In the 60s Ray Charles' - sometimes almost yearly - arrival at a local national airport regularly made it to TV news broadcasts (in France it would even remain a yearly ritual well until the 90s).
Here is a 17-second clip with footage from his landing at Cointrin Airport in Geneva, together with his girlfriend
Raita Outinen (aka Johnson), in August 1964, from the French-Swiss news programme
Carrefour.
The caption on the website of the Swiss TV archive adds the date 7 August to the clip, but that should probably be the 3d*, the date of the news paper clipping (
left). On the 4th Ray performed at La Patinoire in Geneva (a "Triomphe",
Le Temps wrote).
* On August 3 Ray was seen at Schiphol Amsterdam Airport; in Geneva he landed with Dutch carrier KLM Airlines.
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