Ray Charles - The Genius After Hours

[mjzee]

Does anyone know why Ray is holding an Oscar? Did he win one at the time?

[Jazzmoose]

Don't have an answer, just bumping this one up in hopes that someone else does. All google seems to find is stuff about the movie Ray, and that would have been a hard photo to take...

[Jazzmoose]

Then again, maybe they just told him it was a grammy...

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I don't think it's an Oscar. Looking at the actual 12" sleeve, the arms are in a different position from an Oscar. Perhaps it's a statuette of Jimmy Smiff.

MG

[marcello]

It may be from a performance at the Academy Awards at the time that "In the Heat of the Night" was nominated. The movie, not the song. The movie won best picture.

Just a guess...

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

It may be from a performance at the Academy Awards at the time that "In the Heat of the Night" was nominated. The movie, not the song. The movie won best picture.

Just a guess...

Wrong timing. The LP issued in August 1961, with that sleeve. In fact, the photo may be considerably earlier than that. It was taken by Jay Maisel, who used to do sleeve photos for Atlantic in the 1956/57 period.

MG

[JSngry]

Who's that standing behind Ray? Is that Fathead?

[AllenLowe]

actually, some wiseass told him that was the microphone - he was presenting the best spoken word LP award to Helen Keller, who unfortunately couldn't find the awards ceremony -

[JSngry]

BTW, Allen, have you seen Stevie Wonder's newest keyboard?

[AllenLowe]

no, and neither has Stevie -

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Who's that standing behind Ray? Is that Fathead?

Hard to tell, but I don't think so - he appears to have a rather rounder face than Newman.

MG