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Doing His Thing is a 1969 studio album by Ray Charles, released by Tangerine Records. The cover artwork was by Lafayette Chew.

Doing His Thing
Studio album by Ray Charles
Released	May 1969
Recorded	RPM Studios, Los Angeles, California
Genre	Soul
Length	32:33
Label	ABC/Tangerine
Producer	Joe Adams
Ray Charles chronology
I'm All Yours Baby (1969) Doing His Thing (1969) My Kind of Jazz (1970)

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[1]
The Village Voice	A[2]

Reviewing in his January 1970 "Consumer Guide" column, The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau wrote of Charles and the LP: "It's so easy to forget what a genius he still is. No balladeering here, no Beatle-mongering, nothing but hard-bopping Ray Charles soul. Yeah."[2] In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (1992), J. D. Considine said it marked a return to Charles' funkier style of music with "an album that's long on groove but short on songs (although the interplay between Charles and Jimmy Lewis on 'If It Wasn't for Bad Luck' is delightful)".[1]

Track listing

all songs written by Jimmy Lewis except as noted

Side A

1. "The Same Thing That Can Make You Laugh (Can Make You Cry)" (Jimmy Lewis, Ray Charles) – 2:06
2. "Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers" (Cliff Chambers, Jimmy Holiday, Jimmy Lewis) – 2:25
3. "You Ought To Change Your Ways" – 2:45
4. "Baby Please" – 3:35
5. "Come and Get It" – 2:48

Side B

1. "We Can Make It" – 3:43
2. "I’m Ready" – 3:20
3. "That Thing Called Love" – 2:54
4. "If It Wasn’t For Bad Luck" (Jimmy Lewis, Ray Charles) – 4:45[3]
5. "I Told You So" – 4:11

Personnel

• Ray Charles – keyboards, vocals
• Jimmy Lewis – vocals

Notes / references

• ABC 695
• Doing His Thing at Allmusic.com

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