415, February 1985. Single (A): Columbia 4531, July 1984, b/w Then I’ll Be Over You. Recorded with session musicians led by c&w veteran Billy Sherrill at the Eleven Eleven Studios and the Soundshop Studio in Nashville, and the Pedernales Studio in Spicewood. Ray finished things off at RPM International […]
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October 21, 2014
Rock Steady (With The Raelettes, Ft. Estella Yarbrough)
Read moreUnreleased. This Aretha Franklin song from 1971 was immediately adopted by Raelette Estella Yarbrough. She kept on performing it until the end. Leverkusen 1993: Live: ’72 LC Copenhagen ’72 LC San Carlos ’75 LC Madrid ’75 LC LatinCasino ’81 LC Prague ’81 LC Rome ’93 LC Leverkusen ’94 LC Moscow 02 LC Pasadena
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October 21, 2014
Rockhouse
Read moreSingle (A/B; Part 1/2) Atlantic 2006, October 1958. Compilation album: What’d I Say, Atlantic 8029, September 1959. Recorded on 27 November 1956 in New York with Joe Bridgewater, John Hunt – tp; David Newman – as, ts (solo); Emmett Dennis – bs; William Peeples – d; Roosevelt Sheffield – b. Read this about the authorship of the tune. […]
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October 21, 2014
Rockin’ Chair Blues
Read moreSwing “Beat” as label name. Single (B): Swing Beat 212. B/w Let’s Have A Ball. Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Seattle, February 1949. Ray Charles – voc, p; Gosady McKee – g; Milton S. Garred – b. Review in Billboard on November 12, 1949. Note “Maxim” Trio.
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October 21, 2014
Rocky Top Tennessee (With Lynn Anderson And Larry Gatlin)
Read moreUnreleased. Ray Charles contributed to this song when he guested in the CBS show The Unbroken Circle – A Tribute to Mother Maybelle Carter (taped in Nashville, aired on November 28, 1979).
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October 20, 2014
Roll In G (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. This simple (and not overly brilliant) rock tune was probably written by Ray Charles (the author’s rights have never been claimed). During the October 1961 series at the Palais des Sports in Paris, it got two lengthy performaces, starring the members of Ray’s old ‘small band’. The full line-up was: Marcus Belgrave, Wallace Davenport, […]
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October 20, 2014
Roly Poly (aka Back Home) (?)
Read moreFrom Billboard, October 11, 1952. Mentioning release of Sittin’ In With 651: I Can’t Do No More and Roly Poly. Single (B): Sittin’ In With, 651, b/w I Can’t Do No More. Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Los Angeles, 1952. Ray Charles – p (?); Rufus Beacham – p; Jack McVea – […]
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October 20, 2014
Rosetta
Read moreAlbum: Dedicated To You, ABC/Paramount 355, January 1961. Recorded at the United Studios in Hollywood on August 23 and 24, 1960. John Hunt (trumpet); Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; David Fathead Newman – tenor saxophone; Leroy Cooper – baritone saxophone; Martin Banks, Bill Pittman – guitar; Edgar Willis – bass; Irving Cottler – drums. Marty Paich […]