The Great Ray Charles

Tracklist

• 1
  Dawn Ray
  5:04
• 2
  The Man I Love
  4:28
• 3
  Music, Music, Music
  2:57
• 4
  Black Coffee
  5:33
• 5
  The Ray
  4:00
  1.0 ★
• 6
  I Surrender Dear
  5:08
• 7
  Hornful Soul
  5:30
• 8
  Ain’t Misbehavin’
  5:42
• 9
  Joyride
  4:40
• 10
  Sweet Sixteen Bars
  4:07
  1.0 ★
• 11
  Doodlin’
  5:55
• 12
  There’s No You
  4:48
• 13
  Undecided
  3:40
• 14
  My Melancholy Baby
  4:21

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

• David “Fathead” Newman
  alto saxophone [5-9, 11-14], tenor saxophone [5-14]
• Earle Brown
  recording [4-6, 10-14]
• Emmott Dennis
  baritone saxophone [5-8, 11-14]
• Ernie Wilkins
  arranger [13]
• Jerry Wexler
  producer [4-6, 8, 10-14]
• Joe Bridgewater
  trumpet [5-8, 11-14]
• Joe Harris
  drums (drum set) [1-4]
• John Hunt
  trumpet [5-9, 11-14]
• Nesuhi Ertegun
  producer [4-6, 8, 10-14]
• Oscar Pettiford
  bass [1-4], double bass [4]
• Quincy Jones
  arranger [5, 11, 13]
• Ray Charles
  arranger [14], celesta [6], piano [1-6, 8, 10-14]
• Roosevelt Sheffield
  double bass [5-6, 8, 10-14]
• Tom Dowd
  recording [4-6, 10-14]
• William Peeples
  drums (drum set) [5-14]

Issues

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  The Great Ray Charles

  12" Vinyl (stereo)
  August 1957
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  The Great Ray Charles

  12" Vinyl (mono)
  August 1957
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  The Great Ray Charles

  CD
  1987
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  The Great Ray Charles

  CD
  1990
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  The Great Ray Charles

  Digital Media (24/96)
  28 August 2012
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  The Great Ray Charles

  Digital Media (Bonus Track Version)