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Ray Charles – piano, vocals; Billy Preston – electric organ on "No Use Crying", "Let's Go Get Stoned" [3] Joe Adams – producer; William Alexander – album cover artist; George S. Whiteman – album cover design; Joe Lebow – liner notes; The Raelettes – performer; Onzy Matthews – arranger; Donald Peake – guitar
The Genius Sings the Blues is an album by Ray Charles, released in October 1961 on Atlantic Records. [5] The album was his last release for Atlantic, compiling twelve blues songs from various sessions during his tenure for the label. The album showcases Charles's stylistic development with a combination of piano blues, jazz, and southern R&B.
In 1963, Charles had another daughter, Sheila Ray Charles, by Sandra Jean Betts. Sheila Raye, like her father, was a singer-songwriter; she died of breast cancer on June 15, 2017. [ 96 ] In 1977, Charles had a child with his Parisian lover, Arlette Kotchounian, whom he had met ten years earlier. [ 97 ]
The album showcased Charles' breakout from rhythm and blues and onto a broader musical stage. Atlantic Records gave him full support in production and arrangements. As originally presented, the A side of the album featured the Ray Charles band with David "Fathead" Newman supplemented by players from the Count Basie and Duke Ellington bands, and arrangements by Quincy Jones.
It was the second of three Atlantic LPs that compiled Charles' hit singles for the label. (See discography) Ray Charles, Yes Indeed!! is also the title of the book and DVD tribute published in memory of Charles by his manager Joe Adams, The Ray Charles Marketing Group and Genesis Publications in 2009.
Ertegun claimed his inspiration for writing "Mess Around" was stride pianist Pete Johnson. [citation needed] Earlier versions of the tune's New Orleans boogie piano riff can be heard in songs from the early 1930s and 1940s, with perhaps the earliest example being Charles "Cow Cow" Davenport's "Cow Cow Blues" from 1928.
Genius Loves Company is the final studio album by rhythm and blues and soul musician Ray Charles, posthumously released August 31, 2004, on Concord Records. [1] Recording sessions for the album took place between June 2003 and March 2004. [2]
"Crying Time" is a song from 1964 written and originally recorded by the American country music artist Buck Owens. [3] It gained greater success in the version recorded by Ray Charles, which won two Grammy Awards in 1967.