Just Between Us (Ray Charles album)

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Just Between Us
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Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 1988
StudioRPM Studios, Johannesburg
Genre R&B, soul, country soul
Label Columbia
Producer Ray Charles (all tracks), Quincy Jones (track 5)
Ray Charles chronology
Ray Charles Live
(1973)
Just Between Us
(1988)
Would You Believe?
(1990)
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Just Between Us is an album by the American singer Ray Charles, released by Columbia Records in 1988. [2] The songs included on it represents all the styles that Charles performed until the early 1990s, which combined R&B, soul, country, blues and pop.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Nothing Like a Hundred Miles" (James Taylor)
  2. "I Wish I'd Never Loved You at All" (K. Morrison Phelps, R. Hice)
  3. "Too Hard to Love You" (Jim Johnson)
  4. "Now I Don't Believe That Anymore" (David A. Morgan)
  5. "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
  6. "Stranger in My Hometown" (Percy Mayfield)
  7. "Over the Top" (Tony Colton, Keith Christopher)
  8. "I'd Walk a Little More for You" (Ken Hirsch, Doc Pomus)
  9. "If That's What'cha Want" (Dave Loggins)
  10. "Save the Bones for Henry Jones" (Danny Barker, Vernon Lee)

Personnel

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References

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/album/r3706
  2. "Just Between Us (Ray Charles)". Chicago Tribune .