April-10th-2005, 07:03 PM
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Ray Charles recs
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Last edited by Scott Dolan; September-30th-2005 at 01:31 PM.
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April-10th-2005, 07:23 PM
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Would you consider going after a couple of box sets, Scott? There's a little bit of duplication between Genius and Soul and The Complete Country & Western Recordings 1959-1986 but if a thousand dollars fell from the sky tomorrow these would be ordered and I'd probably call it a day (as far as accumlating more Ray).
 
If you're not going to spring for all that, I'd grab Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music and wait for everyone else here to chime in regarding the rest.
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April-10th-2005, 07:57 PM
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"The Best of Ray Charles" on Atlantic probaby gives you the most for your money on a single disc. It has "I Got A Woman" and a couple of totally rockin' obscurities like "I Don't Need No Doctor." A good alternate choice is "The Very Best of Ray Charles" on Rhino, which has all the cool hits, including "Let's Go Get Stoned" which is in the present era X-rated.
Also: You absolutely, positively, need "Ray Charles and Betty Carter." Their version of "Two To Tango" totally rocks.
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April-10th-2005, 08:59 PM
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Get this DVD of a great performance from 1963.
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April-10th-2005, 11:18 PM
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So, now I am kicking my own buttocks for not hanging on to my vinyl Ray from the early sixties. I had them all!!! but,as I've mentioned in my oft-repeated lament, I shed all my vinyl and my turntable with one of my moves and continue to re-construct it.
Although I may have to resort to re-releases on CD, I would rather have the LPs, so, to that end I'm scouring the vintage vinyl outlets here.
Love the man and his music and have since I started to listen to music seriously when I was in my early teens.
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April-11th-2005, 04:10 AM
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It's hard to go wrong with "The Birth of Soul", a 3CD box set spanning the Atlantic years.
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April-11th-2005, 07:23 AM
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"Long way from home"
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Originally Posted by Pete C
Get this DVD of a great performance from 1963.
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LISTEN TO PETE....AMAZING! These tapes were held back by Ray....Tina Brooks (Yep!) playing fours with Dave Newman?...Ray playing alto...?
I have the tapes of the Antibes 1961 concert and the 1962 Brussels/London concerts...With James Clay...Dave Newman was busted in Paris for the latter...But amazing in Paris...
OR if you can't get this, try "Ray Charles in Berlin - 1962" - Pablo - Donald Wilkerson does most of the solos....and Johnny Coles is amazing...
RAY WAS JAZZ -AT THAT TIME ...Or at least. my version of it...
RC.
Last edited by Richardo Caerleoni; April-11th-2005 at 12:31 PM.
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April-11th-2005, 08:50 AM
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Middle Man
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"Birth of Soul" is definitely the place to start. If you join yourmusic.com you can get it for less than $15, including shipping.
Last edited by Root Doctor; April-11th-2005 at 08:51 AM.
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April-11th-2005, 09:23 AM
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Another chime in for The Birth Of Soul, which I like a great deal better than the Country/Western material and just about anything else he released on ABC/Paramount. Those old Atlantics rocked the house.
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April-11th-2005, 11:32 AM
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The mouldiest of all figs
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My favorite collection of Brother Ray is on Atlantic "The Birth of Soul," a three disc set with all the great early hits plus very good liner notes.
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April-11th-2005, 11:41 AM
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Is any of The Birth of Soul on the Genius & Soul box set? I knew there was a three-CD comp out there I was supposed to be looking at...
Agh! Another one for the hitlist!
(sheesh)
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April-11th-2005, 11:44 AM
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Originally Posted by patricia
So, now I am kicking my own buttocks for not hanging on to my vinyl Ray from the early sixties. I had them all!!! but,as I've mentioned in my oft-repeated lament, I shed all my vinyl and my turntable with one of my moves and continue to re-construct it.
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Ouch.
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April-11th-2005, 12:03 PM
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"Long way from home"
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Originally Posted by Noj
Ouch.
