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Format Details:
Release Date: 10 October 2025
Label: 20th Century Masterworks
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436563186646
Description
Classic Ray Charles album pressed on 180g red vinyl - the complete album + 3 bonus tracks. Contains newly prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz's writer Brian Morton.
Presented here is Ray Charles' sensational debut LP compiled from Atlantic singles dating back as far as 1953, during Charles' most inspired years. The pieces on this recording, most of them written by Charles himself, included perennial hits such as "I've Got a Woman", "Hallelujah I Love Her So", "Ain't That Love", "Mary Ann", "A Fool for You", and "Drown in My Own Tears".
Of the 3 bonus tracks, "Hit The Road Jack", written by Percy Mayfield, is from 1961 and released by ABC Records.
Tracklisting
Ella Fitzgerald
Nina Simone
Elvis Presley
Sonny Rollins
Oscar Peterson
Quincy Jones
Michel Legrand & Miles Davis
Johnny Hodges & Ben Webster
Ray Charles
Ray Charles
Ray Charles
Ray Charles
Ray Charles
Ray Charles
Ray Charles
