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October 15, 2014
Straight Ahead And Strive For Tone (Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. An orchestra piece penned by Roger Neumann. Live: ’81 LC Rome – Partial ’84 LC Warsaw Warsaw 1984:
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October 15, 2014
Straight No Chaser (With The Ray Charles Orchestra)
Read moreUnreleased. Ray Charles put this Thelonious Monk tune at the end of his setlist in all 4 concerts that I know of. The last performance (Melbourne 2003, in a quartet setting) was the most memorable one. Live: ’69 LC Paris ’76 LC Antibes ’99 LC Marciac 03 LC Melbourne
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October 15, 2014
Strong Everlasting Love (With Brenda Lee Eager)
Read moreUnreleased. This clipping from Jet magazine (Nov. 15, 1993), mentions a duet on a song titled Strong Everlasting Love with Brenda Lee Eager, which she co-wrote. Ray Charles Enterprises published the composition, but as far as I know the track was never released.
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October 15, 2014
Super Dave Blues (1, 2)
Read moreUnreleased. In 1987 and 1990 Ray Charles made guest appearances on Bob Einstein’s Super Dave Osborne TV-shows. Both times, as a kind of running gag, he played little blues ditties at the end of his performance.
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October 15, 2014
Swanee River Rock (Talkin’ ‘Bout That River)
Read moreAd from Billboard, 7 October 1957. Single (A): Atlantic 1154, August 1957 b/w I Want A Little Girl. Compilation (studio and Newport versions): Pure Genius, Atlantic/WEA, 20 September 2005. Recorded on 28 May 1957 in New York with Joe Bridgewater, Ricky Harper – tp; David Newman – as, ts; Emmett Dennis – bs; William Peeples – d; Edgar […]
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October 15, 2014
Sweet Lorraine
Read moreUnreleased On February 20, 1969 Brother Ray guested for the third time in the Joey Bishop Show. Sweet Lorraine got an extremely delicate treatment in Ray’s sweetest Nat Cole mode. He was supported by the Johnny Mann Orchestra, with Herb Ellis on guitar, Ray Brown on bass, and Louie Bellson on drums.
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October 15, 2014
Sweet Inspiration / Where You Lead (With Barbra Streisand And The Raelettes)
Read moreUnreleased. Streisand’s successful (but odd) mash-up of Sweet Inspiration (Dan Penn/Spooner Oldham) and Where You Lead (Carole King/Toni Stern), televized as part of Barbra Streisand… And Other Musical Instruments, taped in 1973 in London. Ray sparsely sang, but played beautiful piano and a bit of organ on this one. Also with The Raelettes, who played a credible role as a gospel quartet. […]
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October 14, 2014
Talkin’ With Brother Ray
Read moreUnreleased. Clipping from Jet. Talkin’ With Brother Ray was a tune specially written for and performed by Ray Charles at the Evening At Pops, taped in the spring (probably May) of 1980, first aired by PBS on 27 July 1980 (repeated on 30 July 1980 and on 16 August 1981). Ray brought his rhythm section. Drummer Peter Turre recollects: […]
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October 14, 2014
Tell The Truth (With Margie Hendricks)
Read moreAlbum: Ray Charles In Person, Atlantic 8039, May 1960 (1958). Single (B): Atlantic 2068, 1960-07 b/w Sweet Sixteen Bars. The taping comes from the 1958 live concert at Newport, being added to the 1959 concert in Atlanta for the In Person album. Also listen to this earlier version by The 5 Royales (Atlantic attributed Ray with the writing credits…). Studio: The […]
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October 13, 2014
The Entertainer
Read moreUnreleased. During the 1975 concert at the Pleyel Room in Paris, on April 21, Ray played part of Scott Joplin’s The Entertainer as a 1-minute interlude to give Ernest Vantrease (“the Deacon”) a minute to take his place behind Ray’s piano, so that The Genius himself could spend the next 13+ minutes at his electric piano, for […]
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October 12, 2014
The Happy Hour
Read moreUnreleased (and unrecorded?). A demo tape is known to exist of a song titled The Happy Hour. Ray used it to brief arranger Sid Feller. Obviously it came to nothing with it.
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October 12, 2014
The Man I Love (With Marian McPartland)
Read moreUnreleased. Ray first recorded the tune in 1956, for The Genius After Hours. This intimate version was played during the wonderful Piano Jazz meeting with Marian McPartland on January 9, 1990, taped at the Manhattan Beach Studios in New York. Ray Charles – voc, p., el.p.; Marian McPartland – p. Here you can listen to it.