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October 17, 2014
Something Inside Me
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10901, February 1967, b/w I Want To Talk About You. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles in April 1966. With uncredited musicians (incl. Preston Love on alto, Leroy Cooper on bari, Rene Hall on guitar, Carol Kaye on bass, Earl Palmer on drums) and […]
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October 17, 2014
Something’s Got To Change
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10970, August 1967, b/w In The Heat Of The Night. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Written by Ray Charles and Billy Preston (who also added a few organ licks). Recorded on April 11, 1967, at RPM International in Los Angeles. With Bill King, Walter Miller – tp; Fred Murrell, Henry […]
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October 17, 2014
Something’s Wrong
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10557, May 1964, b/w My Baby Don’t Dig Me. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Beautiful lament, penned by Percy Mayfield. Recorded with uncredited musicians.
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October 16, 2014
Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word (With Elton John)
Read moreAlbum: Genius Loves Company, Concord, August 2004. Ray’s last recording, at RPM International in Los Angeles in March 2004. For an unabridged personnel listing check Wikipedia. Making of:
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October 16, 2014
Soul Brothers (With Milt Jackson)
Read moreAlbum: Soul Brothers, Atlantic 1279, June 1958. Recorded on September 12, 1957 in New York City. Milt Jackson – piano; Ray Charles – alto saxophone; Billy Mitchell – tenor saxophone; Skeeter Best – guitar; Oscar Pettiford – bass; Connie Kaye – drums.
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October 16, 2014
Soul Meeting (With Milt Jackson)
Read moreAlbum: Soul Meeting, Atlantic 1360, February 1961 (1957 – 1958). Recorded on April 10, 1958 in New York City. Milt Jackson – vibraharp; Ray Charles – piano; Kenny Burrell – guitar; Percy Heath – bass; Art Taylor – drums.
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October 16, 2014
Soul Serenade (Ft. Susaye Greene)
Read moreUnreleased. The Curtis Ousley/Luther Dixon song, made famous by Aretha Franklin, is known from an excellent rendition by Ray’s “little angel”, Susaye Greene. It was only caught once, in a tape made “from the audience”, on October 25, 1968 in Fresno.
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October 16, 2014
Spain (Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreAlbum: Live In Japan, Crossover/London (Japan) #535/#536, July 1976. Great big band arrangement of Chick Corea’s signature composition, in a great arrangement by Alf Clausen. Solo’s on the Japan and Mexico 1975 live recordings: Jack Evans – flugelhorn, trumpet; Ed Pratt – alto saxophone. Live: ’75 LC Mexico ’85 LC Antibes ’90 LC Tokyo
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October 16, 2014
Spirit In The Dark (With Aretha Franklin)
Read moreAlbum3: Aretha Franklin, Live At The Fillmore West (Atlantic, SD 7205). Album 3: Don’t Fight The Feeling: The Complete Aretha Franklin & King Curtis Live At Fillmore West, Rhino Handmade, 3 May 2005. Audio stream: Aretha Franklin – Fillmore West, Concert Vault, S.a. Video stream: Aretha Franklin, Spirit In The Dark, Concert Vault, S.a. Line-up: King Curtis’s the […]
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October 16, 2014
St. Pete Blues (aka St Pete’s Blues; St Pete Florida Blues; Baby,Let Me Hear You Call My Name; I Found My Baby There, Done Found Out)
Read moreFrom Cashbox, Jul. 26, 1952. Compilation EP: Ray Charles – The Original Uncut Rockin’ Records 1950, [Henry Stone Music], Rockin’ Records, 2004). Ray dated the recording in 1947, his biographers agree that this was approximately 2 years too early, but further research shows that the gap may be as big as 3 or even 4 years. […]
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October 16, 2014
Stella By Starlight
Read moreAlbum: Dedicated To You, ABC/Paramount 355, January 1961. Recorded at the United Studios in Hollywood on August 23 and 24, 1960. With (uncredited) strings and singers. Marty Paich – arranger, conductor. Live: ’84 LC Carnegie NM (unsure). According to concert souvenir booklets from 1961 to c 1964, this number was part of the live repertoire then, but […]
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October 15, 2014
Sticks And Stones
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10118, May 1960, b/w Worried Life Blues. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Recorded at the Capitol Studios in New York on 27 April 1960. Phil Guilbeau – trumpet, John Hunt – flugelhorn; Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; David Fathead Newman – tenor saxophone; Leroy Cooper – baritone saxophone; Edgar Willis […]