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The Genius of Ray Charles "Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)" b/w "I Wonder Who" — — The Genius Sings the Blues: 1963 "Feelin' Sad" b/w "Carrying That Load" (from The Great Hits of Ray Charles) 113 — 1964 "Talkin' 'bout You"" b/w "In a Little Spanish Town" (from The Ray Charles Story Volume 4) — — Yes Indeed! 1968 "Come Rain or ...
The innovation of Ray Charles is presented on this compilation LP. The Blues finds Charles delivering wailing and emotional numbers ("Hard Times", " Night Time Is the Right Time ") to uptempo arrangements of country blues (" I'm Movin' On ", "Early in the Mornin'").
Ray Charles Greatest Hits is a 1962 album by Ray Charles. Although many similarly titled albums would be released over the years, this was the first, and it contained many tracks previously released by ABC only as singles .
The Best of Ray Charles is a compilation album released in 1970 on the Atlantic Jazz label, featuring previously released instrumental (non-vocal) tracks recorded by Ray Charles between November 1956 and November 1958.
The album showcased Charles' breakout from rhythm and blues and onto a broader musical stage. Atlantic Records gave him full support in production and arrangements. As originally presented, the A side of the album featured the Ray Charles band with David "Fathead" Newman supplemented by players from the Count Basie and Duke Ellington bands, and arrangements by Quincy Jones.
Ray Charles (born Charles Raymond Offenberg; September 13, 1918 – April 6, 2015) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, vocal arranger and conductor who was best known as organizer and leader of the Ray Charles Singers, who accompanied Perry Como on his records and television shows for 35 years [1] [2] and were also known for a series of 30 choral record albums produced in the 1950s ...
"Mary Ann" is a song written and performed by Ray Charles and released in 1956 as a single on the Atlantic Records label. It was the fourth Ray Charles song to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Best Selling Rhythm & Blues chart. The song is set to a Latin beat, but switches into a swing rhythm, an alternation that adds fun for the dancers. [1]
As Ray Charles' 1967 greatest hits album, A Man and His Soul, was released, he returned to the recording studio to begin work on Ray Charles Invites You to Listen. The album was produced by Joe Adams. [2] Charles used falsetto on the album "for no other reason than self-satisfaction". [3] Ray Charles Invites You to Listen consists mostly of ...