Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (By Stefanie Minatee, Ray Charles On Keyboards)

Album (DVD): Ray Charles Celebrates A Gospel Christmas, Urban Works, 23 November 2004 (2002).

Filmed at the Resch Center in Green Bay (WI), on 8 December 2002, with the Voices of Jubilation Gospel Choir of Newark.

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (By Harold Dudley, Ray Charles On Keyboards)

Album (DVD): Ray Charles Celebrates A Gospel Christmas, Urban Works, 23 November 2004 (2002).

Filmed at the Resch Center in Green Bay (WI), on 8 December 2002, with the Voices of Jubilation Gospel Choir of Newark.

Oh Happy Day

Album (VHS, DVD): Ray Charles Celebrates A Gospel Christmas, Urban Works, 23 November 2004; CD: EMI Records, 27 November 2006.

Recorded on 8 December 2002 at the Resch Center in Green Bay (WI) with the Voices of Jubilation Gospel Choir.



Live:
'78 LC Montreux - Partial, in medley

Silent Night

Album (VHS, DVD): Ray Charles Celebrates A Gospel Christmas, Urban Works, 23 November 2004; CD: EMI Records, 27 November 2006.

Recorded on 8 December 2002 at the Resch Center in Green Bay (WI) with the Voices of Jubilation Gospel Choir.

What Kind Of Man Is This (With James Cleveland)

Unreleased.

This was a brief pre-taped segment of the TV show Ray Charles - A Man And His Soul, with Jimmy Cleveland and Ray Charles playing one piano, produced in the early summer of 1983. Watch it here (and this for the 1955 original).

Ray played the song with a big choir, at the Ray Charles Celebrates A Gospel Christmas-concert in 2002 (released on DVD):

Ray Charles Celebrates A Gospel Christmas (2002)

Original caption to this Reuters photo: "Singer Ray 
Charles poses at the piano at his Los Angeles 
recording studio August 21, 2002 to promote his 
upcoming Gospel music concert titled The Gospel
According to Ray Charles featuring the Voices of
Jubilation. Charles returns to his roots with this 
first ever Gospel music concert set for September 5 
and 6 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood 
accompanied by the 70 member Voices of Jubilation 
choir from Newark, New Jersey."

An audio version of this show located the concert at the Resch Center in Green Bay (WI), and dated the taping on 8 December 2002. The original plans were different (see caption, right). For this concert Ray Charles was joined by the 70-member* Voices of Jubilation Gospel Choir of Newark.

Ray's voice was frail those years, but in most tunes he wins the listener over by the force of his interpretations - and with some cool keyboard playing.

The footage has been re-released a few times, also abridged, and/or under different titles. The Deluxe Edition CD/DVD released in the winter of 2004 climbed to #2 on the Billboard Gospel Charts. Ray Charles, Jr. was a co-producer, Stuart Benjamin directed and was executive producer with Mike Parris and Jennifer Smith.

VHS: Urban Works, 7 October 2003, ASIN: B0000A2ZT8.

DVD: Urban Works, 23 November 2004, ASIN: B0002VEQKM.

Audio CD: EMI Records, 27 November 2006.

Read press release here. Also read this.

Ray appeared twice on stage, and performed:

1. What Kind Of Man Is This
2. The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)
3. All Night, All Day
4. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (with Harold Dudley)
5. Oh, Happy Day
6. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
7. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Stefanie Minatee; RC - kb)
8. Silent Night
9. Little Drummer Boy
10. America The Beautiful

* Other sources say 100 or 120. 

Full DVD:


The following 1h4m version of the concert presents the materials as if Ray was guesting, but further below, I'm embedding audio files of the tunes (check YouTube for more video footage!):