Ray Charles - The Great Ray Charles

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1	The Ray Written-By – Quincy Jones	3:56
A2	My Melancholy Baby Arranged By – Ray CharlesWritten-By – Ernie Burnett, George A. Norton, Maybelle E. Watson	4:19
A3	Black Coffee Written-By – Paul Francis Webster, Sonny Burke	5:28
A4	There's No You Written-By – Hal Hooper*, Tom Adair	4:44
B1	Doodlin' Arranged By – Quincy JonesWritten-By – Horace Silver	5:49
B2	Sweet Sixteen Bars Written-By – Ray Charles	4:04
B3	I Surrender Dear Written-By – Gordon Clifford, Harry Barris	5:04
B4	Undecided Arranged By – Ernie Wilkins, Quincy JonesWritten-By – Charlie Shavers, Sid Robins*	3:36

Companies, etc.

• Pressed By – Record Technology Incorporated – 18955
• Lacquer Cut At – The Mastering Lab

Credits

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

Notes

Printed in USA
Released through Rhino Records vinyl only imprint Rhino Vinyl. Like most Rhino reissues - Rhino pressed both a US version and an EU version Ray Charles - The Great Ray Charles. This is the US pressing.

Judging from the matrix nos, plating was done at Record Technology Incorporated.

Front shrink wrap has large Rhino Vinyl sticker on it including Bar Code.
• Lacquers cut by Doug Sax
• LPs cut from the original analog masters
• Packages replicated to the finest detail manufactured with more care than ever

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side A Runout): RI-01259-RTI-A TML-S 18955.1 ..
• Matrix / Runout (Side B Runout): RI-01259-RTI-B TML-S 18955.2 ..
• Barcode: 0 8122798062 7

Other 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

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