With The Raelettes
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November 3, 2014
Into Something Fine (By The Raelettes, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreSingle (A): Tangerine 976, 1967, b/w Lover’s Blues.Album3: The Raelettes, Souled Out, Tangerine 1511, 1971. The Raelettes (probable line-up): Merry Clayton (lead), Clydie King (contralto), Gwen Berry (alto) and Alex Brown (tenor). Recorded at RPM International, Los Angeles, with uncredited musicians (all or most from the Ray Charles orchestra).
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November 3, 2014
It’s Almost Here (The Raelettes, Ray Charles On Keyboard)
Read moreSingle3 (B): Tangerine 986, 1968, b/w. I Want To Thank You.Album3: The Raelettes, Souled Out, Tangerine 1511, 1971. Ray Charles on piano. The Raelettes (possible line-up): Merry Clayton, Clydie King, Gwen Berry and Alex Brown (but in the Summer of ’68 the girls’ line-up went through several changes; cf. the Raelettes Page). Recorded at RPM International, Los […]
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November 2, 2014
Keep It To Yourself (The Raelettes, ft Mable John, Ray Charles On Keyboards)
Read moreSingle (B): Tangerine 1006, February 1970, b/w. I Want To (Do Everything For You).Album3: (Ray Charles Presents The) Raeletts, Yesterday… Today… Tomorrow, Tangerine 1515, 1972. Written by Billy Preston. Ray Charles on piano, ft. Mable John. The Raelettes: Vernita Moss, Susaye Green, Mable John, ?Dorothy Berry? and Estella Yarbrough. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with […]
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November 1, 2014
Leave My Man Alone (The Raelettes, Ft Vernita Moss, Ray Charles On Keyboards)
Read moreSingle (B): Tangerine 1017, June 1971, b/w Here I Go Again.Album3: (Ray Charles Presents The) Raeletts, Yesterday… Today… Tomorrow, Tangerine 1515, 1972. Leave My Woman Alone, from a female perspective, featuring the “evilest” contra-alto of Vernita Moss. The Raelettes’ probable line-up: Vernita Moss, Susaye Green, Mable John, Dorothy Berry and ?Estella Yarbrough?. Recorded at RPM […]
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October 30, 2014
Love Is What We Need (With The Raelettes)
Read moreUnreleased. You can listen to the performance of the tune during the 1988 Oklahoma concert here (lead by Trudy Cohran). Who knows more about the origin of this song? Live:’78 LC Antibes – 2x’80 LC Northsea’82 LC Capital’82 LC Beacon’82 LC Washington’88 LC Oklahoma’89 LC Osaka
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October 29, 2014
Love Train (Ft Dorothy Berry, Ray Charles On Keyboards)
Read moreAlbum3: (Ray Charles Presents The) Raeletts, Yesterday… Today… Tomorrow, Tangerine 1515, 1972. The Raelettes (probable line-up): Vernita Moss, Susaye Green, Mable John, Dorothy Berry and Estella Yarbrough. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with uncredited members of the Ray Charles Orchestra (and maybe some session musicians). Live:’72 LC San Carlos’73 LC Arbor’75 LC Paris’75 LC […]
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October 29, 2014
Lover’s Blues (By The Raelettes, Ray Charles On Piano)
Read moreSingle (B), Tangerine TRC 976, July 1967, b/w Into Something Fine.Album3: The Raelettes, Souled Out, Tangerine 1511, 1971. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with members of the Ray Charles Orchestra. The Raelettes (probable line-up): Merry Clayton (lead), Clydie King (contralto), Gwen Berry (alto) and Alex Brown (tenor). Ray Charles on piano. On the compilation album Hits […]
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October 25, 2014
My Funny Valentine (With Susaye Greene)
Read moreUnreleased. Susaye’s operatic interpretation was filmed for TV at La Salle Pleyel in Paris, on 8 October 1968, broadcast by ORTF. A second rendition, that same night, taped for a radio broadcast, has also survived. With Wallace Davenport (bandleader), Phil Guilbeau, Virgil Jones, David Philips – trumpet; Fred Johnson, Jay Clyde Miller – alto saxophone; Nathan […]
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October 22, 2014
One Room Paradise (By The Raelettes, Ray Charles On Keyboards)
Read moreSingle (B): Tangerine 972, 1966, b/w One Hurt Deserves Another. Album3: The Raelettes, Souled Out, Tangerine 1511, 1971. Recorded at RPM International, Los Angeles, with uncredited musicians (all or most from the Ray Charles orchestra). Ray Charles on piano. The Raelettes (probable line-up): Merry Clayton (lead), Clydie King (contralto), Gwen Berry (alto) and Alex Brown (tenor).
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October 21, 2014
Rock Steady (With The Raelettes, Ft. Estella Yarbrough)
Read moreUnreleased. This Aretha Franklin song from 1971 was immediately adopted by Raelette Estella Yarbrough. She kept on performing it until the end. Leverkusen 1993: Live: ’72 LC Copenhagen ’72 LC San Carlos ’75 LC Madrid ’75 LC LatinCasino ’81 LC Prague ’81 LC Rome ’93 LC Leverkusen ’94 LC Moscow 02 LC Pasadena
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October 20, 2014
Running Out (Ft. Mable John)
Read moreMable John and Ray Charles, backstageat a concert in San Francisco, on December 5, 1971. Photo by Robert Altman. Unreleased (but downloadable). Recorded once, at the Fillmore East on 18 April 1970. From Wolfgang’s Vault: “The Raelet[te]s sequence begins with a funky, Memphis soul-driven take on Ashford & Simpson’s Running Out, one of the singles Mable John recorded […]
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October 19, 2014
Shadows Of My Mind (The Raelettes, ft. Karen Evans)
Read moreAlbum (Blu Ray DVD): Ray Charles Live At The Montreux Jazz Festival, Eagle Rock B001JL2V2E, December 2012 [there were several more releases]. The Raelettes in the Montreux 1997 version were (fltr): Estella Yarbrough, Katrina Harper Cooke, Kathy Mackey, Karen Evans, Tonette McKinney. Two audiotapes of working sessions where Feller and Charles worked out the arrangement of the […]