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Ô-Genio: Live in Brazil, 1963 [DVD]
Ray Charles
List Price:$18.38
Price:$15.98
 
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Sales Rank:47907
 
Release Year:2004
Label:Rhino
UPC:603497038923
Notes:Live
 
Styles:Soul, Early R&B, Pop-Soul
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Tracks


[01] What'd I Say [DVD Video]
[02] Take These Chains From My Heart [DVD Video]
[03] You Are My Sunshine [DVD Video]
[04] Don't Set Me Free [DVD Video]
[05] Carry Me Back to Old Virginny [DVD Video]
[06] My Bonnie [DVD Video]
[07] In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down) [DVD Video]
[08] Just a Little Lovin' [DVD Video]
[09] You Don't Know Me [DVD Video]
[10] Margie [DVD Video]
[11] Hit the Road Jack [DVD Video]
[12] Moanin' [DVD Video]
[13] Birth of a Band [DVD Video]
[14] Hallelujah I Love Her So [DVD Video]
[15] Untitled Jazz [DVD Video][Instrumental]
[16] Hallelujah I Love Her So [DVD Video]
[17] In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down) [DVD Video]
[18] Commercial: Erontex [DVD Video]
[19] Moanin' [DVD Video]
[20] My Bonnie [DVD Video]
[21] No One [DVD Video]
[22] Don't Set Me Free [DVD Video]
[23] Take These Chains From My Heart [DVD Video]
[24] Commercial: Erontex [DVD Video]
[25] I Can't Stop Loving You [DVD Video]
[26] Don't Set Me Free (Reprise) [DVD Video]
[27] You Are My Sunshine [DVD Video]
[28] What'd I Say [DVD Video]
[29] Commercial: Ray Charles Entre Nós [DVD Video]
[30] Closing Announcement [DVD Video]
Album Review


Though the camera work and image preservation aren't ideal, this DVD is nevertheless a remarkable document of Ray Charles in his prime, performing live on Brazilian TV in 1963. With a small snazzy big band and backup singers the Raelettes in tow, Charles presented material including big rock & roll hits ("What'd I Say," "Hit the Road Jack," "Hallelujah I Love Her So," "Don't Set Me Free"); standards ("You Are My Sunshine," "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny," "My Bonnie"); country (his then-recent hits "I Can't Stop Loving You" and "You Don't Know Me"); and both vocal and instrumental jazz. While the relatively primitive production values are occasionally betrayed by shaky camera framing, it's a pretty straightforward and highly watchable black-and-white presentation, the highlights being those spots where the Raelettes wail in Charles' support (although this live arrangement of "Hit the Road Jack," oddly, sounds tamer and inferior to the famous studio hit version). Rock and R&B fans might be a little disappointed by the absence of some of his harder-driving classics like "I Got a Woman," and the slight lean of the set toward more pop and jazz than some might expect. Too, there's a good amount of repetition, with two versions apiece of seven of the numbers. It's a valuable and highly entertaining program in all, however, the period-feel enhanced by the inclusion (in Portuguese) of several commercials from the original broadcast. ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi