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• October 19, 2014

  Shake (With The Raelettes)

  Album (DVD): The Dick Cavett Show – Ray Charles Collection, Shout Factory Theatr, 13 September 2005. Sam Cooke would’ve been proud of the version by The Raelettes (f.l.t.r. in clip below): Dorothy Berry, Vernita Moss, Susaye Green, Mable John & Estella Yarbrough. Cavett Show, 1972: Live: ’67 LC Berlin ’67 LC Melbourne ’72 TV Cavett – Released ’72 […]

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  October 19, 2014

  Shake A Tail Feather (With The Blues Brothers Band)

  Clipping from Billboard, September 13, 1980.  Soundtrack album3: The Blues Brothers, Atlantic SD 16017, June 20, 1980. Single (A): Atlantic K 11615, b/w Cab Calloway’s Minnie The Moocher, 1980. Here‘s much more about the origin of the song and the film scene. Recorded at Murray Allen’s Universal Recording in Chicago. With ‘Joliet’ Jake Blues, Elwood Blues, Ray, ‘Duck’ […]

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• October 19, 2014

  Shakin’ Your Head

  Album: Wish You Were Here Tonight, Columbia 38293, March, 1983. Recorded between 1981 and 1983 with uncredited session musicians in Nashville, finished at RPM International in Los Angeles.

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• October 19, 2014

  Shameless (The Raelettes, ft. Estella Yarbrough)

  Album (2-CD): Ray Charles In Concert [in Warsaw], S.l., 2006. The first surviving recording was from a concert in Viareggio, in July 1984. The two later tapings were much better. 1986 Toyohashi: Live: ’84 LC Viareggio ’84 LC Warsaw – Released (and streaming audio here) ’86 LC Toyohashi

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• October 19, 2014

  She Knows

  Album: Love And Peace, Crossover/Atlantic 19199, September 1978. Recorded with members of the Ray Charles Orchestra and strings at RPM International in Los Angeles. Magnificent trumpet solo by Johnny Coles. The live version had an even slower and further stripped down arrangement (like a ‘duet between Genius and bass’), and an even more virtuoso end (see […]

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• October 19, 2014

  Sherry (aka Sherri) (With The Ray Charles Orchestra)

  Album: Ray Charles At Newport, Atlantic 1289, October 1958. Original tune by Hank Crawford. Ray Charles – piano; Marcus Belgrave, Lee Harper – trumpets; David Newman – tenor saxophone; Hank Crawford – baritone saxophone; Edgar Willis – bass; Richie Goldberg – drums. 1958 Live: In 1962 Crawford recorded it again – this time in the Atlantic studio […]

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• October 19, 2014

  She’s Funny That Way (I Got A Woman Crazy For Me)

  Album: Ray Charles Invites You To Listen, ABC/Tangerine 595, June 1967. A mini-masterclass in soulful falsetto balladeering. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles in 1966 or 1967. With a strings section and members of the Ray Charles Orchestra (all uncredited). Arrangement by Sid Feller.

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• October 18, 2014

  She’s Gone (aka The Heartaches Just Began)

  Compilation album: Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters, Concord Records, 25 October 2010. This song emerged from the RPM vaults after Ray’s death, and was released with the Rare Genius album. Among a few conaisseurs the tune was already known before, through a demo tape that Ray made to brief Sid Feller on the arrangement. The […]

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• October 18, 2014

  She’s Lonesome Again

  Album: Ray’s Moods, ABC/Paramount/Tangerine 550, 1966. Recorded in August 1966 at RPM International, in Los Angeles. With strings and choir (uncredited), and a rhythm section with Rene Hall on guitar, Carol Kaye on bass and Earl Palmer on drums.

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  October 18, 2014

  She’s On The Ball (aka Jack, She’s On The Ball)

  Mini review from Billboard, November 24, 1951. (Also cf. Billboard, Nov. 3, 1951). Single (A): Swing Time 218, b/w Honey, Honey, 1950. Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Los Angeles in 1950. Ray Charles Trio: Ray Charles, voc, p; Gosady McKee, g; Milton S. Garred, b.

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• October 18, 2014

  Shout (Virtually With Patti LaBelle & The Andrae Crouch Singers)

  Album: Genius And Friends, Rhino/WEA, 20 September 2005. Ray Charles laid down most of the songs for this album at his own studio, RPM International in Los Angeles, in 1997 and 1998. Post mortem, duet parts of these tunes were dubbed in by virtual duet partners. For more production details, follow the album link, above.

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• October 18, 2014

  Show Me The Sunshine

  Album: Love Country Style, ABC/Tangerine 707, June 1970. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles in May 1970. Arranged by Sid Feller. With organ, strings, (a ‘black sounding’) choir (Raelettes + Ray?) and a rhythm section. The musicians remained uncredited (Carol Kaye possibly on bass). Live: ’70 LC Paris ’70 LC Geneva

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