The Great

Ray Charles

Atlantic

Tracks recorded at two sessions in 1956. The album was released in expanded format in 1990 with the addition of 6 tracks from the same recording sessions.

Tracks

Side A:

• The Ray
• My Melancholy Baby
• Black Coffee
• There's No You

• Doodlin'
• Sweet Sixteen Bars
• I Surrender Dear
• Undecided

Tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8:

• Ray Charles - piano, vocals
• Joe Bridgewater - trumpet
• John Hunt - trumpet
• David Newman - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone
• Emmett Dennis - baritone saxophone
• Roosevelt Sheffield - bass
• William Peeples - drums

• Ray Charles - piano, vocals
• Oscar Pettiford - bass
• Joe Harris - drums

An expanded CD version of this album was released in 1990:

• The Great Ray Charles (CD), Ray Charles, 1990

• Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959), Ray Charles, 2005
• Trilogy, Ray Charles, 2005
• Original Album Series, Ray Charles, 2008