In late 1964, ABC-Paramount prepared to release Ray Charles Sings For You, assigning it catalog number ABC-500 with liner notes and artwork fully completed. The album was shelved at the last moment in favor of issuing Ray Charles Live in Concert in January 1965, and what should have been a landmark release quietly disappeared. Its tracks were scattered across compilations over the decades, never heard together as Charles and his label originally intended. Now, for the first time, No One Does It Like... Ray Charles! officially restores that lost album, presenting it exactly as it was conceived over sixty years ago.
The result is one of the most historically significant Ray Charles releases in years. Featuring performances of "My Baby Don't Dig Me," "Without Love (There Is Nothing)," and "Worried Life Blues (Someday Baby)," the album captures Charles at the height of his creative command, a prolific period when his voice carried equal authority across soul, blues, and R&B. For collectors and serious listeners alike, No One Does It Like... Ray Charles! is not a reissue or a retrospective, it is a first release, finally delivered on its own terms.
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Limited to 3 individually numbered copies.
