RAY CHARLES ‘GENIUS+SOUL=JAZZ’ A SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL 1961 UK HMV RECORDS VINYL LP.

	£		25
	$		30

A STUNNING STEREO EXAMPLE OF THIS HIS MASTER'S VOICE RECORDS LP FROM RAY CHARLES.

Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer-songwriter, musician and composer known as Ray Charles and sometimes referred to as "The Genius". He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into early performances recorded by Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his two Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company. Frank Sinatra called Charles "the only true genius in show business", although Charles downplayed this notion. He was blind from age seven. His best friend in music was South Carolina-born James Brown, the "Godfather of Soul", and like Charles an active lifelong Republican. The influences upon his music were mainly jazz, blues, rhythm and blues, and country artists of the day including Art Tatum, Louis Jordan, Charles Brown, and Louis Armstrong, though he maintained that he was most influenced by Nat King Cole. His playing reflected influences from country blues, barrelhouse and stride piano styles. Rolling Stone ranked Charles as number ten on its list of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2004, and number two on their November 2008 list of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". In honoring Charles, Billy Joel noted: "This may sound like sacrilege, but I think Ray Charles was more important than Elvis Presley".

Item Description/Condition:

On the beautiful early Custom His Master’s Voice Record labels, with Made In Great Britain Label Text to both labels.

Both sides of the Record Labels are in undamaged Mint condition, both record labels are in as new condition.

Side 1 Matrix AS 2A-1 and Side 2 AS 2B-1.
Both sides of the Heavy Vinyl Disc are in are in stunning Mint condition, beautiful, bright, unmarked glossy vinyl surfaces that look new.

Audio Quality:

The LP plays with a perfect uninterrupted, clear and beautiful sound quality.

The Vinyl Disc comes in it’s original polythene lined HMV Die-Cut inner bag, and is housed in its original, front laminated, Ernest J. Day & Co Ltd London Picture sleeve, with 3 flipbacks to the reverse panel, which is in stunningly beautiful Mint Minus condition, a beautiful condition sleeve with just the original owners name in ink on the reverse.

A beautiful preserved condition example of this first issue 1961 HMV Records album from the one and only Ray Charles.

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