We're Gonna Make It (The Raelettes)

Until now* I've confused the description of this Raelettes live-song, which was on the band's repertoire between 1978 and 1984, with the We're Gonna Make It-track from the Renaissance album.

This actual tune was written by Billy Preston. Rene Hall penned the arrangement for the band.

Live:
'78 LC Antibes
'84 LC Viareggio
'84 LC Warsaw - Released**
'86 LC Toyohashi

*Thank you, Steve Sigmund. **Search for Ray, then page-search for Warsaw, then go to ~39:20.

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.

After Loving You (The Raelettes, Ft. Susaye Greene, Ray Charles On Keyboards)

Album3: (Ray Charles Presents The) Raeletts, Yesterday... Today... Tomorrow, Tangerine 1515, 1972.

The Raelettes (probable line-up): 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).

All I Need (With The Raelettes)

Album (2-CD): Ray Charles In Concert [in Warsaw], S.l., 2006.

Who knows more about the origin of this song (who wrote it/who first performed it)?

Jazz à Juan/Antibes, 1987 (ft. Elaine Woodard):


Live:
'82 LC Beacon
'84 LC Warsaw - Released
'87 LC Antibes
'88 LC Oklahoma
'89 LC Osaka
'95 LC Greenville

All I Need Is His Love (The Raelettes, Ray Charles On Piano)

Single (A): Tangerine 984, 1968, b/w I'm Gettin' 'Long All Right.
Album3: The Raelettes, Souled Out, Tangerine 1511, 1971.

Ray Charles on piano. The Raelettes (probable line-up): Merry Clayton (lead), Clydie King (contralto), Gwen Berry (alto) and Alex Brown (tenor). Recorded at RPM International, Los Angeles, with uncredited musicians (all or most from the Ray Charles orchestra).

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

Bad Water (The Raelettes, Ft Estella Yarbrough, Ray Charles On Keyboards)

Single (A): Tangerine 1014, 1970, b/w That Goes To Show You.
Album3: (Ray Charles Presents The) Raeletts, Yesterday... Today... Tomorrow, Tangerine 1515, 1972.

The Raelettes (probable line-up): Vernita Moss, Susaye Green, Mable John, ?Dorothy Berry? and Estella Yarbrough. Ray Charles also contributed backing vocals.

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



Live:
'71 LC San Carlos
'71 LC Torino - Bootleg

Bye Bye Love (With The Raelettes)

Album: Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, ABC/Paramount 410, April 1962.

The album was recorded  on  5 and 7 February 1962 at the Capitol Studios in New York City, and on 15 February at the United Recording Studios in Hollywood.

Arranged by Gerald Wilson.

For the little that is known about the personnel, follow the link to the album description, above.



50 Years Of Country Music, 1978 - with Glen Campbell:


Live:
The 1978 duet with Glen Campbell was recorded at the NBC TV show 50 Years Of Country Music, and was released on a compilation DVD, Country's Greatest Stars Live (Vol. 1), Shout Factory, 26 January 2010.

'62 LC Paris - Released
'64 LC England
'78 TV Country  - With Glen Campbell - Released

Can You Love Me Like That (With The Raelettes)

Album: Thanks For Bringing Love Around Again, Crossover 4000, May 2002.

Recorded at Ouistiti Studios and Plus XXX Studios in Paris, RPM International in Los Angeles, and Lighthouse Recording Studio, Studio City, California.

For the personnel, follow the album link, above.

Carry Me Back To Old Virginny (With The Raelettes)

Album: Album: Genius Hits the Road, ABC/Paramount 335, July 1960.
Single (B): ABC 10135, August 1960, b/w Georgia On My Mind.

Recorded at the Capitol Studios in New York on 29 March 1960.

With John Hunt, Marcus Belgrave, Martin Banks - trumpet; David Newman - tenor saxophone, Hank Crawford - alto saxophone, Leroy Cooper - baritone saxophone; Milt Turner - drums; Edgar Willis - bass; The Raelettes - voc.

Arranged and conducted by Ralph Burns, according to the liner notes. In reality, the tune was probably charted by Al Cohn.



O Gênio, São Paulo, 1963:


Live:
The song remained on the band's published longlists from 1961 to 1964.

63 LC Gênio

Chain Of Fools (With The Raelettes, Ft Estella Yarbrough)

Unreleased.

The first known recording at the Fillmore East in New York City on April 18, 1970 may well have been the best. Estella claimed the tune from the beginning until the end.

.
Ray Charles - piano; Blue Mitchell, Bill King, Herbie Anderson, Marshall Hunt - trumpets; Joe Randazzo, Henry Coker, Glenn Childress, Fred Murell - trombones; Andy Ennis, David Newman, Jay Cloyd Miller, Curtis Peagler, Leroy Cooper - saxophones; Ben Martin - guitar; Edgar Willis - bass; Ernie Elly - drums; Kenny Lupper - piano, organ. Raelettes: Mable John - contralto vocal (lead vocal), Susaye Green - soprano vocal, Estella Yarbrough - alto vocal, Vernita Moss - bass vocal.

