Delaware

Words and Music by Irving Gordon

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra

and The Ray Charles Singers

Produced by Charles Grean

Recorded in Webster Hall, New York City

Recording Engineer: Bob Simpson

Recording Time 2:18

Recorded December 28, 1959 ~ Matrix No. K2PB-6435 Take 5

SESSION MUSICIANS & CHOIR

Orchestra Session

MORNING 9:00AM TO 1:30 PM

Leader: Mitchell Ayres

Contractor: Henry "Hank" Ross

Sax ~ Harry Terrill, Bernard Kaufman, Stanley Webb, Jack Fulton

Cello ~ Maurice Brown, Lucien Schmit, Alan Shulman, Harvey Shapiro

Viola ~ Isadore Zir, Howard Kay, George Brown, Leon Frengut

Violin ~ Sylvan Shulman, Jack Zayde, Marc Brown, Tosha Samaroff, Mac Ceppos, Max Hollander, Felix Orlewitz, Julius Schacter, Harry Melnikoff, Leo Kruczek, Harry Urbont, Maurice Wilk, Emanuel Green, Samuel Rand, Fred Baron, Charles Fleischmann

French Horn ~ Anthony Miranda, Fred Klein

Accordion ~ Nicholas Perito

Piano Henry Rowland

Guitar ~ Anthony Mottola, Dick Dia

Harp ~ Myor Rosen

Drums ~ Terry Snyder, Ted Sommer

Bass ~ Arnold Fishkin

Choir ~ Susan Terry, Marie Crittenden, Trudy Packer, Pat Benton, Peggy Kopper, Jinx Liebinger, Barbara Nelson, James Daugherty, Jerry Duane, Tom Kampman, Alan Sokoloff, Marc Pressel, Edwin Lindstrom, Bruce Baggett, Eugene Lowell, Lois Winter, Sara Jane Tallman, Stephen Steck, Lou Angel, William Elliott, Art Lang, Kenneth Bridges, Robert Eaton, Eric Carlson, Charles Magruder and Ray Charles ~ contractor

Single release: RCA-45RPM-47-7670

Single Flip Side: "I Know What God Is"

US Chart Position No. 22

UK Single release: RCA-78RPM-1170 ( February / April 1960 )

Single Flip Side: "I Know What God Is "

UK Chart Position No. 3

Stereo Single release: RCA-45RPM-61-7670 ( same flip side )

UK Single Maxi Million Series 45-RPM RCA 2469-B ( 1963 )

Second Song Side B: "Caterina"

Single Flip Side A: "( I Love You ) Don't You Forget It"

Album issue: RCA-45RPM EP "Delaware" GERMAN EP EPA-9734 MONO 1960

Album issue: CAM-LP12 "An Evening with Perry Como" CAL-742 MONO 1963