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October 7, 2014
You 20th-Century Fox
Read moreUK single. Album: Love And Peace, Crossover/Atlantic 19199, September 1978. Single (B): Crossover/Atlantic 3611, August 1979. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. The musicians were not credited (but James Gadson was on drums).
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October 7, 2014
You And I (With Betty Carter)
Read moreAlbum: Ray Charles And Betty Carter, ABC/Paramount 385, July 1961. Recorded at the United Studios in Hollywood on June 13 – 14, 1961. Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; David Fathead Newman – tenor saxophone; Leroy Cooper – baritone saxophone; Bill Pittman – guitar; Edgar Willis – bass; Mel Lewis, Bruno Carr – drums; The Jack Halloran […]
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October 7, 2014
You Are My Sunshine (With The Raelettes, Ft Margie Hendricks)
Read moreAlbum: Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music Volume 2, ABC/Paramount 435, October 1962. Single (A): ABC 10375, November 1962, b/w Your Cheating Heart. Jimmy Davis, the country music singer and later Louisiana governor, and Charles Mitchell were credited for the song. Two versions were released before Jimmie Davis’ recording was released on February 5, 1940: on […]
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October 7, 2014
You Are So Beautiful (With Joe Cocker)
Read moreUnreleased. Performed at the TV show Ray Charles – A Man And His Soul, taped at the Cocoanut Grove club in LA in the early summer of 1983, first aired on 30 October 1983. In 1982 Cocker had recorded the duet Up Where We Belong with Jennifer Warnes for the soundtrack of An Officer and a Gentleman, winning an […]
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October 7, 2014
You Be My Baby
Read moreSingle (A): Atlantic 1196, August 1958, b/w My Bonnie. Compilation album: What’d I Say, Atlantic 8029, September 1959. Song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. “Ray Charles recorded it only after getting a third of the song” (source here). Recorded in New York on 20 February 1958 with Marcus Belgrave, Lee Harper – tp; David Newman – […]
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October 7, 2014
You Better Go Now (By Rita Graham, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreAlbum3: Rita Graham, Vibrations, Tangerine TRCS 1507, 1969. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with uncredited musicians. Arranged by Sid Feller.
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October 7, 2014
You Better Watch Them Dogs (aka Watch Them Dogs) (Ft Estella Yarbrough)
Read moreRaelettes-tune, claimed by Estella Yarbrough, only known from concerts in the second half of the ninetees. Written by Melvin Williams. Live: ’95 LC Tramps – 2x ’97 LC Saratoga ’97 LC Montreux – Released on DVD ’99 LC Glasgow ’97 LC Montreux:
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October 7, 2014
You Don’t Know Me
Read moreAlbum: Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, ABC/Paramount 410, April 1962. Single (A): ABC 10345, July 1962, b/w Careless Love. 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. The tune was also used […]
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October 7, 2014
You Don’t Love Me No More (With Legends Of Rock ‘n’ Roll)
Read moreAlbum3 (DVD): Legends Of Rock ‘n’ Roll Live, Image Entertainment, 5 December 2000. Part of an all-star jam, recorded by Cinemax in Rome in February 1989. Ray had a good time sitting behind his keyboards. The other legends were James Brown, B.B. King, Bo Diddley, Esther Phillips, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard. The […]
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October 7, 2014
You Don’t Understand (With The Raelettes)
Read moreAlbum: Ray’s Moods, ABC/Tangerine 550, 1966. Recorded in June 1966 at RPM International, in Los Angeles. Ray on organ! With session musicians Rene Hall on guitar, Carol Kaye on bass, Earl Palmer on drums, and one of The Raelettes (Lilian Fort or Merry Clayton?). Arranged by Rene Hall. You Don't Understand by Ray Charles on Grooveshark
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October 7, 2014
You Feel Good All Over
Read moreUK single. Album: Wish You Were Here Tonight, Columbia 38293, March 1983. Single (B), Columbia 3810, March 1983. Recorded between 1981 and 1983 with uncredited session musicians in Nashville, finished at RPM International in Los Angeles. The tune is also documented through a demo tape that Ray used to brief arranger Sid Feller.
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October 7, 2014
You Forgot Your Memory
Read moreSingle (A): Crossover/Atlantic 3527, October 1978, b/w Riding Thumb. Written by Norma Souder and Bill Arthor. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. The whistled intro (that must be Ray!) is… truly unforgettable… Title est omen – this track hasn’t made it to any compilation yet.