Ray Charles ft Betty Carter - Alone Together (ABC-Paramount Records 1961)

“Alone Together“ is a song composed by Arthur Schwartz with lyrics by Howard Dietz. It was introduced in the Broadway musical Flying Colors in 1932 by Jean Sargent. The song soon became a hit, with Leo Reisman and His Orchestra’s 1932 recording being the first to reach the charts. It is the most popular of Schwartz and Dietz’s collaborations and has become a jazz standard. The first jazz artist to record the song was Artie Shaw in 1939. Raymond Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), professionally known as Ray Charles, was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and composer. He was sometimes referred to as “The Genius“, and was also nicknamed “The High Priest of Soul“. He pioneered the genre of soul music during the 1950s by combining rhythm and blues, Gospel, and blues styles into the music he recorded for Atlantic Records. He also contributed to the racial integration of country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover su