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October 20, 2014
Route 66
Read moreAlbum (DVD): Ray Charles à L’Olympia, Music Video Distributors, 2006 (2000). Album (CD): Ray Charles à L’Olympia, XIII Bis Records, 11 January 2005 (2000), 640543 2. After singing the song with Ella Fitzgerald at the Moulin Rouge in 1989, Ray kept the song on his repertoire for trio gigs. But the scene in the biopic Ray, where ‘he’ plays […]
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October 20, 2014
Route 66 (With Ella Fitzgerald)
Read moreUnreleased. Recorded at Le Gala Du Siècle, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Moulin Rouge in Paris on October 6, 1989.
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October 20, 2014
Ruby
Read moreSingle (A): ABC 10164, November 1960, b/w Hard Hearted Hannah. Album: Dedicated To You, ABC/Paramount 355, January 1961. Recorded at United Studios in Hollywood on August 23 or 24, 1960. The single version was cut back to a little less than 3 minutes. With strings and singers. Marty Paich – arranger, conductor. Antibes 1961 (starts at 57:30): […]
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October 20, 2014
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
Read moreAlbum: The Spirit Of Christmas, Columbia 39415, January 1986. The album was recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with members of the Ray Charles Orchestra and session musicians in the fall of 1984 (maybe into early 1985). Mark Curry, Jim Seeley, Robbie Kwock, Jeff Kaye, Freddie Hubbard, Johnny Coles – trumpets; Mayo Tiana, John Boice, […]
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October 20, 2014
Running Out (Ft. Mable John)
Read moreMable John and Ray Charles, backstageat a concert in San Francisco, on December 5, 1971. Photo by Robert Altman. Unreleased (but downloadable). Recorded once, at the Fillmore East on 18 April 1970. From Wolfgang’s Vault: “The Raelet[te]s sequence begins with a funky, Memphis soul-driven take on Ashford & Simpson’s Running Out, one of the singles Mable John recorded […]
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October 20, 2014
Sail Away
Read moreAlbum: Renaissance, Crossover 9005, June 1975. The album was recorded in late 1974 and early 1975 at RPM International in Los Angeles. This recording probably has Brother Ray’s most bone chilling scream-shout ever. With The Ray Charles Orchestra, The Raelettes, on a few tracks also with some alumni of the band and other studio musicians. For […]
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October 20, 2014
Sail On Sailor (With The Beach Boys)
Read moreAlbum3 (DVD): The Beach Boys 25 Years Together, 22 November 2005. Ray performed Sail On Sailor on special request of Brian Wilson, and gave it a brilliant rendition. Filmed at Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, and directed by Marty Pasetta, on 12 December 1986. The concert was aired on 13 March 1987, on ABC-TV.
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October 20, 2014
Salt Peanuts (With Dizzy Gillespie A.O.)
Read moreAlbum (CD): Ray Charles Meets Dizzy Gillespie, Jazz File JF1005, S.a. Here Dizzy and his boys learned Ray how to play Salt Peanuts… With Dizzy Gillespie (tp), Mickey Roker (ds), Kenny Burrel (g), George Duvivier (b).
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October 20, 2014
Samba De Elencia (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreAlbum: The Ray Charles Orchestra, My Kind Of Jazz Part 3, Crossover 9007, October 1975. Recorded by the Orchestra in late 1974 and early 1975 at RPM International in Los Angeles. Ray didn’t play. Andy Ennis played the tenor solo. Arranged by Alf Clausen. With Johnny Coles, Jack Evans, Phil Guilbeau, Bob Coassin – trumpets; Ken Tussing, […]
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October 20, 2014
Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town [2 versions]
Read moreOriginal – Album: The Spirit Of Christmas, Columbia 39415, January 1986. Film – Album3 (soundtrack CD): Miracle on 34th Street, Fox Records 7822-11022-2, 15 November 1994. The original version was recorded for the Spirit album at RPM International in Los Angeles, with members of the Ray Charles Orchestra in the fall of 1984 (or maybe in early 1985). Arranged […]
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October 20, 2014
Satin Doll (Solo/By The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. Ray played Satin Doll during Duke Ellington’s Sold On Soul Tribute, on 23 February 1970 at Madison Square Garden in New York. It’s highly uncertain if any recording of this performance has survived. In these years Satin Doll was also on the repertoire of the band (i.e. as one of the show openers, without Ray). One low quality […]
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October 20, 2014
Satisfaction (I Can’t Get No) (The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreAlbum3 (VHS): The Big T.N.T. Show, Anchor Bay, 1988. Album3 (DVD): The Big T.N.T. Show, March 2011. For most of 1965 Ray Charles limited his public appearances to a few high profile TV shows and films, such as Murray The K’s It’s What’s Happening, Shindig! and The Big T.N.T. Show. The latter was shot before a live audience at the Moulin Rouge […]