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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. The original album suffered from deficient sound and most reissues left a lot to be desired, but in 2003 WEA International reissued it (as Hallelujah I Love Her So) in a 24-bit remastered version in a gatefold format that is a treat to the ear and runs circles around prior reissues.
© Bruce Eder /TiVo
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Jerry Wexler, Producer, Tambourine - Ray Charles, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - AHMET ERTEGUN, Producer - David "Fathead" Newman, Alto Saxophone - Roosevelt Sheffield, Double Bass - John Hunt, Trumpet - Dorothy Jones, Background Vocals - Earl-Jean "Ethel" McCrea, Background Vocals - Joseph “Joe” Bridgewater, Trumpet - Margaret "Margie" Hendricks, Background Vocals - Priscilla "Pat" Lyles, Background Vocals - Darlene "Ethel" McCrea, Background Vocals - William "Bill" Peeples, Drums - Emmott "Jay" Dennis, Baritone Saxophone
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 1956 Atlantic Recording Corporation
Jerry Wexler, Producer - Ray Charles, Piano, Vocals, MainArtist - AHMET ERTEGUN, Producer - Cecil Payne, Baritone Saxophone - David "Panama" Francis, Drums - Joshua "Jack" Willis, Trumpet - Henry Glover, Writer - Dorothy Jones, Background Vocals - Paul E. West, Double Bass - Donald "Don" Wilkerson, Tenor Saxophone - Earl-Jean "Ethel" McCrea, Background Vocals - Joseph “Joe” Bridgewater, Trumpet - Margaret "Margie" Hendricks, Background Vocals - Priscilla "Pat" Lyles, Background Vocals
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 1955 Atlantic Recording Corp. for the US and WEA International for the world outside the US.
Jerry Wexler, Producer - Ray Charles, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - AHMET ERTEGUN, Producer - Charles "Clanky" Whitley, Trumpet - Glenn Brooks, Drums - Jimmy BELL, Double Bass - Joe Bridgewater, Trumpet - Wesley Jackson, Guitar - Donald Wilkerson, Tenor Saxophone - David "Fathead" Newman, Saxophone, Additional Saxophone - Walter Davis, Writer - Donald "Don" Wilkerson, Saxophone - Joseph “Joe” Bridgewater, Trumpet - Charles “Clanky” Whitley, Trumpet - James "Jimmy" Bell, Double Bass
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 1954 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Jerry Wexler, Producer - Lloyd Trotman, Double Bass - Ray Charles, Piano, Vocals, MainArtist - AHMET ERTEGUN, Producer - Candido Camero, Congas Drums - Dave McRae, Baritone Saxophone - Freddie Mitchell, Saxophone - Herb Abramson, Producer - Pinky Williams, Saxophone - Lowell Fulson, Writer - Renald Richard, Background Vocals - Sam "The Man" Taylor, Tenor Saxophone - Lloyd Glenn, Writer - Lloyd Colquit Glenn, Writer
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 1953 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Jerry Wexler, Producer - Lloyd Trotman, Double Bass - Ray Charles, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - AHMET ERTEGUN, Producer - Candido Camero, Double Bass - Dave McRae, Baritone Saxophone - Freddie Mitchell, Saxophone - Pinky Williams, Saxophone - McHouston "Mickey" Baker, Guitar - Conrad "Connie Kay" Kimon, Drums
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 1953 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Jerry Wexler, Producer - Lloyd Trotman, Double Bass - Ray Charles, Piano, Vocals - AHMET ERTEGUN, Producer - Candido Camero, Congas Drums, Congas - Dave McRae, Baritone Saxophone - Freddie Mitchell, Saxophone - Herb Abramson, Producer - Pinky Williams, Saxophone - Renald Richard, Vocals - McHouston "Mickey" Baker, Guitar - Sam "The Man" Taylor, Tenor Saxophone - Jesse Drakes, Trumpet - Ray Charles And His Orchestra, MainArtist - Charles Calhoun, Writer - Conrad "Connie Kay" Kimon, Drums
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 1953 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Jerry Wexler, Producer - Ray Charles, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - David "Fathead" Newman, Alto Saxophone - Riley Webb, Trumpet - Roosevelt Sheffield, Double Bass - Donald "Don" Wilkerson, Tenor Saxophone - Joseph “Joe” Bridgewater, Trumpet - William "Bill" Peeples, Drums
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 1955 Atlantic Recording Corp. for the US and WEA International for the world outside the US.
