Jazz pianist Sun Ra used the instrument for his 1960 album "Angels and Demons at Play", recorded four years earlier. Ray Charles began playing a Wurlitzer as he preferred to take a portable instrument with him instead of using whatever piano was at a venue. Joe Zawinul borrowed Charles' Wurlitzer for a gig (music) backing Dinah Washington and liked the instrument enough to buy his own model. Spooner Oldham used a Wurlitzer on Aretha Franklin's 1967 single "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", playing a riff that runs through the whole song, while Earl Van Dyke played one on Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine". The Small Faces used a Wurlitzer on "Lazy Sunday".