A Tear Fell

Single (B): ABC 10571*, June 1964, b/w No One To Cry To.
Album: Sweet And Sour Tears, ABC/Paramount 480, August 1964.

Recorded at the Bell Sound Studios in New York, around May 8, 1964.
With The Ray Charles Orchestra and The Gene Lowell Singers.

Arranged by Sid Feller.

Within Ray Charles' oeuvre, the differences between a studio recording and a live rendition probably have never been this big: the concert version with Billy Preston and The Raelettes is superior in all respects.

* I've been informed about another single with this track (ABC 10557), with My Baby Don't Dig Me, at the A-side (but that may have been a local - French - release).



Pleyel Room, Paris, 1968 (with Billy Preston):


Live:
'68 LC Paris

After My Laughter Came Tears

Album: Sweet And Sour Tears, ABC/Paramount 480, August 1964.

Recorded at the Bell Sound Studios in New York, around May 8, 1964.

With rhythm section, strings and the Gene Lowell Singers. Arranged by Sid Feller.

Audio sample here.

Baby, Don't You Cry

Single (A): ABC 10530, February 1964, b/w My Heart Cries For You.
Album: Sweet And Sour Tears, ABC/Paramount 480, August 1964.

Recorded on 8 May 1964 at the United Studios in Hollywood.
Arranged by Calvin Jackson.

This tune was the first one that was labeled with 'swingova rhythm'-tag. The term had been invented by arranger/producer Sid Feller, to emphasize its hybrid swing/bossa nova style (at that time the bossa was 'sweeping the nation').



Shrine Auditorium, 1964 (Oh Lolita!):


Live:
'64 LC Copenhagen
'64 LC England
'64 LC Comblain
'64 LC Shrine - Released

Cry

Album: Sweet And Sour Tears, ABC/Paramount 480, August 1964.
Single (A): ABC 10615, January 1965, b/w Teardrops From My Eyes.

Recorded at the Bell Sound Studios in New York. Arranged by Sid Feller, around May 8, 1964.



Murray The K, 1965 (partial - starts at 17'33):


Live:
The song was longlisted in concert souvenir programs from 1966 to 1968. Unfortunately, no live tapings from the mid sixties have surfaced, except the 33 odd seconds in the Murray The K show (taped at the Fox Theatre in Brooklyn) from 1965.

'65 TV Murray - Partial

Cry Me A River

Album: Sweet And Sour Tears, ABC/Paramount 480, August 1964.

Recorded on 8 May 1964 at the United Studios in Hollywood.

Arranged by Calvin Jackson.

Don't Cry Baby

Album: Sweet And Sour Tears, ABC/Paramount 480, August 1964.

Recorded on 8 May 1964 at the United Studios in Hollywood and arranged by Calvin Jackson.

For notes about the line-up, follow the link above.

Listen here.

Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

Album: Sweet And Sour Tears, ABC/Paramount 480, August 1964.

Recorded around 8 May 1964 at the Bell Sound Studios in New York and arranged by Sid Feller.

Listen to this 30-second sample. 

I Cried For You

Album: Sweet And Sour Tears, ABC/Paramount 480, August 1964.

One of the brassiest, happiest tunes from this tearful album, recorded on 8 May 1964 at the United Studios in Hollywood, and arranged by Calvin Jackson.

30-second sample here. 

No One To Cry To

Single (A): ABC 10571, June 1964, b/w A Tear Fell.
Album: Sweet And Sour Tears, ABC/Paramount 480, August 1964.

Recorded around 8 May 1964 at the Bell Sound Studios in New York and arranged by Sid Feller. With strings and the Gene Lowell Singers.

Arranged by the Sid Feller.

Teardrops From My Eyes

Album: Sweet And Sour Tears, ABC/Paramount 480, August 1964.
Single (B): ABC 10615, January 1965, b/w Cry.

Recorded on 8 May 1964 at the United Studios in Hollywood and arranged by Calvin Jackson. The track lost about 30 seconds to fit the 45 RPM (radio) format.

Follow the link above to read about the line-up.

Ray rediscovered the tune during the 1990 Superband tour, and then kept it on his repertoire until the end - in trio, quartet, big band and symphony gigs.



Tonight Show 1990:


Live:
'90 LC Dresden BB
'90 LC Milan
'90 LC Rome
'90 TV TS
'90 LC Caneção
'90 LC Tokyo
'91 LC BlueNote
'91 LC Milan
'92 LC Antibes
'94 LC Moscow
'95 LC Greenville
'95 LC Tramps - 3x
'96 LC London
'96 LC Lugano
'96 LC Montauk
'97 LC Northsea
'99 LC Rheingau
'99 LC Glasgow
'03 LC Melbourne
'03 LC Whitehouse

Willow Weep For Me

Album: Sweet And Sour Tears, ABC/Paramount 480, 1964-08.

A gorgeous big band version, in a slow tempo exercise, recorded on 8 May 1964 at the United Studios in Hollywood and arranged by Calvin Jackson.

Follow the album link above for details.

You've Got Me Crying Again

Album: Sweet And Sour Tears, ABC/Paramount 480, August 1964.

Recorded on 8 May 1964 at United Studios, Hollywood.

With strings and the Gene Lowell Choir.

Sweet And Sour Tears (1964)

1. Cry
2. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
3. A Tear Fell
4. No One To Cry To
5. You've Got Me Crying Again
6. After My Laughter Came Tears
7. Teardrops From My Eyes
8. Don't Cry Baby
9. Cry Me A River
10. Baby, Don't You Cry (The New Swingova Rhythm)
11. Willow Weep For Me
12. I Cried For You

Five tunes were selected for
jukebox distribution. Coll. André Monot.

In 1964 Ray Charles decided to record this concept album in which he interpreted material dealing with loss and heartbreak.

Personnel:
Musicians [partially corrupt listing, BS]: Curt Miller, Oliver Beener, Floyd Jones, Burgess Gardner, Philip Guilbeau, Joshua Willis, Joe Bridgewater, John Hunt - trumpets; Henderson Chambers, Julian Priester, Keg Johnson - trombones; Danny Turner, Harold Minerve - alto saxophones; David Fathead Newman, Don Wilkerson, James Clay - tenor saxophones; Leroy Cooper, Cecil Payne - baritone saxophones; Sonny Forriest - guitar; Panama Francis, Wilbert Hogan, Bob Thompson - drums. Background vocals: The Gene Lowell Singers, The Raelettes. Arranged by Sid Feller and Calvin Jackson. Sid Feller, Joe Adams - producers.

Tracks # 7 -12 recorded on 8 May 1964 at the United Studios in Hollywood and arranged by Calvin Jackson. Tracks #1 - 6 recorded at the Bell Sound Studios in New York and arranged by Sid Feller, around the same date.

ABC/Paramount 480, August 1964.