彼自身が幼少期をジョージア州で過ごしたのですが、ホーギー・カーマイケルが書いた名曲"Georgia on My Mind" を1960年にリバイバル大ヒットさせ、その後いろいろな経過の後、ジョージア州の州歌になっています。 Hoagy Carmichael (music) and Stuart Gorrell (lyrics) (1930)
********************************************************* アルバムリスト(登場降順) ********************************************************* #63 - Madeleine Peyroux / The Blue Room / Universal / 2012 #43 - Shirley Horn / Light out of Darkness (A Tribute to Ray Charles) / Verve (Gitanes Jazz Productions) / 1993 #21 - Willie Nelson / Wynton Marsalis / Here We Go Again: Celebrating the Genius of Ray Charles / Blue Note / 2009 #2 - Roseanna Vitro / Catchin' Some Rays: The Music of Ray Charles / TELARC / 1997
********************************************************* reserved (alphabetical) ********************************************************* 【Ray Charles Songbook】 Carmen Gomes Inc. – Ray! David "Fathead" Newman – I Remember Brother Ray Jack Sheldon / A Jazz Profile Of Ray Charles John Scofield – That's What I Say: John Scofield Plays The Music Of Ray Charles (2005)
********************************************************* 登場曲 (alphabetical) Composer/Lyricist/year - (comment No.) ********************************************************* "Bird on the Wire" (Leonard Cohen/1968) - (#69) "Born to Lose" (Frankie Brown (Ted Daffan)/ 1962) - (#67) "Busted"(Harlan Howard/1962) - (#31) "But, On The Other Hand" (Ray Charles/Percy Mayfield/1961) - (#6) "Bye Bye Love" (Boudleaux Bryant & Felice Bryant/1957) - (#54, 65) "Changing All Those Changes" (Buddy Holly/1958) - (#66) "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer/1946) - (#23) "Cryin' Time"(Buck Owens/1964) - (#25) "The Danger Zone" (Percy Mayfield/1961) - (#14) "Desperadoes Under the Eaves" (Warren Zevon/1975) - (#73) "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'" (Joe Greene/1946) - (#4) "Drown in My Own Tears" (Henry Glover/1951) - (#48) "Gentle on My Mind" (John Hartford/1968) - (#71) "Georgia on My Mind" (Hoagy Carmichael/Stuart Gorrell/1930) - (#50) "Guilty" (Randy Newman/1974) - (#68) "Green (It's Not Easy Being Green)" (Joe Raposo/1970) - (#53) "Hallelujah I Love Her So" (Ray Charles/1956) - (#22) "Hard Hearted Hannah" (Milton Ager/Jack Yellen, Bob Bigelow, and Charles Bates/1924) - (#49) "Here We Go Again"(Don Lanier/Red Steagall/1967) - (#32) "Hit the Road Jack"(Percy Mayfield/1960) - (#27, 44) "How Long Has This Been Going on" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1927) - (#56) "I Can't Stop Loving You" (Don Gibson/1957) - (#70) "I Don't Need No Doctor" (Nick Ashford & Valerie Simpson & Jo Armstead/1966) - (#10) "I Got a Man (Woman)" (Ray Charles & Renald Richard/1957) - (#59) "I Love You So Much (It Hurts)" (Floyd Tillman/1948) - (#39) "I'm Moving On"(Hank Snow/1950) - (#29) "If You Were Mine" (Jimmy Lewis/????) - (#58) "Just a Little Lovin'" (Eddy Arnold & Zeke Clements/1948) - (#45) "Just for a Thrill" (Lil Armstrong/Don Raye/1930年代) - (#60) "Light