{"title":"Ray Charles","description":"\u003cp\u003eShop Ray Charles at Shopmusic247: vinyl and CD. Find albums, reissues, deluxe editions and coloured vinyl, shipped across Canada from our Ontario warehouse. Free standard shipping on orders over $150.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"charles-ray-the-very-best-of-cd","title":"Charles Ray - The Very Best of - [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Charles Ray comes The Very Best of, a soul \u0026amp; R\u0026amp;B compilation on Bellevue. This is the CD edition. This edition was released on June 30, 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bellevue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47583303958746,"sku":"5711053021908","price":22.24,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/7787\/3626\/files\/THEVERYBESTOF_xhj0m3.jpg?v=1770966179"},{"product_id":"ray-charles-come-live-with-me-tangerine-vinyl-colored-vinyl-orange-vinyl","title":"Ray Charles - Come Live With Me (TANGERINE) - (Orange Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCome Live With Me (TANGERINE) is a jazz and soul \u0026amp; R\u0026amp;B album by Ray Charles on Tangerine Records. This is the vinyl edition, pressed on orange vinyl. This edition was released on August 22, 2025.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCome Live With Me represents a creative peak that sounds fresher in 2025 than it may have in 1974. The first album on his Crossover label, it lives up to the label's name by showcasing the man's singular ability to cross over to any audience by making songs from any time or genre undeniably his own. Each side of Come Live With Me sets a seamless mood: Side 1 is a romantic suite of lush, latenight ballads, while a non-stop soul party is cooking on side 2. This two-sides-of-a-Saturday-night concept lets Ray Charles blend modern sounds and timeless traditions in ways no other artist ever could. Removed from the trappings and tropes of the mid-'70s music scene, and fully restored and remastered in cooperation with the Ray Charles Foundation, Come Live With Me is finally ready to be appreciated as the masterpiece it always was. A1. Till There Was You A2. If You Go Away A3. It Takes So Little Time A4. Come Live With Me B1. Somebody B2. Problems, Problems B3. Where Was He B4. Louise B5. Everybody Sing\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tangerine Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47583387975898,"sku":"708857224012","price":37.74,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/7787\/3626\/files\/COMELIVEWITHMEORANGEVINYL_mk9a4j.jpg?v=1770969538"},{"product_id":"ray-charles-ingredients-in-a-recipe-for-soul-colored-vinyl-orange-vinyl","title":"Ray Charles - Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul - (Orange Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Ray Charles comes Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul, a jazz, soul \u0026amp; R\u0026amp;B and Latin album on Tangerine Records. This is the vinyl edition, pressed on orange vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIngredients In A Recipe For Soul proved that Ray Charles didn't so much ignore genres, but, by the '60s, had become a genre unto himself. An academic might want to separate this stack of songs into neat little buckets-country, jazz, standards, blues, pop-but those are just the ingredients. Ray Charles sings whatever he likes and whatever he sings comes out as a Ray Charles song, with a flavor all its own. Two hit singles, \"Busted\" and \"That Lucky Old Sun,\" made Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul an instant Top Ten when it was released in 1963. Bootlegged across Europe for decades, this is the fi rst and only legitimate reissue of this essential album on vinyl (and its fi rst appearance on CD since the 1990s), now fully restored and remastered with the full cooperation of the Ray Charles Foundation. A1. Busted A2. Where Can I Go? A3. Born To Be Blue A4. That Old Lucky Sun A5. Ol' Man River B1. In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down) B2. A Stranger In Town B3. Ol' Man Time B4. Over The Rainbow B5. You'll Never Walk Alone Originally released in 1963. This 2025 pressing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tangerine Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47583388008666,"sku":"708857224418","price":37.74,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/7787\/3626\/files\/INGREDIENTSINARECIPEFORSOULORANGEVINYL_wqjti6.jpg?v=1770969539"},{"product_id":"ray-charles-ingredients-in-a-recipe-for-soul-cd","title":"Ray