Ray Charles - What'd I Say (Rare live, 1965)

[spose13]

Right off the rack...F^&%ing Hot!! 

[hogansking]

F'king awesome

[gsdsteve]

@LodoGrdzak Ray Charles never lip synched anything ever!

[gsdsteve]

@gsdsteve Agreed!

[1olrocker]

This song is just dripping with sex! Love it! Ray put more sex into this song in 1958 than any hard core rap or hard rock song ever had. The inuendo is far more seductive than blatantly spelling it out. I love this song!

[draregdrareg1]

Magnifique et inoubliable Ray Charles !

En 1965 j' avais 18 ans et les jeunes de mon age ne le connaisaient pas encore en France; pas diffusé sur les radios.

Thank you for this posting.

[peanutzinuk]

Those 2 male "backing-duo" - - was the Righteous Brothers! Just saw the credits, and yeah, it was them. Shindig WAS the showcase of pop at that time. Never saw it - beng here in UK and don't think it was licensed for UK screening. thank you for uploading.

[buffspringfield]

RAYS the man

[jerseytoman1212]

THAT'S THE SHIT RIGHT THERE!!!!!!!!!!!

[LILPLY]

im only 20 but was raised on ray charles and james brown ... i love knowing no matter what songs they have out now i still have good music to go back on

[LexLuthier1]

I used to ride around on my bicycle with my transistor radio taped to my handlebars listening to Ray Charles. A couple of years later I went to my first James Brown concert at 14. Just before I went to Vietnam, I heard Cream play Sunshine of Your Love at the Union 76 Auditorium in San Diego. Just after I got back from Vietnam, I first heard Duane Allman play Statesboro Blues.

Damn, I'm one lucky son of a bitch.

[gsdsteve]

@LexLuthier1 Talk about lucky. In 1962 when I was 14, I saw Ray and his band play at a cabaret event in Wash., D.C. that was sponsored by a local social club who sold tickets to the general public. We were actually able to walk right up to the bandstand where u could hear Ray tell his bass player Edgar Willis which number was next.

[nolaeast]

@ SitiesPopGold, Thanks for posting

[boucyfirebal]

You know its good music! when it has 0 dislike

[boucyfirebal]

Classic

[strandwolf]

Those dancers are sure kicking it up!

[Spartakus68]

This is live sure... With his genius he wouldn't have accepted pre-recorded live ... Even in the end of his live he didn't accept so imagine when he was young. Nice post this video i like

[GreenTroma]

anybody spoted this girl shuffling at da back... ?

[1olrocker]

Just watching this as the closing number of the show and thinking he HAD to be the closing act - good luck following Ray in a performance like this!

[1olrocker]

His vocals are live - there's no compression on his vocals, you can hear the natural echo of the stage in his vocals. If they were overdubbed/pre-recorded they'd have a much tighter, more up-front sound.

[gsdsteve]

Absolutely nothing pre-recorded for this number. i remember seeing this when i was in high school.

[lalao316]

this has to be the best i have seen!!!!

[gohilhitman]

This is by far the best recording of this song

[ClarenceHW]

Oh yeah....... it's live!

I'm surprised no one has mentioned his two male backup singers, The Righteous Brothers. They must have been on the show and jumped in just to sing with Ray. This is a great clip, thanks for posting.

CHW

[gsdsteve]

@ClarenceHW This was from Shindig a weekly tv show and the Righteous Brothers were regular cast members as well as the Blossoms who do the Raelets part.

[latefor]

ab fab in every way, sound visually  excitement plus

[franklyntruman]

Ray Charles Father Of Music American

[goldenoldiesPete]

Amazing performance, amazing talent!! Love it.

[ElmoPiano]

Shindig was awesome. The sheet music for Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" can be found at manymidi.com/sheetmusic.htm

[Wonka275]

Oh man! Look at the dancers! This is the Shindig show!

[ganfrd1]

vrhunski!!!



[Classicrocker6119]

My favorite Ray Charles track The energy and enthusiasm on this footage is fantastic!!!. Thank you for posting it!!!! Awesome....

[polarityrecords]

"pre-recorded live with live vocals?" I'd say definitely no. That's live, 100%, band and all.

[SixtiesPopGold]

@polarityrecords Often, the guests would record special versions of their songs for Shindig. The music and vocal tracks were recorded a day or two before the episode was videotaped. The performers then rehearsed numerous times to make sure that their "mimed" performances looked live. (Not all of the singing was lip-syched, though. In some cases the vocals were live.)

[polarityrecords]

@SixtiesPopGold Aha, yeah, I guess that's quite possible then, if that was Shindig's standard operating procedure. But I knew it wasn't the original released version, so I assumed it was all live, in the moment.

[1olrocker]

@SixtiesPopGold I can tell you at least the drums are definitely live: too many "off the cuff" fills on the second part of the song (Oooh..... oooooh) and the fills are perfectly in sync with the timing of Ray's parts.

[lukefenderrhodes]

@SixtiesPopGold what about hulla baluba

[SixtiesPopGold]

@polarityrecords I read on a 60s video site that they did as I described. But it's still much better than playback at least. The reason was probably that they didn't believe it would sound OK on TV, not having the technical equipment that they have today.

[polarityrecords]

@SixtiesPopGold Tell you what, though, upon close second viewing, I'd say Ray is definitely playing that piano, not syncing. The performance is just too tight, too locked with what we're hearing. There are some key idiosyncracies of this particular performance that I doubt he could've recreated so perfectly in a "sync" performance . And it's piano that starts the whole tune... I have a strong feeling that this time around, on Shindig, the esteemed Mr. Charles and his band were playing live.

[LodoGrdzak]

@SixtiesPopGold Looks like it could be sync'd to me.

[strato46]

@polarityrecords I have a problem figuring out how he could perform with only vocals live. The piano would be picked up by the vocal mic..No? I think that the prerecorded thing was pobably possible with electric instruments, but the horns & piano would present a problem.

[1olrocker]

@strato46 - Not necessarily. Quality microphones have close range, and their pick-up will drop off drastically from just 6 inches away, and if you use the closed mic format (where every instrument and singer has their own mic/channel) you can isolate the instruments better than opened mic (with one microphone in the middle and multiple instruments/singers using it in a single channel)

[WeedWithChris]

@polarityrecords agree ! the most important is ENJOY THE MUSIC !