Album 1960 - 1973 Singular
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October 13, 2014
The Danger Zone
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10244, August 1961, b/w Hit The Road, Jack. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Studio 1961: ’62 LC Berlin – Released The Danger Zone by Ray Charles on Grooveshark ’62 LC Paris – Released
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October 11, 2014
The Train
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10808, May 1966, b/w Let’s Go Get Stoned. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Sound effects are rare in recordings of The Genius, but this dance track had a few unavoidable FX. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles in April 1966. With uncredited musicians (incl. Preston Love on alto, Leroy […]
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October 11, 2014
Them That Got
Read moreSingle (A): ABC 10141, August 1960, b/w I Wonder. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Produced by Sid Feller. Live: According to concert souvenir booklets from 1962 to 1966, this number was part of the live repertoire then, but no recordings with the band have surfaced. ’70 TV Cash – Part of medley ’77 TV […]
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October 10, 2014
Tired Of My Tears
Read moreSingle (B): ABC/Tangerine 11317, November 1971, b/w What Am I Living For. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011.
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October 10, 2014
Unchain My Heart
Read moreSingle (A): ABC 10266, 20 November 1961, b/w But On The Other Hand, Baby. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Steve Hoffman wrote that “Ray Charles recorded both Hit The Road Jack and Unchain My Heart on one 30-minute reel of tape in real ‘reel’ time. In other words, both songs finished, recorded […]
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October 8, 2014
When My Dreamboat Comes Home
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10739, October 1965, b/w Crying Time. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Recorded at the United Studios in Hollywood in June 1965. With woodwinds (probably freelancers), a rhythm section including Rene Hall on guitar and Earl Palmer on drums, and the Jack Halloran Singers.
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October 8, 2014
Without A Song
Read moreSingle (A – Part 1, B – Part 2): ABC 10663, April 1965. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Recorded on July 10, 1963, in Los Angeles (in the session for A Recipe For Soul). Irving Carter – drums; Al Hendrickson – guitar; Joe Comfort – bass; Armand Kaproff, Eleanor Slatkin, Harold Schneier, […]
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October 8, 2014
Without Love (There Is Nothing)
Read moreDutch single. Single (B): ABC 10453, May 1963, b/w No One. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. One of Ray’s darkest renditions, and one of my all time favorites. Incredible that this tune didn’t make it to his live repertoire.
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October 7, 2014
Worried Life Blues (Someday Baby)
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10118, May 1960, b/w Sticks And Stones. Compilation album: Pure Genius, Atlantic/WEA, 20 September 2005. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Worried Life Blues is one of the most ‘waxed’ blues songs of all time, first recorded by Major “Big Maceo” Merriweather in 1941 (Bluebird 8827). It was inspired by Someday Baby Blues, recorded by […]
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September 8, 2011
Singular Genius, A 5-CD Box With All Of Ray Charles’ ABC Singles
Read moreThe 5-disk box Singular Genius was released on 15 November 2011 by Concord Music Group. The set offers all of Ray Charles’ 106 ABC single tracks, remastered in mono. Most of it, Conmcord’s John Burl claimed, comes from the RPM vaults, some tracks came from dubs that were sent abroad for local distribution, some even […]