Doing It My Way

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Ray Quinn
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Studio album by
Ray Quinn
Released12 March 2007 [1]
RecordedJanuary 2007
Los Angeles, California
Genre Vocal jazz
Length34:05
Label Syco
Producer Nigel Wright
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Doing It My Way is the debut studio album by The X Factor series 3 runner up Ray Quinn. The album was recorded at Capitol Records Tower in Los Angeles in January 2007. [3] [4] It was released on 12 March 2007 and entered the UK Albums Chart at number one the following week, making Quinn the first person to have a number-one album without releasing a single. It sold 126,985 copies in its first week, enough to be certified Gold. [5]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 2:31
  2. "Fly Me to the Moon" (Bart Howard) - 2:27
  3. "My Way" (Paul Anka, Claude François, Jacques Revaux, Gilles Thibault) - 4:29
  4. "That's Life" (Kelly Gordon, Dean Kay) - 3:13
  5. "Mack the Knife" (Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) - 3:02
  6. "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin, John Turner, Geoffrey Parsons) - 2:39
  7. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) - 4:11
  8. "Summer Wind" (Hans Bradtke, Henry Mayer, Johnny Mercer) - 2:44
  9. "What a Wonderful World" (Bob Thiele, George David Weiss) - 2:15
  10. "Mr. Bojangles" (Jerry Jeff Walker) - 3:25
  11. "New York, New York" (John Kander, Fred Ebb) - 3:09

Credits and personnel

(Credits taken from AllMusic and Doin It My Way's liner notes.)

Charts and certifications

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References

  1. ↑ "iTunes - Music - Ray Quinn by Ray Quinn". iTunes Store (Apple Inc.). Archived from the original on 2 June 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  2. ↑ AllMusic review
  3. ↑ "X Factor loser Ray wins record deal". Irish Examiner . 18 December 2006. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  4. ↑ "X Factor's Ray heads to Sinatra studios". Digital Spy . 18 December 2006. Archived from the original on 13 January 2007. Retrieved 13 February 2007.
  5. ↑ Jones, Alan (29 July 2013). "Official Charts Analysis: Jahmene Douglas needs just 19k to hit No.1" . Music Week . Intent Media. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  6. ↑ "GFK Chart-Track Albums: Week 12, 2007". Chart-Track. IRMA.
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  11. ↑ "The Irish Charts - 2007 Certification Awards - Gold". Irish Recorded Music Association.
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