'70 TV Duke

• November 9, 2014

  Hello Dolly (With Louis Armstrong)

  Unreleased. Filmed during Duke Ellington’s Sold On Soul Tribute, on 23 February 1970 at Madison Square Garden in New York. First aired in France on 19 March 1970 by TF 2. Ray Charles – p; Louis Armstrong – voc, Duke Ellington – conductor; Wild Bill Davis – o; a.o. As the Duke remarked when the applause finally […]

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• November 1, 2014

  Laughin’ And Clownin’

  Single (A): ABC 11259, January 1970, b/w That Thing Called Love.Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Sam Cooke would’ve been proud. Live:’70 TV Duke – With B.B. King’70 TV Tom’72 LC San Carlos – With B.B. King

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• October 20, 2014

  Satin Doll (Solo/By The Ray Charles Orchestra)

  Unreleased. Ray played Satin Doll during Duke Ellington’s Sold On Soul Tribute, on 23 February 1970 at Madison Square Garden in New York. It’s highly uncertain if any recording of this performance has survived. In these years Satin Doll was also on the repertoire of the band (i.e. as one of the show openers, without Ray). One low quality […]

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