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Showing posts with label Album3 1993 Raelettes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Album3 1993 Raelettes. Show all posts

20 November 2014

A Lover’s Blues (aka Lover's Blues) (By Margie Hendrix, Backed By The Vocals, Ray Charles On Piano)

Single3 (B): Tangerine TRC 940, April 1964, b/w Let No One Hold You.
Compilation album: The Raelettes, Hits And Rarities, Titanic Records TR-CD 4422, 1993.

Written and produced by Ray Charles (also on piano). The Vocals: Lamonte McLemore, Marilyn McCoo, Harry Elston, and Floyd Butler. David Fathead Newman on tenor sax.

Two years later The Raelettes - with Merry Clayton singing lead - released their version of the song on Tangerine TRC 976.

06 November 2014

If You Wanna Keep Him (aka If You Want To Keep Him) (By The Raelettes, Ray Charles On Keyboards)

Single (A): Tangerine 1031, 1973 (b/w Jimmy Cliff, Many Rivers To Cross).
Album3: The Raelettes, Hits And Rarities, Titanic TR-CD 4422, 1993.

The Raelettes (probable line-up): Vernita Moss, Susaye Green, Mable John, Dorothy Berry and Estella Yarbrough. Recorded at RPM International, Los Angeles, with uncredited musicians (all or most from the Ray Charles Orchestra).

28 October 2014

Many Rivers To Cross (The Raelettes, Ray Charles on keyboards)

Single (B): ABC 1015, March 1971, b/w Booty Butt.
Album3: The Raelettes, Hits And Rarities, Titanic TR-CD 4422, 1993.

Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with uncredited members of the Ray Charles Orchestra.

The girl singing solo sounds most like Dorothy Berry.

The Raelettes (probable line-up): Vernita Moss, Susaye Green, Mable John, and Dorothy Berry.

14 October 2014

That Goes To Show You (The Raelettes, Ray Charles On Piano)

Release fromJuly 1971.
Single (B): Tangerine 1014, 1970, b/w Bad Water.
Album3: The Raelettes, Hits And Rarities, Titanic TR-CD 4422, 1993.

The Raelettes (feasible line-up): Ft. Susaye Greene. Vernita Moss, Susaye Green, Mable John, ?Dorothy Berry? and Estella Yarbrough. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with uncredited members of the Ray Charles Orchestra (and maybe some session musicians).

10 October 2014

Try A Little Kindness (By The Raelettes, Ft Vernita Moss, Ray Charles On Keyboards)

Single (B): Tangerine 1024, 197?, b/w Come Get It, I Got It.
Album3: The Raelettes, Hits And Rarities, Titanic TR-CD 4422, 1993.

Ray Charles on keyboard with The Raelettes, ft. Vernita Moss. The other Raelettes (probable line-up): Susaye Green, Mable John, Dorothy Berry and Estella Yarbrough. Recorded at RPM International, Los Angeles, with uncredited musicians (all or mostly from the Ray Charles orchestra).