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Ray Charles and one of the Raelettes in Hollywood, 1962. Photographed by William Claxton, as reprinted in Exposure magazine, December 1989.
Porgy and Bess
Double Vinyl Album .
My early Xmas present from my daughter and son-in-law.
A1 - Summertime (Instrumental)
A2 - Summertime
A3 - My Man's Gone Now
A4 - A Woman Is A Sometime Thing
A5 -They Pass By Singin'
B1 - What You Want Wid Bess?
B2 - I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' (Instrumental)
B3 - I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
B4 - Buzzard Song
B5 - Bess, You Is My Woman
B6 - Oh, Doctor Jesus
C1 - Crab Man
C2 - Here Come De Honey Man
C3 - Strawberry Woman (Instrumental)
C4 - Strawberry Woman
C5 - It Ain't Necessarily So (Instrumental)
C6 - It Ain't Necessarily So
C7 - There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York
C8 -There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York (Instrumental)
D1 - I Loves You, Porgy (Instrumental)
D2 - I Loves You, Porgy
D3 - Oh, Bess, Oh Where's My Bess (Instrumental)
D4 - Oh, Bess, Oh Where's My Bess
D5 - Oh Lord, I'm On My Way
The Shady Ladies sing backup for the Reed Fromer Band in "Let Me Take You Over" by Ray Charles, as backup singers for the Reed Fromer Band. They rocked the house in their first performance at the Fenix in San Rafael.
This local singing group is led by our friend BJ Martin, directed by their teacher Reed Fromer, and includes includes my lovely wife Phyllis.
Thank you, Shady Ladies!
Watch this video of their show at the Fenix:
View photos of the Shady Ladies: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157644672884977
On a recent visit to Albany, GA with one of best friends (also Flickr friend), Tammy Kwan, we went to several places of interest there, and that I had really been wanting to go see. Ray Charles was born in Albany, Georgia. This statue slowly rotates and his music plays out into the plaza as it does. Of course being a Georgian, his version of Georgia on My Mind is a favorite and our state song, adopted in 1979.
Grammy Awards - rehearsal - February, 1990 - Permission granted to copy, publish or post but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can
"I'll throw in the black keys for free"
Ray's Music Exchange in Calumet City, Illinois has the best electric piano in the city of Chicago. It can be yours for the low price of $2000 bucks and you could take it home with you and Ray will throw in the black keys for free.
The Blues Brothers has stood the test of time as it is one of the most entertaining movies filled with great music including the late great Ray Charles.
Ray's includes a fully stocked showroom with guitars, amps, mics, tv's, and toasters. Don't mind the bullet holes next to the guitar hanging on the wall - it breaks everyone's hearts when a boy that young goes bad. Although some say the best piano in the city of Chicago has no action left in the keyboard; Ray disagreed and the patrons break out into a spirited rendition of the classic Shake A Tail Feather.
When I set out to build Ray's Music Exchange it had to have the mural of the great blue's legends but with a LEGO flair. One artist that I knew possessed the skills and quality required is the incredibly talented Greg Hyland ( www.lethargiclad.com/). I knew Greg from attending Brickworld in Chicago over the years and when I emailed him with my vision - he was instantly on board and he didn't disappoint. The mural was spot on and was everything that I had hoped.
The next step was printing Greg's art onto the brick. I didn't want to use a sticker or decal - it needed to be printed so the colors would shine. I had long been a fan of Terry Akuna's printing on LEGO and he was also excited for the project and took extra time to get it perfect printed onto the bricks. (www.bricklink.com/store/home.page?p=terryakuna#/shop?o={"showHomeItems":1})
The build was powered up with lights from www.lifelites.com
Finally my 14 year old daughter had become a pro at cutting vinyl and was able to reproduce Ray's signs with her expert font and lettering skills. She has been able to reproduce my LUG's logo for car window decals, coffee cups, shirts, and new lettering on my steam engines. macismonograms.blogspot.com/
If you are unfamiliar with The Blues Brothers - stop reading this and go watch Jake and Elwood try and get the band back together!
