A Poor Man's Song

Album: Brother Ray Is At It Again, Crossover/Atlantic SH 8546, March 1980.

Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. Arranged by Mike Post.

Anyway You Want To (With The Raelettes)

Album: Brother Ray Is At It Again, Crossover/Atlantic SH 8546, March 1980.

Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. With uncredited musicians, and The Raelettes.
Arranged by Larry Muhoberac.



Live:
'81 LC Barcelona
'85 LC Antibes
'85 LC NewHaven
'86 LC Lugano
'88 LC Masson
'88 LC Saratoga
'89 LC Paris - 2x

Compared To What

Album: Brother Ray Is At It Again, Crossover/Atlantic SH 8546, March 1980.
Single (A): Crossover/Atlantic 3762, August 1980, b/w Now That We've Found Each Other.

Arranged by Mike Post.

Don't You Love Me Anymore

Album: Brother Ray Is At It Again, Crossover/Atlantic SH 8546, March 1980.

Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. Flugelhorn solo by Bobby Bryant Freddie Hubbard*.

* This new attribution is based on a consensus among trumpetist alumni of the Ray Charles band.



Live:
'80 LC Northsea

I Can't Change It

Album: Brother Ray Is At It Again, Crossover/Atlantic SH 8546, March 1980.

Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. Arranged by Ray Charles.

This is how the Genius churchified this Frankie Miller song (who wrote it when he was 12):

Now That We've Found Each other

Album: Brother Ray Is At It Again, Crossover/Atlantic SH 8546, March 1980.
Single (B): Crossover/Atlantic 3762, August 1980, b/w Compared To What.

Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. Arranged by Larry Muhoberac.

Ophelia

Album: Brother Ray Is At It Again, Crossover/Atlantic SH 8546, March 1980.

Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. Arranged by Mike Post.

[Low quality audio]:

Questions

Album: Brother Ray Is At It Again, Crossover/Atlantic SH 8546, March 1980.

Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles. Arranged by Ray Charles & Sid Feller.

The song is also known from a demo that Ray made to brief arranger Sid Feller.
Also read this.

Brother Ray Is At It Again (1980)

1. Compared To What
2. Anyway You Want To
3. Don’t You Love Me Anymore (flugelhorn solo by Bobby Bryant Freddie Hubbard*)
4. A Poor Man's Song
5. Now That We've Found Each other
6. Ophelia
7. I Can't Change It
8. Questions

Crossover/Atlantic SH 8546, March 1980.

This album was released more than a year after the first edition of Brother Ray; Ray Charles' Own Story, the autobiography co-written with David Ritz, a moderate bestseller in 1978, and a little before the release of The Blues Brothers. Nevertheless, this release was hardly noticed, and now the album is almost totally forgotten.

The musicians were not credited. Bobby Bryant (trumpet) and David T. Walker (guitar) were amongst the session musicians. The backing vocals on #1 were possibly sung by The Raelettes; the choir on #7 remains unidentified. Arrangers: Mike Post (#1, 4, 6), Larry Muhoberac (#2, 5), Nan Schwartz (#3), Ray Charles (#7 and #8 together with), Sid Feller.

* This new attribution is based on a consensus among trumpetist alumni of the Ray Charles band.











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