Album Profile: The Genius of Ray Charles

Tonight we embark on a new feature...the classic album profile. We start with this gem of Atlantic Records, from 1959. Add two bonus songs, and here we go! Again!

Song List: 

Side one

1. "Let the Good Times Roll" (Sam Theard, Fleecie Moore) – 2:53
2. "It Had to Be You" (Gus Kahn, Isham Jones) – 2:45
3. "Alexander's Ragtime Band" (Irving Berlin) – 2:53
4. "Two Years of Torture" (Percy Mayfield, Charles Joseph Morris) – 3:25
5. "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) – 2:51
6. "'Deed I Do" (Walter Hirsch, Fred Rose) – 2:27

Side two

1. "Just for a Thrill" (Lil Hardin Armstrong, Don Raye) – 3:26
2. "You Won't Let Me Go" (Bud Allen, Buddy Johnson) – 3:22
3. "Tell Me You'll Wait for Me" (Charles Brown, Oscar Moore) – 3:25
4. "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'" (Joe Greene) – 3:46
5. "Am I Blue?" (Grant Clarke, Harry Akst) – 3:41
6. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen) – 3:42

As always, the podcast is available Here by about 10PM ET Sunday.  Thank you, Baruch! (Sorry, no recording is available for tonight's show!) 

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Jerry Wexler: Happy Birthday, Wex!

Another very special show tonight...TONIGHT in "Ahmet's House", we celebrate the birthday of Jerry Wexler! An impossible task to do in one hour, so it will be a busy one! These pics tell some of the story...7PM

Only two of the pictures of an incredible life!

Song List:

TBD

As always, the podcast is available Here by about 10PM ET Sunday.  Thank you, Baruch!

You can also listen in via iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

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It's 2019 in Ahmet's House

And just like that, it is another year...welcome to 2019 in Ahmet's House! We hope to bring you "trunks of  memories still to come!" Join us tonight for this first show of the New Year. What will we play?

 Some of the Greats! 

As always, the podcast is available Here by about 10PM ET Sunday.  Thank you, Baruch!

You can also listen in via iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

Stitcher and TuneIn have also picked us up...as have others...welcome! Ask Alexa to look for Ahmet's House! 

Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci