Tribute to Uncle Ray

Tribute to Uncle Ray is the second Stevie Wonder album to be released. Issued by Motown in October 1962 shortly after The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie, it had been recorded first, when Wonder was 11 years old. The album was an attempt by Berry Gordy and Motown to associate the young "Little Stevie Wonder" with the successful and popular Ray Charles who was also a blind African American musician. Like his debut, this album failed to generate hit singles as Motown struggled to find a sound to fit Wonder, who was 12 when this album was released.

Track listing

All songs composed by Ray Charles, except where indicated.

References

Ray Cordeiro

Reinaldo Maria "Uncle Ray" Cordeiro, BBS MBE (born 12 December 1924, in Hong Kong ) is a Hong Kong media personality and disc jockey at Radio Television Hong Kong. He was named "The World's Most Durable DJ" in 2000 by the Guinness Book of World Records. He is of Portuguese descent.

Career

Cordeiro worked as a warden in Stanley Prison and then as a clerk at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation shortly after World War II. In 1949, at the age of 25, he started his broadcasting career as a scriptwriter with Radio Rediffusion. He eventually became a DJ and hosted a program called Progressive Jazz. He joined Radio Television Hong Kong in 1960 as the Head of Light Music. In 1970, he started the series All the Way with Ray, which is still running.

Through the years, Cordeiro has interviewed many prominent musicians, including the Beatles. He was recognized by Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. for his lifelong contribution to Presley. He was voted top DJ in Hong Kong for four consecutive years. He was awarded an MBE in 1987 by Her Majesty the Queen in Buckingham Palace.

Tribute To

Tribute To is an EP by My Morning Jacket lead singer Jim James (under the pseudonym Yim Yames), consisting entirely of George Harrison (and Beatles) covers. The EP was released as a digital download via his website, on July 7, 2009. The album was released as a CD on August 4, 2009. James recorded the album in December 2001 on a relative's eight-track reel-to-reel tape recorder, just days after Harrison's passing. Of the recording, James told Billboard magazine that "I felt like I was in the weirdest head space when I did that EP … I felt really confused a lot of the time. I wanted to just do it and let it come out even if I messed stuff up. It's definitely not the tightest or most professional recording you're ever going to hear in your life but I like that. I think it lends it a more childish atmosphere."

The recordings were described as "delicate and suitably reverential" by The Skinny.

James announced that a portion of the proceeds would be donated to the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary.