With B.B. King
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November 10, 2014
Good Bye Blues Jam (With B.B. King)
Read moreUnreleased. During their Parliament American Blue/Philip Morris Superband worldtour in 1990 Ray Charles and B.B. King closed every show with an ‘exit blues jam’ in which they mashed up all kinds of farewell blues themes, like Bye Bye/Bye Bye Baby/Good Bye/It’s Time For Me To Close The Show. Live (e.g.):’90 LC Tokyo BB’90 LC Dresden BB’90 LC Italy
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November 1, 2014
Laughin’ And Clownin’
Read moreSingle (A): ABC 11259, January 1970, b/w That Thing Called Love.Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Sam Cooke would’ve been proud. Live:’70 TV Duke – With B.B. King’70 TV Tom’72 LC San Carlos – With B.B. King
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October 24, 2014
Nothing Like A Hundred Miles (With B.B. King)
Read moreAlbum: Just Between Us, Columbia 40703, September 1988. B.B. only played guitar, Ray did all the singing. Recorded at RPM International with uncredited musicians.
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October 17, 2014
Sinner’s Prayer
Read moreSingle (A): Atlantic 1021, March 1954, b/w It Should’ve Been Me. Compilation album: Ray Charles, Atlantic 8006, June 1957. Taped in New York on 17 May 1953 with Jesse Drakes – trumpet; Sam Taylor- tenor sax; Dave McRae – bari; Connie Kay – drums; Mickey Baker – guitar; Lloyd Trotman – bass. B.B. King, at the session. […]
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October 13, 2014
The Blues Ain’t Nothing (With B.B. King)
Read moreUnreleased (but available thru digital bootleg). Ray and B.B. performed the song during the 1990 Superband tour, on 6 November, at the Teatro Olimpico in Rome.
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October 8, 2014
Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On (With Legends Of Rock ‘n’ Roll)
Read moreAlbum3 (DVD): Legends Of Rock ‘n’ Roll Live, Image Entertainment, 5 December 2000. Part of an all-star jam, recorded by Cinemax in Rome in February 1989. Ray had a good time sitting behind his keyboards. The other legends were James Brown, B.B. King, Bo Diddley, Esther Phillips, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard. […]
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October 7, 2014
You Don’t Love Me No More (With Legends Of Rock ‘n’ Roll)
Read moreAlbum3 (DVD): Legends Of Rock ‘n’ Roll Live, Image Entertainment, 5 December 2000. Part of an all-star jam, recorded by Cinemax in Rome in February 1989. Ray had a good time sitting behind his keyboards. The other legends were James Brown, B.B. King, Bo Diddley, Esther Phillips, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard. The […]
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September 10, 2014
Genius Loves Company’s 10th Anniversary Reissues (2014)
Read moreThe 10th anniversary of the 2004 album Genius Loves Company will be celebrated with three deluxe reissues, in variant packages – one of them in (2-LP, 45RPM, 180-gram) vinyl* – and a 192/24 hi-res digital download-version. Another version is packaged with the film Ray; all packs will be including “interviews with guest artists from then and now”; […]
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August 12, 2012
Ray Charles And B.B. King Live In San Carlos (1972)
Read morePhoto from a 5-day early December 1972 stint at the Valley Music Theater in Woodland Hills, also co-billed with B.B. King. A kind reader of this blog last week surprised me by sending me a cassette with an audience recording of a 1972 concert in San Carlos (CA). It has a decent audio quality, and […]
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December 11, 2011
One More Superband Concert In Italy (With B.B. King) (1990)
Read moreThe program’s logo (still). I thought I had covered all there is to know about Ray Charles’ and B.B. King’s 1990 Philip Morris Superband tour inthis article*. But today yet another TV taping of yet another one of their concerts popped up in my inbox. This show was broadcast by the Monagasque TV station TMC […]
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August 26, 2011
Ray & B.B.’s Superband Tour (1990)
Read moreRay and BB at press conference in New York, on or around 1 October 1990 (photo from: Jet magazine, 3 December 1990). In July 1990 a press release was published to announce that the “Superband tour” of that year would be headlined by B.B. King and Ray Charles. The official title of the series was […]