Tunes

• October 8, 2014

  Without A Song

  Single (A – Part 1, B – Part 2): ABC 10663, April 1965. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Recorded on July 10, 1963, in Los Angeles (in the session for A Recipe For Soul). Irving Carter – drums; Al Hendrickson – guitar; Joe Comfort – bass; Armand Kaproff, Eleanor Slatkin, Harold Schneier, […]

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• October 8, 2014

  Without Love (There Is Nothing)

  Dutch single. Single (B): ABC 10453, May 1963, b/w No One. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. One of Ray’s darkest renditions, and one of my all time favorites. Incredible that this tune didn’t make it to his live repertoire.

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• October 8, 2014

  Woman Sensuous Woman

  Single (A): Columbia 4500, June 1984, b/w I Was On Georgia Time. Album: Do I Ever Cross Your Mind, Columbia 38990, July 1984. Recorded in Nashville and finished at 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 […]

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• October 7, 2014

  Woody ‘n’ Bu (Ray Charles Orchestra)

  Not released. This instrumental was written by trombonist Steve Turre, who had played in Ray’s band in 1972, and later involved The Genius as a side man in his album In The Spur Of The Moment (1999). The audio quality of the file that survived from the Warsaw gig in 1984 is better than the video’s. ’84 LC Warsaw (track […]

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• October 7, 2014

  Workin’ Man’s Woman

  Album: Do I Ever Cross Your Mind, Columbia 38990, July 1984. Recorded in Nashville and finished at 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. […]

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• October 7, 2014

  Worried Life Blues (Someday Baby)

  Single (B): ABC 10118, May 1960, b/w Sticks And Stones. Compilation album: Pure Genius, Atlantic/WEA, 20 September 2005. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Worried Life Blues is one of the most ‘waxed’ blues songs of all time, first recorded by Major “Big Maceo” Merriweather in 1941 (Bluebird 8827). It was inspired by Someday Baby Blues, recorded by […]

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• October 7, 2014

  Worried Mind

  Album: Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, ABC/Paramount 410, April 1962. The album was recorded on 5 and 7 February 1962 at Capitol Studios in New York City, and on 15 February at United Recording Studios in Hollywood. Arranged by Marty Paich. For the little that is known about the personnel, follow the link to […]

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• October 7, 2014

  Wrinkled, Crinkled, Wadded Dollar Bill (By Johnny Cash, Ray Charles On Piano)

  Not released. Part of a mash-up with Them That Got and Busted. Played in the first week of February 1970, in Nashville, during the taping of the Johnny Cash Show that aired on 11 February (Season 1, Episode 19).

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• October 7, 2014

  X-Ray Blues (With Milt Jackson)

  Album: Soul Meeting, Atlantic 1360, February 1961 (1957 – 1958). Recorded in New York on April 10, 1958. Ray Charles – (to the end of guitar solo:) piano, alto saxophone, (after that:) electric piano; Milt Jackson – vibraphone, piano); Kenny Burrell – guitar; Percy Heath – bass; Art Taylor – drums.

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• October 7, 2014

  Yes Indeed

  Single (A): Atlantic 1180, March 1958, b/w I Had A Dream. Album: Yes Indeed, Atlantic 8025, October 1958. Recorded in New York on 20 February 1958 with Marcus Belgrave, Lee Harper – tp; David Newman – ts, as; Emmett Dennis – bs; Edgar Willis – b; Richie Goldberg – ds; The Raelettes – backing vocals. Yes […]

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• October 7, 2014

  Yesterday

  Album: Ray Charles Invites You To Listen, ABC/Tangerine 595, June 1967. Single (A): ABC 11009, November 1967, b/w Never Had Enough Of Nothing Yet. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles in 1966 or 1967. With The Ray Charles Orchestra, a strings section, and The Raelettes (all uncredited; Bobby Womack on guitar). Arrangements by Sid Feller. ’67 […]

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• October 7, 2014

  Yesterdays

  Album: A Portrait Of Ray, ABC/Tangerine 625, March 1968. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles in February 1968. With strings, woodwinds, a choir, and a rhythm section consisting of session musicians (all uncredited, but possibly including Carol Kaye on bass). Arranged by Sid Feller. Live: According to contemporary concert souvenir booklets, this number was part […]

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