Now on LEGO Ideas! ideas.lego.com/projects/167206
get the entire story behind the enigmatic and Londons most prolific artist who inspired the crowd:
UR SO PORNO BABY! if u want it
Mr. Fahrenheit: Die wahre Geschichte
276 pages
as book and e-book
now available on
amazon.de- amzn.to/2jUhdvk
amazon.co.uk- amzn.eu/cTmEGzJ
amazon.com- a.co/gWFWbyU
The Shady Ladies sing backup for the Reed Fromer Band in "Let Me Take You Over" by Ray Charles, as backup singers for the Reed Fromer Band. They rocked the house in their first performance at the Fenix in San Rafael.
This local singing group is led by our friend BJ Martin, directed by their teacher Reed Fromer, and includes includes my lovely wife Phyllis.
Thank you, Shady Ladies!
Watch this video of their show at the Fenix:
View photos of the Shady Ladies: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157644672884977
The Shady Ladies sing backup for the Reed Fromer Band in "Let Me Take You Over" by Ray Charles, as backup singers for the Reed Fromer Band. They rocked the house in their first performance at the Fenix in San Rafael.
This local singing group is led by our friend BJ Martin, directed by their teacher Reed Fromer, and includes includes my lovely wife Phyllis.
Thank you, Shady Ladies!
Watch this video of their show at the Fenix:
View photos of the Shady Ladies: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157644672884977
Shot at age of 13 weeks.
Though posed by us, still funny, right?
Otis was listening to "Unchain My heart" by Ray Charles. A serious music lover.
"I'll throw in the black keys for free"
Ray's Music Exchange in Calumet City, Illinois has the best electric piano in the city of Chicago. It can be yours for the low price of $2000 bucks and you could take it home with you and Ray will throw in the black keys for free.
The Blues Brothers has stood the test of time as it is one of the most entertaining movies filled with great music including the late great Ray Charles.
Ray's includes a fully stocked showroom with guitars, amps, mics, tv's, and toasters. Don't mind the bullet holes next to the guitar hanging on the wall - it breaks everyone's hearts when a boy that young goes bad. Although some say the best piano in the city of Chicago has no action left in the keyboard; Ray disagreed and the patrons break out into a spirited rendition of the classic Shake A Tail Feather.
When I set out to build Ray's Music Exchange it had to have the mural of the great blue's legends but with a LEGO flair. One artist that I knew possessed the skills and quality required is the incredibly talented Greg Hyland ( www.lethargiclad.com/). I knew Greg from attending Brickworld in Chicago over the years and when I emailed him with my vision - he was instantly on board and he didn't disappoint. The mural was spot on and was everything that I had hoped.
The next step was printing Greg's art onto the brick. I didn't want to use a sticker or decal - it needed to be printed so the colors would shine. I had long been a fan of Terry Akuna's printing on LEGO and he was also excited for the project and took extra time to get it perfect printed onto the bricks. (www.bricklink.com/store/home.page?p=terryakuna#/shop?o={"showHomeItems":1})
The build was powered up with lights from www.lifelites.com
Finally my 14 year old daughter had become a pro at cutting vinyl and was able to reproduce Ray's signs with her expert font and lettering skills. She has been able to reproduce my LUG's logo for car window decals, coffee cups, shirts, and new lettering on my steam engines. macismonograms.blogspot.com/
If you are unfamiliar with The Blues Brothers - stop reading this and go watch Jake and Elwood try and get the band back together!
Now on LEGO Ideas! ideas.lego.com/projects/167206
get the entire story behind the enigmatic and Londons most prolific artist who inspired the crowd:
UR SO PORNO BABY! if u want it
Mr. Fahrenheit: Die wahre Geschichte
276 pages
as book and e-book
now available on
amazon.de- amzn.to/2jUhdvk
amazon.co.uk- amzn.eu/cTmEGzJ
amazon.com- a.co/gWFWbyU
The Shady Ladies sing backup for the Reed Fromer Band in "Let Me Take You Over" by Ray Charles, as backup singers for the Reed Fromer Band. They rocked the house in their first performance at the Fenix in San Rafael.
This local singing group is led by our friend BJ Martin, directed by their teacher Reed Fromer, and includes includes my lovely wife Phyllis.