Out of Darkness" (Ray Charles/Rick Ward/1964) - (#61) "Lonely Avenue" (Doc Pomus/1956) - (#16) "Losing Hand" (Charles Calhoun/1953) - (#26) "Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson/Gus Kahn/1928) - (#38, 52) "Night Time Is The Right Time" (Lou Herman/1937) - (#6) "One Mint Julep" (Rudy Toombs/1951) - (#5) "Roll with My Baby" (Sam Sweet/1952) - (#15) "Ruby" (Heinz Roemheld/Mitchell Parish/1952) - (#17) "Sticks and Stones" (Titus Turner, Henry Glover/1960) - (#13) "The Sun Died" (Hubert Giraud/Pierre Leroyer (仏), André Gregory, Ray Charles (英)/1967) - (#55) "Take These Chains" (Hy Heath & Fred Rose/1952) - (#64) "Tell Me You'll Wait for Me" (Charles Brown, Oscar Moore/ ????) - (#12) "Them That's Got" (Ray Charles & Ricci Harper/????) - (#9) "Unchain My Heart" (Bobby Sharp/1961) - (#3, 24) "What'd I Say" (Ray Charles/1959) - (#40) "You Don't Know Me" (Cindy Walker/1955) - (#17, 47, 72)
レイ・チャールスはこの曲を1966にシングル(EP)で出しています。
現在ではアルバム I Chose To Sing The Blues に入っています。
https://www.discogs.com/Ray-Charles-I-Chose-To-Sing-The-Blues/release/9792373
彼のお好みのスタンダード曲の一つです。
レイ・チャールスが makin' whoopee する時の基準は、手首を触ってみて美人かどうかを判断していたそうです。
映画 Ray で描かれていました。
レイ・チャールスはカントリー・ミュージックを大胆に取り上げるようになって、彼のアルバム Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music に収録されています。
[Chorus] [x2]
Oh, I love you so much, it hurts me
Darling, that's why I'm so blue
I'm so afraid to go to bed at night
Afraid of losing you
You know, I love so much, it hurts me
And there's nothing I can do
I want to hold you, my dear, forever and ever
Because I love you so much, it hurts me so
Shirley Horn / Light out of Darkness (A Tribute to Ray Charles)
Label: Verve (Gitanes Jazz Productions)
Recorded April 30 and May 1-3, 1993 at Clinton Recording Studios, NYC.
1. Hit the Road Jack (Percy Mayfield)
2. Just a Little Lovin' (Eddy Arnold / Zeke Clements)
3. You Don't Know Me (Eddy Arnold / Cindy Walker)
4. Drown in My Own Tears (Henry Glover)
5. Hard Hearted Hannah (Milton Ager / Charles Bates / Bob Bigelow / Jack Yellen)
6. Georgia on My Mind (Hoagy Carmichael / Stuart Gorrell)
7. Makin' Whoopee (Walter Donaldson / Gus Kahn)
8. Green (It's Not Easy Being Green) (Joe Raposo)
9. Bye Bye Love (Boudleaux Bryant / Felice Bryant)
10. The Sun Died (Ray Charles / Hubert Giraud / André Gregory / Pierre Leroyer)
11. How Long Has This Been Going On? (George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin)
12. If You Were Mine (Jimmy Lewis)
13. I Got a Man (Ray Charles / Renald Richard)
14. Just for a Thrill (Lil Armstrong / Don Raye)
15. Light Out of Darkness (Ray Charles / Rick Ward)
Musicians:
Shirley Horn (vo, p, hammond B-3)
Charles Ables (g, b)
Tyler Mitchell (b)
Steve Williams (ds)
gary Barts (as)
The Hornetts (background vocals)
ライナーノーツの中に彼女のレイ・チャールスをたたえる言葉があります。
He's all about love and soul ... he's the most soulful man in the world.
He gives it all to you and takes it all out of you.
I'v loved Ray Charles all my life.
