It was back to R&B for this album. Producer Sid Feller and Ray laid the songs out in a dramatic sequence, with Ray playing a character going through a sequence of emotions in each song. He starts flat broke in a song he borrowed from Johnny Cash, called “Busted.”. It hit #4 on the pop charts and #3 on the R&B charts and won the 1963 Grammy Award for “Best Rhythm & Blues Recording. Billboard praised the album’s “soulful songs of loneliness and loss.”

Tracks

Busted
Where Can I Go
Born To Be Blue
That Lucky Old Sun
Ol’ Man River
In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down)
A Stranger In Town
Ol’ Man Time
Over The Rainbow
You’ll Never Walk Alone