Album 2005 Friends
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November 19, 2014
All I Want To Do (Virtually With Angie Stone)
Read moreAlbum: Genius And Friends, Rhino/WEA, 20 September 2005. Ray Charles laid down most of the songs at his own studio, RPM International in Los Angeles, in 1997 and 1998. Post mortem, this duet was dubbed in by Angie Stone. For more production details, follow the album link, above. Update 24.01.2021: the video of this performance is […]
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November 18, 2014
America The Beautiful
Read moreAlbum: A Message From The People, ABC/Tangerine 755, April 1972.Single (B): ABC 11329, June 1972, b/w Look What They’ve Done To My Song, Ma.Single (A): Crossover/Atlantic 985, February 1976 (the year of the Bicentennial): re-release with a newly taped voice track, re-using the old (ABC 11329) instruments mix. In 1987, to further promote the already rapidly increasing […]
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November 17, 2014
Big Bad Love (With Diana Ross)
Read moreAlbum: Genius And Friends, Rhino/WEA, 20 September 2005. The tune has also been part of several Diana Ross compilations. Big Bad Love is a duet with Diana Ross, recorded in ’91 [or was it ’94?]. It was used for the soundtrack of The Favor, a 1994 film directed by Donald Petrie.
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November 17, 2014
Blame It On The Sun (Virtually With George Michael)
Read moreAlbum: Genius And Friends, Rhino/WEA, 20 September 2005. Ray Charles laid down most of the songs used for this album at his own studio, RPM International in Los Angeles, in 1997 and 1998. Post mortem, duet parts of these tunes were dubbed in by virtual duet partners. For more production details, follow the album link, above.
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November 16, 2014
Busted
Read moreAlbum: Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul, ABC/Paramount 465, August 1963.Single (A): ABC 10481, August 1963, b/w Making Believe. The album was recorded on 10 and 13 July 1963 in New York. With Oliver Beener, Wallace Davenport, Phil Guilbeau, John Hunt, Roy Burrows, Floyd Jones, Curtis Miller – trumpets; Henderson Chambers, James Lee Harbert, Keg Johnson, Julian […]
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November 15, 2014
Compared To What (Virtually With Leela James)
Read moreAlbum: Genius And Friends, Rhino/WEA, 20 September 2005. Ray Charles laid down most of the songs at his own studio, RPM International in Los Angeles, in 1997 and 1998. Post mortem, duet parts of these tunes were dubbed in by virtual duet partners. For more production details, follow the album link, above.
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November 6, 2014
I Will Be There (Virtually With Idina Menzel)
Read moreAlbum: Genius And Friends, Rhino/WEA, 20 September 2005. Ray Charles laid down most of the songs for this album at his own studio, RPM International in Los Angeles, in 1997 and 1998. Post mortem, duet parts of these tunes were dubbed in by virtual duet partners.
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November 3, 2014
It All Goes By So Fast (Virtually With Mary J Blight)
Read moreAlbum: Genius And Friends, Rhino/WEA, 20 September 2005. Ray Charles laid down most of the songs at his own studio, RPM International in Los Angeles, in 1997 and 1998. Post mortem, duet parts of these tunes were dubbed in by virtual duet partners. For more production details, follow the album link, above.
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October 18, 2014
Shout (Virtually With Patti LaBelle & The Andrae Crouch Singers)
Read moreAlbum: Genius And Friends, Rhino/WEA, 20 September 2005. Ray Charles laid down most of the songs for this album at his own studio, RPM International in Los Angeles, in 1997 and 1998. Post mortem, duet parts of these tunes were dubbed in by virtual duet partners. For more production details, follow the album link, above.
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October 15, 2014
Surrender To Love (Virtually With Laura Pausini)
Read moreAlbum: Genius And Friends, Rhino/WEA, 20 September 2005. Post mortem, for this album duet partners were added to Ray’s original tracks. For more painful production details, follow the album link, above. In 2005 Rhino/Atlantic also released this track in Europe (Italy?) on a Maxi promo CD (PRO15599). Here’s a making of-clip from an Italian news program with contemporary […]
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October 10, 2014
Touch (Virtually With John Legend)
Read moreAlbum: Genius And Friends, Rhino/WEA, 20 September 2005. This ‘virtual duet’ was produced post mortem.
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October 7, 2014
You Are My Sunshine (With The Raelettes, Ft Margie Hendricks)
Read moreAlbum: Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music Volume 2, ABC/Paramount 435, October 1962. Single (A): ABC 10375, November 1962, b/w Your Cheating Heart. Jimmy Davis, the country music singer and later Louisiana governor, and Charles Mitchell were credited for the song. Two versions were released before Jimmie Davis’ recording was released on February 5, 1940: on […]