Just a little lovin' will go a long way
And you'll make me happy the rest of my days
Put your arms around me then I'll be your slave
'Cause just a little lovin' will go a long way
Ever since the time began love has ruled the world
Eve and Adam set the pace and started at a whirl
I met you and now I know that you're the one for me
Come on back and you will plainly see
That just a little lovin' will go a long way
And you'll make me happy the rest of my days
Put your arms around me then I'll be your slave
'Cause just a little lovin' will go a long way
I don't believe you really know how much that I love you
If you did you'd come on back and make my dreams come true
Your eyes, your lips, your loving kisses seem to linger yet
I'll forgive but please don't you forget
Just a little lovin' will go a long way
And you'll make me happy the rest of my days
Put your arms around me then I'll be your slave
'Cause just a little lovin' will go a long way
Ever since the time began love has ruled the world
Eve and Adam set the pace and started at a whirl
I met you and now I know that you're the one for me
Come on back and you will plainly see
That just a little lovin' will go a long way
And you'll make me happy the rest of my days
Put your arms around me then I'll be your slave
'Cause just a little lovin' will go a long way
I don't believe you really know how much that I love you
If you did you'd come on back and make my dreams come true
Your eyes, your lips, your loving kisses seem to linger yet
I'll forgive but please don't you forget
作曲者についてはこちらをご覧ください。
Henry Bernard Glover (May 21, 1921 – April 7, 1991)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Glover
この曲はオリジナル・タイトルが "I'll Drown in My Tears" として世に出たのですが、この曲の最大のヒットはレイ・チャールスの1956年の録音のもので、その時のタイトルが "Drown in My Own Tears" でした。
Gary Barts (as) の絡みがいいですね。
ゴスペルのコール&レスポンスを思い浮かべてしまいます。
It brings a tear,
Into my eyes,
When I begin,
To realize,
I've cried so much,
Since you've been gone,
I guess I'm drowning in my own tears,
I sit and cry,
Just like a child
My pouring tears
Are runnin' wild
If you don't think
You'll be home soon
I guess I'll drown in my own tears
I know it's true
Into each life
Some rain, rain must pour
I'm so blue
Here without you
It keeps raining
More and more
Why don't you
Come on home
Oh yes so I won't
Be all alone
If you don't think
You'll be home soon
I guess I'll
(drown in my own tears)
Ooh, don't let me
(drown in my own tears)
When I'm in trouble, baby
(drown in my own tears)
Oh, yeah, baby don't let me
(drown in my own tears)
I guess I'll drown in my own tears
Oh, mmmmm.
They call her Hardhearted Hannah,
The vamp of Savannah,
The meanest gal in town
Leather is tough,
But Hannah's heart is tougher
She's a gal who likes to see men suffer
To tease 'em and thrill 'em,
To torture and kill 'em
Is her delight they say.
I saw her at the seashore with a great big pan
There was Hannah pouring water on a drowning man
That's Hardhearted Hannah, the vamp of Savannah G-A
They call her Hardhearted Hannah,
The vamp of Savannah
The meanest gal in town
Talk about your cold refrigerating mammas
Brother she's a polar bears pajamas
To tease 'em and thrill 'em,
To torture and kill 'em
Is her delight they say.
An evening spent with Hannah sitting on your knees
Is like being in Alaska in your B.V.D.'s
That's Hard Hearted Hannah, the vamp of Savannah G-A
かってソビエト連邦の構成国であり、国としての独立を果たしたグルジアが読み方をジョージアに改めたようなのですが、この国歌がどんなものかは調べていません。
話が脱線してきましたが、2008年、ロシアがグルジアに侵攻した南オセチア紛争を描いた作品 5 Days of War ではアンディ・ガルシアが大統領を演じていました。
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Days_of_War
Georgia, Georgia,
The whole day through
Just an old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind
I'm say Georgia
Georgia
A song of you
Comes as sweet and clear
As moonlight through the pines
Other arms reach out to me
Other eyes smile tenderly
Still in peaceful dreams I see
The road leads back to you
I said Georgia,
Ooh Georgia, no peace I find
Just an old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind
Other arms reach out to me
Other eyes smile tenderly
Still in peaceful dreams I see
The road leads back to you
Georgia,
Georgia,
No peace, no peace I find
Just this old, sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind
I said just an old sweet song,
Keeps Georgia on my mind
It's not that easy being green;
Having to spend each day the color of the leaves.
When I think it could be nicer being red, or yellow or gold-
or something much more colorful like that.
