Ray Charles The Complete Swing Time And Down Beat Recordings 1949-1952 (2-CD)

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Ray Charles: The Complete Swing Time And Down Beat Recordings 1949-1952 (2-CD)

(1996/Night Train) 45 Tracks - Covering the first period of his career, from his earliest sides, recorded in Seattle to the last session for Swing Time in LA. Great sides, including many unissued tracks and alternate takes!

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Interpret: Ray Charles
Album titlle: The Complete Swing Time And Down Beat Recordings 1949-1952 (2-CD)
Label NIGHT TRAIN
Genre R&B, Soul
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0048612200135
weight in Kg 0.2

Charles, Ray - The Complete Swing Time And Down Beat Recordings 1949-1952 (2-CD) CD 1
01	I Love You I Love You	Ray Charles
02	Confession Blues	Ray Charles
03	Alone In This City	Ray Charles
04	Can Anyone Ask For More	Ray Charles
05	Let's Have A Ball	Ray Charles
06	Rockin' Chair Blues	Ray Charles
07	If I Give You My Love	Ray Charles
08	Can't You Seedarling	Ray Charles
09	This Love Of Mine	Ray Charles
10	How Long Blues	Ray Charles
11	Blues Before Sunrise	Ray Charles
12	A Sentimental Blues	Ray Charles
13	You'll Never Miss The Water	Ray Charles
14	Ain't That Fine	Ray Charles
15	Don't Put All Your Dreams In One Basket	Ray Charles
16	Sittin' On Top Of The World	Ray Charles
17	I've Had My Fun	Ray Charles
18	See See Rider	Ray Charles
19	What Have I Done	Ray Charles
20	Honey Honey	Ray Charles
21	She's On The Ball	Ray Charles
22	The Ego Song (Sweet As Can Be)	Ray Charles
23	Sweet As Can Be (Take 3, Alternate Take)	Ray Charles

Charles, Ray - The Complete Swing Time And Down Beat Recordings 1949-1952 (2-CD) CD 2
01	Someday	Ray Charles
02	I'll Do Anything But Work	Ray Charles
03	I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now	Ray Charles
04	All To Myself	Ray Charles
05	Lonely Boy	Ray Charles
06	Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand	Ray Charles
07	I'm Glad For Your Sake	Ray Charles
08	Baby Won't You Please Come Home	Ray Charles
09	Kissa Me Baby	Ray Charles
10	Hey Now	Ray Charles
11	The Snow Is Falling	Ray Charles
12	Misery In My Heart	Ray Charles
13	Let Me Hear You Call My Name	Ray Charles
14	Why Did You Go	Ray Charles
15	I'm Wondering And Wondering	Ray Charles
16	Walkin' And Talkin'	Ray Charles
17	Guitar Blues	Ray Charles
18	Back Home	Ray Charles
19	Sweet As Can Be (Take 2, Alternate Take)	Ray Charles
20	I'll Do Anything But Work (Take 2, Alternate Take)	Ray Charles
21	Someday (Take 2, Alternate Take)	Ray Charles
22	Late In The Evening Blues	Ray Charles

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Ray Charles

Losing Hand

(Charles Calhoun)

Atlantic 1037

Ray Charles had only recently joined the roster of Atlantic Records when he waxed the mournful blues Losing Hand on May 17, 1953 with a New York session crew consisting of saxists Dave McRae, Freddie Mitchell, and Pinky Williams, bassist Lloyd Trotman, drummer Connie Kay, and guitarist Mickey Baker, whose slippery chords cascade downward like thick, murky molasses. Brother Ray didn't use a guitarist on his subsequent Atlantic sides, making Baker's presence quite unusual (arranger Jesse Stone wrote the song under his alias of Charles Calhoun). Ray had yet to explode with his groundbreaking gospel/blues synthesis, although his impassioned vocal and two-fisted piano offered clues as to his immediate future.

"He still was being recorded in the conventional way, like you'd record almost any single singing artist," said Ray's late co-producer, Jerry Wexler. "We got the backing musicians, we got the arranger Jesse Stone, we rehearsed, and so on."

Born in Albany, Georgia on September 23, 1930 but raised in Greenville, Florida, Ray Charles Robinson lost his sight as a child but gained a love for music—blues, boogie-woogie, jazz, country—that was unshakable. He left the state school for the blind at 15, his piano skills already formidable, and somehow made his way cross-country from Jacksonville, Florida to Seattle. Jack Lauderdale of Swing Time/Down Beat Records brought Charles and his McSon Trio aboard in 1949. His first release was a hit and two more after that too, though his predilection for imitating Nat King Cole and Charles Brown hadn't been tamed yet.

Swing Time was experiencing financial difficulties in 1952, so Lauderdale peddled Charles' contract to Atlantic. There Ray would transform R&B with his daring gospel/blues synthesis on the smashes I've Got A Woman, Hallelujah I Love Her So, and What'd I Say (speaking of advancements in electric instrumentation, he played a Wurlitzer piano on the latter). His sessions were like no other at Atlantic.

"They were exciting, edifying, thrilling," said Wexler. "We're talking about Ray Charles. There were no downers. I mean, there was never anything negative or worrying, because Ray Charles had the whole thing figured out from beginning to end. And so, as would be the case with many other sessions, when there had to be some direction from us because we weren't going anywhere, or some changes to be made, that wasn't the case with Ray."

Of course, Ray's ceaseless musical experiments rendered him a superstar right up to his June 10, 2004 death. No wonder they called him a genius.

- Bill Dahl -
Chicago, Illinois

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