Tunes
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November 3, 2014
It Takes So Little Time
Read moreAlbum: Come Live With Me, Crossover 9000, January 1974. Recorded with strings and singers at RPM International in Los Angeles. Arranged by Sid Feller. (An audiotape of a working session where Feller and Charles discussed and worked on the arrangement of the song has survived). Update 13.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available, […]
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November 3, 2014
It Was A Very Good Year (With Willie Nelson)
Read moreAlbum: Genius Loves Company, Concord, August 2004. Mid March 2004 Willie Nelson postponed one of his concerts to make it to the session: “Willie […] has an emergency recording with Ray Charles as Ray is not long for the world according to the production people that just called us”. Recorded at RPM International (and some of […]
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November 3, 2014
It’s A Man’s World
Read moreAlbum: Ray’s Moods, ABC/Paramount/Tangerine 550, 1966. Recorded in 1965 at RPM International, in Los Angeles. With unnamed members of The Ray Charles Orchestra (probably Bobby Womack on guitar). Update 13.02.2021: 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 3, 2014
It’s A Miracle (With Barry Manilow)
Read moreAlbum3 (DVD): Barry Manilow – The First Television Specials, Rhino, 6 November 2007. Ray Charles performed this duet with the “casually-dressed” host of the Second Barry Manilow Special, first broadcast by ABC on February 24, 1978. Update 13.02.2021: 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 3, 2014
It’s All Over (By The Sims Twins, Ray Charles On Keyboard)
Read moreSingle3 (A): Crossover 975, 1974, b/w Talking About My Baby. A marvelous soul duet. Listen here.
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November 3, 2014
It’s All Right (aka It’s Alright) Single (A)
Read moreSingle (A): Atlantic 1143, June 1957 b/w Get On The Right Track Baby.Album: Yes Indeed, Atlantic 8025, October 1958. Recorded on 27 November 1956 in New York with Joe Bridgewater, John Hunt – tp; David Newman – as, ts; Emmett Dennis – bs; William Peebles – ds; Roosevelt Sheffield – b; The Raelettes.
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November 3, 2014
It’s Almost Here (The Raelettes, Ray Charles On Keyboard)
Read moreSingle3 (B): Tangerine 986, 1968, b/w. I Want To Thank You.Album3: The Raelettes, Souled Out, Tangerine 1511, 1971. Ray Charles on piano. The Raelettes (possible line-up): Merry Clayton, Clydie King, Gwen Berry and Alex Brown (but in the Summer of ’68 the girls’ line-up went through several changes; cf. the Raelettes Page). Recorded at RPM International, Los […]
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November 3, 2014
It’s America’s Game (The One And Only PowerBall) (Jingle)
Read moreUnreleased. Commercial jingle, produced in five (rather poorly produced, but entertaining) 30-second variations for several state lottery campaigns in 2002. Cf.this article. The New Mexico and Oregon Powerball campaigns entailed a series of five commercials, all with musical and visual variations on the jingle’s theme. The New Mexico campaign ran in 2002, and was marketed […]
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November 3, 2014
I’ve Got A Tiger By The Tail
Read moreAlbum: Country And Western Meets Rhythm And Blues (aka Together Again), ABC/Paramount 520, August 1965. One of the four Ray Charles tunes that were labeled with the ‘swingova’-tag. The term was invented by arranger Sid Feller, to emphasize their hybrid swing/bossa nova style. Recorded at RPM International, Los Angeles. The musicians were not credited. The Jack Halloran […]
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November 3, 2014
I’ve Got A Woman (aka I Got A Woman, I Gotta Woman)
Read moreSingle (A): Atlantic 1050, December 1954 b/w Come Back Baby.Compilation album: Ray Charles, Atlantic 8006, June 1957.Live single with 1964 Shrine version (A: Part 1/B: Part 2) ABC 10649, March 1965. Charles told that he performed the song for about a year before he recorded it in Atlanta at the studio of Georgia Tech radio station WGST on […]
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November 2, 2014
I’ve Got News For You
Read moreAlbum: Genius + Soul = Jazz, Impulse 2, February 1961.Single (A): Impulse 202, June 1961, b/w I’m Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town. Recorded at the Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, on 26 or 27 December 1960. Session line-up: John Frosk, Jimmy Nottingham, Philip Guilbeau, Clark Terry, Joe Wilder – trumpet; Jimmy Cleveland, Urbie Green, […]
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November 2, 2014
I’ve Had My Fun (aka Going Down Slow)
Read moreSingle (B): Down Beat 215. B/w Sitting On Top, 1950.Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Los Angeles, 1950. Ray Charles Trio: Ray Charles – voc, p; Gosady McKee, Michael Webb – g; Ralph Hamilton – b. Lloyd Glenn – supervisor (i.e. producer a/o arranger?).