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HEY, Didn't we ALL !
Second Ray Charles album I bought...after Atlanic 8006...just after Trane's "My Fav. Things"....
Hell, amazing times !
RC.
Last edited by Richardo Caerleoni; April-11th-2005 at 12:10 PM.
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April-11th-2005, 12:13 PM
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Jon
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I didn't exist until 1976, so no! I feel Patricia's pain!
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April-11th-2005, 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by bostontricky
Is any of The Birth of Soul on the Genius & Soul box set? I knew there was a three-CD comp out there I was supposed to be looking at...
Agh! Another one for the hitlist!
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Yeah, some of it is. The only problem with the Genius & Soul box is that one and a half of the five discs cover the 70s and 80s for him. It's a problem because the material just ain't that great. I've been content with the Birth of Soul box, the Country & Western box, and the Ray Charles Anthology released on Rhino, which is a great single-disc comp of his sixties-seventies ABC/Paramount years, although now I want to check out Pete's rec.
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April-11th-2005, 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Richardo Caerleoni
HEY, Didn't we ALL !
Second Ray Charles album I bought...after Atlanic 8006...just after Trane's "My Fav. Things"....
Hell, amazing times !
RC.
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Sure, Richard, twist the knife. 
That album seemed to me at the time to be Ray's crossover from blues/jazz into almost rock. Even people who didn't necessarily dig the previous discs, loved that one, if only for the title track.
Last edited by patricia; April-11th-2005 at 01:02 PM.
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April-11th-2005, 01:03 PM
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Six decades
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Originally Posted by Scott Dolan
Thanks all!!
As soon as Birth of Soul is in stock somewhere new I'll snatch it up. Don't like the selection available at yourmusic, or else I'd join there.
'Til then I just have to keep myself happy with the box sets BTrick initially suggested.
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"Birth of Soul" has been highly discounted in the BMG Club of late.
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April-11th-2005, 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by mone peterson
Yeah, some of it is. The only problem with the Genius & Soul box is that one and a half of the five discs cover the 70s and 80s for him. It's a problem because the material just ain't that great. I've been content with the Birth of Soul box, the Country & Western box, and the Ray Charles Anthology released on Rhino, which is a great single-disc comp of his sixties-seventies ABC/Paramount years, although now I want to check out Pete's rec.
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Scotty - listen to Uncle Mone...
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April-11th-2005, 01:10 PM
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"Long way from home"
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Originally Posted by patricia
Sure, Richard, twist the knife.
That album seemed to me at the time to be the crossover from blues/jazz into almost rock. Even people who didn't necessarily dig the previous discs, loved that one, if only for the title track. |
PATRICIA...Marry me!
[OK., I may have to leave my present partner - Anna - but...NO PROBLEM !]
That Album [all of it.."You be my Baby/Don't tell me no maybe" ?"..and ROCKHOUSE] was magic ....and thro David Newman [in Paris} I met Trane and Dolphy and Elvin (in person) ... That again opened up a entire new world for me....1961/2....
OK, I have the tape of the 1961 concert in Paris !
Good enough? 
RC. X.
Last edited by Richardo Caerleoni; April-11th-2005 at 02:59 PM.
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April-11th-2005, 01:44 PM
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Another Ray set I like is the "Ray Charles Story" on Atlantic. I have the 1962 two lp set. My favorite cut is a really, really long and really, really slow version of "Drown In My Own Tears."
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April-11th-2005, 02:57 PM
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"Long way from home"
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cK/out the JAZZ sides...?
Wonderful.
RC.
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April-11th-2005, 03:02 PM
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April-11th-2005, 03:15 PM
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"Long way from home"
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Originally Posted by Root Doctor
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WONDERFUL....Dave Newman's solo on "Ain't Misbehaving" is a classic..and "The Ray" and "Doodlin'"...are as good as it gets....
'Would love to hear the Monk/Trane 1957 set...But also Ray with that septet?
RC,
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