Written by
Bob Stumpel

November 10
2014


Hallelujah I Love Her So


Album 1957 RayCharles

Single (A): Atlantic 1096, May 1956, b/w What Could I Do Without You.
Compilation album: Ray Charles, Atlantic 8006, June 1957.

Recorded in New York on 30 November 1955 with Joe Bridgewater, Joshua Willis – tp; Don Wilkerson – ts (solo); Cecil Payne – bs; Panama Francis – ds; Paul West – b.

The composition and lyrics go back to That’s Why I’m Loving Him So by (James Cleveland’s) Gospel All Stars (Apollo 312-45, 1953).*

*Joël Dufour kindly shared this info with me.

Jimmy Cleveland’s original.
O Gênio, São Paulo 1963

Shrine 1964:
Update 10.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available on YouTube, please let me know in the comments below if you have any footage, thanks — Cyd

https://youtu.be/X7ncCNWJIzs
Japan 1982 (with George Yanagi)
Paris 2000

Live:
’57 LC Carnegie
’58 RT JazzParty NM – Not certain if live
’60 TV Playboy
’61 LC Antibes – Released
’61 LC Paris – 3x – Released
’62 LC Berlin – Released
’63 LC Gênio – 2x – Released
’64 LC Copenhagen
’65 FI Ballad – Pseudo live film version (partial)
’64 LC England
’64 LC Comblain
64 LC Shrine – Released
’67 LC Berlin
’68 TV Bishop – Part of medley
’68 LC Bakersfield
’69 LC Paris
’70 LC Prato
’70 TV Glen – With Glen Campbell
’70 LC Paris – 2x
’70 LC Geneva
’71 LC Paris  – 2x
’72 LC Copenhagen
’72 LC Paris
’75 TV Davis NM – With Sammy Davis
’77 TV Heart – With Cleo Laine (Love Him So)
’78 LC Montreux – Part of medley
’82 LC Japan – With George Yanagi
’83 TV Blitz – With Georges Moustaki
’94 FI Alexander
’97 LC WolfTrap
’97 LC Saratoga
’99 LC Marciac
’00 LC Paris – Released
’01 DM Oulo – Partial
’03 LC Melbourne
’03 LC Whitehouse


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