Charles - Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul - [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Ray Charles comes Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul, a jazz, soul \u0026amp; R\u0026amp;B and Latin album on Tangerine Records. This is the CD edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIngredients In A Recipe For Soul proved that Ray Charles didn't so much ignore genres, but, by the '60s, had become a genre unto himself. An academic might want to separate this stack of songs into neat little buckets-country, jazz, standards, blues, pop-but those are just the ingredients. Ray Charles sings whatever he likes and whatever he sings comes out as a Ray Charles song, with a flavor all its own. Two hit singles, \"Busted\" and \"That Lucky Old Sun,\" made Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul an instant Top Ten when it was released in 1963. Bootlegged across Europe for decades, this is the fi rst and only legitimate reissue of this essential album on vinyl (and its fi rst appearance on CD since the 1990s), now fully restored and remastered with the full cooperation of the Ray Charles Foundation. 1. Busted 2. Where Can I Go? 3. Born To Be Blue 4. That Old Lucky Sun 5. Ol' Man River 6. In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down) 7. A Stranger In Town 8. Ol' Man Time 9. Over The Rainbow 10. You'll Never Walk Alone Originally released in 1963. This 2025 pressing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tangerine Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47583388041434,"sku":"708857224425","price":24.25,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/7787\/3626\/files\/INGREDIENTSINARECIPEFORSOUL_s5preb.jpg?v=1770969542"},{"product_id":"ray-charles-ingredients-in-a-recipe-for-soul-import-united-kingdom-import-vinyl","title":"Ray Charles – Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul Vinyl LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eIngredients In A Recipe For Soul is a jazz and soul \u0026amp; R\u0026amp;B album by Ray Charles on Dol. This is the vinyl edition. This edition was released on September 6, 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dol","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47583550046426,"sku":"889397512323","price":28.43,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/7787\/3626\/files\/INGREDIENTSINARECIPEFORSOUL_yz40va.jpg?v=1770974345"},{"product_id":"ray-charles-ray-charles-mono-vinyl","title":"Ray Charles – Ray Charles (Mono) Vinyl LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Ray Charles comes Ray Charles (Mono), a jazz, soul \u0026amp; R\u0026amp;B and blues album on Atlantic. This is the vinyl edition. This edition was released on February 3, 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRay Charles Atlantic debut in Mono is a must-have. Also known as Hallelujah, I Love Her So is a compilation of Charles' early singles that helped forge this his original fusion of blues, R\u0026amp;B, jazz and pop.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47618517467354,"sku":"603497837496","price":39.88,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/7787\/3626\/files\/RAYCHARLESMONOCRYSTALCLEARVINYL_dfpwm6.jpg?v=1771682217"},{"product_id":"charles-ray-way-i-feelthe-cd","title":"Ray Charles – The Way I Feel CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Way I Feel is a soul \u0026amp; R\u0026amp;B album by Ray Charles on Proper\/conveyor. This is the CD edition. This edition was released on January 8, 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2007 four D box set containing all of brother Ray's released recordings between 1949 and 1956. 94 tracks include classics such as 'Mess Around', 'I Got a Woman' and 'Hallelujah, I Love Her So'. This landmark set comes with a 44 page booklet that tells the story of this genius and contains session details and rare period photos. He was Ray Charles, a hero to the black community of such exalted status that no other popular entertainer, with the possible exception of Louis Armstrong, has ever achieved. Charles was the Bishop, the Right Reverend, the High Priest of Soul. Atlantic Records proclaimed him the Genius, a title he has born for over fifty years. As a singer who seduced the world with his voice, composer, bandleader, arranger, pianist, alto saxophonist, record producer and performer whose marriage of gospel and R \u0026amp; B helped prepare the basis for soul music, his prolific work deserves no other praise.