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)
Article properties: Ray Charles: The Complete Swing Time And Down Beat Recordings 1949-1952 (2-CD)
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Interpret: Ray Charles
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Album titlle: The Complete Swing Time And Down Beat Recordings 1949-1952 (2-CD)
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Label NIGHT TRAIN
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Genre R&B, Soul
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Artikelart CD
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EAN: 0048612200135
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| Charles, Ray - The Complete Swing Time And Down Beat Recordings 1949-1952 (2-CD) CD 1 | ||||
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| 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 | ||||
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| 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 | ||
Ray Charles
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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