Ray Charles
Palasport
Florence (Firenze), Italy
December 5, 1985
Source : AUD > low gen cassette (transferred 9/3/17) (courtesy of MauroVerona)
Editing : Zoom H4n (16/44) > Sound Forge (tracking, volume) > Wave > TLH (sbe aligned) Flac 8
Traders Den - October 29, 2023
tracked & posted by kingrue upload #3812
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I received 2 Ray Charles recordings several years ago from Mauro.
Shortly after I had sent copies to a gentleman who ran the Ray Charles video museum website. His name was Bob Stumpl.
I had asked him to work out the setlist for me, because I am not that familiar with Ray Charles catalog.
Bob had the recordings for a couple years and never got back to me.
Sadly I later found out that he had passed away a couple years ago. So my main source for information was gone.
It was up to me to decipher what was on these tapes.
I spent several days on both of these Italian recordings doing the best I could to figure out the song titles.
There are still some mystery tracks I’m not sure about.
I’ve decided to release them as they are in hopes that somebody can fill in the song titles.
In addition there was conflicting information about the date and venue.
The tape is labeled as Florence Italy December 10.
setlist.fm has Florence as December 5. And December 10 is listed as a Bari Italy.
Due to the discrepancy, there’s no way to know for sure which date this recording comes from.
I’ve decided to label this as December 5 Florence.
Total Time = 72:09
Set list
01 Orchestra
02 Orchestra
03 Ray Charles Intro > ?
04 Busted
05 Georgia On My Mind
06 Some Enchanted Evening
07 Yesterday (The Beatles)
08 Oh, What A Beautiful Morning
09 Knock On Wood (With The Raelettes)
10 Three Quarter Time
11 Born To Love Me
12 Don't Change On Me
13 Then I'll Be Over You
14 I’m Gonna Keep On Singin’
15 What'd I Say
16 We Are the World (With The Raelettes)
17 O Sole Mio
18 Band Leader Outro
Band line-up
Trumpets
Mark Curry
Bobby Rodriguez
Jim Seeley
Jeff Kaye
Trombones
Dan Levine
Steve Baxton
Delfeayo Marsalis
Dana Hughes
Saxophones
Clifford Solomon
Brian Mitchell
Rudy Johnson
Rickey Woodard
Louis Van Taylor
Rhythm
Paul Kreibich - drums
Jeff Pevar - guitar
Roger Hines - bass
Ernest Vantrease - organ, keyboards
The Raelettes:
Trudy Cohran (1977–1991)
Anne Johnson (1981–1985)
Janice Mitchell (1981–1986)
Elaine Woodard (1983–1987)
Estella Yarbrough (1969–2003
