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RAY CHARLES
Paris 1968 [no label, 2CD]
Live at the Salle Pleyel, Paris, France; October 8-9, 1968. Fairly to very good audio (ripped from TV broadcast/DVD).
Thanks to VDGG86 for sharing the DVD at Dime.
The TV broadcast/DVD seems to be a combination of the concerts from two days.
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Episode A
Track 01. Intro/Swing A Little Taste 5:02
Track 02. The Sun Died 6:36
Track 03. Untitled/Yesterday 11:11
Track 04. A Sweet Young Thing Like You/My Funny Valentine 8:47
Track 05. What’d I Say/Outro 9:21
41 mins
Episode B
Track 06. Intro 1:46
Track 07. Bright Lights And You Girl 2:41
Track 08. Georgia On My Mind/Instrumental 7:41
Track 09. I’ve Had My Fun (Billy Preston vocals)/Tell All The World About You 9:20
Track 10. A Tear Fell/Eleanor Rigby/What I’d Say/Outro 17:33
39 mins
Lineup:
Ray Charles - piano, vocals
Wallace Davenport, Phil Guilbeau, Virgil Jones, David Philips - trumpet
Henry Coker, Glenn Childress, Fred Murrell - trombone
Fred Johnson, Jay Clyde Miller - alto saxophone
Nathan Davis, Daniel Jackson - tenor saxophone
Leroy Cooper - bass
Billy Preston, or Fred Robinson - guitar
Edgar Willis - bass
Roger Humphries - drums
The Raelettes:
Verlyn Flenaugh, Susaye Greene, Barbara Ann Lesure, Barbara Nell Terrault - vocals
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