Album 1993 World

  • November 20, 2014

    A Song For You

    Album: My World, Warner Bros 26735 (CD), WE 833 (vinyl), March 1993. Single (A): Warner Bros. 18611, March 1993, b/w I Can’t Get Enough. Recorded at Rat Cherokee, House of Soul, Capitol, Summa, Studio Ultimo, Clinton Recording Studio B, and Peter Rafelson Studio. Arranged by Jeremy Lubbock. For the names of the session musicians, follow the […]

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  • November 6, 2014

    If I Could

    Album: My World, Warner Bros 26735 (CD), WE 833 (vinyl), March 1993. Recorded at Rat Cherokee, House of Soul, Capitol, Summa, Studio Ultimo, Clinton Recording Studio B, and Peter Rafelson Studio. For the names of the session musicians, follow the link to the album description, above. Update 13.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer […]

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  • November 5, 2014

    I’ll Be There

    Album: My World, Warner Bros 26735 (CD), WE 833 (vinyl), March 1993.Promo Single (A – remix; B – album version): Warner Bros PRO-CD-5978, 1993. Recorded at Rat Cherokee, House of Soul, Capitol, Summa, Studio Ultimo, Clinton Recording Studio B, and Peter Rafelson Studio. For the names of the session musicians, follow the link to the album […]

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  • October 31, 2014

    Let Me Take Over

    Album: My World, Warner Bros 26735 (CD), WE 833 (vinyl), March 1993. Recorded at Rat Cherokee, House of Soul, Capitol, Summa, Studio Ultimo, Clinton Recording Studio B, and Peter Rafelson Studio. For the names of the session musicians, follow the link to the album description, above. Update 14.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer […]

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  • October 30, 2014

    Love Has A Mind Of Its Own

    Album: My World, Warner Bros 26735 (CD), WE 833 (vinyl), March 1993. Recorded at Rat Cherokee, House of Soul, Capitol, Summa, Studio Ultimo, Clinton Recording Studio B, and Peter Rafelson Studio. For the names of the session musicians and singers (a.o. Mavis Staples), follow the link to the album description, above. Update 14.02.2021: the video of […]

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  • October 26, 2014

    More Love Than Ordinary

    This was a bonus track (only) on a French release of the CD: My World, Warner Bros 26735, 1993*. The song was originally written by Francis Cabrel (cf. this Youtube clip), and adapted in English by (Ray’s longtime French girlfriend) Arlette Kotchounian**. It was added as a bonus track to a (French?) (re?)release of Ray’s album My World (Disk ID: 1674286*). Ray’s original audio version, with […]

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  • October 25, 2014

    My World

    Album: My World, Warner Bros 26735 (CD), WE 833 (vinyl), March 1993. Recorded at Rat Cherokee, House of Soul, Capitol, Summa, Studio Ultimo, Clinton Recording Studio B, and Peter Rafelson Studio. For the names of the session musicians, follow the link to the album description, above.

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  • October 24, 2014

    None Of Us Are Free

    Album: My World, Warner Bros 26735 (CD), WE 833 (vinyl), March 1993. Eric Clapton picked the guitar solo. Recorded at Rat Cherokee, House of Soul, Capitol, Summa, Studio Ultimo, Clinton Recording Studio B, and Peter Rafelson Studio. For details, follow the link to the album description, above.

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  • October 22, 2014

    One Drop Of Love

    Album: My World, Warner Bros 26735 (CD), WE 833 (vinyl), March 1993. Recorded at Rat Cherokee, House of Soul, Capitol, Summa, Studio Ultimo, Clinton Recording Studio B, and Peter Rafelson Studio. For session data, follow the link to the album description, above.

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  • October 17, 2014

    So Help Me God

    Album: My World, Warner Bros 26735 (CD), WE 833 (vinyl), March 1993. Remarkable – but nice – fusion between a bombastic hymn (“How can I hang in this environmental state of being / When everything I’m striving for it’s nothing that I’m seeing”) and a cliché love song (“Cause you are the one I love / […]

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  • October 15, 2014

    Still Crazy After All These Years

    Album: My World, Warner Bros 26735 (CD), WE 833 (vinyl), March 1993. Recorded at Rat Cherokee, House of Soul, Capitol, Summa, Studio Ultimo, Clinton Recording Studio B, and Peter Rafelson Studio. Arranged by Jeremy Lubbock. For the names of the session musicians, follow the link to the album description, above. About Paul Simon’s Still Crazy After […]

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  • November 7, 2012

    Ray Charles Singing More Love Than Ordinary In Manor Commercial (1999)

    Ad by one of Manor’s retail chains. Groupe Manor is a Swiss retail group. In 1999 they broadcast a Millennium commercial. The agency was Frei. Partner. The production company was Wirz Fraefel Paal. The film was shot at Studio Primetime in Zürich; directed by Ernst Wirz, creative direction by Mäni Frei, Martin Furhrer held the […]

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