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Proper\/Conveyor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47618933784794,"sku":"805520021333","price":22.46,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/7787\/3626\/files\/WAYIFEELTHE4CDSET_ycyogt.jpg?v=1771693141"},{"product_id":"ray-charles-platinum-collection-cd","title":"Ray Charles – Platinum Collection CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Ray Charles comes Platinum Collection, a jazz, soul \u0026amp; R\u0026amp;B and blues compilation on NOT NOW. This is the CD edition, a 3-disc set. This edition was released on July 12, 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe term legend is used all too loosely in this day and age, with music arguably the worst offender. But in Ray Charles, modern music has someone it can proudly label one of culture's true geniuses. Charles blazed his own trail through a career spanning nearly six decades, merging gospel and R\u0026amp;B to create soul music. He later found success in the country and rock'n'roll fields as he demonstrated his diversity and talent. As well as musical barriers, Charles helped break down racial ones, living and performing in a transformative and difficult time for black men and women in America. This three disc collection encompasses some of Ray Charles' most popular, influential and seminal recordings. Listen to these recordings by one of music's true greats, from his formative, pre-Atlantic days to his later genre-defying work, and discover why he was known simply as 'the Genius'. Disc 11. Hit The Road, Jack 2. Leave My Woman Alone 3. Mess Around 4. Georgia On My Mind 5. I Got A Woman 6. Hallelujah I Love Her So 7. I Believe To My Soul 8. I'm Movin' On 9. I Can't Stop Loving You 10. One Mint Julep 11. Get On The Right Track Baby 12. Sticks And Stones 13. It Should've Been Me 14. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin' 15. Hide 'Nor Hair 16. Let The Good Times Roll 17. Greenbacks 18. What'd I Say 19. Your Cheating Heart 20. Doodlin'Disc 21. Unchain My Heart 2. Yes Indeed! 3. Hard Hearted Hannah 4. Born To Lose 5. 'Deed I Do 6. See See Rider 7. This Little Girl Of Mine 8. You Are My Sunshine 9. Take These Chains From My Heart 10. Moanin' 11. (Night Time) Is The Right Time 12. She's On The Ball 13. Come Rain Or Come Shine 14. At The Club 15. You Be My Baby 16. I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town 17. Tell Me How Do You Feel 18. It's All Right 19. Lonely Avenue 20. Let's GoDisc 31. Baby, It's Cold Outside 2. Losing Hand 3. Ain't That Fine 4. It Had To Be You 5. Early In The Mornin' 6. Ruby 7. You Don't Know Me 8. Heartbreaker 9. Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I) 10. Who You Gonna Love 11. Them That Got 12. A Fool For You 13. My Bonnie 14. Drown In My Own Tears 15. Oh, Lonesome Me 16. Chattanooga Choo Choo 17. Jumpin' In The Mornin' 18. I've Got News For You 19. Sweet Georgia Brown 20. Rockhouse\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Not Now","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47620045242586,"sku":"210906048","price":5.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/7787\/3626\/files\/RayCharlesPlatinumCollection3CDSet_bmudjm.jpg?v=1771752588"},{"product_id":"ray-charles-the-ultimate-collection-cd","title":"Ray Charles – The Ultimate Collection CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Ray Charles comes The Ultimate Collection, a jazz, soul \u0026amp; R\u0026amp;B and blues compilation on Not Now. This is the CD edition, a 3-disc set. This edition was released on October 22, 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the best and most comprehensive Ray Charles compilations\" - MusicWeek…The term legend is used all too loosely in this day and age, with music arguably the worst offender. But in Ray Charles, modern music has someone it can proudly label one of culture's true geniuses. Charles blazed his own trail through a career spanning nearly six decades, merging gospel and R\u0026amp;B to create soul music. He later found success in the country and rock'n'roll fields as he demonstrated his diversity and talent. As well as musical barriers, Charles helped break down racial ones, living and performing in a transformative and difficult time for black men and women in America. Born in Georgia in September 1930, Ray Charles Robinson experienced adversity from early on. His family, including mother Aretha, father Bailey and brother George, moved to Florida during the Great Depression, and Ray witnessed his younger brother drown in an horrific accident. As if that wasn't