Elvis - The Stories and Songwriters Behind the Songs: I Got a Woman

"I Got a Woman" (originally titled "I've Got a Woman") is a song co-written and recorded by American R&B/soul musician Ray Charles and released as a single in December 1954 on the Atlantic label as Atlantic 45-1050 b/w "Come Back Baby. The song builds on "It Must Be Jesus" by the Southern Tones, that Ray Charles was listening to on the radio while on the road with his band in the summer of 1954. He and a member of his band, trumpeter Renald Richard, penned a song that was built along a gospel-frenetic pace with secular lyrics and a jazz-inspired rhythm and blues (R&B) background. The song would be one of the prototypes for what later became termed as "soul music" after Charles released "What'd I Say" nearly five years later. The song was recorded late 1954 in the Atlanta studios of Georgia Tech radio station WGST. It was a hit—Charles' first—climbing quickly to #1 R&B in January 1955. Charles told the Pop Chronicles that he performed this song for about a year before he recorded in on November 18, 1954" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Got_a_Woman

This is It Must be Jesus by the Southern Tones recorded summer of 54 in Houston Texas and was the basis of the secular I Got a Woman but this song is built itself on Huddie Leadbetter (Leadbelly)'s song written in the 30's - There's a Man Going Round Talking Names.