Live:
'70 LC FillmoreEast
'71 LC San Carlos
'87 LC Antibes
'88 LC Masson
'88 LC Woody
'90 LC Antibes
'90 LC Tokyo
'91 LC Milan
'93 LC Antibes
'94 LC ValleyForge
'95 LC Tramps
'96 LC London
'97 LC Philly
'99 LC NewOrleans NM
'99 LC Rheingau
'02 LC NewJersey

Come Get It, I Got It (The Raelettes, Ft Mable Jones, Ray Charles On Keyboards)

Single3 (A): Tangerine 1024, 197?, b/w Try A Little Kindness.
Album3: (Ray Charles Presents The) Raeletts, Yesterday... Today... Tomorrow, Tangerine 1515, 1972.

The Raelettes (probable line-up): 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).

Do It To Me Slow (The Raelettes, Ft Pat Peterson)

Pat Peterson (video still), by far
the most exuberant dancer in 
the long history of The Raelettes

Unreleased.

Among Ray Charles fans Do It To Me Slow is best known for its triumphant theme, which for many years was played as the introduction 'jingle' for the walk-on of "All 5", a.k.a. The Raelettes. The tune was arranged by Ray Charles and James Polk.
Pat Peterson gave a very vivid performance of the full version of the song during Ray's second concert at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague, on July 13th, 1980.

A sample of the residual version for The Raelettes' walk-on (from Montreux 1997, starts at 45'20):


Live:
'80 LC Northsea

Giving Up (With The Raelettes, Ft. Trudy Cohran / Tonette McKinney)

Unreleased.

Based on Donny Hathaway's 1972 re-interpretation of Gladys Knight's minor hit from 1964.

Ray and the girls kept on to Donny's tempo: a long, slow, soaring love lament. It was performed many times by Trudy Cohran, and (after she left The Raelettes) also by Tonette McKinney.

Tokyo 1990 (starts at 1'14'40) with Trudy Cohran:


Moscow 1994 with Tonette McKnney:


Live:
'90 LC Antibes
'90 LC Caneção
'90 LC Tokyo
'91 LC BlueNote
'94 LC Moscow

Goin' Out Of My Head (With the Raelettes) (?) (Ray Charles Orchestra)

Unreleased.

If this song title, listed in an Australian newspaper, was correct (as far as I know, the Charles troupe didn't perform it elsewhere), the best candidate for Tthe composition is the Randazzo/Weinstein song, made famous by Little Anthony & The Imperials, and Dionne Warwick, and then it would surely have been performed by a Raelette., but... in an instrumental version.

The Genius Of Ray Charles was a 2-part television special with a live concert taped on 18 August 1967, at the Festival Hall in Melbourne.

Live:
'67 LC Pleyel
'67 LC Melbourne NM

Guess Who I Saw Today (With The Raelettes)

Unreleased.

The song, written by Murray Grand and Elisse Boyd, is best known in Nancy Wilson's version. Ray dictated or ordered for a great big band arrangement.

The Raelettes made it into a beautiful show piece (Ray of course turning the intro into a bawdy dialogue).

Live:
'75 LC Brussels
'76 LC Antibes
'78 LC Antibes
'78 LC Antibes
'84 LC Ithaca
'90 LC ArtPark
'95 LC Tramps
'96 LC Lugano
'97 LC WolfTrap
'02 LC NewJersey

He Called Me Baby (All Night Long) (The Raelettes)

Unreleased.

This is the only known recorded performance by The Raelettes of this country song (written in 1962 by Harlan Howard).

Live:
' 73 LC Arbor

Here I Go Again (By The Raelettes, Ray Charles On Keyboards)

Single (A): Tangerine 1017, 1971, b/w Leave My Man Alone.
Album3: (Ray Charles Presents The) Raeletts, Yesterday... Today... Tomorrow, Tangerine 1515, 1972.

Ray Charles on piano. Ft Estella Yarbrough. The Raelettes (probable line-up): Vernita Moss, Susaye Green, Mable John, Dorothy Berry and Estella Yarbrough. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with uncredited (orchestra/session?) musicians.

I Only Have Eyes For You (With The Raelettes, Ft Verlyn Flenaugh)

Unreleased.

This song was only (audience-)taped once at the "Ray Charles Show 1968" in Fresno, on October 25.

"She's gonna talk about what she appreciates in a man," is how Ray introduced Sister Verlyn, who then performed a highly forgettable rock 'n roll song (not the famous A. Dubin/J. Burke tune with the same title).

I Want To (Do Everything For You) (By The Raelettes, Ft Mable John, Ray Charles On Keyboards)

Single (A): Tangerine 1006, 1970, b/w Keep It To Yourself.
Album3: (Ray Charles Presents The) Raeletts, Yesterday... Today... Tomorrow, Tangerine 1515, 1972.

Great Joe Tex song, recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles, with uncredited members of the Ray Charles Orchestra.

The Raelettes, featuring Mable John; plus Vernita Moss, Susaye Green, Mable John, ?Dorothy Berry? and Estella Yarbrough.



Live:
'70 LC FillmoreEast - streaming here