The Personal Conservatory » Ray Charles http://www.personalconservatory.com A blog about exploring a large unknown music collection. Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:49:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Record #71 http://www.personalconservatory.com/music/record-71 http://www.personalconservatory.com/music/record-71#comments Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:27:32 +0000 DJ Drew http://www.personalconservatory.com/?p=514 So losing internet really throws wrench into the website here. However, no fear… I have set a goal to bring you all back up to speed very soon; which should help stop the several loyal readers who have been calling me almost daily to find out what the day’s album was. So as we start to catch up the site with the pile sitting next to me, there was a great album a little over a week ago by Ray Charles!!

This album is actually Volume Two to the first one we had a little bit ago.

Ray Charles
Modern Sounds In Country
And Western Music
Volume Two

From what I was able to gather, side 1 was recorded on September 5th 1962 with the Ray Charles Big Band and the Raelets featuring Margie Hendrix. Side Two was recorded 2 days later on the 7th and was arranged & Conducted by Marty Paichwith with Strings and the Jack Halloran Singers.

On the back cover Sid Feller who was the recording supervisor for the album mentioned he specifically decided to try something a little different by putting the big band cuts on side 1 and the string arrangements on side 2.

Side 1 Sample
Side 2 Sample

Ray Charles - Modern Sounds Volume 2

Ray Charles - Modern Sounds Volume 2

]]> http://www.personalconservatory.com/music/record-71/feed 0 Record #51 http://www.personalconservatory.com/music/record-51 http://www.personalconservatory.com/music/record-51#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:55:37 +0000 DJ Drew http://www.personalconservatory.com/?p=390 It’s Monday- tiered, sleepy, cold and lazy feeling… when all of a sudden there is a record spinning on the platter with the speakers booming… Who could it be? It’s no other than Ray Charles!!

Ray Charles
Modern Sounds
In Country And
Western Music

Here he is waking up a Monday with some fantastic tunes. I’ll include the back cover for track information and track commentary.

Ray Charles - Modern Sounds

Ray Charles - Modern Sounds

Ray Charles - Modern Sounds (back)

Ray Charles - Modern Sounds (back)

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