Ray Charles Ft. In Cher (1975)

Cher was a CBS TV show. Ray featured in episode 10 of the second season, aired on 16 November 1975. If the caption to the B/W Getty photos is correct, it was taped on August 7.
Cher opened the show with a medley, followed by a monologue about how exciting it's been working with Ray Charles and Kermit the Frog. Ray performed Living For The City. Cher joined Ray for Georgia On My Mind. Then Kermit appeared with a Bicentennial Minute on the role of frogs in American history. Cher and the Muppet Sweetums sang That Old Black Magic, and Kermit and Ray did their duet on It Ain't Easy Being Green.
Ray made an appearance as an unconvincing bank robber in a sketch. At the end of the show Cher and Ray, joined by The Raelettes, performed a medley of Look What They've Done To My Song, Ma, Take Me Home, Country Roads, Just For a Thrill, Hit the Road Jack and What'd I Say.
The Raelettes' line-up was: [Linda Sims], Dorothy Berry, Estella Yarbrough, [Bernice Hullaby], Madelyn Quebec (names between brackets inferred).

Georgia On My Mind (with Cher):

It Ain’t Easy Being Green (with Kermit):

Look What They've Done To My Song, Ma + Take Me Home, Country Roads (with Cher):

What'd I Say (with Cher):

Living For The City:
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After Bein' Green, Cher and Ray acted out a sketch Cher where was a teller at a bank, and Ray Charles entered with a gun to rob the place. He pointed the gun in the wrong direction, and showed in all other respects that he was ill-suited for this job. The sketch ended as Cher convinced Ray to give her his gun just as the police arrived, and arrested her.

Photo(s?) by Terry O'Neill.

L-R: [Linda Sims], Dorothy Berry, Estella Yarbrough, [Bernice Hullaby], Madelyn Quebec (names between brackets inferred). CBS/Getty Images.

With Cher, Jim Henson, Sweetums, and Raelettes.

Ray Charles & Sesame Street 1975 - 1996 (Part 1)

Ray Charles had a long history with Sesame Street. On 16 November 1975 he appeared on Cher with Kermit the Frog, in a duet of It Ain’t Easy Being Green.

It Ain't Easy Being Green (with Kermit):


On 27 December 1977 (episode 1077) he sang Oh, What a Beautiful Morning with Gordon (Roscoe Orman), Bob (Bob McGrath) and Maria (Sonia Manzano). The episode was produced and directed by Jon Stone. This recording was later released on the album The Stars Come Out On Sesame Street (Sesame Street Records CTW 79007, 1979) and is now available through iTunes.

On 2 February 1979 (episode 1235) he performed I Got a Song, with Ernie on drums and Bert on guitar, and The Alphabet Song (in later edits various celebrities were dubbed in, e.g. Michael Jeter, Patrick Stewart, Tony Bennett, Shari Lewis, Lamb Chop, Harry Belafonte, Grover, David Robinson, and Ellen DeGeneres).

I Got A Song:

Alphabet Song:

In 1996 Ray recorded a second version of the Alphabet Song, which was later also edited with other celibrities.