Live in Concert (Ray Charles album)
1965 live album by Ray Charles
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Live in Concert is a live album by Ray Charles released in 1965 by ABC-Paramount Records. The recording was made at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California in September 1964 following a tour of Japan.
ReleasedJanuary 1965
RecordedSeptember 20, 1964
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| Released | January 1965 | |||
| Recorded | September 20, 1964 | |||
| Venue | Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California | |||
| Genre | Soul | |||
| Length | 37:45 75:17 (2011 reissue) | |||
| Label | ABC | |||
| Producer | Sid Feller | |||
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In 2011, the record was remastered and reissued on CD with new liner notes and previously unreleased tracks, extending the record to over an hour's worth of music.[2]
Chart performance
Track listings
Original LP
- Side A
- "Opening" – 0:35
- "Swing a Little Taste" (Julian Priester) – 3:35
- "I Got a Woman" (Charles, Richard) – 6:10
- "Margie" (Con Conrad, Davis, J. Russel Robinson) – 2:39
- "You Don't Know Me" (Eddy Arnold, Cindy Walker) – 3:14
- "Hide nor Hair" (Percy Mayfield) – 2:57
- Side B
- "Baby, Don't You Cry" (Buddy Johnson, Washington) – 2:35
- "Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 6:17
- "Hallelujah I Love Her So" (Charles) – 2:55
- "Don't Set Me Free" (Agnes Jones, Freddy James) – 3:58
- "What'd I Say" (Charles) – 4:30
- "Finale" – 1:55
2011 reissue
- "Opening" – 0:39
- "Swing a Little Taste" (Priester) – 3:37
- "One Mint Julep" (Toombs) – 2:58
- "I Got a Woman" – 6:08
- "Georgia on My Mind" (Carmichael, Gorrell) – 7:26
- "Margie" – 2:17
- "You Don't Know Me" – 3:15
- "Hide Nor Hair" – 2:54
- "That Lucky Old Sun" (Gillespie, Smith) – 5:12
- "Baby, Don't You Cry" – 2:40
- "In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)" (Carr, Ledbetter, Raye) – 6:50
- "Hallelujah, I Love Her So" – 2:58
- "Makin' Whoopee" – 6:10
- "Busted" (Howard) – 2:23
- "Don't Set Me Free" – 3:49
- "Two Ton Tessie" (Handman, Turk) – 4:42
- "My Baby (I Love Her, Yes I Do)" (Charles) – 5:01
- "What'd I Say" – 4:25
- "Finale" – 1:56
Personnel
- Ray Charles – piano, Hammond organ (on "One Mint Julep", "Georgia on My Mind", "That Lucky Old Sun" and the intro to "What'd I Say?"), vocals
- Oliver Beener – trumpet
- Wallace Davenport – trumpet
- Philip Guilbeau – trumpet
- John Hunt – trumpet, flugelhorn
- Henderson Chambers – trombone
- James Harbert – trombone
- Frederic "Keg" Johnson – trombone
- Julian Priester – trombone
- Bennie "Hank" Crawford – alto saxophone
- William "Buddy" Pearson – alto saxophone, flute
- David "Fathead" Newman – tenor saxophone
- Leroy "Hog" Cooper – baritone saxophone
- Don Peake – guitar[4]
- Edgar Willis – bass
- Wilbert Hogan – drums
- The Raelettes – backing vocals
- Gwen Berry
- Lillian Forte
- Pat Lyle
- Darlene MacRae
- Technical
- Wally Heider – engineer, recording
- Ray Hearne – photography
Charts
| Chart (1965) | Peak position |
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| US Billboard Top LPs[3] | 80 |