Let The Good Times Roll

Album: The Genius Of Ray Charles, Atlantic 1312, October 1959.
Single: Atlantic 2047, December 1959, b/w Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin'.

It's fun to see how the  writer, Louis Jordan, performed his song:


Quincy brilliantly adapted Louis Jordan's song to a magnificent big band chart for the Genius album.

Ray Charles - piano and vocals; Clark Terry - trumpet; Ernie Royal - trumpet; Joe Newman - trumpet; Snookie Young - trumpet; Marcus Belgrave - trumpet; John Hunt - trumpet; Melba Liston - trombone; Quentin Jackson - trombone; Thomas Mitchell - trombone; Al Gray - trombone; Frank Wess - flute, alto saxophone and tenor saxophone; Marshall Royal - alto sax; Paul Gonsalves - tenor sax; Zoot Sims - tenor sax; Billy Mitchell - tenor sax; David Fathead Newman - tenor sax; Jose Mangual (bongo drums on #3).

After its first recording, it was one of the few numbers that Ray kept on playing through the decades.
Ray always sang Let The Good Time [singular] Roll.

Genius 1960:


It also worked out fine with just his septet - Antibes 1961:


'84 LC Warsaw (#4):


In 2001 at the Kennedy Center Ray & Stevie honored Quincy with this spectacular performance:


Live:
'60 LC Newport - Released
'61 LC Antibes - 4x - Released
'61 LC Paris - 2x - Released
'62 LC Paris - Released
'65 FI Ballad - Film
'65 FI TNT
'70 TV Humperdinck
'72 LC Paris - 2x
'72 LC Tel Aviv - Released
'73 LC Nassau
'73 LC Germany
'73 LC Arbor
'73 LC Stockholm
'73 LC Paris
'74 TV Cotton Club
'75 LC Japan - Released
'76 LC Antibes
'79 LC Antibes
'79 LC Viareggio
'80 LC Northsea
'81 LC Prague
'82 LC Antibes
'84 LC Warsaw - Released
'85 LC NewHaven
'90 LC Tokyo BB
'90 LC Dresden BB
'90 LC Italy
'90 LC Milan
'90 LC Rome
'91 LC Montreux
'95 LC Tramps
'96 LC London
'97 LC WolfTrap
'01 TV Kennedy - With Stevie Wonder, for Quincy Jones