Live in Concert (Ray Charles album)

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Live in Concert
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ReleasedJanuary 1965
RecordedSeptember 20, 1964
Venue Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California
Genre Soul
Length37:45
75:17 (2011 reissue)
Label ABC 500
Producer Sid Feller
Ray Charles chronology
Have a Smile with Me
(1964)
Live in Concert
(1965)
Together Again/Country and Western Meets Rhythm and Blues
(1965)
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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.

Contents

In 2011, the record was remastered and reissued on CD with new liner notes and previously unreleased tracks, extending the record to well over an hour's worth of music. [2]

Original LP track listing

LP side A: [3]

  1. "Opening" – 0:35
  2. "Swing A Little Taste" (Julian Priester) – 3:35
  3. "I Got a Woman" (Charles, Richard) – 6:10
  4. "Margie" (Con Conrad, Davis, J. Russel Robinson) – 2:39
  5. "You Don't Know Me" (Eddy Arnold, Cindy Walker) – 3:14
  6. "Hide nor Hair" (Percy Mayfield) – 2:57

LP side B:

  1. "Baby, Don't You Cry" (Buddy Johnson, Washington) – 2:35
  2. "Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 6:17
  3. "Hallelujah I Love Her So" (Charles) – 2:55
  4. "Don't Set Me Free" (Agnes Jones, Freddy James) – 3:58
  5. "What'd I Say" (Charles) – 4:30
  6. "Finale" – 1:55

2011 reissue track listing

  1. "Opening" – 0:39
  2. "Swing A Little Taste" (Priester) – 3:37
  3. "One Mint Julep" (Toombs) – 2:58
  4. "I Got A Woman" – 6:08
  5. "Georgia On My Mind" (Carmichael, Gorrell) – 7:26
  6. "Margie" – 2:17
  7. "You Don't Know Me" – 3:15
  8. "Hide Nor Hair" – 2:54
  9. "That Lucky Old Sun" (Gillespie, Smith) – 5:12
  10. "Baby, Don't You Cry" – 2:40
  11. "In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down)" (Carr, Ledbetter, Raye) – 6:50
  12. "Hallelujah, I Love Her So" – 2:58
  13. "Makin' Whoopee" – 6:10
  14. "Busted" (Howard) – 2:23
  15. "Don't Set Me Free" – 3:49
  16. "Two Ton Tessie" (Handman, Turk) – 4:42
  17. "My Baby (I Love Her, Yes I Do)" (Charles) – 5:01
  18. "What'd I Say" – 4:25
  19. "Finale" – 1:56

Personnel

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. "Live In Concert". Concordmusicgroup.com. Retrieved 2012-01-07.
  3. discogs.com
  4. "Ray Charles Video Museum: Ray Charles Live in Concert (1964)". 25 February 2010.