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October 29, 2014
Love’s Gonna Bite You Back
Read moreCompilation album: Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters, Concord Records, 25 October 2010. Recorded with uncredited (band and session?) musicians at RPM International in Los Angeles in March 1980.
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October 29, 2014
Love’s Gonna Live Here
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10700, June 1965, b/w I’m A Fool to Care.Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Ray stayed close to the original Buck Owens song. The backing vocals sound as if The Raelettes were dubbed over the slick (Jack Halloran?) studio singers who were featured in most of Ray’s country song recordings in […]
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October 29, 2014
Low Society Blues
Read moreCompilation album: Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings, Atlantic, 2005 (1952-1959). From the rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertegun, on 10 May 1953. Released on Disk 7 (3 tracks) of the Pure Genius box set (titled Low Society). Ray knew the tune from Lowell Fulson, probably by performing it with him in the period they toured together.
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October 29, 2014
Luvbug (With Susaye Greene & Scherrie Paine)
Read moreAlbum3: Susaye Greene & Scherrie Paine, Partners, Motown M7-920R1, 1979. Susaye and Ray were lovers when she was a Raelette, from 1968 to 1975. After that she became part of The Supremes.After The Supremes disbanded in 1977, Scherrie Payne and Susaye Greene released their debut album, Partners. Guest vocals: “The Great Ray Charles As The Luvbug”. Susaye […]
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October 29, 2014
Ma (She’s Making Eyes At Me)
Read moreAlbum: Have A Smile With Me, ABC/Paramount 495, June 1964. Recorded in New York in the first week of May 1964. With the Ray Charles band: Curt Miller, Oliver Beener, Floyd Jones, Philip Guilbeau, John Hunt, Roy Burrowes, Wallace Davenport – trumpets; Henderson Chambers, Julian Priester, Keg Johnson – trombones; Danny Turner, Harold Geezil Minerve, Bill […]
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October 28, 2014
Makin’ Whoopee
Read moreAlbum: Live In Concert, ABC/Paramount 500, 1964.Single (A – vocal; B – piano): ABC 10609, November 1964. Ray Charles – piano; Don Peake – guitar; Edgar Willis – bass; Wilbert Hogan – drums. Live:’64 LC Copenhagen’64 LC England’70 TV Humperdinck’91 LC Montreux
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October 28, 2014
Making Believe
Read moreAlbum: Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music Volume 2, ABC/Paramount 435, October 1962.Single (B): ABC 10481, August 1963, b/w Busted. Recorded on 7 September 1962 in Hollywood. Arranged by Marty Paich. Musicians not credited. Update 14.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available on YouTube, please let me know in the comments below if […]
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October 28, 2014
Mama Caleba’s Blues
Read moreAlbum3: In The Heat Of The Night, United Artists Records 1C 064-82 893, 1967. Ray never sounded better on piano. Quincy Jones remembered that “the microphone was placed behind the piano, to create a somewhat ‘surreal’ echo effect”. Ray Charles – piano; Billy Preston – organ; ?Ray Brown? – base; ?Don Elliot? or ?Earl Palmer? – drums; ?Toots […]
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October 28, 2014
Many Rivers To Cross (The Raelettes, Ray Charles on keyboards)
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 1015, March 1971, b/w Booty Butt.Album3: The Raelettes, Hits And Rarities, Titanic TR-CD 4422, 1993. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with uncredited members of the Ray Charles Orchestra. The girl singing solo sounds most like Dorothy Berry. The Raelettes (probable line-up): Vernita Moss, Susaye Green, Mable John, and Dorothy Berry.
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October 27, 2014
Margie
Read moreAlbum: Dedicated To You, ABC/Paramount 355, January 1961. Recorded at the United Studios in Hollywood on August 23 or 24, 1960. John Hunt – trumpet; Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; David Fathead Newman – tenor saxophone; Leroy Cooper – baritone saxophone; Martin Banks, Bill Pittman – guitar; Edgar Willis – bass; Irving Cottler – drums. Marty […]
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October 27, 2014
Marie
Read moreAlbum: Dedicated To You, ABC/Paramount 355, January 1961. Recorded at the United Studios in Hollywood on August 23 or 24, 1960. John Hunt (trumpet); Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; David Fathead Newman – tenor saxophone; Leroy Cooper – baritone saxophone; Martin Banks, Bill Pittman – guitar; Edgar Willis – bass; Irving Cottler – drums. Marty Paich […]
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October 27, 2014
Mary Ann
Read moreSingle (A): Atlantic 1085, January 1956 b/w Drown In My Own Tears.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; Cecil Payne – bs; Panama Francis – ds; Paul West – b. The theme must have sounded familiar to […]