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[edit] 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)
