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Live TV concert
The setlist of the complete concert as it was broadcast live by Swiss television in '86 was*:
- Smokin' At Hungry Joe's (The Ray Charles Orchestra; solos Mike Christiansen - tb, Steve Elliott - as, Ernest Vantrease - e-p)
- Wave (The Ray Charles Orchestra; solo Clifford Solomon - ts)
- Sister Sadie (The Ray Charles Orchestra; solos Al Jackson - bs, Jeff Kaye - tp)
- Intro
- Then We'll Be Home (Sadies Tune)
- Busted
- Georgia On My Mind
- You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It)
- I've Got News For You (solos Jeff Pevar - g, Ernest Vantrease - o)
- Some Enchanted Evening (solo Rudy Johnson - ts)
- She Knows (solo Mo Pleasure - b)
- Intro Raelettes
- I Want Your Love (with Estella Yarbrough; solo Mo Pleasure - b)
- Anyway You Want To (with The Raelettes; solo Jeff Pevar - g)
- Don't Change On Me
- I Can't Stop Loving You
- I Can See Clearly Now (solo Jeff Pevar - g)
- I'm Gonna Keep On Singin'
- What'd I Say
- Outro 1
- We Are The World (with The Raelettes)
- Outro 2
Also read this post, highlighting a little incident during #18 (a long version of I'm Gonna Keep On Singin') between Ray and the Swiss audience during the concert.
* Special thanks to J.P. Verger and Peter Turre.
Edit of TV program
Swiss television later produced an edit with a small selection of the concert:
- Some Enchanted Evening
- She Knows
- I Want Your Love
- Then We'll Be Home (Sadies Tune)
- Don`t Change On Me
- I Can't Stop Loving You
- I Can See Clearly Now
- What`d I Say
- We Are The World
- Outro
There is also a audio torrent circulating on the Web, with this selection:
- Intro
- Then We'll Be Home (Sadies Tune)
- Busted
- Georgia On My Mind
- You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It)
- I've Got News For You (solo Jeff Pevar - g, Ernest Vantrease - o)
- Some Enchanted Evening (solo Rudy Johnson - ts)
- She Knows
- Intro Raelettes
- I Want Your Love (with Estella Yarbrough) (solo Mo Pleasure - b)
- Anyway You Want To (with The Raelettes) (solo Jeff Pevar - g)
- I Can See Clearly Now (solo Jeff Pevar - g)
- I'm Gonna Keep On Singin'
- What'd I Say
- Outro (1)
- We Are The World
- Outro (2)
The line-up was highly similar to the one during the concert, less than a week later, at the Black Heritage Festival in Toyohashi, but in Lugano the band also included Ernest Vantrease.
Musicians: Mark Curry, Jim Seeley, Ted Murdock, Jeff Kaye - trumpets; Armin Marmolejo, Mike Christianson, Ken Tussing, Charlie Schofner - trombones; Steve Elliott, Clifford Solomon (bandleader), Ricky Woodard, Rudy Johnson, Al Jackson - saxophones; Paul Kreibich - drums Jeff Pevar - guitar; Mo(rris) Pleasure - bass; Ernest Vantrease - organ, piano and electric piano. The Raelettes: Sharon Creighton, Estella Yarbrough, Gladys [...], Elaine Woodard, Angela Workman.
For purely documentary reasons, I'm embedding the first two instrumentals below. Please do not share these elsewhere.
'86 LC Lugano - Smokin' At Hungry Joe's (The Ray Charles Orchestra; solos Mike Christiansen - tb, Steve Elliott - as, Ernest Vantrease - e-p):
'86 LC Lugano - Wave (The Ray Charles Orchestra; regrettably, the sound man turned off Clifford Solomon's microphone during the second part of his tenor sax solo, but his unique sounds return - wait for it!):
'86 LC Lugano - I've Got News For You (solos Jeff Pevar - g, Ernest Vantrease - o):
le solo de Some Enchanted evening est fait par le saxo tenor de Rudy Johnson et non l'alto de Al jackson?JPV
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