Dedicated to You
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Dedicated to You is a 1961 album by Ray Charles
. Originally released in January 1961 the album collects Charles' musical love notes to twelve very special women, by name.
A 1998 Rhino Records re-issue combined, on a single CD, Dedicated to You and Ray Charles and Betty Carter
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Side 2
Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson , known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records...
. Originally released in January 1961 the album collects Charles' musical love notes to twelve very special women, by name.
A 1998 Rhino Records re-issue combined, on a single CD, Dedicated to You and Ray Charles and Betty Carter
Ray Charles and Betty Carter
Ray Charles and Betty Carter is a 1961 album by Betty Carter and Ray Charles. The pair's recording of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" on the album topped the R&B charts...
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Track listing
Side 1- "Hardhearted Hannah" (Yellen, Ager, Bates) – 3:14
- "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)Nancy (With the Laughing Face)"Nancy " is a song composed in 1942 by Jimmy Van Heusen, with lyrics by Phil Silvers. It is commonly believed that the song was written for the birthday of Nancy Sinatra...
" (Silvers, Van Heusen) – 3:02 - "MargieMargie (song)"Margie", also known as "My Little Margie", is a 1920 popular song. It was composed in collaboration by vaudeville performer and pianist Con Conrad and ragtime pianist J. Russel Robinson, a member of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. Lyrics were written by Benny Davis, a vaudeville performer and...
" (Conrad, Robinson, Davis) – 2:44 - "Ruby" (ParishMitchell ParishMitchell Parish was an American lyricist.-Early life:Parish was born Michael Hyman Pashelinsky to a Jewish family in Lithuania. His family emigrated to the United States, arriving on February 3, 1901 on the SS Dresden when he was less than a year old...
, Roemheld) – 3:51 - "Rosetta" (Hines, Woods) – 2:29
- "Stella by StarlightStella By Starlight"Stella by Starlight" is a jazz standard written by Victor Young and featured in The Uninvited, a 1944 film released by Paramount Pictures. Originally played in the film as an instrumental theme song without lyrics, it was turned over to Ned Washington, who wrote the lyrics for it in 1946...
" (Washington, Young) – 3:47
Side 2
- "Cherry" (Gilbert, Redman) – 3:37
- "Josephine" (Bivens, Kahn, King) – 2:14
- "Candy" (David, Kramer, Whitney) – 4:09
- "Marie" (Berlin) – 2:21
- "DianeDiane (song)Diane is a song by Erno Rapee and Lew Pollack originally written as a theme song for the 1927 classic silent movie Seventh Heaven. In 1928, The Nat Shilkret Orchestra had a hit with the song....
" (Pollack, Rapee) – 3:51 - "Sweet Georgia BrownSweet Georgia Brown"Sweet Georgia Brown" is a jazz standard and pop tune written in 1925 by Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard and Kenneth Casey .The tune was first recorded on March 19, 1925 by bandleader Ben Bernie, resulting in a five-week No. 1 for Ben Bernie and his Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra...
" (Bernie, Casey, Pinkard) – 2:30