Amen (With Sara Jordan Powell A.O.)

Album (VHS, France): Ray Charles Live, Cinéthèque VCV 402, S.a.

From the TV show Christmas In Ettal - A Black Ceremony at a Monastery in Germany, taped (most probably) in 1976, on Christmas Eve.

With Donna Lynton, Rick Abao, Joe Bourne, John Waddel, Charles Williams - vo.

Partial(starts at 4'15):

Go Tell It On The Mountain (With Sara Jordan Powell A.O.)

Album (VHS, France): Ray Charles Live, Cinéthèque VCV 402, S.a.

Typically the kind of up-tempo spiritual where Ray always stayed away from. For good reasons.

Also with singers Donna Lynton, Rick Abao, Joe Bourne, John Waddel, Charles Williams, and the München Gospel Choir. The musicians were Sal Nistico - tenor saxophone; Carmell Jones, Benny Baily - trumpet; Slide Hampton - trombone; Jimmy Jackson - Hammond; Carl Preacher - piano; John C. Marshall - guitar; Bert Thompson - bass; George Green - drums; Lamont Hampton - percussion.

Merry Christmas Baby

Album (VHS, France): Ray Charles Live, Cinéthèque VCV 402, S.a.

A great rendition of the Charles Brown song, from the TV show Christmas In Ettal - A Black Ceremony at a Monastery in Germany, taped (most probably) in 1976, on Christmas Eve.
The VHS erroneously titled the song Santa Claus Blues.

With Sal Nistico - tenor saxophone; Carmell Jones, Benny Baily - trumpet; Slide Hampton - trombone; Jimmy Jackson - Hammond; Carl Preacher - piano; John C. Marshall - guitar; Bert Thompson - bass; George Green - drums; Lamont Hampton - percussion.



Live:
On 19 December 1977, at an Atlantic Records sponsored concert in Avery Fisher Hall, Ray played the tune as an encore, live with Milt Jackson. If it was recorded, the taping didn't survive.