The Genius of Ray Charles

Tracklist

• 1
  Let the Good Times Roll
  2:54
• 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
  2:52
• 6
  ’Deed I Do
  2:28
• 7
  Just for a Thrill
  3:26
• 8
  You Won’t Let Me Go
  3:22
• 9
  Tell Me You’ll Wait for Me
  3:25
• 10
  Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Cryin’
  3:47
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Am I Blue
  3:39
• 12
  Come Rain or Come Shine
  3:39

More by Ray Charles

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music 1962

Ray Sings, Basie Swings

Ray Sings, Basie Swings 2006

Ray

Ray 2005

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, 7]
• Allen Hanlon
  guitar [10]
• Billy Mitchell
  tenor saxophone [2, 4-5]
• Bob Brookmeyer
  valve trombone [7-12]
• Clark Terry
  trumpet [1-6]
• David “Fathead” Newman
  tenor saxophone [1-6]
• Ernie Royal
  trumpet [1-6]
• Frank Wess
  flute [1-6], saxophone [1-6]
• Jerry Wexler
  producer
• Joe Newman
  trumpet [1-6]
• Marcus Belgrave
  trumpet [1-6]
• Marshall Royal
  alto saxophone [1-6]
• Melba Liston
  trombone [1-6]
• Nesuhi Ertegun
  producer
• Paul Gonsalves
  tenor saxophone [1-6]
• Quentin Jackson
  trombone [1-6]
• Quincy Jones
  arranger [1-6]
• Ralph Burns
  arranger [7-12]
• Ray Charles
  piano, vocal
• Snookie Young
  trumpet [1-6]
• Ted Sommer
  drums (drum set) [10]
• Wendell Marshall
  bass [7-12]
• Zoot Sims
  tenor saxophone [1, 3, 6]
• [unknown]
  background vocals [10]
• Show all credits (24)

Issues

• 

  T
  (Combined release view)
• 

  T
  The Genius of Ray Charles

  12" Vinyl (stereo)
  October 1959
• 

  T
  The Genius of Ray Charles

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

  CD
  24 January 1990
• 

  T
  The Genius of Ray Charles

  CD
  24 January 1990
• 

  T
  The Genius of Ray Charles

  CD
  July 1993
• T
  The Genius of Ray Charles

  CD
  1993
• 

  T
  The Genius of Ray Charles

  CD
  25 April 2005
• 

  T
  The Genius of Ray Charles

  12" Vinyl (stereo)
  2009
• 

  T
  The Genius Of Ray Charles

  Digital Media
  2011
• 

  T
  The Genius of Ray Charles

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