With Billy Preston
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November 20, 2014
A Girl I Used To Know
Read moreAlbum: Ray’s Moods, ABC/Paramount/Tangerine 550, 1966. Recorded in August 1966 at RPM International, in Los Angeles. With strings; a choir; Ray Charles – organ and piano; Rene Hall – guitar; Carol Kaye – bass; Hal Blaine – drums. The live version, with The Raelettes and Billy Preston’s pedal work on organ – was considerably better. ’68 LC […]
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November 20, 2014
A Tear Fell
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 10571*, June 1964, b/w No One To Cry To. Album: Sweet And Sour Tears, ABC/Paramount 480, August 1964. Recorded at the Bell Sound Studios in New York, around May 8, 1964. With The Ray Charles Orchestra and The Gene Lowell Singers. Arranged by Sid Feller. Within Ray Charles’ oeuvre, the differences between a studio […]
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November 20, 2014
Agent Double-O-Soul (By Billy Preston, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreOn August 4, 1968 Ed Sullivan offered Charles a 15-minute slot, the second he ever gave (after the one for The Beatles). Ray appeared with his whole entourage – Raelettes, Orchestra and Preston. Billy (Ray on piano) performed his incredible Agent Double-O-Soul* act. Preston performed the song numerous times during his tours with the Ray […]
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November 15, 2014
Chitlins With Candied Yams
Read moreAlbum: Ray’s Moods, ABC/Paramount/Tangerine 550, 1966. Recorded in August 1966 at RPM International, in Los Angeles. Ray Charles – organ and piano; Rene Hall – guitar; Carol Kaye – bass; Hal Blaine – drums; The Raelettes – backing vocals.
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November 11, 2014
Go On Home
Read moreSingle (A): ABC 11045, January 1968, b/w That’s A Lie.Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Recorded in January 1967 at RPM International in Los Angeles. All musicians remained uncredited: woodwinds, Billy Preston on organ, Carol Kaye on bass, Rene Hall on guitar, Earl Palmer on drums, and The Raelettes (Gwen Berry, Alex Brown, Merry Clayton, […]
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November 11, 2014
God Bless America Again (With Billy Preston, Slash A.O. aka The American Rebels)
Read moreCompilation album: Ray Charles Sings for America, Rhino/WEA, 3 September 2002.[After the album release, the song was remixed for radio DJs; see below]. The weeks after the 9/11 attack the American airwaves were filled with patriotic songs. Ray’s America The Beautiful was probably the song that was most frequently played.A year later Rhino/WEA released a compiler, Ray Charles Sings for […]
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November 11, 2014
Going Down Slow
Read moreAlbum: Crying Time, ABC/Paramount/Tangerine 544, January 1966. Recorded during the second fall sessions of 1965, at RPM International in Los Angeles. With Ray on piano, Billy Preston on organ, Rene Hall on guitar and Earl Palmer on drums. The 1968 rendition in Paris, with Billy, is a monument for all the times they worked together. Live:’67 […]
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November 9, 2014
Here We Go Again (ft Alex Brown)
Read moreSingle (A): ABC 10938, April 1967, b/w Somebody Ought to Write a Book About It.Album: Ray Charles Invites You To Listen, ABC/Tangerine 595, June 1967. Recorded at RPM International in January 1967. With woodwinds, strings, Billy Preston on organ, Rene Hall on guitar, Carol Kaye on bass, Earl Palmer on drums, and The Raelettes: Gwen Berry, Alex […]
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November 9, 2014
Here We Go Again (With Norah Jones)
Read moreAlbum: Genius Loves Company, Concord, August 2004.In 2010 Blue Note Records released …Featuring Norah Jones, a collection of Norah Jones’ musical collaborations from the first decade of the new century. The album was recorded at RPM International (and some of the orchestral parts elsewhere) in Los Angeles between mid 2003 and March 2004. Just as in the […]
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October 22, 2014
One Mint Julep (With Poncho Sanchez, Billy Preston)
Read moreAlbum3: Poncho Sanchez, Out Of Sight, Concord SACD-1031-6, 9 September 2003. That’s Ray giving some occasional groans (he’s not credited for the piano part, but may well be playing a few notes here), and it sure is Billy Preston on the Hammond B-3. With Pancho Sanchez, David Torres, Tony Banda, George Ortiz, Sal Vasquez, Serofin Aguilar, Scott Martin, […]
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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
That’s A Lie
Read moreSingle (B): ABC 11045, January 1968, b/w Go On Home. Compilation album: Singular Genius, Concord Records, 15 November 2011. Recorded on April 1, 1967, at RPM International in Los Angeles. With Bill King, Walter Miller – tp; Fred Murrell, Henry Coker – tb; Curtis Amy – ts; Leroy Cooper – bs; Barry Rillera – g; Edgar Willis […]