Thank you, Shady Ladies!
Watch this video of their show at the Fenix:
View photos of the Shady Ladies: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157644672884977
The electric Rhodes piano played a tremendous role in music, used by Jazz, R& B, and Rock keyboardists. Ray Charles played one on "Shake A Tailfeather - if you haven't heard this song check it out on the Blues Brothers Soundtrack ) , Stevie Wonder, Chick Corea, Billy Joel, Joe Zawinul, Donny Hathaway, Billy Preston ( especially while playing with The Beatles ) , Jamiroquai, Herbie Hancock, Steely Dan, and Pink Floyd all used its distinctive tone at various parts of their careers.
Directed by John Landis
Starring John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Carrie Fisher, John Candy
The Shady Ladies sing backup for the Reed Fromer Band in "Let Me Take You Over" by Ray Charles, as backup singers for the Reed Fromer Band. They rocked the house in their first performance at the Fenix in San Rafael.
This local singing group is led by our friend BJ Martin, directed by their teacher Reed Fromer, and includes includes my lovely wife Phyllis.
Thank you, Shady Ladies!
Watch this video of their show at the Fenix:
View photos of the Shady Ladies: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157644672884977
"I'll throw in the black keys for free"
Ray's Music Exchange in Calumet City, Illinois has the best electric piano in the city of Chicago. It can be yours for the low price of $2000 bucks and you could take it home with you and Ray will throw in the black keys for free.
The Blues Brothers has stood the test of time as it is one of the most entertaining movies filled with great music including the late great Ray Charles.
Ray's includes a fully stocked showroom with guitars, amps, mics, tv's, and toasters. Don't mind the bullet holes next to the guitar hanging on the wall - it breaks everyone's hearts when a boy that young goes bad. Although some say the best piano in the city of Chicago has no action left in the keyboard; Ray disagreed and the patrons break out into a spirited rendition of the classic Shake A Tail Feather.
When I set out to build Ray's Music Exchange it had to have the mural of the great blue's legends but with a LEGO flair. One artist that I knew possessed the skills and quality required is the incredibly talented Greg Hyland ( www.lethargiclad.com/). I knew Greg from attending Brickworld in Chicago over the years and when I emailed him with my vision - he was instantly on board and he didn't disappoint. The mural was spot on and was everything that I had hoped.
The next step was printing Greg's art onto the brick. I didn't want to use a sticker or decal - it needed to be printed so the colors would shine. I had long been a fan of Terry Akuna's printing on LEGO and he was also excited for the project and took extra time to get it perfect printed onto the bricks. (www.bricklink.com/store/home.page?p=terryakuna#/shop?o={"showHomeItems":1})
The build was powered up with lights from www.lifelites.com
Finally my 14 year old daughter had become a pro at cutting vinyl and was able to reproduce Ray's signs with her expert font and lettering skills. She has been able to reproduce my LUG's logo for car window decals, coffee cups, shirts, and new lettering on my steam engines. macismonograms.blogspot.com/
If you are unfamiliar with The Blues Brothers - stop reading this and go watch Jake and Elwood try and get the band back together!
Now on LEGO Ideas! ideas.lego.com/projects/167206
The Shady Ladies sing backup for the Reed Fromer Band in "Let Me Take You Over" by Ray Charles, as backup singers for the Reed Fromer Band. They rocked the house in their first performance at the Fenix in San Rafael.
This local singing group is led by our friend BJ Martin, directed by their teacher Reed Fromer, and includes includes my lovely wife Phyllis.
Thank you, Shady Ladies!
Watch this video of their show at the Fenix:
View photos of the Shady Ladies: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157644672884977
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The Shady Ladies sing backup for the Reed Fromer Band in "Let Me Take You Over" by Ray Charles, as backup singers for the Reed Fromer Band. They rocked the house in their first performance at the Fenix in San Rafael.
This local singing group is led by our friend BJ Martin, directed by their teacher Reed Fromer, and includes includes my lovely wife Phyllis.
Thank you, Shady Ladies!
