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Why you'd want to limit yourself to owning just one Ray Charles album is a question only you can answer, but if that's the case, The Genius is a strong contender for the slot. Half big-band settings of tunes as diverse as "Let the Good Times Roll," "When Your Lover Has Gone," and "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and half string-drenched ballads like "Just for a Thrill" and "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'," this 1959 disc lives up to its title in more ways than there's room here to count. Suffice it to say that the album finds Charles at a peak of musical and emotional energy, working in thoroughly sympathetic settings with perfectly matched soloists like tenor men Paul Gonsalves and David "Fathead" Newman and arrangers on the order of Quincy Jones and Ralph Burns. And the closing cut, "Come Rain or Come Shine," may be Charles's single greatest performance. --Rickey Wright

The Genius of Ray Charles [Atlantic]
by Ray Charles

Song Lyrics

Let the Good Times Roll
It Had to Be You
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Two Years of Torture
When Your Lover Has Gone
Just for a Thrill
You Won't Let Me Go
Tell Me You'll Wait for Me
Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying
Am I Blue
Come Rain or Come Shine
'Deed I Do


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