The Genius of Ray Charles

Tracklist

• Hybrid SACD (CD layer) 1
• 1
  Let the Good Times Roll
  2:55
• 2
  It Had to Be You
  2:44
• 3
  Alexander’s Ragtime Band
  2:54
• 4
  Two Years of Torture
  3:26
• 5
  When Your Lover Has Gone
  2:51
• 6
  ’Deed I Do
  2:28
• 7
  Just for a Thrill
  3:25
• 8
  You Won’t Let Me Go
  3:21
• 9
  Tell Me You’ll Wait for Me
  3:24
• 10
  Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Cryin’
  3:45
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Am I Blue
  3:39
• 12
  Come Rain or Come Shine
  3:38
• Hybrid SACD (SACD layer, 2 channels) 2
• 1
  Let the Good Times Roll
  2:55
• 2
  It Had to Be You
  2:44
• 3
  Alexander’s Ragtime Band
  2:54
• 4
  Two Years of Torture
  3:26
• 5
  When Your Lover Has Gone
  2:51
• 6
  ’Deed I Do
  2:28
• 7
  Just for a Thrill
  3:25
• 8
  You Won’t Let Me Go
  3:21
• 9
  Tell Me You’ll Wait for Me
  3:24
• 10
  Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Cryin’
  3:45
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Am I Blue
  3:39
• 12
  Come Rain or Come Shine
  3:38

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Ray Sings, Basie Swings

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Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959)

Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959) 2005

What’d I Say

What’d I Say 2004

At the Olympia 2000

At the Olympia 2000 2004

Release credits

• Ahmet Ertegun
  producer [1.1, 1.7, 2.1, 2.7]
• Allen Hanlon
  guitar [2.10, 1.10]
• Billy Mitchell
  tenor saxophone [2.2, 2.4-5, 1.2, 1.4-5]
• Bob Brookmeyer
  valve trombone [2.7-12, 1.7-12]
• Clark Terry
  trumpet [2.1-6, 1.1-6]
• David “Fathead” Newman
  tenor saxophone [1.1-6, 2.1-6]
• Ernie Royal
  trumpet [1.1-6, 2.1-6]
• Frank Wess
  flute [2.1-6, 1.1-6], saxophone [1.1-6, 2.1-6]
• Jerry Wexler
  producer
• Joe Newman
  trumpet [2.1-6, 1.1-6]
• Marcus Belgrave
  trumpet [1.1-6, 2.1-6]
• Marshall Royal
  alto saxophone [1.1-6, 2.1-6]
• Melba Liston
  trombone [1.1-6, 2.1-6]
• Nesuhi Ertegun
  producer
• Paul Gonsalves
  tenor saxophone [1.1-6, 2.1-6]
• Quentin Jackson
  trombone [2.1-6, 1.1-6]
• Quincy Jones
  arranger [1.1-6, 2.1-6]
• Ralph Burns
  arranger [2.7-12, 1.7-12]
• Ray Charles
  piano, vocal
• Rob LoVerde
  re
• Snookie Young
  trumpet [1.1-6, 2.1-6]
• Ted Sommer
  drums (drum set) [2.10, 1.10]
• Wendell Marshall
  bass [2.7-12, 1.7-12]
• Zoot Sims
  tenor saxophone [2.1, 2.3, 2.6, 1.1, 1.3, 1.6]
• [unknown]
  background vocals [2.10, 1.10]
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Issues

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  The Genius of Ray Charles

  12" Vinyl (stereo)
  October 1959
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  The Genius of Ray Charles

  12" Vinyl (mono)
  1959
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  The Genius of Ray Charles

  CD
  24 January 1990
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  The Genius of Ray Charles

  CD
  24 January 1990
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  The Genius of Ray Charles

  CD
  July 1993
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  The Genius of Ray Charles

  CD
  1993
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  The Genius of Ray Charles

  CD
  25 April 2005
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  The Genius of Ray Charles

  12" Vinyl (stereo)
  2009
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  The Genius Of Ray Charles

  Digital Media
  2011
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  The Genius of Ray Charles

  Hybrid SACD (CD layer), Hybrid SACD (SACD layer, 2 channels) (mono)
  16 October 2012