Watch this video of their show at the Fenix:
View photos of the Shady Ladies: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157644672884977
Hey guys. I am sorry that i haven`t upload anything for so long. I was busy with work and everything. My friend and I decided to take some photos of her. During the work I tried some new thing in photoshop like using Vanishing point. It was kinda fun and i really enjoyed it. You should visit my tumblr and my Facebook page for more stuff
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Canon EOS 60D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f / 3,5-5,6 IS
Strobist: vivtar 285 hv on camera left and second vivitar 283 on camera right
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The Shady Ladies sing backup for the Reed Fromer Band in "Let Me Take You Over" by Ray Charles, as backup singers for the Reed Fromer Band. They rocked the house in their first performance at the Fenix in San Rafael.
This local singing group is led by our friend BJ Martin, directed by their teacher Reed Fromer, and includes includes my lovely wife Phyllis.
Thank you, Shady Ladies!
Watch this video of their show at the Fenix:
View photos of the Shady Ladies: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157644672884977
Statue of Ray Charles in Ray Charles Plaza in downtown Albany. Week 50 of 52.5 of 2010. The theme is MUSIC.
Directed by John Landis
Starring John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Carrie Fisher, John Candy
Dutch postcard by Gebr. Spanjersberg N.V., Rotterdam, no. 1162.
Blind American singer, songwriter, musician, and composer Ray Charles (1930-2004) was called "The Genius of Soul". His 1950s hits like 'Mess Around', 'Things I Used to Do', and 'What'd I Say', put Atlantic Records on the map. The man with the trademark jet dark sunglasses was the first artist to combine blues, rhythm and blues, and gospel styles into soul music. Under ABC-Paramount, he scored big hits with 'I Can't Stop Loving You', 'Hit the Road Jack', and 'Georgia On My Mind', in which he integrated country music, rhythm and blues, and pop music. Charles also showed up sporadically in films like Ballad in Blue (1965) and The Blues Brothers (1980) with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi.
Ray Charles was born Raymond Charles Robinson in 1930 in Albany, Georgia. His parents were Bailey Robinson, a laborer, and Aretha (or Reatha) Williams, a teenage orphan making a living as a sharecropper. His impoverished family moved to Greenville, Florida while he was still an infant. His father soon abandoned the family and his baby brother, George Robinson, drowned in a freak washtub accident at the age of four. Ray himself developed glaucoma at the age of five and within two years had lost his sight completely. He was deeply devoted to his mother and later recalled her perseverance, self-sufficiency, and pride as guiding lights in his life. A singer in a Baptist choir, he developed a love and feel for rhythms and from 1937 to 1945, he studied music at the State School for Deaf and Blind Children. His teacher, Mrs. Lawrence, taught him how to use braille music, and he was taught to play the classical piano music of J.S. Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. It also brought out his talent and ear for playing other instruments, such as the clarinet. Gary Brumburgh at IMDb: "A tragic fate may have given this visionary a heightened sensitivity, perception, awareness, even expansion to his obvious musical gifts that he may have never touched upon had he not suffered from his physical affliction. Whatever it was, Ray Charles revolutionized American music and was catapulted to legendary status by the time he died in Beverly Hills at age 73." In 1944, his mother died. Her death came as a shock to the 14-year-old Ray. He later said the deaths of his brother and mother were "the two great tragedies" of his life. Charles returned to school after the funeral but was expelled for playing a prank on his teacher. At age 16, Ray joined a country band called The Florida Playboys. He dropped the 'Robinson' from his name to avoid confusion with boxer Sugar Ray Robinson. In 1948, he moved to Seattle where he and Southern guitarist Gossady McGee formed the McSon Trio. With an emphasis on easy-styled jazz, Ray also played in bebop sessions on the sly. He departed from the McSon Trio and signed with Los Angeles-based Swing Time Records, becoming the pianist for rhythm and blues great Lowell Fulson and his band. Atlantic Records eventually picked him up. Along the road he would add composer, writer and arranger to his formidable list of talents.
