Showing posts with label Ray Charles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ray Charles. Show all posts

Saturday, October 5, 2024

Ray Charles - Liederhalle: Stuttgart, Germany September 28, 1976 (FM) - Emperor Nobody Remaster

Ray Charles
Liederhalle
Stuttgart, Germany
September 28, 1976
FM Broadcast Recording - Emperor Nobody Remaster

Flac Level 8 & MP3 320kbps
Front Cover Only

Rosebud's Pick

Original Lineage: FM > Minidisc > analogue to HD > GoldWave > FLAC (8)(asb)

EN's Additional Lineage: FLAC > AIFF > corrected DC offset and retracked (Sound Studio 3.5.5) > FLAC (8) (xACT)


01 How Long Has This Been Going On?
02 Feel So Bad
03 Am I Blue?
04 I Can't Stop Loving You
05 Take Me Home, Country Roads
06 Don't Let Her Know
07 What'd I Say

Total time: 46:22

Ray Charles - vocals & piano
Johnny Coles, Bob Coassin, Jeff Conrad, Dan McGurn - trumpets
Henry Coker, Glenn Childress, Wally Huff, Bob Knedlik - trombones
James Clay, William Byrne, Andy Ennis, Ed Pratt, Clifford Solomon - saxophones
Tony Matthews - guitar
James Campbell - bass
Scott Von Ravensberg - drums
Ernest Vantreese - piano & organ, musical director

The Raelettes:
Dorothy Berry - vocals
Bernice Hullaby - vocals
Donna Jones - vocals
Linda Sims - vocals
Estella Yarbrough - vocals

Rosebud & I feel very lucky that we were able to see Ray Charles in concert together. He played at Pine Knob Amphitheater with a pretty funny comedian as opening act. Ray was escorted out by the Raelettes to his piano to join in what I think was his old instrumental track "Booty Butt". Before playing his first song Ray said it was his birthday which my memory thinks he said his 70th. The man played and sang like you would expect the King Of Soul to. After his second song he says "They tell me we have plenty of seats available in the pavilion so any of you on the hill want to get a little closer management says you can come on down." The hill was pretty well sold and not a lot of people got up so Rosebud and I walked down the hill and got 12th row center seats for the best concert we would see that year.

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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Ray Charles & The Ray Charles Orchestra - Leverkusener Jazztage, Leverkusener, Germany 11-19-1993 (SBD) DVD Audio Rip

Ray Charles & The Ray Charles Orchestra
Leverkusener Jazztage
Leverkusener, Germany
November 19, 1993
WDR TV Broadcast/Soundboard Recording
DVD Audio Rip
MP3 320kbps
No Cover Art

01 Ray's Entrance Music
02 Sadies Tune
03 Busted
04 Georgia On My Mind
05 Mississippi Mud
06 How Long Has This Been Goin' On
07 Blues for Scotia
08 Still Crazy After All These Years
09 Stranger In My Own Hometown
10 The Brightest Smile In Town
11 Intro Raelettes / Rock Steady
12 Baby, It's Cold Outside
13 I Can't Stop Loving You
14 What'd I Say

total time: 1hr 56sc

Ray Charles (R.I.P.) - Piano, Lead Vocals

The Ray Charles Orchestra:
Lawrence Foyen - trumpet
Richard Weiss - trumpet
David Hoffman - trumpet
Kenneth Scharf - trumpet
Peter Beltran - trombone
Steve Sigmund - trombone
Michel Guerrier - trombone
Marc Fields - trombone
William Waters - saxophone
Charles Johnson - saxophone
James Farnsworth - saxophone
Alford Jackson - saxophone
Steve Alliott - saxophone
Ernest Ventrease - keybords
Kenneth Carr - guitar
Thomas Fowler - bass
Pete Turre - drums

The Raelettes:
Angela Workam - backup vocals
Trudy Cohran - backup vocals
Michelle King - backup vocals
Elaine Woodard - backup vocals
Estella Yarbrough - backup vocals

justdave notes:
I ripped the audio with DVD Audio Extractor v4.5.5. The DVD had random chapters so songs had random chapters. I used Goldwave v5.4 to re-chapter the songs, and raise the volume.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Ray Charles - Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA 07-04-1997 (SBD)

Ray Charles
Philadelphia Art Museum
Philadelphia, PA
July 4, 1997
Soundboard Recording
Flac Level 8 (24 bit) & MP3 320kbps
No Cover Art

01 BBC / Theme Music*
02 Ray Charles Entrance / Ridin' Thumb
03 Busted
04 Georgia On My Mind
05 Theme Music
06 False Start
07 Chain Of Fools#
08 Then I'll Be Over You / I Can't Stop Loving You
09 Smack Dab In The Middle
10 Intro Peter Nero
11 Blues For Big Scotia+
12 Banter
13 What'd I Say
14 America The Beautiful
15 Outro*

* The Ray Charles Orchestra
# The Raylets Vocals
+ Peter Nero Piano

Sunday, May 24, 2015

Ray Charles w/The BBC Orchestra - Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow, Scotland, 05-26-1999 (FM)

Ray Charles w/The BBC Orchestra
Clyde Auditorium
Glasgow, Scotland
Wednesday, May 26, 1999
FM Broadcast Recording
Flac & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

Source: FM > ? > CDR(A+) > Trade > HDD > TLH > Flac > TLH > Goldwave > Flac Level 8

01 Intro
02 One Day Soon / Busted
03 Georgia On My Mind
04 Mississippi Mud
05 Just For A Thrill
06 Teardrops From My Eyes
07 Say No More
08 Stranger In My Own Hometown
09 A Song For You
10 You Better Watch Them Dogs (The Raylettes)
11 I Can't Stop Loving You
12 I Believe To My Soul / What'd I Say / Outro


justdave notes:
There was gaps of silence at both the beginning and end of each track. I decoded the files and removed the gaps then encoded to flac level 8 aligning all sector boundaries.


Saturday, December 20, 2014

Ray Charles - KLRU Studios, Austin, TX 10-23-1979 (FM)

Ray Charles
KLRU Studios
Austin, Texas
October 23, 1979
FM Broadcast Recording
MP3 320kbps
Artwork Included

01 Oh What A Beautiful Morning
02 Georgia
03 Busted
04 Born To Lose
05 Some Enchanted Evening
06 Hit the road Jack
07 Can’t Stop Loving You
08 Steel Guitar Rag
09 Yodel
10 What I Say Vamp
11 Deep In The Heart Of Texas

This is a great performance from Ray Charles and a nice sounding recording, too. This wasn't a very good time period for Ray when it came to commercial success, his record sales and air play declined dramatically. One bright moment came in April of 1979, when Ray's version of "Georgia On My Mind" was made the official state song for the state of Georgia. I was lucky enough to catch Ray Charles on tour a few short years before his death. He said it was his birthday and the backup singers lead the audience in singing "Happy Birthday" to Ray. Ray Charles died on June 10, 2004 from acute liver disease, he was 73.