Talk:I Got a Woman

I' VE GOT A WOMAN...instead of I got a woman

• Chart position : #1 R&B
• Category : R&B
• Writers : Ray Charles, Renald Richard
• Label and number : Atlantic 1050, New York City
• Flipside (A-side) : Come back baby, #4 R&B
• When and where recorded : November 18, 1954, in Atlanta, Georgia
• When released : late December 1954
• Why important : in many respects it brought down the curtain on '50s R&B and heralded in a new, heavily gospel-inflected music that would involve into early '60s soul.
• Important remakes : Presley, POP #1, 1956; Eddie Bond and the Stompers "I've got a woman", Mercury 70826X45 (matrix YW1 2674, Progressive Music (BMI), March 1956, vocal by Eddie Bond, DNC, A-side of Rockin' Daddy written by Sonny Fisher; Sammy Davis, Jr., 1960, DNC; Jimmy McGriff, POP #20, 1962; Ricky Nelson, POP #49, 1963; Freddie Scott, POP #48, 1963; Ray Charles himself, POP #79, 1965. Stephan KŒNIG 13:52, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

• I've Got A Woman : http://www.jazzdisco.org/atlantic/1953-dis/c/

rewrite

This sentence: "Fifty years later, rapper Kanye West would sample "I Got a Woman" for his #1 US hit, "Gold Digger", in 2005, bringing Charles back into the charts (with help from Jamie Foxx, who played Charles in the biopic, Ray, and imitated him in the intro), only this time credited as a songwriter of his own #1 hit posthumously after his June 2004 death." is too long and confusing to read. It needs to be rewritten possibly as 2 or 3 sentences.

Dom316 03:57, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Orgin of the tune

I thought this is based on "It must be Jesus" by The Southern Tunes? Came out 1954, too. If Ray recorded it in December, I guess that one was before, and it involves the same chord pattern. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.239.22.114 (talk) 16:04, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

I have to second this. Compare the two songs: It must be Jesus - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvCbVLZW4EY&feature=response_watch Jesus is all the world to me - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh6TR7Szlgc It's pretty obvious which song it's based on. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.174.192.244 (talk) 16:11, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Charles probably actually picked it up from a Folkways collection record of Appalachian Blues Music - Marvin and Turner Foddrell wrote the tune at some point in the late 1940s. One can find the recording on Spotify. 108.46.54.202 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 16:34, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Ray Charles recording at Georgia Tech (1954)

Added: Fact> Charles found a recording studio for his song 'I Got a Woman' at Georgia Tech's radio station WGST. (Not added: Legend> Charles had difficulty finding a willing studio in Georgia, black or white, due to the song's lyrics, and it being a riff on a gospel tune. Student staff members at Georgia Tech's radio station, however, quickly grasped the intrinsic beauties of the song and—it was later bragged among Tech students—slipped the import of the recording session past the attention of Tech's administrative officials, part of a long tradition of tomfoolery practiced by Tech students vis-a-vis the administration. In general, the Tech student body—it was all-male at the time—loved their unique connection to Charles and his song 'recorded on the Tech campus' (the recording studios were actually located downtown); and 'the Man' and his music were extremely popular on the Tech campus for years/decades to follow.)--Jbeans (talk) 09:05, 19 February 2010 (UTC)