The Genius Sings the Blues

Tracklist

• 1
  Early in the Mornin’
  2:47
• 2
  Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)
  2:55
  4.0 ★
• 3
  The Midnight Hour
  3:02
  4.0 ★
• 4
  (Night Time Is) The Right Time
  3:19
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Feelin’ Sad

  Ray Charles and His Orchestra
  2:50
• 6
  Ray’s Blues
  2:54
• 7
  I’m Movin’ On (stereo version)
  2:13
• 8
  I Believe to My Soul
  3:01
• 9
  Nobody Cares
  2:40
• 10
  Mr. Charles’ Blues
  2:47
• 11
  Some Day Baby (LP version)
  3:00
  3.5 ★
• 12
  I Wonder Who
  2:46

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Release credits

• Ahmet Ertegun
  producer
• Bennie Crawford
  baritone saxophone [1], saxophone [7-8]
• Connie Kay
  drums (drum set) [3]
• Dave McRae
  alto saxophone [3], baritone saxophone [3]
• David “Fathead” Newman
  alto saxophone [4], saxophone [2], solo [4], tenor saxophone [1, 7-8]
• Don Wilkerson
  tenor saxophone [2]
• Edgar Willis
  bass [1, 4, 7-8]
• Frank Mitchell
  trumpet [5]
• Hank Crawford
  baritone saxophone [4]
• Jerry Wexler
  producer
• Jesse Drakes
  trumpet [3]
• Jesse Stone
  arranger [3]
• Joe Bridgewater
  trumpet [2]
• Joe Tillman
  tenor saxophone [5]
• John Hunt
  trumpet [1, 7-8]
• Leiber & Stoller
  producer [4]
• Lloyd Lambert
  bass [5]
• Lloyd Trotman
  double bass [3]
• Marcus Belgrave
  trumpet [1, 4, 7-8]
• Margie Hendrix
  vocal [4]
• Mickey Baker
  guitar [3]
• Milt Turner
  drums (drum set) [4]
• O'Neil Gerald
  alto saxophone [5]
• Oscar Moore
  drums (drum set) [5]
• Ray Charles
  arranger [4], electric piano [4], organ [1], piano [1-3, 5, 7-8, 11], vocal [1-5, 7-8, 11]
• Ricky Harper
  trumpet [4]
• Riley Webb
  trumpet [2]
• Roosevelt Sheffield
  bass [2]
• Sam “The Man” Taylor
  tenor saxophone [3]
• Teagle Fleming
  drums (drum set) [1, 7-8]
• The Raelettes
  background vocals [4]
• Wallace Davenport
  trumpet [5]
• Warren Bell
  baritone saxophone [5]
• William Peeples
  drums (drum set) [2]
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Issues

• 

  T
  The Genius Sings the Blues

  12" Vinyl (Mono)
  November 1961
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  The Genius Sings the Blues

  CD
  2001
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  The Genius Sings the Blues

  Digital Media
  18 January 2005
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  The Genius Sings the Blues

  Hybrid SACD (CD layer), Hybrid SACD (SACD layer, 2 channels)
  13 July 2010
• T
  The Genius Sings The Blues

  12" Vinyl (Mono)
  2010
• T
  The Genius Sings The Blues

  CD
  2014
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  T
  The Genius Sings the Blues

  Digital Media (Mono)