Atlantic · in the Kissa Kissa racks

Yes Indeed!

Recorded	Sep 11, 1952 & Feb 20, 1958
Label	Atlantic
Released	1952
Personnel	2 credited players
Discogs	master 278390

The record

Early Atlantic sides catching Charles mid-transformation, gospel fervor bleeding into R&B swagger with Fathead Newman's tenor already a perfect foil. A snapshot of the sound that would soon rewrite soul music from the ground up.

Session personnel

David "Fathead" Newman — saxophone [most of the sax solos]
Ray Charles — vocals, piano

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

The earliest pressing on file here is the 1958 US Atlantic mono, 8025. Atlantic kept that number in print through 1964 across a run of plant variants -- MGM and Monarch pressings, plus a 1960 deep-groove repress. Britain got London's HA-E 2168 in 1959. Every early copy listed is mono; stereo turns up only on the 1982 French reissue, 50 917. Atlantic's 2019 180-gram mono, still 8025, is the clean modern pick.

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 34 pressings on file.

1958	Atlantic · 8025 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file
1960	Atlantic · 8025 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Mono, Deep Groove · deep groove
1958	Atlantic · 8025 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1958	Atlantic · ATLANTIC 8025 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1958	Atlantic · 8025 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1959	Atlantic · 8025 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Mono
1959	Atlantic · 332027 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1959	London Records · HA-E 2168 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1959	London Records · RE 5063 — Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, EP
1959	Atlantic · 332027 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1960	Atlantic — MONO
1960	Atlantic · 8025 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Mono, MGM Custom Pressing
1962	Atlantic · 8025 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1963	London Records · HA-E 2168 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono