Album 2000 Olympia
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November 9, 2014
Hey Girl
Read moreAlbum (DVD): Ray Charles à L’Olympia, Music Video Distributors, 2006 (2000).Album (CD): Ray Charles à L’Olympia, XIII Bis Records, 11 January 2005 (2000), 640543 2. The song was written in 1963 by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. Brother Ray ‘found it back’ in his frailer days. (I hope that Melbourne concert from ’67 will be made public […]
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October 20, 2014
Route 66
Read moreAlbum (DVD): Ray Charles à L’Olympia, Music Video Distributors, 2006 (2000). Album (CD): Ray Charles à L’Olympia, XIII Bis Records, 11 January 2005 (2000), 640543 2. After singing the song with Ella Fitzgerald at the Moulin Rouge in 1989, Ray kept the song on his repertoire for trio gigs. But the scene in the biopic Ray, where ‘he’ plays […]
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October 11, 2014
The Way You Look Tonight
Read moreAlbum (CD): Ray Charles à L’Olympia, XIII Bis Records 640543 2, 11 January 2005 (2000). On August 10, 1999 the Jazz In Marciac festival announced a surprise package: the “Ray Charles Quartet – with special guest David ‘Fathead’ Newman”. Having to record this song with Steve Turre just a few days later (be it in a different arrangement), gave Ray […]