Ray Charles at Newport

Ray Charles at Newport
Live album by Ray Charles
Released November 1958
Recorded July 5, 1958 in Newport, Rhode Island
Genre R&B
Length 40:28
Label Atlantic
Producer Tom Dowd (engineer)
Ray Charles chronology
The Great Ray Charles
(1957)		 Ray Charles at Newport
(1958)		 Yes Indeed!
(1958)
Re-issue cover
1987 re-issue/compilation

Ray Charles at Newport is a 1958 live album of Ray Charles' July 5, 1958 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival. All tracks from this album, along with all tracks from his 1959 Herndon Stadium performance in Atlanta, were also released on the 1987 Atlantic compilation, Ray Charles, Live. This cd reissue includes a previously unissued number from the Newport concert, Swanee River Rock.

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Track listing

  1. "Night Time Is the Right Time" (Ozzie Cadena, Lew Herman) – 4:06
  2. "In a Little Spanish Town" (Sam Lewis, Mabel Wayne, Joe Young) – 3:47
  3. "I Got a Woman" (Ray Charles, Renald Richard) – 6:24
  4. "Blues Waltz" (Max Roach) – 6:29
  5. "Hot Rod" (Charles) – 3:43
  6. "Talkin' 'Bout You" (Charles) – 4:26
  7. "Sherry" (Hank Crawford) – 4:18
  8. "A Fool for You" (Charles) – 7:15

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