Written by
Bob Stumpel

October 21
2014


Riding Thumb


Album 1978 Love

Album: Love And Peace, Crossover/Atlantic 19199, September 1978.
Single (B): Crossover/Atlantic 3527, October 1978, b/w You Forgot Your Memory.

Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles.

Not at all a typical Ray Charles song, but he must have loved it to pieces. When he called the “Big 3” for a concert, it meant that his part of the program would open with Riding ThumbBusted, and Georgia (in the “Little 3” Riding Thumb was replaced by Sadies Tune).

Edmonton 1981 (starts at 1:05):

Live:
’79 TV Douglas NM
’79 TV TS
’79 LC Viareggio
’81 LC Edmonton – Released
’81 LC Rome
’81 LC Sanremo
’82 TV KFBE
’82 LC Beacon
’82 LC Japan
’83 CL Antibes
’84 LC Austin
’84 LC Viareggio
’84 LC Warsaw – Released
’84 LC Ithaca
’85 LC Antibes
’88 LC Oklahoma
’88 LC Masson
’89 LC Ghent
’89 LC Osaka
’90 LC ArtPark
’90 LC Lloret
’90 LC Caneção
’95 LC Tramps – 2x
’96 LC Montauk
’97 LC Philly
’99 LC NewOrleans NM
’00 LC Basel


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