With Maxin Trio

  • November 19, 2014

    Alone In This City

    Single (A): Down Beat 211. B/w Can Anyone Ask For More.Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Seattle, in February 1949. Maxin Trio: Ray Charles – voc, p; Gosady McKee – g; Milton S. Garred – b.

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  • November 16, 2014

    Can Anyone Ask For More

    Single (B): Down Beat 211. B/w Alone in The City.Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Seattle, in February 1949. Maxin Trio: Ray Charles – voc, p; Gosady McKee – g; Milton S. Garred – b.

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  • November 15, 2014

    Confession Blues

    Single (B): Down Beat 171, February 1949, b/w I Love You, I Love You.Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Seattle (possibly at the KOL radio studios), February 1949. The Maxin Trio: Ray Charles – voc, p; Gosady McKee – g; Milton S. Garred – b. From Linden Records: Seattle’s “lost” post-war music company: “By […]

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  • November 7, 2014

    I Love You, I Love You (I Will Never Let You Go) (aka I Won’t Let You Go)

    Single (A): Down Beat 171, 1949, b/w Confession Blues.Compilation album: The Way I Feel, Proper, 22 Oct 2007. Recorded in Seattle (possibly at the KOL radio studios), February 1949. The “Maxin” Trio: Ray Charles – voc, p; Gosady McKee – g; Milton S. Garred – b. Update 13.02.2021: the video of this performance is no longer available on […]

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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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