It's not easy being green.
It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things.
And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water-
or stars in the sky
But green's the color of Spring.
And green can be cool and friendly-like.
And green can be big like the ocean, or important like a mountain, or tall like a tree.
It's not that easy being green;
Having to spend each day the color of the leaves.
When I think it could be nicer being red, or yellow or gold-
or something much more colorful like that.
It's not easy being green.
It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things.
And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water-
or stars in the sky
But green's the color of Spring.
And green can be cool and friendly-like.
And green can be big like the ocean, or important like a mountain, or tall like a tree.
作曲者たちについてはこちらをご覧ください。
Felice Bryant (born Matilda Genevieve Scaduto, August 7, 1925 – April 22, 2003) and Diadorius Boudleaux Bryant (/ ˈbuːdɛloʊ/;[1] February 13, 1920 – June 25, 1987)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bye_Bye_Love_(The_Everly_Brothers_song)
カントリー・ミュージックの人です。
レイ・チャールスは1962年のアルバム Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music が彼にとってこの曲の初録音になるようです。
映画の中でもよく使われる曲なのですが、振付師ボブ・フォッシーをモデルにした作品 All That Jazz (1979) では、"Bye Bye Life" と曲名を少しだけ変えて使われました。
こんな感じです。
Bye bye life
Bye bye happiness
Hello loneliness
I think I'm gonna die
Bye bye love
Bye bye happiness
Hello loneliness
I think I'm gonna cry
Bye bye love
Bye bye sweet caress
Hello emptiness
I feel like I could die
Bye bye my love goodbye
There goes my baby
With someone new
She sure looks happy
I sure am blue
She was my baby
'till he stepped in
Goodbye to romance
That might've been
Bye bye love
Bye bye happiness
Hello loneliness
I think I'm gonna cry
Bye bye love
Bye bye sweet caress
Hello emptiness
I feel like I could die
Bye bye my love goodbye
I'm through with romance
I'm through with love
I'm through with counting
The stars above
And here's the reason
That I'm so free
My lovin' baby is through with me
Bye bye love
Bye bye happiness
Hello loneliness
I think I'm gonna cry
Bye bye love
Bye bye sweet caress
Hello emptiness
I feel like I could die
Bye bye my love goodbye
Bye bye my love goodbye
Bye bye my love goodbye
The sun died
The sun died, with my love
When you left me blue, the summer died too
My love and the sun, it's the same
The sun died
The sun died, with my love
And I'm so alone, and yet life goes on
But for me, there can be no more dawn
Yesterday, the coldest winter was like Spring
I thought my love would always stay
I thought our love would never end
But that was yesterday
The sun died
The sun died, with my love
And life's all in vain, in my heart there's rain
And I know that my soul won't stop crying
Yesterday, when I was looking in your eyes
I thought it was sweet paradise
For love completely changed my life
But that was yesterday
The sun died
The sun died, with my love
When you left me blue, the summer died too
My love and the sun, it's the same
My love and the sun, it's the same
作曲者についてはこちらをご覧ください。
James Eddie Lewis (November 19, 1937 – September 11, 2004)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Lewis_(musician)
1960年代にレイ・チャールスに曲を提供していた人です。
紛らわしいのが
"IF YOU WERE MINE" (Matt Malneck/Johnny Mercer/1935)
という同名異曲がありまして、こちらはビリー・ホリデイの歌唱で知られています。
シャーリー・ホーンはこのテンポの曲でも彼女独特の間の取り方を感じさせてくれます。
歌詞の和訳は見当たりませんでしたので、英詞をじっくりと眺めてください。
[Verse]
If you were mine
I'd never let you leave me
If you were mine
I'd never let you go
Because you are
Just what I've always wanted
And I think that you oughta know
From the moment I first saw you
Girl, you went straight to my brain
In my heart I've got a feeling
That I could never explain
If you were mine
You'd never know no sorrow
If you were mine
I'd marry you tomorrow
Yes, I would
Believe me, girl
What the occasion
If you call me
I'll come with no persuasion
You just call
And I'll come running
Oh, yes, I will, baby
Come rain or storm
Hail or snow
Because the way I feel about you
No place is too remote to go
Oh, well, baby, oh, well
Now now now now now...
