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• September 6, 2010

  Joe Adam’s Restroom Memo (1989)

  They’re known in every organization of any size, in every part of the world: Restroom Memos. Unavoidable ingredients: musings about a few people spoiling things for the majority of employees, and lots of text typed in uppercase. The clipping comes from Darren Solomon’s website.

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  September 4, 2010

  Ray Charles Is In Town – Chronology 2002

  At RPM Studio in Los Angeles (c 2002). Photo by Matt Wreford. 2002 Photographer Howard Morehead with Ray Charles (unidentified location). Honored with EMMA Lifetime Achievement Award, at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel; acceptance speech thru pre-produced video. See this. Interviewee in PBS documentary Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew. See this.   On Star Academy […]

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  August 31, 2010

  Ray Charles In Pepsi Radio Campaign (1986)

  In June 1986 (4 years before the famous Uh-huh campaign) Pepsi launched the radio campaign Pepsi Presents The Best Of A New Generation, created by BBDO. The campaign encompassed a series of 60-second spots, narrated by Ray Charles. Each spot featured a segment of a new, full-length song performed by Ray, but the songs “had […]

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• August 30, 2010

  Ray Charles Is In Town – Chronology 1976

  1976 America The Beautiful peaks at #98 on R&B chart.Porgy And Bess (with Cleo Laine) peaks at #138 on Pop Album Chart. Interviewed for Australian television. See this.Performing guest on A Touch Of Gold. See this. January 1976 On tv show A Touch Of Gold. See this.‘Soul of Amercica’ commercial for McDonnalds. 7 January 1976 Toronto [? according […]

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  April 23, 2010

  Live At The Fillmore East (1970)

  Intro troupe  Unidentified instrumental (Ray Charles Orchestra) Intro Raelettes Running Out (ft Mable John) I Want To (Do Everything For You) (The Raelettes ft Mabel John) Chain Of Fools (The Raelettes)  Zig Zag (Ray Charles Orchestra) Intro Ray Charles Unidentified instrumental (with Ray Charles Orchestra) (solos Blue Mitchell – tp; David Newman – ts; Ray Charles – p) […]

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  April 15, 2010

  Black Requiem – The Masterpiece That Never Was Released (1971, 1988, 1992)

  Here’s a great story about a Quincy Jones/Ray Charles masterpiece that was staged twice, and even seriously studio-produced once on location, but that never made it to a release. The piece is called Black Requiem or A Black Requiem for short. Billboard, in two brief announcements from 1971, alternatively called it Black Requiem For Ray Charles And Orchestra and Black Requiem (Soul Suite […]

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