What’d I Say (1959)

1. What’d I Say
2. Jumpin' In The Mornin
3. You Be My Baby
4. Tell Me How Do You Feel
5. What Kind Of Man Are You
6. Rockhouse
7. Roll With My Baby
8. Tell All The World About You
9. My Bonnie
10. That’s Enough 

Ray Charles got his first Top Ten pop hit and first Gold Record Award with the single What’d I Say - and it was only good marketing logic to name this studio album after it. In fact it was a compilation of What'd I Say (recorded on 18 February 1959) with a series of earlier tracks that were taped between 1952 and 1958 (see this).

Personnel: 

Liner notes (from UKrelease).

Ray Charles – keyboards, vocals; David Newman – tenor saxophone, alto saxophone (1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10); Emmett Dennis – baritone saxophone (3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10); Hank Crawford – baritone saxophone (1, 4); Marcus Belgrave – trumpet (3, 4, 8, 9); Lee Harper – trumpet (3, 8, 9); Ricky Harper – trumpet (5, 10); Joe Bridgewater – trumpet (5, 6, 10); John Hunt – trumpet (4, 6); Edgar Willis – bass (1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10); Roosevelt Sheffield – bass (6); Richie Goldberg – drums (3, 8, 9); William Peeples – drums (5, 6, 10); Teagle Fleming – drums (4); Milt Turner – drums (1); Mary Ann Fisher – vocals (5, 10); The Raelettes – (3, 5, 8, 9, 10); unknown – trumpet, saxophone, bass, drums (2, 7).
Atlantic 8029, 1959-09.