“RAY CHARLES – Rock & Roll” LP on ATLANTIC 8006 orig MONO dg NM
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Description
Artist: RAY CHARLES
Title: “Ray Charles”
Label: ATLANTIC ~ 8006. Label is flat black with silver text. Monaural pressing on medium weight vinyl, with deep groove.
Year: 1957
Condition:
DISC: Vinyl is NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found. Appears to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with care. Labels are clean. Fidelity is superb. A gorgeous disc you will never need to upgrade.
JACKET: Jacket is NM- with bright front and back panels. Excellent seams, spine and corners. Reverse is clean and white, with small notations (dates) neatly written at each of the upper corners. No other writing, stickers, or other issues. A beautiful jacket worthy of display.
Track Listing:
Side One:
- Ain’t That Love
- Drown In My Own Tears
- Come Back Baby
- Sinner’s Prayer
- Funny
- Losing Hand
- A Fool for You
Side Two:
- Hallelujah I Love Her So
- Mess Around
- This Little Girl of Mine
- Mary Ann
- Greenbacks
- Don’t You Know
- I Got a Woman
Review:
“One of the first handful of LPs issued by Atlantic, Ray Charles (later retitled Hallelujah I Love Her So) is a bona fide classic of its genre. Weighted about three to one in favor of Charles' own compositions, its raison d'etre was the hits "Hallelujah I Love Her So" and the pounding, soaring "Ain't That Love," which opens the LP. As with other Atlantic albums of the period, its content was determined more by Charles' recent singles than by a real plan for the LP, but even within those limitations it's an amazingly subtle record. Charles does just as well with his interpretations of others' work, most notably the ominous, gospel-focused rendition of "Sinner's Prayer" (which offers a virtuoso piano performance, and comes courtesy of the pen of Charles' former mentor Lowell Fulson) and Henry Glover's wrenching ballad "Drown in My Own Tears," which is topped out on each verse by a gorgeous chorus. "Funny (But I Still Love You)" offers a guitar break played in such an understated fashion that it almost doesn't seem so much a part of R&B as it was usually being offered in 1957 as it does a part of Charles' early career output. The second side of the LP is even better, opening with the title track, a number that is almost too ubiquitous in its various cover versions -- the original has a mix of urgency and playfulness that's absolutely bracing, and the album carries this mood forward with "Mess Around," an Ahmet Ertegun-authored piano- and sax-driven romp with Charles at his most ebullient as a singer. "This Little Girl of Mine" offers him in a surprisingly light, almost acrobatic vocal mode, while "Greenbacks" is a knowing, clever cautionary narrative that is almost a throwback to 1940s-style R&B. "Don't You Know" is as salacious a piece of R&B as one was likely to hear in 1957, and "I Got a Woman" closes the record out on a pounding, driving note…”
(courtesy Bruce Eder, allmusic.com.)
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