enough to contend with, it was around that time that he began losing his sight to glaucoma, becoming completely blind at seven. He'd showed an early propensity to follow in his father's footsteps and become a mechanic, but his affliction ushered him in the direction of music. Charles was always interested in music, beginning with a friendship with a piano-playing neighbour while still in single digits. But a near-decade stay at the St Augustine School for the Deaf and Blind saw him hone those skills, mastering numerous instruments and arranging and composing his own material. It would be his skill on the piano that made Ray Charles' early name and reputation. Idols like Nat 'King' Cole, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong were masters of jazz and the big-band sound, so it was no surprise that Charles cut his music teeth in a variety of outfits in the genre playing in and around Seattle and, later, Los Angeles. But it wasn't long before he went it alone, signing for the then-fledgling Atlantic Records label in 1952. It was at Atlantic that Charles would make his name, and he in turn would help them make theirs. The label quickly relinquished creative control to Ray, making him the first black artist to earn such an honour. He would storm the charts in the mid Fifties and become a mainstay in the R\u0026amp;B listings for the rest of the decade with tracks like self-penned breakout hit and R\u0026amp;B chart-topper 'I've Got A Woman', the million-selling 'What I'd Say' and 'Drown In My Own Tears'; all these landmark recordings may be found on disc one. His Atlantic output put Ray Charles on the wider musical map, with 'What I'd Say' propelling him into the mainstream pop charts in 1959. The crossover hit placed Charles in front of a white audience and helped him transcend racial and musical divides. The Sixties kicked off with a new record label to call home - Charles had moved to ABC-Paramount - and no less than four Grammy awards. Key to his success at the 1961 ceremony was his take on Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell's 'Georgia On My Mind' (disc two), which featured on his first Paramount LP, 'The Genius Hits The Road'. Ray would forever be the artist associated with the ballad which later became the official song of the US state of Georgia. Charles would follow it up with perhaps his most commercially successful number - 'Hit The Road Jack'. The Percy Mayfield-penned hit, which appears on disc one, would top the US pop charts with help from duet partner Margie Hendricks of all-girl backing group the Raelettes. It would also earn another Grammy for best R\u0026amp;B recording. The decade also saw Ray Charles experiment with his musical direction, having created soul and conquered jazz and the big-band scene in a little more than a decade. He shocked the world of music with a country album, 'Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music', in 1962. Ray's take on classics like 'You Don't Know Me' (disc three) and Hank Williams' 'You Win Again' (disc one) would propel the album to the top of the US charts and bring the genre to a new audience. But regardless of genre, audience or appeal, Charles always had one thing: soul. From his difficult childhood and problems that followed him into adulthood like heroin addiction, he had a story to tell - and boy, did he tell it! That music was all he knew is evidenced by the fact that he never stopped performing right up until his death in 2004 at the age of 73. This three-disc collection encompasses some of Ray Charles' most popular, influential and seminal recordings. Listen to these recordings by one of music's true greats, from his formative, pre-Atlantic days to his later genre-defying work, and discover why he was known simply as 'the Genius'. CD 11. Hit The Road Jack 2. What'd I Say 3. I Got A Woman 4. Leave My Woman Alone 5. Let The Good Times Roll 6. Unchain My Heart 7. Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You) 8. I Wonder 9. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye 10. Sticks And Stones 11. Ruby 12. When Your Lover Has Gone 13. You Won't Let Me Go 14. Mississippi Mud 15. It Had To Be You 16. Yes Indeed! 17. Swanee River Rock 18. Lonely Avenue 19. California, Here I Come 20. Take These Chains From My Heart 21. Get On The Right Track Baby 22. I'm Movin' On 23. Drown In My Own Tears 24. Hide Nor Hair 25. You Win AgainCD 21. Georgia On My Mind 2. Mess Around 3. Night Time Is The Right Time 4. It Should Have Been Me 5. Born To Lose 6. 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