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(Tangerine Records) 10 tracks, digisleeve Merry Christmas! This Christmas classic from...more

Ray Charles: The Spirit Of Christmas (CD)

(Tangerine Records) 10 tracks, digisleeve

Merry Christmas! This Christmas classic from the iconic Ray Charles has been unavailable for over a decade.

For the first time since its original release in 1985, it is being released on vinyl in 2022. Ray Charles' only Christmas album is a must have for all fans of classic Christmas music. Charles sings a variety of Christmas songs and original compositions, including Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the ballad That Spirit of Christmas, which was featured on National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. An album that will lift your soul year after year!

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  • Interpret: Ray Charles

  • Album titlle: The Spirit Of Christmas (CD)

  • Genre Pop

  • Artikelart CD

  • Label Tangerine Records

  • EAN: 0708857212620

  • weight in Kg 0.04
Charles, Ray - The Spirit Of Christmas (CD) CD 1
01What Child Is ThisRay Charles
02The Little Drummer BoyRay Charles
03Santa Claus Is Comin' To TownRay Charles
04This Time Of The YearRay Charles
05Rudolph The Red Nosed ReindeerRay Charles
06That Spirit Of ChristmasRay Charles
07All I Want For ChristmasRay Charles
08Christmas In My HeartRay Charles
09Winter WonderlandRay Charles
10Christmas TimeRay Charles
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"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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Tracklist
Charles, Ray - The Spirit Of Christmas (CD) CD 1
01 What Child Is This
02 The Little Drummer Boy
03 Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
04 This Time Of The Year
05 Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
06 That Spirit Of Christmas
07 All I Want For Christmas
08 Christmas In My Heart
09 Winter Wonderland
10 Christmas Time