Dedicated to You (Ray Charles album)

Dedicated to You is an album by Ray Charles, released in January 1961. It collects Charles's musical love notes to twelve women, by name.

A 1998 Rhino Records re-issue combined, on a single CD, Dedicated to You and Ray Charles and Betty Carter.

The album debuted on Billboard magazine's Top LP's chart in the issue dated March 12, 1961, peaking at No. 11 during a thirty-nine-week run on the chart.^[1]

1. "Hardhearted Hannah" (Jack Yellen, Milton Ager, Charles Bates, Bob Bigelow) – 3:14
2. "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" (Phil Silvers, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:02
3. "Margie" (Con Conrad, J. Russel Robinson, Benny Davis) – 2:44
4. "Ruby" (Mitchell Parish, Heinz Roemheld) – 3:51
5. "Rosetta" (Earl Hines, Henri Woode) – 2:29
6. "Stella by Starlight" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 3:47
7. "Cherry" (Ray Gilbert, Don Redman) – 3:37
8. "Josephine" (Burke Bivens, Kahn, Wayne King) – 2:14
9. "Candy" (Mack David, Alex Kramer, Joan Whitney) – 4:09
10. "Marie" (Irving Berlin) – 2:21
11. "Diane" (Lew Pollack, Erno Rapee) – 3:51
12. "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard) – 2:30

• Betty Carter – vocals, performer
• Ray Charles – piano, keyboards, vocals
• Marty Paich – arrangements, conductor

• ABC 355
• Album summaries at Allmusic.com
• Album summaries at warr.org