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Would You Believe? is an album by the American musician Ray Charles, released in 1990. He supported the album by touring with B.B. King. Would You Believe? was Charles's first album for Warner Bros. Records. The first single was "I'll Take Care of You".
- 1990
- Ray Charles, Jimmy Lewis
- Jimmy Lewis’ Involvement in Would You Believe?
- Charles Richard Cason’s Involvement in Would You Believe?
- Ray Charles’ Contributions to Would You Believe?
- Minutiae For Ray Charles Nerds
- Record Covers
- Singles with Songs from Would You Believe?
- Track Listing
Long-time Ray collaborator Jimmy Lewis is all over Would You Believe?: he’s credited, with Ray, as the LP’s producer, and he wrote or co-wrote (with Cason) six of its ten songs. He also arranged several of the tracks, and it was his demos that led to Ray’s being inspired to record the album in the first place. Lewis’ usual mix of humor and emotion ...
The sound on Would You Believe?is nearly entirely indebted not to Ray Charles but to Charles Richard Cason. Cason programmed the synthesizers, and he explored the two basic possibilities that synths offer: (1) emulate traditional instruments, and (2) create new washes and digitized blips to give a new non-traditional feel. Generally, the music on W...
This is a Ray Charles album, and of course he is the star here. His singing is excellent throughout; the melodies on Would You Believe? are, generally speaking, not particularly complicated, so he gets down to infusing his singing with the requisite emotion. That may change from song to song, or even line to line, and Ray as always put a lot of tho...
Would You Believe? has a curious and short-lived preoccupation with English punctuation, starting with the question mark in the title. There is another question mark in “Where’re The Stairs?” and an exclamation mark in “Leave Him!” Furthermore, two songs have commas: “Ellie, My Love” and “Child Support, Alimony”.
The jacket of the vinyl LP of Would You Believe?tries to emulate the modernity of the sounds inside through an adventurous use of computer fonts. Clearly done on a Macintosh, which opened up desktop layout and publishing to everyone, the front cover has RAY CHARLES written vertically twice, in black and in white but at angles to each other (how hip...
There were no vinyl singles in the United States directly from Would You Believe?, but “Ellie, My Love” was a hit in Japan in 1989 as a mini-CD single, released as a tie-in to Ray’s television commercials for Suntory White whiskey. There were vocal and instrumental versions on that CD. “I’ll Take Care Of You” b/w “Child Support, Alimony”was also re...
Side A 1. “I’ll Take Care Of You” 2. “Your Love Keeps Me Satisfied” 3. “Ellie, My Love” 4. “I Can’t Get Enough” 5. “Let’s Get Back Where We Left Off” Side B 1. “Child Support, Alimony” 2. “Fresh Out Of Tears” 3. “Living Without You” 4. “Where’re The Stairs?” 5. “Leave Him!”
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View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1990 CD release of "Would You Believe ?" on Discogs.
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Oct 16, 1990 · Would You Believe? by Ray Charles released in 1990. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
