Then We'll Be Home (Sadies Tune)

Album: Renaissance, Crossover 9005, June 1975.
Single (B): Crossover/Atlantic 981, July 1975, b/w Living For The City.

The album was recorded in late 1974 and early 1975 at RPM International in Los Angeles.

With The Ray Charles Orchestra, on a few tracks also with some alumni of the band and other session musicians. The band members were: Jeff Conrad, Bob Coassin, Phil Guilbeau, Jack Evans - trumpets; Wally Huff, Ken Tussing, Glen Childress, Steve Davis - trombones; Andy Ennis, Clifford Solomon, Ed Pratt, James Clay - saxophones; Leroy Cooper - baritone saxophone, band leader; John Bryant - drums; Joe Harris - bass; Tony Matthews - guitar; Ernest Vantrease - keyboards. Arranged by Roger Neumann.

On the album cover of Renaissance the title of the song is Then We'll Be Home. Ray sings "Then I'll be home", and that (probably correct) title is also on the vinyl's label. Through the years, band members only knew the song as Sadies Tune. The composer of the original theme actually was called Sadye Shepard (so Sadye's Tune would be the hypercorrect orthography).
In the the interview section of the 1997 Montreux concert DVD Ray shared his own story on the origin of the song (unfortunately, not longer on YouTube).

Complete album (this is track #2):


'84 LC Warsaw (#6):


Live:
'75 LC Japan - Released
'76 TV TS
'76 LC Antibes
'76 LC Stuttgart
'76 TV Peterson
'77 TV Heart
'78 LC Antibes
'79 LC Antibes
'79 LC Viareggio
'81 LC Prague
'81 LC Rome
'82 TV Woody
'82 LC Beacon
'84 LC Warsaw
'86 LC Lugano
'86 LC Toyohashi
'87 LC Antibes
'87 LC Boston
'88 LC Saratoga
'89 LC Paris
'90 LC Antibes
'90 LC Tokyo
'91 LC BlueNote
'91 LC Milan
'92 LC Antibes
'93 LC Newport
'93 LC Leverkusen
'94 LC ValleyForge
'94 LC Moscow
'95 LC Deauville
'95 LC Tramps
'96 LC Lugano
'97 LC WolfTrap
'97 LC Saratoga
'97 LC Northsea
'97 LC Montreux
'99 LC NewOrleans NM
'99 LC Glasgow
'99 LC Rheingau
01 LC Waterloo
02 LC Pasadena
02 LC NewJersey
03 DM Downtown

Live In Japan (1976)

 

1. Intro
2. Metamorphosis (CS - as; JE - tp)
3. Pair Of Threes (LC - bs; JC - fl; EW - b)
4. Spain (JE - fl; JE - tp; EP - as; SVR - ds)
5. Blowing The Blues Away (EV - p; JE - tp; LC - bs; AE, JC - ts; BC - tp)
6. Intro Ray Charles
7. Let The Good Times Roll (JC - ts)
8. Then We'll Be Home (Sadies Tune)
9. Till There Was You
10. Feel So Bad
11. Georgia On My Mind
12. Busted
13. Am I Blue (JC - flugel)
14. Living For The City
15. I Can't Stop Loving You
16. Take Me Home, Country Roads
17. Don't Let Her Know
18. What'd I Say

The original Japanese album was
released as a 2-LP.

Solos #1 - 7 attributed by Jack Evans.

A magnificent live album that covers two Ray Charles concerts, in Tokyo and Yokohama, from his November 1975 tour in Japan. That month The Ray Charles Show was booked in 23 major Japanese cities; the album was cut in the week of November 24th (source here), and was released in July 1976.

Personnel:

Musicians: Reggie Walsh, Bob Coassin, Johnny Coles (flugel), Jack Evans – trumpets; Steve Davis, Wally Huff, Ken Tussing – trombones;  Ed Pratt, Clifford Solomon – alto saxophones; James Clay, Andy Ennis – tenor saxophones; Leroy  Cooper – baritone saxophone; Scott von Ravensberg – drums; Tony Matthews – guitar; Edgar Willis – bass; Ernest Vantrease – organ. The Raelettes*: Linda Sims, Dorothy Berry, Estella Yarbrough. Bernice Hullaby, Donna [Jones].

* The line-up above (L-R) is based on a statement by Estella, after being asked to check the large (blurred) central photograph on the album's cover.

Album: Crossover/London (Japan) #535/#536, 1976-07 (1975).

Spain:


Feel So Bad:


Am I Blue:


Take Me Home, Country Roads: