27/02/2024

Bobby Kimball & The hr Big Band "Tribute To Ray Charles (50th Anniversary)" (1993) -Rhythm & Blues / Westcoast Rock-



Label : MMS Records


États-Unis 01 - I've Got News For You (Ray Alfred)
02 - Unchain My Heart (Teddy Powell & Bobby Sharp)
03 - Ol' Man River (Oscar Hammerstein II & Jerome Kern)
04 - What'd I Say (Ray Charles)
05 - Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg)
06 - I Don't Need No Doctor (Jo Armstead, Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson)
07 - Georgia On My Mind (Hoagy Carmichael & Stuart Gorrell)
08 - Don't Set Me Free (Teddy Powell)
09 - Got To Get You Into My Life (John Lennon & Paul McCartney)
10 - Ruby (Mitchell Parish & Heinz Roemheld)
11 - Please Come Home For Christmas (Charles Brown & Gene Redd)
12 - Hit The Road Jack (Percy Mayfield)
13 - That Lucky Old Son (Haven Gillespie & Harry Beasley Smith)
14 - I Can't Stop Loving You (Don Gibson)


Bobby Kimball : Vocals

hr Big Band :
Kurt Bong 
Sax & Reeds Harry Petersen, Manfred Lindner, Wilson de Oliveira, Christof Lauer, John Oslawski Trumpets : Paul Lanzerath, Alexander Malempré, Stephan Zimmermann, Dieter Grünewald
Trombones : Torof Molgaard, Peter Grützner, Richard Bergmann, Manfred Honetschläger
Piano : Manfred Kullman
Guitar : Werner Vetterer
Upright Bass : Eberhard Leibling
Drums : Herbert Bings
Electric Bass : Dave King

On "Unchain My Heart", "Ol' Man River", "What'd I Say", " I Don't Need No Doctor", "Don't Set Me Free", "Got To Get You Into My Life", "Please Come Home For Christmas", "Hit The Road Jack"
Rainer Heute : Tenor Sax replace Christof Lauer on "Ol' Man River", "That Lucky Old Son", "I Can't Stop Loving You" & replace Wilson de Oliveira on "Don't Set Me Free" & "Ruby"
Rainer Heute plays Additional Tenor Sax on "Got To Get You Into My Life", "Please Come Home For Christmas"
Volker Stegmann replace Christof Lauer on "I've Got News For You", "Don't Set Me Free", "Ruby"
Eckard Baur replace Dieter Grünewald on "Unchain My Heart", "What'd I Say", "I Don't Need No Doctor", "Please Come Home For Christmas"
Christian Müller plays Additional Guitar on "Got To Get You Into My Life", "I Can't Stop Loving You"
Freddy Santiago plays Percussion on "Unchain My Heart", "Ol' Man River", "What'd I Say", "I Don't Need No Doctor", "Please Come Home For Christmas"

Strings of the FRO Rundfunkorschester des Hessischen Rundfunks, Frankfurt
Main Concermaster : Frenc Kiss, Peter Halmi, Gernot Kaiser, Sergio Katz, Vladislav Brunner, Peter Olszewski, Ryszard Olejniczak, Peter Zelinka, Francoise Xavier Montes-Baquer, Renate Berlik, Enite Trappe, Radu Paraschivescu, Bela-Peter Kolcsar, Elisabeth Albert-Kocsar, Günther Gräf, Heinrich Leiss, Clemens Gutsche, Tiberin Idvorean, Wolfgang Tiepold, Gizella Marosan, Volker Gausmann, Ommo Hokema, Frank Ringleb 
On "Ol' Man River", "Somewhere Over The Rainbow", "Georgia On My Mind", "Ruby", "That Lucky Old Son", "I Can't Stop Loving You"

Choir (Girls) : Ulla Wiesner, Renate Otta
Choir (Boys) : Peter M.L. Bauchwitz, Edward Reekers
On "Ol' Man River", "What'd I Say", "I Don't Need No Doctor", "Georgia On My Mind", "Don't Set Me Free", "Got To Get You Into My Life", "Hit The Road Jack", "That Lucky Old Son", "I Can't Stop Loving You"

Recorded at Hessicher Rundfunk, Studio 2
Engineered by Peter-Michael Erler, Holger Mees, Rainer Schulz
Assistants : Gisela Keiper-Klocke, Gerlind Roue
Mixed at Pilot Studio 1, Munich ; 29.07 - 05.08.92
Engineered by Klaus Strazicky
Digital - Editing : Alex Cotarinelli
Produced by Kurt Bong & Thomas Schmitt-Zijnen
Executive Producer : Michael L. Berreshiem