Oh, baby, oh, well...
もちろんレイ・チャールスがこの曲を書いた時の曲名は "I Got a Woman" です。
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Charles_(album)
I got a woman, way over town
That's good to me, oh yeah
Say I got a woman, way over town
Good to me, oh yeah
She gives me money when I'm in need
Yeah, she's a kind of friend indeed
I got a woman, way over town
That's good to me, oh yeah
She saves her lovin', early in the mornin'
Just for me, oh yeah
She saves her lovin', early in the mornin'
Just for me, oh yeah
She saves her lovin', just for me
Yeah she loves me, so tenderly
I got a woman, way over town
She's good to me, oh yeah
She's there to love me
Both day and night
Never grumbles or fusses
Always treats me right
Never runnin' in the streets
And leavin' me alone
She knows a woman's place
Is right there, now, in her home
I got a woman, way over town
That's good to me, oh yeah
Say I got a woman, way over town
That's good to me, oh yeah
Oh she's my baby, oh don't you understand
Yeah, and I'm her lover man
I got a woman, way over town
That's good to me, oh yeah
Oh don't you know she's all right
Oh don't you know she's all right
She's all right, she's all right
Whoa yeah, oh yeah
この曲は、レイ・チャールス主演の映画 Ballad in Blue (1965) で使われました。
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058935/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballad_in_Blue
わたしは全く知らなかった映画です。
Wikipedia に少しだけ解説があります。
レイ・チャールスのアルバム Country & Western Meets Rhythm & Blues (1965) に収録されています。
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Together_Again_(Ray_Charles_album)
1. Take These Chains (Hy Heath / Fred Rose)
2. Bye Bye Love (Boudleaux Bryant / Felice Bryant)
3. Changing All Those Changes (Buddy Holly)
4. Born to Lose (Frankie Brown)
5. Guilty (Randy Newman)
6. Bird on the Wire (Leonard Cohen)
7. I Can't Stop Loving You (Don Gibson)
8. Gentle on My Mind (John Hartford)
9. You Don't Know Me (Eddy Arnold / Cindy Walker)
10. Desperadoes Under the Eaves (Warren Zevon)
11. I Love You So Much It Hurts (Floyd Tillman)
Musicians:
Madeleine Peyroux (vo)
Dean Parks (g)
Joy Bellerose (ds)
Larry Goldings (B-3, p)
David Piltch (b)
Ray Charles / Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (1962)
https://www.allmusic.com/album/modern-sounds-in-country-and-western-music-mw0000197935
Ray Charles / Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Vol. 2 (1962)
https://www.allmusic.com/album/modern-sounds-in-country-and-western-music-vol-2-mw0000849072
これらのアルバムは、レイ・チャールスが Atrantic Records から ABC-Paramount Records に移籍 (1959) 後、これまでの自身の音楽に大胆にカントリー&ウエスタン・ソングを取り入れて、カントリー・ミュージックがUSの音楽シーンのメインストリームに登場するほどの大ヒット作になりました。
これらの曲の中には世界的大ヒット曲になった "I Can't Stop Loving You" も含まれています。
Take these chains from my heart and set me free
You've grown cold and no longer care for me
All my faith in you is gone but the heartaches linger on
Take these chains from my heart and set me free
Take these tears from my eyes and let me see
Just a spark of the love that used to be
If you love somebody new let me find a new love too
Take these chains from my heart and set me free
Give my heart just a word of sympathy
Be as fair to my heart as you can be
Then if you no longer care
For the love that's beating there
Take these chains from my heart and set me free
Take these chains from my heart and set me free
You've grown cold and no longer care for me
All my faith in you is gone but the heartaches linger on
Take these chains from my heart and set me free
作曲者の Buddy Holly についてはこちらをご覧ください。
1950年代の rock and roll の人です。
ゴスペル、カントリー、R&B の影響を受けています。
Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known as Buddy Holl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Holly
Sweetheart I'm changing all those changes
That I made when I left you
Because I made those changes when I thought you were untrue
But now you're gone I've found I'm wrong
And there's a nothing I can do
Except to change up all those changes
That I made when I left you
To change up all those changes
That I made when I left you
I didn't stop to think, bo, I just left without a care
But now I know I'm wrong and I can't find you anywhere
Well I should have reconsidered all those things I said I'd do
Cause now I'm changing all those changes
That I made when I left you
I'm changing all those changes
That I made when I left you
But now you're gone I've found I'm wrong
And there's a nothing I can do
Except to change up all those changes
That I made when I left you
To change up all those changes
That I made when I left you
Born to lose,
I've lived my life in vain
Every dream has only brought me pain
All my life I've always been so blue
Born to lose and now I'm losing you.
