“The Genius Hits The Road” by Ray Charles - album review
| features in: Album Chart of 1960 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1960s |
Released July 1960. Ray’s first post-Atlantic LP, and ABC continue with the genius tag, just in case you were having any doubts yourself. The marketing dept. seems to have been on overtime too, and we’re presented with a clumsily themed LP, with titles contrived via American place names. As if the tedious geography homework wasn’t bad enough, the music brews up a Tea Dance trauma, where brassy bossa-novas step on the toes of supper-club waltzes. Comes complete with dodgy variety “patter”. Genius is a very over used term in music… cheezeball, on the other hand…
The Jukebox Rebel
25–Jul–2008
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [01:55]  Ray Charles - Alabamy Bound (Ray Henderson, Buddy DeSylva, Bud Green) Big Band / Jive / Swing |
| A2 | [03:35]  Ray Charles - Georgia On My Mind (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell) Crooner / Cabaret |
| A3 | [02:46]  Ray Charles - Basin Street Blues (Spencer Williams) Jazz |
| A4 | [03:24]  Ray Charles - Mississippi Mud (James Cavanaugh, Harry Barris) Big Band / Jive / Swing |
| A5 | [03:02]  Ray Charles - Moonlight In Vermont (Karl Suessdorf, John Blackburn) Crooner / Cabaret |
| A6 | [03:06]  Ray Charles - New York’s My Home (Gordon Jenkins) Crooner / Cabaret |
| B1 | [02:10]  Ray Charles - California, Here I Come (Joseph Meyer, B.G. DeSylva, Al Jolson) Jazz |
| B2 | [03:20]  Ray Charles - Moon Over Miami (Joe Burke, Edgar Leslie) Crooner / Cabaret |
| B3 | [02:28] Ray Charles - Deep In The Heart Of Texas (Don Swander, June Hershey) Crooner / Cabaret |
| B4 | [02:02]  Ray Charles - Carry Me Back To Old Virginny (James Alan Bland) Soul Ballad |
| B5 | [02:58]  Ray Charles - Blue Hawaii (Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger) Crooner / Cabaret |
| B6 | [03:06]  Ray Charles - Chattanooga Choochoo (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) Big Band / Jive / Swing |
