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• October 22, 2014

  People

  Album: Ray Charles Invites You To Listen, ABC/Tangerine 595, June 1967. Wait for the falsetto finale! Recorded at RPM International in January 1967. With woodwinds, strings, Rene Hall on guitar, Carol Kaye on bass, Earl Palmer on drums. Arranged by Sid Feller. Live: According to a concert souvenir booklet from 1968, this number was part of […]

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• October 22, 2014

  People Will Say We’re In Love (With Betty Carter)

  Album: Ray Charles And Betty Carter, ABC/Paramount 385, July 1961. Recorded at the United Studios in Hollywood on June 13 and 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 22, 2014

  Piano Improvisations (Not Titled)

  Compilation album: Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings, Atlantic, 2005 (1952-1959), Disk 7 (4 tracks). From the rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertegun, on 10 May 1953, in New York.

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• October 22, 2014

  Please (You Got That) (With INXS’ Michael Hutchence)

  Album3: INXS, Full Moon, Dirty Hearts, EastWest 4509942182 / Atlantic Records, 82541-2, 2 November 1993. Singles3 (CD, cassette, 7″ & 12″ vinyl): EastWest 4509944362 / Atlantic DMD 2078, 11 December 1993 – including several mixes: Club Need Mix, Needful Dub Mix, Downtown Dub Mix, Downtown Instrumental Mix (cf. this). The INXS album was recorded between November ’92 […]

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• October 22, 2014

  Please Forgive And Forget

  Album: Country And Western Meets Rhythm And Blues (aka Together Again), ABC/Paramount 520, August 1965. Recorded at the United Studios in Hollywood in January 1965 (Rene Hall on guitar, Earl Palmer on drums). Arranged by Sid Feller. On the album it was stated that the song was originally produced for the film Ballad In Blue, whereas it’s […]

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• October 22, 2014

  Please Say You’re Fooling

  Album: Ray’s Moods, ABC/Paramount/Tangerine 550, 1966. Single (A): ABC 10865, October 1966, b/w I Don’t Need No Doctor. Recorded in August 1966 at RPM International, in Los Angeles. With strings and singers (uncredited); Rene Hall on guitar, Carol Kaye on bass, Earl Palmer on drums. Live: According to a concert souvenir booklet from 1968, this number was […]

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• October 22, 2014

  Poor Butterfly (With Quincy Jones A.O.)

  Album3 (VHS): Quincy Jones – A Celebration In Seattle, VC II VC133, S.a. (c. 1983) or Front Row Video, 15 November 1990. During this TV concert, taped on 12 or 13 March 1983 in Seattle, as an extra surprise, Quincy brought Bumps Blackwell, Floyd Standifer, Buddy Catlett, Major Pickford and Ernestine Anderson on stage, presenting them, together with Ray, […]

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  October 22, 2014

  Popo (With The Ray Charles Septet)

  Unreleased. Instrumental (written by Shorty Rogers)*, played twice during the concerts in Antibes in July 1961. With a nice tenor/alto battle between David Newman and Hank Crawford. Also: Phil Guilbeau, John Hunt – trumpets; Leroy Cooper – baritone saxophone; Edgar Willis – bass; Bruno Carr – drums. For Shorty’s original, hear this. * Many thanks to Jeff […]

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• October 22, 2014

  Precious Thing (Till The Next Somewhere) (with Dee Dee Bridgewater)

  German single. Album3 (LP, CD): Dee Dee Bridgewater, Victim Of Love, Polydor 841 199, 1989. Single3: Polydor 889 130, 1989, b/w Sunset And Blue. The musicvideo version (4:44) of Pecious Thing, produced by NBdC and directed by Bertrand Antoine Fevre, is about 20 seconds shorter than the single and album version(s). There’s also an instrumental mix. Arranged by Kjetil […]

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• October 22, 2014

  Problems, Problems

  Album: Come Live With Me, Crossover 9000, January 1974. Recorded at RPM International with the Ray Charles Orchestra. Ray also filled in a second voice and backing vocals.

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• October 22, 2014

  Project S (The Ray Charles Orchestra)

  Album: The Ray Charles Orchestra, My Kind Of Jazz Part 3, Crossover 9007, October 1975. Ray recorded his Orchestra in late 1974 and early 1975 at RPM International in Los Angeles. Solos: James Clay, Andy Ennis – ts; Johnny Coles – flh. Arranged by Jimmy Heath. Ray didn’t play. Johnny Coles (flh), Jack Evans, Phil Guilbeau, […]

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• October 22, 2014

  Questions

  Album: Brother Ray Is At It Again, Crossover/Atlantic SH 8546, March 1980. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. Arranged by Ray Charles & Sid Feller. The song is also known from a demo that Ray made to brief arranger Sid Feller. Also read this. questions by Ray Charles on Grooveshark

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