Talk:I Got a Woman

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[edit] I' VE GOT A WOMAN...instead of I got a woman

  • Chart position : #1 R&B
  • Category : R&B
  • Writers : Ray Charles, Renald Richard
  • Label and number : Atlantic 1050, New York City
  • Flipside (A-side) : Come back baby, #4 R&B
  • When and where recorded : November 18, 1954, in Atlanta, Georgia
  • When released : late December 1954
  • Why important : in many respects it brought down the curtain on '50s R&B and heralded in a new, heavily gospel-inflected music that would involve into early '60s soul.
  • Important remakes : Presley, POP #1, 1956; Eddie Bond and the Stompers "I've got a woman", Mercury 70826X45 (matrix YW1 2674, Progressive Music (BMI), March 1956, vocal by Eddie Bond, DNC, A-side of Rockin' Daddy written by Sonny Fisher; Sammy Davis, Jr., 1960, DNC; Jimmy McGriff, POP #20, 1962; Ricky Nelson, POP #49, 1963; Freddie Scott, POP #48, 1963; Ray Charles himself, POP #79, 1965. Stephan KŒNIG 13:52, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] rewrite

This sentence: "Fifty years later, rapper Kanye West would sample "I Got a Woman" for his #1 US hit, "Gold Digger", in 2005, bringing Charles back into the charts (with help from Jamie Foxx, who played Charles in the biopic, Ray, and imitated him in the intro), only this time credited as a songwriter of his own #1 hit posthumously after his June 2004 death." is too long and confusing to read. It needs to be rewritten possibly as 2 or 3 sentences.

Dom316 03:57, 23 September 2007 (UTC)