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Showing posts with label With Vernita Moss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label With Vernita Moss. Show all posts

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).

01 November 2014

Leave My Man Alone (The Raelettes, Ft Vernita Moss, Ray Charles On Keyboards)

Single (B): Tangerine 1017, June 1971, b/w Here I Go Again.
Album3: (Ray Charles Presents The) Raeletts, Yesterday... Today... Tomorrow, Tangerine 1515, 1972.

Leave My Woman Alone, from a female perspective, featuring the "evilest" contra-alto of Vernita Moss.

The Raelettes' probable line-up: Vernita Moss, Susaye Green, Mable John, Dorothy Berry and ?Estella Yarbrough?. Recorded at RPM International in Los Angeles.



See and hear another sample of the "devilish" Vernita here (Copenhagen 1972; starts at 98'35, or begin at 87'35 if you want all the fun).

Live:
'71 LC San Carlos
'71 LC Torino - Bootlegged
'71 LC Paris
'72 LC Copenhagen - Stream available

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).