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Together Again (Ray Charles album)

studio album by Ray Charles

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ7813094 ↗
Source-derived summary

Together Again, also known as Country and Western Meets Rhythm and Blues, is a studio album by Ray Charles released in 1965 by ABC-Paramount Records.

Chart performance

The album debuted on Billboard magazine's Top LP's chart in the issue dated September 11, 1965, peaking at No. 116 during a seven-week run on the chart.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Together Again (Ray Charles album)” as studio album by Ray Charles. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Together, Again and Charles.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1965—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1965. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Together, Again and Charles providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Together Again (Ray Charles album)”, the useful work is to connect “studio album by Ray Charles” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 25, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7813094. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1965.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Together Again (Ray Charles album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.