With Maxim Trio

  • November 20, 2014

    A Sentimental Blues

    Single (A): Swing [Time] Records 179, 1949, b/w You’ll Never Miss the Water (Until the Well Runs Dry). Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Los Angeles in 1949. Maxim Trio: Ray Charles – voc, p; Gosady McKee and Mitchell ‘Tiny’ Webb – g; Ralph Hamilton – b.

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  • November 20, 2014

    Ain’t That Fine

    Single (A): Swing Time 216, 1950, b/w Don’t Put All Your Dreams In One Basket. Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Los Angeles, 1949. The Maxim Trio: Ray Charles – voc, p; Gosady McKee, Mitchell ‘Tiny’ Webb – g; Ralph Hamilton – b.

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  • November 8, 2014

    How Long Blues (aka How Long)

    Single (B): Down Beat 178, 1949, b/w Blues Before Sunrise.Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 October 2007. Recorded in Los Angeles, 1949. Maxim Trio: Ray Charles – voc, p; Gosady McKee and Mitchell ‘Tiny’ Webb – g; Ralph Hamilton – b.

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  • October 31, 2014

    Let’s Have A Ball (aka Here Am I, By Myself; All Alone Again)

    Single (A): Down Beat 212, b//w Rockin’ Chair Blues.Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Seattle, February 1949. First released as a single under the name of Maxin Trio: Ray Charles, voc, p; Gosady McKee, g; Milton S. Garred, b.

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  • October 21, 2014

    Rockin’ Chair Blues

    Swing “Beat” as label name. Single (B): Swing Beat 212. B/w Let’s Have A Ball. Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Seattle, February 1949. Ray Charles – voc, p; Gosady McKee – g; Milton S. Garred – b. Review in Billboard on November 12, 1949.  Note “Maxim” Trio.

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