Tunes
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October 6, 2014
Zip A Dee Do Dah
Read moreNot released in any form. The tune comes from the 1946 Disney film Song Of The South. Music by Allie Wrubel, lyrics by Ray Gilbert. Live: ’63 TV Shore (with Dinah Shore, Liberace, Peter Nero and Big Tiny Little) ’78 TV Disney
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November 11, 2012
Six Instrumentals From The Mexico Concert (1975)
Read moreOn 6 and 7 December 1975 the Ray Charles group played a series of concerts in Mexico City. I wrote earlier about a ‘board mix’ version of Cherry, but it turns out that all of the instrumentals that were performed by the Ray Charles Orchestra have also survived, coming from the same tape recording. The […]
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February 8, 2012
The Two Ray Charles Concerts At The Warsaw Jazz Jamboree (1984)
Read moreInterior of 2-CD booklet. The release & media history of the concerts at the 1984 Warsaw Jazz Jamboree is really (really!) complicated. For me it started, quite simply, a few years ago, when I found two or three clips from a live concert on Youtube. Investigating the provenance of these clips a bit further for […]
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December 21, 2011
Christmas With Ray Charles (5x*)
Read moreBusinesswise, after scoring hit records, the best thing a musician can do to increase the value of his (back) catalog, is to tape Christmas songs. Ray Charles did so on five occasions – sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes odd, sometimes brilliant – and always soulful. In 1976 (or 1979?) he celebrated Christmas In Ettal, with […]
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April 24, 2011
Hit The Road Jack (1969)
Read moreOn 7 October 1969 the program Midi Magazine on TF1 had one or two items announcing Ray Charles’ concerts at La Salle Pleyel in Paris, on 8 and 9 October. They had an interview with Ray that was recorded in Salon de Provence, and showed an archival performance, filmed somewhere in France, probably also in […]
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February 20, 2011
My Jug And I (By Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles On Piano) (1966)
Read moreMy Jug And I River’s Invitation Baby Please Stranger In My Own Home Town Never Say Naw The Hunt Is On Memory Pain I Reached For A Tear Life Is Suicide Maybe It’s Because Of Love Give Me Time Fading Love Recorded between 1963 and c. 1966 at unidentified studios, prob. in Los Angeles. […]
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January 5, 2011
What’d I Say (c 1973)
Read moreIt’s clearly taped for a tv program, I’d guess for the Tonight Show (Ray was on that program once in ’73, and twice in ’74). The keyboardist is John Henderson, who was on the band in 1973 and 1974. The Raelettes* are (fltr): Vernita Moss, Dorothy Berry, Mable John, ?Kathy Collier? and Madelyn Quebec. *Information […]