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November 10, 2014
Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
Read moreAlbum: Sweet And Sour Tears, ABC/Paramount 480, August 1964. Recorded around 8 May 1964 at the Bell Sound Studios in New York and arranged by Sid Feller. Listen to this 30-second sample.
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November 10, 2014
Guess Who I Saw Today (With The Raelettes)
Read moreUnreleased. The song, written by Murray Grand and Elisse Boyd, is best known in Nancy Wilson’s version. Ray dictated or ordered for a great big band arrangement. The Raelettes made it into a beautiful show piece (Ray of course turning the intro into a bawdy dialogue). Live:’75 LC Brussels’76 LC Antibes’78 LC Antibes’84 LC Ithaca’90 […]
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November 10, 2014
Guitar Blues (With The Rufus Beacham Orchestra) (?)
Read moreSingle (B): Swing Time 300, b/w Baby Let Me Hear You Call My Name.Also released by Sittin’ In With.Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Los Angeles, 1952. The liner notes to The Way I Feel locate the taping in Miami (?), 1951, but that should probably be 1952. Ray Charles – p; possibly […]
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November 10, 2014
Ha Ha In The Daytime (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreSingle (B). Tangerine 977, 1967, b/w Long As You’re Mine.Album3: Percy Mayfield, Bought Blues. Tangerine TRCS 1510, 1971. Recorded in New York City on March 23, 1962 (other source says: circa Spring of 1967). Percy Mayfield – vocals; Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; Teddy Edwards – tenor saxophone; Ray Charles – piano; Chuck Norris (?) – guitar.
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November 10, 2014
Half As Much
Read moreAlbum: Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, ABC/Paramount 410, April 1962. The band tunes were recorded on 5 and 7 February 1962 at the Capitol Studios in New York City. Arranged by Gil Fuller. For the little that is known about the personnel, follow the link to the album description, above. Tenor solo by Don […]
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November 10, 2014
Hallelujah I Love Her So
Read moreSingle (A): Atlantic 1096, May 1956, b/w What Could I Do Without You.Compilation album: Ray Charles, Atlantic 8006, June 1957. Recorded in New York on 30 November 1955 with Joe Bridgewater, Joshua Willis – tp; Don Wilkerson – ts (solo); Cecil Payne – bs; Panama Francis – ds; Paul West – b. The composition and lyrics go […]
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November 10, 2014
Hallelujah I Love Her So (With Milt Jackson)
Read moreAlbum: Soul Meeting, Atlantic 1360, February 1961 (1957 – 1958). Recorded on April 10th, 1958 at the Atlantic Studio in New York City. Milt Jackson – vibraphone; Ray Charles – piano; Kenny Burrell – guitar; Percy Heath – bass; Art Taylor – drums. Update 10.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available on YouTube, […]
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November 10, 2014
Hang Around Blues (?)
Read moreUncertain. On June 2, 2003 Ray was co-billed at the Apollo Theater for Blowin’ The Blues Away, a scripted concert conceived by Wynton Marsalis as a staged documentary on the history and the role of the blues as an integral part of American life and culture.I don’t know if any part of Ray’s performance was recorded. One […]
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November 10, 2014
Hang Your Head In Shame
Read moreAlbum: Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music Volume 2, ABC/Paramount 435, October 1962. Recorded on 7 September 1962 in Hollywood, with strings and singers. Arranged by Marty Paich. Update 10.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available on YouTube, please let me know in the comments below if you have any footage, thanks […]
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November 10, 2014
Happy Birthday
Read moreAlbum3: Willie Nelson, The Big Six-O (Laserdisc: CBS Video, S.a.; VHS: 20th Century Fox, 1 January 1998). Willie Nelson, Big Six-O, 1993: Update 10.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available on YouTube, please let me know in the comments below if you have any footage, thanks — Cyd Live:’93 TV Willie’97 TV Bassey NM
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November 10, 2014
Happy Faces (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreAlbum:Ray Charles Orchestra – Zurich 1961. TCB (Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series #41), [2016]. The Ray Charles Big Band, on their first brief Europe tour in October 1961, played this Sonny Stitt composition at least four times. Arranged by Quincy Jones. David Fathead Newman solo’ed on tenor saxophone. With Marcus Belgrave, Wallace Davenport, Phil Guilbeau, […]
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November 10, 2014
Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)
Read moreSingle (A): Atlantic 2118, September 1961 b/w I Wonder Who.Compilation: The Genius Sings The Blues, Atlantic 8052, September 1961 (1952 – 1959). Recorded in Miami on 23 April 1955 with Joe Bridgewater, Riley Webb – tp; David Newman – as, bs; Don Wilkerson – ts; William Peebles – ds; Roosevelt Sheffield – b. Live:Just as a handful […]