Ray Charles - The Great Ray Charles FLAC album

Tracklist

1	The Ray Written-By, Arranged By – Quincy Jones	3:56
2	There's No You Written-By – Hal Hooper, Tom Adair	4:44
3	My Melancholy Baby Arranged By – Ray CharlesWritten-By – Ernie Burnett, George A. Norton, Maybelle E. Watson	4:19
4	Doodlin' Arranged By – Quincy JonesWritten-By – Horace Silver	5:49
5	I Surrender Dear Written-By – Gordon Clifford, Harry Barris	5:04
6	Undecided Arranged By – Ernie Wilkins, Quincy JonesWritten-By – Charlie Shavers, Sid Robins	3:36
7	Black Coffee Written-By – Paul Francis Webster, Sonny Burke	5:28
8	Sweet Sixteen Bars Written-By – Ray Charles	4:04

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
1259	Ray Charles	The Great Ray Charles ‎(LP, Album, Mono)	Atlantic	1259	US	1957
SD 1259	Ray Charles	The Great Ray Charles ‎(LP, Album)	Atlantic	SD 1259	US	1957
1259	Ray Charles	The Great Ray Charles ‎(LP, Album, Mono)	Atlantic	1259	Denmark	1957
DOL811H	Ray Charles	The Great Ray Charles ‎(LP, Album, Mono)	DOL	DOL811H	Europe	2015
1259	Ray Charles	The Great Ray Charles ‎(LP, Album, Mono)	Atlantic	1259	Canada	Unknown

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
GLD 63117	Ray Charles	Ray Charles ‎(CD, Comp, Club)	Goldies	GLD 63117	Spain	1993
GLD 63117	Ray Charles	Greatest ‎(CD, Comp)	Goldies	GLD 63117	Portugal	Unknown

Credits

• Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – David Newman
• Baritone Saxophone – Emmott Dennis
• Bass – Oscar Pettiford, Roosevelt Sheffield
• Celesta – Ray Charles
• Design [Cover] – Marvin Israel
• Drums – Joe Harris , William Peeples
• Engineer [Recording] – Earl Brown, Tom Dowd
• Liner Notes – Gary Kramer
• Photography By [Cover Photo] – Lee Friedlander
• Piano – Ray Charles
• Soloist [Trumpet] – Joseph Bridgewater
• Supervised By – Jerry Wexler, Nesuhi Ertegun
• Trumpet – Joseph Bridgewater, John Hunt

• Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – David Newman
• Baritone Saxophone – Emmott Dennis
• Bass – Oscar Pettiford, Roosevelt Sheffield
• Celesta – Ray Charles
• Design [Cover] – Marvin Israel
• Drums – Joe Harris , William Peeples
• Engineer [Recording] – Earl Brown, Tom Dowd
• Liner Notes – Gary Kramer
• Photography By [Cover Photo] – Lee Friedlander
• Piano – Ray Charles
• Soloist, Trumpet – Joseph Bridgewater
• Supervised By – Jerry Wexler, Nesuhi Ertegun
• Trumpet – Joseph Bridgewater, John Hunt

Notes

Orange/pink Atlantic mono labels w/ white 'fan' w/o ® in lower right corner of orange field.

Recorded in NYC, April 30, 1956 (A3), November 20, 1956 (A1, B2, B3) and November 26, 1956 (A2, A4, B1, B4)Recorded 1949-1950, Los AngelesThis is Mexico 1st press in ATLANTIC red seal in Stereo. EL GRAN RAY CHARLES is written in spanish on the back cover.

Barcodes

• Pressing Plant ID (Stamped in run-outs): MGM "ankh"
• Matrix / Runout (Label side A):
• Matrix / Runout (Label side B):
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, etched, variant 1): 11417-E AT
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, etched, variant 1): 11418-B AT
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, etched, exc. [MGM "ankh"] stamped, variant 2): 11417-E AT [MGM "ankh"]
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, etched, exc. 2 and [MGM "ankh"] stamped, variant 2): 11418-B 2 AT [MGM "ankh"]

• Barcode: 8 712177 014873
• Matrix / Runout: CDSNV GLD 63117
• Other (SPARS Code): ADD

• Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, etched.): ATLANTIC ATS 5001 - A
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, etched.): ATLANTIC ATS 5001 - B

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