What'd I Say

Ray Charles
Label
Atlantic · 8029
Released
1959
Format
mono
Pressing
reissue
Genre
Soul

Originally 1959; this is a later MGM-era pressing rather than a first issue. This is the Atlantic-period Ray Charles — the gospel, blues and R&B fusion that built his reputation, and the earlier material the Tangerine record isn’t. Between this and the Aretha, the blues corner of the collection is no longer empty.