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Raelets
Raelets is credited on 517 releases across 77 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1958–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
517
Credits
77
Albums
8
Decades active
209
In collections
Biography
Ray Charles’s female backing singers. Also credited as The Raelets or The Raeletts.
Ray Charles formed the Raelets in 1958 by recruiting two members from The Cookies Darlene McCrea and Margie Hendrix with two more women and.
Since then the group has had many members come and go, among them artists such as Margie Hendrix, Edna Wright and Mable John, Minnie Riperton, Merry Clayton, Clydie King of the Blackberries, and latter-day Supreme Susaye Greene.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
517 releases · 77 albums · active 1958–2024
- Performance · 558
- Other credits · 42
Studios: United Recording Studios · RPM International Studios · Newport Jazz Festival · Herndon Stadium
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music
1962

What'd I Say
1959

Ray Charles In Person
1960

Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music (Volume Two)
1962

The Spirit Of Christmas
1985

Crying Time
1966

The Genius Hits The Road
1960

Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul
1963

Ray Charles Live In Concert
1965

Country And Western Meets Rhythm And Blues
1965

Atlantic Rhythm And Blues 1947-1974
1985

Sweet & Sour Tears
1964

Ray Charles At Newport
1958

Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music Volumes 1 & 2
2009

Live
1973

Have A Smile With Me
1964

Hit The Road Jack
1961

Ray Sings - Basie Swings
2006

Greatest Country & Western Hits
1988

In The Heat Of The Night: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
1967

The Very Best Of Ray Charles

Newport 1960
2014

Fields
1969

The Birth Of Soul - The Complete Atlantic Rhythm & Blues Recordings 1952-1959
1991
Frequent collaborators
- Ray Charles
- Ray Charles And His Orchestra
- Various
- Ray Charles His Orchestra And Chorus
- Quincy Jones
- Fields (5)
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