The Genius Of Ray Charles
by Ray Charles
Listen & Collect
Complete your collection or upgrade your listening experience.
Ray Charles bestography
The Genius Of Ray Charles is ranked as the best album by Ray Charles.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
Listen to The Genius Of Ray Charles on YouTube
The Genius Of Ray Charles track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Genius Of Ray Charles rankings
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 3 hours ago).
paladisiac
bertrandu
Tamthebam
Hayden
neilgee
Norman Bates
AwaitingAndrewThe Genius Of Ray Charles collection
Showing latest 20 members who have this album in their collection | Show all 76 members
The Genius Of Ray Charles ratings
Average Rating = (n ÷ (n + m)) × av + (m ÷ (n + m)) × AVwhere:
av = trimmed mean average rating an item has currently received.
n = number of ratings an item has currently received.
m = minimum number of ratings required for an item to appear in a 'top-rated' chart (currently 10).
AV = the site mean average rating.
Showing latest 5 ratings for this album. | Show all 224 ratings for this album.
| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 03/13/2026 17:38 | wadwicz5 | 894 | 86/100 |
| ! | 03/06/2026 15:47 | classicjoe | 507 | 78/100 |
| ! | 01/23/2026 16:39 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,111 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/10/2025 18:14 |  JR | 1,110 | 81/100 |
| ! | 09/17/2025 20:08 | TonySayers61 | 25,039 | 64/100 |
Rating metrics:
Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. The mean average rating would be 50. However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation).
(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.1/100, a mean average of 76.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.8.
The Genius Of Ray Charles favourites
Showing all 19 members who have added this album as a favourite
The Genius Of Ray Charles comments
Showing latest 10 comments | Show all 14 comments |
Most Helpful First | Newest First | Positive Sentiment First |
Longest Comments First
(Only showing comments with -2 votes or higher. You can alter this threshold from your profile page. Manage Profile)
The title should, by rights, have given rise to an album containing more of his own great compositions. His genius was deeply entailed in his own songwriting. Despite that, his covers are great and this is a superb record.
There are a lot of enjoyable songs on this album and I like the way he evenly distributes his song types onto each side. Side 1 is a much more band led and jazz influenced side making it more to my preference and side 2 is a lot more ballad heavy. The feel of the first six songs is just so energetic and fun and his voice sounds even better when backed by a big jazz band. This leads to fantastic songs such as Deed I Do, It Has To Be You and Let The Good Times Roll. The second side is quite dull in comparison but has its moments when it shines such as the closing track. If you love his vocal it really does shine on side 2 and carries the songs even when the music is a bit dull. Overall, if side 1 made up the whole album this could be sensational but the slower second half lets the record down on the whole for me.
Solid, but better Ray was coming later.
big band - side one
ballads - side two
StefanR10 07/08/2020 17:32 | #255255
Really good album I hear very good R and B.
Boltzmann 10/17/2019 07:20 | #243843
This release doesn't really showcase the genius of Ray Charles sadly.
VictorVale 12/31/2018 17:37 | #228400
Em sua maturidade o gênio mostrava o que sabia fazer.
planetneutral 01/23/2018 03:13 | #206349 | TOP COMMENT
Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Nothing wrong with Ray Charles, but this album didn't really pique my interest.
An enjoyable album. Not quite as great as the ridiculous title suggests. Still full of good songs though.
Kingturtle 03/11/2016 19:45 | #161747 | TOP COMMENT
Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Band arrangements are over the top, but his vocals here are at his best, mixing soul, rock&roll, and jazz all into one. This LP is takes "Big Band" and turns it on its arse.
Your feedback for The Genius Of Ray Charles
The top-voted comments get featured on our charts, Album of the Day, and the site newsletter.
