ELVIS PRESLEY - I Got a Woman (Las Vegas 1970) 4K

Written by Ray Charles, Renald Richard - 1954 - New Edit by FABRICA “I Got a Woman“ (originally titled “I’ve Got a Woman“)is a song co-written and recorded by American R&B and soul musician Ray Charles. Atlantic Records released the song as a single in December 1954, with “Come Back Baby“ as the B-side. Both songs later appeared on the 1957 album Ray Charles (subsequently reissued as Hallelujah I Love Her So). The song builds on “It Must Be Jesus“ by the Southern Tones, which Ray Charles was listening to on the radio while on the road with his band in the summer of 1954. He and a member of his band, trumpeter Renald Richard, penned a song that was built along a gospel-frenetic pace with secular lyrics and a jazz-inspired rhythm and blues (R&B) background. The song would be one of the prototypes for what later became termed as “soul music“ after Charles released “What’d I Say“ nearly five years later. The song was recorded on November 18, 1954 in the Atlanta studios of Georgia Tech radio station WGST. It was a