Album 1949 - 1956 Way
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November 20, 2014
A Sentimental Blues
Read moreSingle (A): Swing [Time] Records 179, 1949, b/w You’ll Never Miss the Water (Until the Well Runs Dry). Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Los Angeles in 1949. Maxim Trio: Ray Charles – voc, p; Gosady McKee and Mitchell ‘Tiny’ Webb – g; Ralph Hamilton – b.
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November 20, 2014
Ain’t That Fine
Read moreSingle (A): Swing Time 216, 1950, b/w Don’t Put All Your Dreams In One Basket. Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Los Angeles, 1949. The Maxim Trio: Ray Charles – voc, p; Gosady McKee, Mitchell ‘Tiny’ Webb – g; Ralph Hamilton – b.
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November 19, 2014
All To Myself (aka All To Myself Alone)
Read moreSingle (B): Swing Time 249, 1951, b/w I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now.Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Los Angeles, November 24, 1950. Ray Charles Trio: Ray Charles – voc, p (= “88”), cel; Oscar Moore – g; Johnny Miller – b.
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November 19, 2014
Alone In This City
Read moreSingle (A): Down Beat 211. B/w Can Anyone Ask For More.Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Seattle, in February 1949. Maxin Trio: Ray Charles – voc, p; Gosady McKee – g; Milton S. Garred – b.
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November 18, 2014
Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand (aka Oh Baby)
Read moreSingle (B): Swing Time 250. B/w Lonely Boy. Recorded in Los Angeles, November 24, 1950. Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. “Ray Charles Trio”: Ray Charles – voc, p, cel; Oscar Moore – g; Johnny Miller – b. Many years later, Ray played the song for Clint Eastwood: see this. In 2003, for the […]
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November 18, 2014
Baby Won’t You Please Come Home
Read moreSingle (A): Swing Time 297, b/w Hey Now. Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Los Angeles, in 1951. Ray Charles “with Orchestra”: Ray Charles – voc, p; Unidentified – g, b, d. Sy Oliver – arranger. The brief Billboard review from 20 September 1952 could have influenced Charles’ decision to find his own voice: “Again […]
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November 16, 2014
Can Anyone Ask For More
Read moreSingle (B): Down Beat 211. B/w Alone in The City.Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Seattle, in February 1949. Maxin Trio: Ray Charles – voc, p; Gosady McKee – g; Milton S. Garred – b.
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November 16, 2014
Can’t You See Darling
Read moreCompilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. From the February 1949 recording session in Seattle.The Maxin Trio: Ray Charles – voc, p; Gosady McKee – g; Milton S. Garred – b.
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November 15, 2014
Confession Blues
Read moreSingle (B): Down Beat 171, February 1949, b/w I Love You, I Love You.Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Seattle (possibly at the KOL radio studios), February 1949. The Maxin Trio: Ray Charles – voc, p; Gosady McKee – g; Milton S. Garred – b. From Linden Records: Seattle’s “lost” post-war music company: “By […]
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November 13, 2014
Don’t Put All Your Dreams In One Basket
Read moreSingle (B): Down Beat 216, 1950, b/w Ain’t That Fine.Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in 1949, in Los Angeles. Maxim Trio: Ray Charles – voc, p; Gosady McKee, Mitchell ‘Tiny’ Webb – g; Ralph Hamilton – b.
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November 10, 2014
Guitar Blues (With The Rufus Beacham Orchestra) (?)
Read moreSingle (B): Swing Time 300, b/w Baby Let Me Hear You Call My Name.Also released by Sittin’ In With.Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Los Angeles, 1952. The liner notes to The Way I Feel locate the taping in Miami (?), 1951, but that should probably be 1952. Ray Charles – p; possibly […]
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November 9, 2014
Hey Now
Read moreSingle (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 […]