Dedicated to You (Ray Charles album) explained

Dedicated to You
Type:	Album
Artist:	Ray Charles
Cover:	RayCharlesDedicatedToYou.jpeg
Released:	January 1961
Recorded:	August 23, 1960
Genre:	Soul
Length:	39:11
Label:	ABC-Paramount
Producer:	Sid Feller
Prev Title:	The Genius Hits the Road
Prev Year:	1960
Next Title:	Soul Meeting
Next Year:	1961

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.

Track listing

1. "Hardhearted Hannah" (Jack Yellen, Milton Ager, Charles Bates, Bob Bigelow) – 3:14
2. "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" (Phil Silvers, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:02
3. "Margie" (Con Conrad, J. Russel Robinson, Benny Davis) – 2:44
4. "Ruby" (Mitchell Parish, Heinz Roemheld) – 3:51
5. "Rosetta" (Earl Hines, Henri Woode) – 2:29
6. "Stella by Starlight" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 3:47
7. "Cherry" (Ray Gilbert, Don Redman) – 3:37
8. "Josephine" (Burke Bivens, Kahn, Wayne King) – 2:14
9. "Candy" (Mack David, Alex Kramer, Joan Whitney) – 4:09
10. "Marie" (Irving Berlin) – 2:21
11. "Diane" (Lew Pollack, Erno Rapee) – 3:51
12. "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard) – 2:30

Personnel

• Betty Carter – vocals, performer
• Ray Charles – piano, keyboards, vocals
• Marty Paich - arrangements, conductor

References/External links

• ABC 355
• [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r416416|pure_url=yes}} Album summaries at Allmusic.com]
• Album summaries at warr.org