Tunes
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November 18, 2014
Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In (With The National Urban Coalition)
Read moreUnreleased. Filmed PSA TV campaign (30 and 120 seconds) with 100 celebrities, filmed in New York in December 1969 and first aired during The Ed Sullivan Show of March 9, 1970. Read this. Fasten your seatbelts:
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November 18, 2014
At The Club (With “Friends”)
Read moreSingle (A): At the Club, ABC 10314, March 1962, b/w Hide Nor Hair. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. An alternative track was included on Modern Sounds In Country & Western Music. The William Claxton Collection. Jazz Images 38046, 2018. Ray built a nice little studio party with his friends (the Orchestra and a […]
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November 18, 2014
Autumn Leaves (With Dizzy Gillespie A.O.)
Read moreAlbum (DVD): Ray Charles à Montreux 1978, S.r., S.a. With Dizzy Gillespie (tp, solo), Hank Crawford (as) and David Newman (fl, ts), Mickey Roker (ds), Kenny Burrel (g), George Duvivier (b), Esther Phillips (voc).
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November 18, 2014
Baby Cakes (Ray Charles On Organ)
Read moreAlbum 3: Quincy Jones, Quincy’s Got A Brand New Bag, Mercury SR 61063, February 1966. Recorded at Ray’s RPM studios in Los Angeles, on 24 November 1965. Ray played the organ. Bobby Bryant (tp), Urbie Green (tb), Kenny Shroyer (btb), Jackie Kelso (as), Plas Johnson (ts), Jewel Grant (bars), Ray Charles (org), Mike Rubini (p), Rene […]
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November 18, 2014
Baby, Don’t You Cry
Read moreSingle (A): ABC 10530, February 1964, b/w My Heart Cries For You. Album: Sweet And Sour Tears, ABC/Paramount 480, August 1964. Recorded on 8 May 1964 at the United Studios in Hollywood. Arranged by Calvin Jackson. This tune was the first one that was labeled with ‘swingova rhythm’-tag. The term had been invented by arranger/producer Sid Feller, to emphasize […]
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November 18, 2014
Baby Grand (With Billy Joel)
Read moreAlbum3 (CD, CS, 8T, LP): The Bridge, Columbia OC 40402, 29 July 1986. Single3 (A): Columbia 6994, March 1987. The song was produced for Joel’s album The Bridge, his 10th studio album. The recording of the duet with Ray took place at the Evergreen Studios in Burbank, in 1986. Joel considers Ray Charles one of his idols. […]
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November 18, 2014
Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand (aka Oh Baby)
Read moreSingle (B): Swing Time 250. B/w Lonely Boy. Recorded in Los Angeles, November 24, 1950. Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. “Ray Charles Trio”: Ray Charles – voc, p, cel; Oscar Moore – g; Johnny Miller – b. Many years later, Ray played the song for Clint Eastwood: see this. In 2003, for the […]
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November 18, 2014
Baby Please
Read moreAlbum: Ray Charles Doing His Thing, ABC/Tangerine 695, May 1969. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. With The Raelettes, The Ray Charles Orchestra (all musicians remained uncredited). Written and produced by Jimmy Lewis. Paris, 1969 (4th tune): Live: ’69 LC Paris
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November 18, 2014
Baby Please (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Organ)
Read moreAlbum: Percy Mayfield, My Jug And I, Tangerine TRCS 1505, 1966. Recorded in Los Angeles in 1962. With Percy Mayfield – vocals; Marcus Belgrave – trumpet; Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; Ray Charles – organ; Howard Roberts – guitar; Edgar Willis – bass; Al McKibbon – bass; Milt Turner – drums.
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November 18, 2014
Baby Please Don’t Go
Read moreUnreleased (? The Knebworth concert may have been issued on VHS). It’s odd that Ray never recorded this in the studio. For the origin of the song, read this. Capital Jazz Fest, Knebworth, 1982: Update 24.01.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available on YouTube, please let me know in the comments below if […]
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November 18, 2014
Baby Won’t You Please Come Home
Read moreSingle (A): Swing Time 297, b/w Hey Now. Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Los Angeles, in 1951. Ray Charles “with Orchestra”: Ray Charles – voc, p; Unidentified – g, b, d. Sy Oliver – arranger. The brief Billboard review from 20 September 1952 could have influenced Charles’ decision to find his own voice: “Again […]
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November 18, 2014
Baby, It’s Cold Outside (With Betty Carter)
Read moreAlbum: Ray Charles And Betty Carter, ABC/Paramount 385, July 1961. Single (A): ABC 10298, January 1962, b/w We’ll Be Together Again One of the most brilliant duets ever recorded. Produced at the United Studios in Hollywood on June 13 or 14, 1961. With Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; David Fathead Newman – tenor saxophone; Leroy Cooper – […]