Album 1970 - 1990 Rare
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November 20, 2014
A Little Bitty Tear
Read moreCompilation album: Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters, Concord Records, 25 October 2010. A tune from the Ray Charles Vaults at the RPM International studio in Los Angeles. The basic tracks were laid down by Ray himself, sometime in the ’70s or ’80s. You can almost touch how little energy he put into his voice. I […]
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November 8, 2014
Hopelessly
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10840, August 1966, b/w I Chose to Sing the Blues.Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Recorded with strings, a choir and a rhythm section (including Rene Hall on guitar, and Earl Palmer on drums) at RPM in Los Angeles in February 1965.
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November 7, 2014
I Don’t Want No One But You
Read moreCompilation album: Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters, Concord Records, 25 October 2010. Recorded with uncredited (band and sesson) musicians at RPM International in Los Angeles from the ’70s to the ’90s. According to the album’s press release, “Adding a little sweetening to some of the sparse, stripped-down tracks was a team of top-notch musicians and […]
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November 4, 2014
I’m Gonna Keep On Singin’
Read moreCompilation album: Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters, Concord Records, 25 October 2010. Recorded with uncredited (band and session) musicians and The Raelettes at RPM International in Los Angeles between (probably) circa 1975 and circa 1985.The track sounds like genuine Genius. I doubt if it required any “sweetening” by the producers of the Rare album. From the mid […]
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November 3, 2014
Isn’t It Wonderful
Read moreCompilation album: Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters, Concord Records, 25 October 2010. Recorded with uncredited (band and session) musicians at RPM International in Los Angeles from the ’70s to the ’90s. According to the album’s press release, “Adding a little sweetening to some of the sparse, stripped-down tracks was a team of top-notch musicians and […]
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November 3, 2014
It Hurts To Be In Love
Read moreCompilation album: Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters, Concord Records, 25 October 2010. The song was co-written by Rudy Toombs (of One Mint Julep and Teardrops From My Eyes fame). Recorded with uncredited musicians at RPM International in Los Angeles. Live:’81 TV Carter’82 TV Legrand’88 LC Leeuwin’90 LC Armenonville’91 LC McCallum – Released’96 LC Atlantic City’96 LC Warsaw’98 LC Charlotte NM’99 […]
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October 29, 2014
Love’s Gonna Bite You Back
Read moreCompilation album: Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters, Concord Records, 25 October 2010. Recorded with uncredited (band and session?) musicians at RPM International in Los Angeles in March 1980.
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October 18, 2014
She’s Gone (aka The Heartaches Just Began)
Read moreCompilation album: Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters, Concord Records, 25 October 2010. This song emerged from the RPM vaults after Ray’s death, and was released with the Rare Genius album. Among a few conaisseurs the tune was already known before, through a demo tape that Ray made to brief Sid Feller on the arrangement. The […]
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October 11, 2014
There’ll Be Some Changes Made
Read moreCompilation album: Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters, Concord Records, October 2010. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. Date unknown, but looking at the recorded live performances, it most probably was in the ’80s. The percussion on the album track sounds like the producers added worse than just “a little sweetening” post mortem. Live: ’82c […]
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October 8, 2014
Wheel Of Fortune
Read moreCompilation album: Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters, Concord Records, 25 October 2010. The Rare Genius album compiled recordings with uncredited (band and sesson) musicians at RPM International in Los Angeles from the ’70s to the ’90s. A few details in this nice track sound as if it has been victim of “adding a little sweetening to some […]
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October 8, 2014
Why Me, Lord (With Johnny Cash)
Read moreCompilation album: Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters, Concord Records, 25 October 2010. This duet track with Why Me, Lord was discovered in the Sony vaults; the Kristofferson song was produced by Billy Sherrill in Nashville in 1981 for a Johnny Cash CBS album – which never was released. Ray added some fantastic keyboard licks. Hear this Johnny Cash version, […]
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September 10, 2010
Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters (2010)
Read moreRare Genius was yet another post mortem album, released on 26 October 2010. The album was announced as a “treasure trove of newly discovered recordings”, “culled from four decades worth of demos and other previously unreleased material”, from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. According to the press release, “Adding a little sweetening to some of the sparse, […]