Mary Ann (album)
Mary Ann is the first studio album recorded by Puerto Rican singer Mary Ann Acevedo. The first single of this album are Mírame (English: Look at me).
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Mary Ann (Ray Charles song)
"Mary Ann" is a song written and performed by Ray Charles and released in 1956 as a single on the Atlantic Records label. It was the third Ray Charles song to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Best Selling Rhythm & Blues chart. The song is set to a Latin beat, but switches into a swing rhythm, "an alternation that adds fun for the dancers." It has been described as "a sexy blues," and "a lightly lascivious tune."
The song was written about Mary Ann Fisher, a singer who had recently joined Charles' band as a featured vocalist in his touring shows. Despite Charles' marriage, the two became lovers, and Fisher appears on a number of his Atlantic recordings. Fisher left Ray Charles in 1958 after he had added the Raelettes, formerly the Cookies, as female vocal backup to his band.
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Mary Ann (1772)
Mary Ann was built in 1772 in France. Later, she engaged in whaling and made one voyage transporting convicts to New South Wales from England.
In 1786 her owners were Hattersley & Co., and her master was Captain Stephen Skiff. That year she engaged in whaling in the South Seas Fishery.
Under Captain Stewart she was in the Greenland Fishery.
In 1787 she was again in the South Seas Fishery under Captain S. Skiff, but with owners Stephens & Co. She was in the Fishery in 1789, being at St Helena in January; she returned to England in July. In 1790 she was again in the Fishery.
In 1791 she transported convicts from England to Australia. Her owners at the time were Calvert & Co. and she was under the command of Master Mark Munroe. She departed Portsmouth on 16 February 1791 and arrived on 9 July in Port Jackson, New South Wales. She sailed independently, her voyage taking place between the second and the third fleets. She embarked 150 female convicts, nine of whom died during the voyage.
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