Hallelujah I Love Her So

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For Hallelujah I Love Her So, the album by Ray Charles, see Ray Charles (or, Hallelujah I Love Her So).
“Hallelujah I Love Her So”
Single by Ray Charles
Released 1956
Format 7" 45rpm
Label Atlantic
Writer(s) Ray Charles
Producer Jerry Wexler
Ray Charles singles chronology
"A Fool For You"
(1955)		 "Hallelujah I Love Her So"
(1956)		 "Mary Ann"
(1956)

"Hallelujah I Love Her So" is a proto-soul single written by and released by American singer Ray Charles in 1956 on the Atlantic label.

The song peaked at number five on the Billboard R&B chart and much like "I Got a Woman" and "This Little Girl of Mine" before it was a song based on a gospel hymn with lyrics changed around to fit a secular blues format.

These songs predated the groundbreaking success Charles had near the end of the fifties with "What'd I Say" but they helped contribute to Charles' huge success with the R&B community at the time.

[edit] Credits

  • Lead vocal by Ray Charles
  • Instrumentation by the Ray Charles Orchestra
  • Produced by Jerry Wexler

[edit] Cover versions