The Great Ray Charles

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A1	The Ray Written-By, Arranged 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.

• Mastered At – Atlantic Studios

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

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) [jazzdisco.org].

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, etched): 11417-E AT
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, etched): 11418-B AT
• Matrix / Runout (Label side A):
• Matrix / Runout (Label side B):

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