Born to lose, it seems so hard to bear
How I long to always have you near
You've grown tired and now you say we're through
Born to lose and now I'm losing you.
Born to lose,
my every hope is gone
It's so hard to face that empty dawn
You were all the happiness
I knew Born to lose and now I'm losing you.
There's no use to dream of happiness
All I see is only loneliness
All my life I've always been so blue
Born to lose and now I'm losing you
Born to lose and now I'm losing you.
Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Newman
Yes, baby, I been drinkin'
And I shouldn't come by I know
But I found myself in trouble, darlin'
And I had nowhere else to go
Got some whisky from the barman
Got some cocaine from a friend
I just had to keep on movin'
Til I was back in your arms again
I'm guilty, baby I'm guilty
And I'll be guilty all the rest of my life
How come I never do what I'm supposed to do
How come nothin' that I try to do ever turns out right?
You know, you know how it is with me baby
You know, you know I just can't stand myself
And it takes a whole lot of medicine
For me to pretend that I'm somebody else
[Chorus 1]
(I can't stop loving you)
I've made up my mind
To live in memory of the lonesome times
(I can't stop wanting you)
It's useless to say
So I'll just live my life in dreams of yesterday
(Dreams of yesterday)
[Chorus 2]
Those happy hours that we once knew
Tho' long ago, they still make me blue
They say that time heals a broken heart
But time has stood still since we've been apart
[Chorus 1]
(I can't stop loving you)
I've made up my mind
To live in memory of the lonesome times
(I can't stop wanting you)
It's useless to say
So I'll just live my life in dreams of yesterday
[Chorus 2]
Those happy hours that we once knew
Tho' long ago, they still make me blue
They say that time heals a broken heart
But time has stood still since we've been apart
Since we've been apart
[Chorus 1]
(I can't stop loving you)
I said I've made up my mind
To live in memory of the lonesome times
(I can't stop wanting you)
It's useless to say
So I'll just live my life of dreams of yesterday
(of yesterday)
I was sitting in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel
I was staring in my empty coffee cup
I was thinking that the gypsy wasn't lyin'
All the salty margaritas in Los Angeles
I'm gonna drink 'em up
And if California slides into the ocean
Like the mystics and statistics say it will
I predict this motel will be standing until I pay my bill
Don't the sun look angry through the trees
Don't the trees look like crucified thieves
Don't you feel like Desperados under the eaves
Heaven help the one who leaves
Still waking up in the mornings with shaking hands
And I'm trying to find a girl who understands me
But except in dreams you're never really free
Don't the sun look angry at me
I was sitting in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel
I was listening to the air conditioner hum
It went mmm...
Look away
(Look away down Gower Avenue, look away)
現時点ではレイ・チャールスのソングブックはあと1枚発見できているのですが、
Jack Sheldon / A Jazz Profile Of Ray Charles
このアルバムはレイ・チャールスが手掛けたスタンダード曲を集めて、ジャック・シェルドンが演奏したもので、なんだかなぁ…という感じがするので、未入手です。
ジャズ・アルバムとしてはきっと素晴らしいものだろうなぁとは思うのですが…