Album 1960 - 1973 Singular
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October 25, 2014
My Heart Cries For You
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10530, February 1964, b/w Baby, Don’t You Cry. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Sid Feller produced the tune with strings and choir. It’s one of the very few tracks that Ray remixed later “because he hated the strings on the original mix”.
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October 25, 2014
Never Had Enough Of Nothing Yet
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 11009, October 1967, b/w Yesterday. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Typical Jimmy Holliday song. Recorded on April 11, 1967, at RPM International in Los Angeles. With Bill King, Walter Miller – tp; Fred Murrell, Henry Coker – tb; Curtis Amy – ts; Leroy Cooper – bs; Barry Rillera […]
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October 24, 2014
No One
Read moreSingle (A): No One, ABC 10453, May 1963, b/w Without Love (There Is Nothing). Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. With the Ray Charles Orchestra and The Raelettes. Arranged by Gerald Wilson. Live: ’63 LC Gênio
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October 17, 2014
Somebody Ought To Write A Book About It
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10938, April 1967, b/w Here We Go Again. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Recorded in January 1967 at RPM International in Los Angeles. The musicians remained uncredited: woodwinds, strings, Billy Preston on organ, Rene Hall on guitar, Carol Kaye on bass, Earl Palmer on bass, and The Raelettes: Gwen Berry, […]
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October 17, 2014
Something Inside Me
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10901, February 1967, b/w I Want To Talk About You. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles in April 1966. With uncredited musicians (incl. Preston Love on alto, Leroy Cooper on bari, Rene Hall on guitar, Carol Kaye on bass, Earl Palmer on drums) and […]
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October 17, 2014
Something’s Got To Change
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10970, August 1967, b/w In The Heat Of The Night. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Written by Ray Charles and Billy Preston (who also added a few organ licks). Recorded on April 11, 1967, at RPM International in Los Angeles. With Bill King, Walter Miller – tp; Fred Murrell, Henry […]
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October 17, 2014
Something’s Wrong
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10557, May 1964, b/w My Baby Don’t Dig Me. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Beautiful lament, penned by Percy Mayfield. Recorded with uncredited musicians.
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October 15, 2014
Sticks And Stones
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10118, May 1960, b/w Worried Life Blues. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Recorded at the Capitol Studios in New York on 27 April 1960. Phil Guilbeau – trumpet, John Hunt – flugelhorn; Hank Crawford – alto saxophone; David Fathead Newman – tenor saxophone; Leroy Cooper – baritone saxophone; Edgar Willis […]
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October 13, 2014
That’s A Lie
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 11045, January 1968, b/w Go On Home. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Recorded on April 1, 1967, at RPM International in Los Angeles. With Bill King, Walter Miller – tp; Fred Murrell, Henry Coker – tb; Curtis Amy – ts; Leroy Cooper – bs; Barry Rillera – g; Edgar Willis […]
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October 13, 2014
That’s All I Am To You
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10720, September 1965, b/w The Cincinnati Kid. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011.
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October 13, 2014
The Brightest Smile In Town
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10405, February 1963, b/w Don’t Set Me Free. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. One of Charles’ finest songs; it took him almost 30 years to rediscover it, and perform it live. Leverkusen 1993: Live: ’90 LC ArtPark ’90 LC Antibes ’92 TV TS ’93 LC Leverkusen
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October 13, 2014
The Cincinnati Kid
Read moreSingle (A): ABC 10720, September 1965, b/w That’s All I Am To You. Soundtrack: The Cincinnati Kid, MGM Records E/SE-4313, 1965. Extended soundtrack: The Cincinnati Kid: Lalo Schifrin Film Scores Vol. 1, 1964–1968, FSMCD Vol. 13 – No. 2, 2010. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. This was the theme song of Norman Jewison’s blockbuster with the same […]