Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55701 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-01-17
• Rating: Exempt
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Colour, DVD-Video, Live, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 101 minutes

DVD Description
Tracklistings: DISC: 1 1. What’d I Say 2. Take These Chains From My Heart 3. You Are My Sunshine 4. Don’t Set Me Free 5. Carry Me Back To Old Virginny 6. My Bonnie 7. In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down) 8. Just A Little Lovin’ 9. You Don’t Know Me 10. Margie 11. Hit The Road Jack 12. Moanin’ 13. Birth Of A Band 14. Hallelujah I Love Her So 15. Untitled Jazz Instrumental DISC: 2 1. Halleluhah I Love Her So 2. In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down) 3. Commercial: Erontex 4. Moanin’ 5. My Bonnie 6. No One 7. Don’t Set Me Free 8. Take These Chains From My Heart 9. Commercial: Erontex 10. I Can’t Stop Loving You 11. Don’t Set Me Free (Reprise) 12. You Are My Sunshine 13. What’d I Say 14. Commercial: Ray Charles Entre Nos 15. Closing Announcement

Synopsis
Features footage from Ray Charles' September 1963 performance in Brazil. Includes two concert performances and footage from a studio rehearsal. Tracklist includes: 'What'd I Say', 'My Bonnie', 'No One' and 'Don't Set Me Free'. Features thirty tracks in total.

Customer Reviews

The Genius tells it like it was.
The discovery of these tapes of Ray's Brazilian TV shows in '63 provides RnB/Soul addicts with a unique view of Ray and his band at the peek of his career.I first saw this show back in 62/63 at The Hammersmith Odeon and was bowled over by the incredible blend of blues n'soul,big band,femme backing singers and the shear professionalism and musicianship,that I had never been priveleged to see before.
You must make allowances for the wooden/static camera work and tacky sets and an audience done up in dinner dress and clearly not full of the loose swinging Brazilian enthusiasm we expect.
Ray's voice is in top form,the band is tight almost 'Basie like'
and for me the highlight is the prominence given to The Raelettes and Margie Hendrix in particular.
The reading of ''In The Evening'' is superb with solos for Sonny Forrestier(Gtr) a muted trumpet from Philip Gilbeaux and of course David''Fathead''Newman features on many tracks.
Another gem is ''My Bonnie'' The intro with Ray's gospelly piano and Margie Hendrix's gospel moaning and humming is soul heaven.
Like many other soul/blues fans at the time Ray's move in to C&W was seen as as a sell out to pop.But I must admit on re- hearing these live I've changed my opinion(slightly!!)
I've stopped short of awarding 5 stars only because of the poor quality of the recording on the second show.But overall a gem.

RAY CHARLES live in Brazil
Despite all the hype about this film, this is a very poor offering. Yes a lot of the big hits are there but the production is diabolical. Sound is poor and there is no 'Big Night Out'feeling. For most off the time Ray alone is wedged in the bottom left of the screen and the band nowhere to be seen. I saw this show 'live in London' as a young man in 63'or 64'. I am afraid that I let nostalga run away with me in purchasing it. Sad to see the day that I personally don't rate a Ray Charles performance.