Ray Charles's first R&B hit was 'Confession Blues' in Los Angeles in 1949. For Swing Time Records, he had his first solo chart busters with 'Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand' (1951), which reached number five, and 'Kissa Me Baby' (1952), which reached number eight. Swing Time folded the following year, and Ahmet Ertegün signed him to Atlantic. His amazing versatility and raw, soulful delivery quickly caught on with audiences and helped put Atlantic Records on the map. Hits like 'Mess Around' (1953), 'Things I Used to Do', 'A Fool for You', 'I've Got a Woman' (1954), 'Drown in My Own Tears', and especially 'What'd I Say' (1959), pushed gospel and R&B to a wider crossover audience. He also recorded jazz, such as The Great Ray Charles (1957) and worked with vibraphonist Milt Jackson, releasing Soul Brothers in 1958 and Soul Meeting in 1961. By 1958, he was not only headlining black venues such as the Apollo Theater in New York, but also bigger venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Newport Jazz Festival where his first live album was recorded in 1958. He made a move into the country music arena - unheard of for a black singer - in the 1960s, doing soulful spins on Hank Williams and Eddy Arnold tunes. In 1960, he left Atlantic and signed with ABC-Paramount. It was his peak time with the # 1 pop hits 'Georgia On My Mind' (1960), 'Hit the Road Jack' (1961), and 'I Can't Stop Loving You' (1962). His landmark 1962 album 'Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music' brought a new swinging style to country music. While he was with ABC, Charles became one of the first black musicians to be granted artistic control by a mainstream record company.
From there, Ray Charles traveled a mainstream route - from interpreting songs from The Beatles ('Eleanor Rigby') to appearing in Diet Pepsi ads ('You Got the Right One, Baby, Uh-huh!'). He also showed up sporadically in films, playing himself in Ballad in Blue (1965) and guest-starring in The Blues Brothers (1980) with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. A television musical variety favorite with his trademark dark sunglasses and dry humor, he worked alongside such musical legends as Ella Fitzgerald and Barbra Streisand on their very special evenings of song. Gary Brumburgh: "It is hard to believe that with everything he accomplished, Ray also had to deal with a longstanding heroin problem. In the mid-1960s, he was arrested for possession of heroin and marijuana and revealed that he had been addicted for nearly two decades. By 1965, he had completely recovered." Charles appeared in such films as the British film Ballad in Blue (Paul Henreid, 1965) with Tom Bell and Mary Peach, and the blockbuster The Blues Brothers (John Landis, 1980) with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. In 1985, Charles participated in the famous musical recording and video 'We Are the World', a charity single recorded by the supergroup United Support of Artists (USA) for Africa. Charles is a 17-time Grammy Award winner. He was honoured with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987. At the time of his death, he was working on a recording project of duets with such performers as Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, B.B. King, Elton John and Norah Jones. This collaboration entitled 'Genius Loves Company' led to an incisive win at the Grammy Awards - eight posthumous trophies including 'Album of the Year' and 'Record of the Year'. Ray Charles died in 2004 in Beverly Hills of liver failure. he was married twice: to Eileen Williams from 1951 till 1952, and to Della Beatrice Howard from 1955 till their divorce in 1977. They had three children. The man who lived life on the edge had many girlfriends. Charles stated in his 1978 autobiography, Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story, that he became hooked on women after losing his virginity at 12 years old to a woman about 20. He had 12 children, 20 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. His long-term girlfriend and partner at the time of his death was Norma Pinella. At the time of his death, the feature film Ray (Taylor Hackford, 2004), starring Jamie Foxx, was released.
Sources: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
some art drops in town 4 x-
yesterday:
ray on ft
somewhere in shoreditch
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get the entire story behind the enigmatic and Londons most prolific artist who inspired the crowd:
UR SO PORNO BABY! if u want it
Mr. Fahrenheit: Die wahre Geschichte
276 pages
as book and e-book
now available on
amazon.de- amzn.to/2jUhdvk
amazon.co.uk- amzn.eu/cTmEGzJ
amazon.com- a.co/gWFWbyU
Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ Super Bowl-winning quarterback Tom Brady accompanies Ray Charles in this new downtown Tampa mural. Although born in Georgia, Ray Charles spent much of his early life in Florida and before he achieved national and global fame, he had chi ever the status of a local legend with his performances in Tampa.