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Showing posts with label Album 2000 Olympia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Album 2000 Olympia. Show all posts

09 November 2014

Hey Girl

Album (DVD): Ray Charles à L'Olympia, Music Video Distributors, 2006 (2000).
Album (CD): Ray Charles à L'Olympia, XIII Bis Records, 11 January 2005 (2000), 640543 2.

The song was written in 1963 by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. Brother Ray 'found it back' in his frailer days. (I hope that Melbourne concert from '67 will be made public someday soon...).

Paris 2000 (track #11):


'67 LC Melbourne
00 LC Moscow
00 LC Paris - Released
01 LC Waterloo
02 LC Pasadena
02 LC NewJersey

20 October 2014

Route 66

Album (DVD): Ray Charles à L'Olympia, Music Video Distributors, 2006 (2000).
Album (CD): Ray Charles à L'Olympia, XIII Bis Records, 11 January 2005 (2000), 640543 2.

After singing the song with Ella Fitzgerald at the Moulin Rouge in 1989, Ray kept the song on his repertoire for trio gigs.
But the scene in the biopic Ray, where 'he' plays this Nat Cole signature tune in his 'early years' in Seattle is of course quite authentic:

Ray, 2004:


Arsenio 1993 (starts at 5:39):


Paris 2000:


'93 TV Arsenio
'99 LC Marciac
00 LC Paris - Released
03 LC Melbourne
03 LC Whitehouse
03 LC Achievement

11 October 2014

The Way You Look Tonight

Album (CD): Ray Charles à L'Olympia, XIII Bis Records 640543 2, 11 January 2005 (2000).

On August 10, 1999 the Jazz In Marciac festival announced a surprise package: the "Ray Charles Quartet - with special guest David 'Fathead' Newman".

Having to record this song with Steve Turre just a few days later (be it in a different arrangement), gave Ray and Peter Turre a good reason for a live 'rehearsal'.
Hopefully there's still a good recording floating around somewhere (I have listened to a low quality audience-taped recording of the concert).

Ray Charles - p; David Fathead Newman - ts, fl; Brad Rabuchin - g; Tom Fowler - b; Peter Turre - d; Georges Arvanitas - p.

Live:
In 2000, at the Olympia concert in Paris, Ray played the tune again, now only with his rhythm trio (Rabuchin/Fowler/P. Turre).

00 LC Paris - Released

(Track #2):

27 February 2010

Ray Charles Live At The Olympia (2000)


  1. Intro
  2. Untitled instrumental*
  3. Just The Way You Look Tonight (instrumental)
  4. Route 66
  5. A Song For You 
  6. Hallelujah I Just Love Her So
  7. Georgia On My Mind
  8. Stranger In My Own Home Town
  9. Angelina
  10. I've Got A Woman
  11. Hey Girl
  12. Almost Like Being In Love**
  13. Just For A Thrill 
  14. It Had To Be You 
  15. What'd I Say 
* Erroneously named Blues For Big Scotia on the DVD's tracklist. ** Erroneously titled Almost Like Being In Love Again.
    From Billboard, 15 Oct. 1966.
    On November 22, 2000 Ray Charles was supposed to play with his big band and The Raelettes, but due to an air traffic controllers lightning strike in Lisbon, his personnel was stuck at the airport. The day of the concert Ray arrived in Paris with only his rhythm section. They worked out a new show at their hotel, and came on stage late. The recording was directed by Gérard Pullicino.

    It resulted in a unique unplugged concert film. Tom Fowler stated, "Trouées! J'avais perdu mes chaussures dans les coulisses, mais j'avais retrouvé la joie de jouer avec Ray" (I've lost my shoes backstage, but I've found back the joy of playing with Ray).
    Jean-Pierre Grosz, Ray's agent in France and the producer of some of his last albums, insisted that this concert took place 40 years after his first triumph at the Olympia theater (where, in reality, Ray made his Olympia debut in 1962).  Read full story here (in French).

    Line-up:
    Ray Charles, keyboards, vocal; Brad Rabuchin, guitar; Tom Fowler, acoustic double bass; Peter Turre, drums.

    DVD (including bonus interviews): Music Video Distributors, 2006 (2000). Audio CD: XIII Bis Records, 11 January 2005, 640543 2; ASIN: B0006B7IH6.

    (I've also found an (A+ quality) recording - possibly an audio bootleg - of this concert, where the first three songs (Blues For Big Scotia, The Way You Look Tonight and Route 66) are missing. This cut has kept the (brief) concert's intro (which hasn't been specified in the track list of the video release).

    Complete concert: