Performer: Ray Charles
Genre: Funk / Soul
Album: The Birth Of Soul - The Complete Atlantic Rhythm & Blues Recordings 1952-1959
Released: 1991
Style: Rhythm & Blues, Soul
MP3 version ZIP size: 1710 mb
FLAC version RAR size: 1713 mb
WMA version ZIP size: 1438 mb
Rating: 4.2
Votes: 981
Other Formats: AA WMA TTA VOX MMF WMA DXD

Tracklist

1-01	The Sun's Gonna Shine Again	2:36
1-02	Roll With My Baby	2:35
1-03	The Midnight Hour	2:59
1-04	Jumpin' In The Morning	2:44
1-05	It Should Have Been Me	2:42
1-06	Losing Hand	3:11
1-07	Heartbreaker	2:51
1-08	Sinner's Prayer	3:21
1-09	Mess Around	2:38
1-10	Funny But I Still Love You	3:12
1-11	Feelin' Sad	2:47
1-12	I Wonder Who	2:47
1-13	Don't You Know?	2:55
1-14	Nobody Cares	2:37
1-15	Ray's Blues	2:52
1-16	Mr. Charles Blues	2:45
1-17	Blackjack	2:18
2-01	I Got A Woman	2:50
2-02	Greenbacks	2:48
2-03	Come Back Baby	3:04
2-04	A Fool For You	3:00
2-05	This Little Girl Of Mine	2:30
2-06	Hard Times	2:53
2-07	A Bit Of Soul	2:17
2-08	Mary Ann	2:45
2-09	Drown In My Own Tears	3:19
2-10	Hallelujah I Love Her So	2:34
2-11	What Would I Do Without You	2:34
2-12	Lonely Avenue	2:33
2-13	I Want To Know	2:09
2-14	Leave My Woman Alone	2:38
2-15	It's Alright	2:15
2-16	Ain't That Love	2:51
2-17	Get On The Right Track	2:17
2-18	Rockhouse Parts 1 & 2	3:51
3-01	Swanee River Rock	2:18
3-02	That's Enough	2:43
3-03	Talkin' About You	2:49
3-04	What Kind Of Man Are You	2:47
3-05	I Want A Little Girl	2:53
3-06	Yes Indeed	2:14
3-07	I Had A Dream	2:52
3-08	You Be My Baby	2:28
3-09	Tell All The World About You	2:01
3-10	My Bonnie	2:44
3-11	Early In The Morning	2:43
3-12	The Right Time	3:26
3-13	Carryin' The Load	2:22
3-14	Tell Me How Do You Feel	2:42
3-15	What I'd Say, Parts 1 & 2	6:26
3-16	Tell The Truth	3:03
3-17	I'm Movin' On	2:20
3-18	I Believe To My Soul	2:59

Companies, etc.

• Made By – WEA Manufacturing Inc.
• Pressed By – Specialty Records Corporation
• Remastered At – Sterling Sound
• Edited At – Atlantic Studios
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Atlantic Recording Corporation
• Copyright (c) – Atlantic Recording Corporation
• Published By – Unichappell Music, Inc.
• Published By – Chappell & Co.
• Published By – Sure Fire Music
• Published By – Trio Music Co., Inc.
• Published By – Fort Knox Music
• Published By – Freddy Bienstock Music Co.
• Published By – Slow Dancing Music
• Published By – Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.
• Published By – Embassy Music
• Published By – Cherio Corp.
• Published By – Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc.

Credits

• Alto Saxophone – Auguste "Dimes" Dupont (tracks: 1-11, 1-12), David Newman* (tracks: 2-04 to 2-07, 2-12 to 3-18), O'Neil Gerald (tracks: 1-13 to 1-16)
• Arranged By – Jesse Stone (tracks: 1-05 to 1-10)
• Art Direction – Bob Defrin, Carol Bobolts, Red Herring Design
• Backing Vocals – The Raeletts* (tracks: 3-01 to 3-17), The Cookies (tracks: 2-09, 2-12 to 2-16)
• Baritone Saxophone – Cecil Payne (tracks: 2-08 to 2-11), David Newman* (tracks: 1-17 to 2-07), Emmett Dennis* (tracks: 2-12 to 3-10), Hank Crawford (tracks: 3-11 to 3-18), Warren Bell (tracks: 1-13 to 1-16)
• Bass – Edgar Willis (tracks: 3-01 to 3-18), Frank Fields (tracks: 1-11, 1-12), Jimmy Bell (tracks: 1-17 to 2-03), Lloyd Lambert (tracks: 1-13 to 1-16), Lloyd Trotman (tracks: 1-01 to 1-10), Paul West (tracks: 2-08 to 2-11), Roosevelt Sheffield (tracks: 2-04 to 2-07, 2-12 to 2-18)
• Congas – Candido Camero* (tracks: 1-05 to 1-10), Mongo Santamaria (tracks: 3-11 to 3-14)
• Drums – Alonzo Stewart (tracks: 1-11, 1-12), Connie Kay (tracks: 1-01 to 1-10), Glenn Brooks (tracks: 1-17 to 2-03), Milt Turner (tracks: 3-11 to 3-16), Oscar Moore (tracks: 1-13 to 1-16), Panama Francis (tracks: 2-08 to 2-11), Richard Goldberg* (tracks: 3-06 to 3-10), Teagle Fleming (tracks: 3-17, 3-18), William Peeples (tracks: 2-04 to 2-07, 2-12 to 3-05)
• Edited By [Reissue] – Stephen Innocenzi
• Electric Piano [Wurlitzer] – Ray Charles (tracks: 3-12, 3-13, 3-15 to 3-18)
• Executive-Producer – Ahmet M. Ertegun*
• Guitar – Edgar Blanchard (tracks: 1-11, 1-12), Mickey Baker (tracks: 1-05 to 1-10), Wesley Jackson (tracks: 1-17 to 2-03)
• Liner Notes [Essay] – Robert Palmer
• Mastered By [Reissue] – Ted Jensen
• Organ – Ray Charles (tracks: 3-14)
• Photography By – Bob Parent, Institute Of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University, Lee Friedlander, Michael Ochs Archives, Schomburg Center For Research In Black Culture, The New York Public Library, William Claxton
• Piano – Ray Charles (tracks: 1-01 to 3-11)
• Producer – Ahmet Ertegun (tracks: 1-01 to 3-18), Herb Abramson (tracks: 1-01 to 1-04), Jerry Wexler (tracks: 1-11 to 3-18)
• Reissue Producer – Bob Porter, Kim Cooke, Yves Beauvais
• Saxophone – Dave McRae (tracks: 1-01 to 1-10), Freddie Mitchell (tracks: 1-05 to 1-10), Pinky Williams (tracks: 1-05 to 1-10), Sam Taylor (tracks: 1-01 to 1-04)
• Tenor Saxophone – David Newman* (tracks: 2-12 to 3-18), Don Wilkerson (tracks: 1-17 to 2-11), Joe Tillman (tracks: 1-13 to 1-16), Warren Hebrew (tracks: 1-11, 1-12)
• Trumpet – Charles Whitley (tracks: 1-17 to 2-03), Frank Mitchell (tracks: 1-13 to 1-16), Jesse Drakes (tracks: 1-01 to 1-04), Joe Bridgewater (tracks: 1-17 to 3-05), John Hunt (tracks: 2-12 to 2-18, 3-15 to 3-18), Joshua Willis (tracks: 2-08 to 2-11), Lee Harper (tracks: 3-06 to 3-14), Marcus Belgrave (tracks: 3-06 to 3-18), Ricky Harper (tracks: 3-01 to 3-05), Riley Webb (tracks: 2-04 to 2-07), Wallace Davenport (tracks: 1-13 to 1-16)
• Vocals – Margie Hendrix (tracks: 3-12), Mary Ann Fish* (tracks: 3-04), Ray Charles
• Written-By – Billy Moll (tracks: 3-05), Charles Calhoun (tracks: 1-06), Doc Pomus (tracks: 2-12, 3-08, 3-13), Eddie Jones* (tracks: 1-11), Memphis Curtis* (tracks: 1-05), Hank Snow (tracks: 3-17), Henry Glover (tracks: 2-09), Leo Hickman (tracks: 3-11), Lew Herman (tracks: 3-12), Lloyd Glenn (tracks: 1-08), Lowman Pauling (tracks: 3-16), Nugetre (tracks: 1-07, 1-09), Ray Charles (tracks: 1-01, 1-02, 1-04, 1-10, 1-12 to 2-08, 2-10, 2-11, 2-13 to 2-16, 2-18 to 3-04, 3-09, 3-10, 3-14, 3-15, 3-18), Ricky Harper (tracks: 3-07), Sam Sweet (tracks: 1-03), Sy Oliver (tracks: 3-06), Titus Turner (tracks: 2-17)

Notes

Tracks 1-01 to 1-04 rec. 11/9/1952 NYC
Tracks 1-05 to 1-10 rec. 17/5/1953 NYC
Tracks 1-11, 1-12 rec. 18/8/1953 New Orleans
Tracks 1-13 to 1-16 rec. 4/12/1953 New Orleans
Tracks 1-17 to 2-03 rec. 18/11/1954 Atlanta
Tracks 2-04 to 2-07 rec. 23/4/1955 Miami
Tracks 2-08 to 2-11 rec. 30/11/1955 NYC
Tracks 2-12 to 2-14 rec. 16/5/1956 NYC
Tracks 2-15 to 2-18 rec. 27/11/1956 NYC
Tracks 3-01 to 3-05 rec. 26 & 28/5/1957 NYC
Tracks 3-06 to 3-10 rec. 20/2/1958 NYC
Tracks 3-11 to 3-14 rec. 28/10/1958 NYC
Tracks 3-15, 3-16 rec. 18/2/1959 NYC
Tracks 3-17, 3-18 rec. 26/6/1959 NYC

Tracks 1-01 to 3-05 mono, 3-06 to 3-18 stereo
Transfers and digital remastering 7/1991 at Sterling Sound, NYC
Digital editing 7/1991 at Atlantic Studios, NYC

℗ & © 1991 Atlantic Recording Corporation for USA, WEA International Inc. for the rest of the world
All tracks published by Unichappell Music, Inc. BMI except:
1-05 published by Chappell & Co., ASCAP
1-11 published by Sure Fire Music, BMI
2-09, 3-16 published by Trio Music Co., Inc./Fort Knox Music, BMI
2-14 published by Unichappell Music, Inc./Trio Music Co., Inc./Freddy Bienstock, BMI
2-17 published by Slow Dancing, BMI
3-05 published by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., ASCAP
3-06 published by Embassy Music, BMI
3-11 published by Cherio Corp, BMI
3-12 published by Screen Gems-EMI Music Publishing, BMI

Made in Germany (on disc)

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Disc 1): 756782310-2/1 WME
• Matrix / Runout (Disc 2): 756782310-2/2 WME
• Matrix / Runout (Disc 3): 756782310-2/3 WME
• Rights Society: GEMA
• Rights Society: BIEM
• Label Code: 0121

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
82310-2, 7-82310-2	Ray Charles	The Birth Of Soul - The Complete Atlantic Rhythm & Blues Recordings 1952-1959 ‎(3xCD, Comp + Box)	Atlantic, Atlantic	82310-2, 7-82310-2	US	1991
82310-2, 7-82310-2	Ray Charles	The Birth Of Soul - The Complete Atlantic Rhythm & Blues Recordings 1952-1959 ‎(3xCD, Comp, Club + Box)	Atlantic, Atlantic	82310-2, 7-82310-2	US	1991
82310-4	Ray Charles	The Birth Of Soul - The Complete Atlantic Rhythm & Blues Recordings 1952-1959 ‎(3xCass + Box, Comp)	Atlantic	82310-4	US	1991
850140 / 850141	Ray Charles	The Birth Of Soul - The Complete Atlantic Rhythm & Blues Recordings 1952-1959 ‎(2xCD, Comp, Unofficial)	Limited Edition	850140 / 850141	Russia	Unknown