Jerry Wexler, Producer - Ray Charles, Piano, Writer, MainArtist - TOM DOWD, Engineer - Nesuhi Ertegun, Producer - Percy Heath, Double Bass - Milton "Bags" Jackson, Vibraphone - Arthur "Art" S. Taylor, Jr., Drums - Kenneth "Kenny" Earl Burrell, Guitar
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 1955 Atlantic Recording Corp. for the US and WEA International for the world outside the US.
Jerry Wexler, Producer - Lloyd Trotman, Double Bass - Ray Charles, Piano, Vocals, MainArtist - AHMET ERTEGUN, Producer, Writer - Candido Camero, Double Bass - Dave McRae, Baritone Saxophone - Freddie Mitchell, Saxophone - Pinky Williams, Saxophone - Jesse Stone, Arranger - McHouston "Mickey" Baker, Guitar - Conrad "Connie Kay" Kimon, Drums
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 1953 Atlantic Recording Corp. for the US and WEA International for the world outside the US.
Jerry Wexler, Producer - Ray Charles, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - AHMET ERTEGUN, Producer - David "Fathead" Newman, Alto Saxophone, Background Vocals - Riley Webb, Trumpet - Roosevelt Sheffield, Double Bass - Mary Ann Fisher, Background Vocals - Donald "Don" Wilkerson, Tenor Saxophone, Background Vocals - Joseph “Joe” Bridgewater, Trumpet - William "Bill" Peeples, Drums
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 1955 Atlantic Recording Corp. for the US and WEA International for the world outside the US.
Jerry Wexler, Producer - Ray Charles, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - AHMET ERTEGUN, Producer - Cecil Payne, Baritone Saxophone - David "Panama" Francis, Drums - Joshua "Jack" Willis, Trumpet - Paul E. West, Double Bass - Donald "Don" Wilkerson, Tenor Saxophone - Joseph “Joe” Bridgewater, Trumpet
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 1955 Atlantic Recording Corp. for the US and WEA International for the world outside the US.
Jerry Wexler, Producer - Ray Charles, Piano, Vocals, MainArtist - AHMET ERTEGUN, Producer - Glenn Brooks, Drums - Renald Richard, Writer - Wesley Jackson, Guitar - David "Fathead" Newman, Alto Saxophone - Donald "Don" Wilkerson, Tenor Saxophone - Joseph “Joe” Bridgewater, Trumpet - Charles “Clanky” Whitley, Trumpet - James "Jimmy" Bell, Double Bass
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 1954 Atlantic Recording Corp. for the US and WEA International for the world outside the US.
Jerry Wexler, Producer - Ray Charles, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - AHMET ERTEGUN, Producer - Frank Mitchell, Trumpet - Oscar Moore, Drums - Joe Tillman, Tenor Saxophone - Lloyd Lambert, Double Bass - Wallace Davenport, Trumpet - Warren Bell, Additional Saxophone - O’Neil Gerald, Saxophone, Alto Saxophone
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 1953 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Jerry Wexler, Producer - Ray Charles, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - AHMET ERTEGUN, Producer - CHESTER BURNETT, Writer - Glenn Brooks, Drums - Wesley Jackson, Guitar - David "Fathead" Newman, Alto Saxophone - Donald "Don" Wilkerson, Tenor Saxophone - Joseph “Joe” Bridgewater, Trumpet - Charles “Clanky” Whitley, Trumpet - James "Jimmy" Bell, Double Bass
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 1954 Atlantic Recording Corp. for the US and WEA International for the world outside the US.
Album 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. The original album suffered from deficient sound and most reissues left a lot to be desired, but in 2003 WEA International reissued it (as Hallelujah I Love Her So) in a 24-bit remastered version in a gatefold format that is a treat to the ear and runs circles around prior reissues.
© Bruce Eder /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 00:41:31
- Main artists: Ray Charles
- Label: Rhino Atlantic
- Genre: Soul/Funk/R&B R&B
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing
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