Hey Now

Single (B): Swing Time 297, 1952, b/w Baby Won’t You Please Come Home.
Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 October 2007.

Recorded in Los Angeles, in 1951.

Ray Charles “With Orchestra”: Ray Charles – voc, p; arr; Billy Brooks,  Fleming Askew – tp; Marshall Royal, Earl Brown – as; Stanley Turrentine, Maurice Simon – ts; Charles Waller – bs; Frank McClure – b; Eddie Pipper – ds.

The single

What’s The Matter Now / That’s The Blues* was released in 1945 by Continental in New York. Ray must have heard that flipside! Henry “Rubberlegs” Williams (vo), Dizzy Gillespie (tp), Trummy Young (tb), Charlie Parker (as), Don Byas (ts), Clyde Hart (p), Mike Bryan (g), Al Hall (b), Specs Powell (dm).

* Many thanks to Joël Dufour for sharing this find.