'83 TV Man
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October 21, 2014
Release Me (With Engelbert Humperdinck)
Read moreUnreleased. When Ray guested in The Engelbert Humperdinck Show, recorded on 9 February 1970 in London, he an the host did a duet on the song. He returned the favor 13 years later, when he invited Humperdinck to sing the same duet at A Man And His Soul, A 40th Anniversary Celebration, taped at the Cocoanut Grove […]
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October 9, 2014
What Kind Of Man Is This (With James Cleveland)
Read moreUnreleased. This was a brief pre-taped segment of the TV show Ray Charles – A Man And His Soul, with Jimmy Cleveland and Ray Charles playing one piano, produced in the early summer of 1983. Watch it here (and this for the 1955 original). Ray played the song with a big choir, at the Ray Charles Celebrates A […]
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October 7, 2014
You Are So Beautiful (With Joe Cocker)
Read moreUnreleased. Performed at the TV show Ray Charles – A Man And His Soul, taped at the Cocoanut Grove club in LA in the early summer of 1983, first aired on 30 October 1983. In 1982 Cocker had recorded the duet Up Where We Belong with Jennifer Warnes for the soundtrack of An Officer and a Gentleman, winning an […]
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December 2, 2010
Ray Charles – A Man And His Soul (1983)
Read moreRay Charles – A Man And His Soul, A 40th Anniversary Celebration was a 2-hour special television tribute, celebrating Ray’s 40 years in show business, taped at the Cocoanut Grove club in LA in the early summer of 1983, produced for national syndication by The Dick Clark Company for Multimedia Entertainment. The show was directed […]