Crying Time (album)

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Crying Time
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Studio album by
Ray Charles
ReleasedFebruary 1966
RecordedR.P.M. International, Los Angeles, California
Genre R&B, soul, country
Length39:44
Label ABC Paramount / Tangerine
Producer Joe Adams
Ray Charles chronology
Together Again
(1965)		Crying Time
(1966)		 Ray's Moods
(1966)
Singles from Crying Time
  1. "Crying Time"
    Released: November 1965
  2. "Let's Go Get Stoned"
    Released: May 1966
Professional ratings
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Crying Time is a studio album by Ray Charles, released in February 1966 as the first release on his label Tangerine, which was distributed by ABC Paramount.

Contents

Chart performance

The album debuted on Billboard magazine's Top LP's chart in the issue dated March 12, 1966, peaking at No. 15 during a thirty-six-week run on the chart. [3]

Track listing

LP side A
  1. "Crying Time" (Buck Owens) – 2:57
  2. "No Use Crying" (Roy Gaines, Freddie Lee Kober, J.B. Daniels) – 3:17
  3. "Let's Go Get Stoned" (Valerie Simpson, Nickolas Ashford, Jo Armstead) – 3:00
  4. "Going Down Slow" (Jimmy Oden) – 4:03
  5. "Peace of Mind" (Ray Charles, J. Holiday) – 2:14
  6. "Tears" (Norman Newell, Robert Maxwell) – 4:38
LP side B
  1. "Drifting Blues" (Johnny Moore, Eddie Williams, Charles Brown) – 6:24
  2. "We Don't See Eye to Eye" (Percy Mayfield) – 2:21
  3. "You're In for a Big Surprise" (Percy Mayfield) – 3:35
  4. "You're Just About to Lose Your Clown" (Johnny MacRae) – 2:01
  5. "Don't You Think I Ought to Know" (William Johnson, Melvin Wettergreen) – 3:05
  6. "You've Got a Problem" (William D. Weeks, Freddy James) – 3:28

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1966)Peak
position
US Billboard Top LP's [3] 15
US Top Selling R&B LP's (Billboard)1

See also

References

  1. ↑ AllMusic review
  2. ↑ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (May 14, 1966). "Ray Charles: Crying Time" (PDF). Record Mirror . No. 270. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 1, 2022. Retrieved November 18, 2022.
  3. 1 2 Whitburn, Joel (1973). Top LPs, 1955–1972. Record Research. p. 30. Retrieved July 10, 2025.
  4. ↑ Evans, Mike (November 11, 2009). Ray Charles: Birth of Soul. London: Omnibus Press. ISBN   978-0-85712-051-9 . Retrieved September 18, 2018.


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