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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Ray Charles |
| Record Label: |
Rhino Records (USA) |
| Contributing Artist: |
Urbie Green |
| Genre: |
R&B |
| Subgenre: |
Classic R&B |
| Release Date: |
March 14, 2000 |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. I've Got a Woman 2. Fool For You, A 3. Drown in My Own Tears 4. Hallelujah I Love Her So 5. Right Time, (Night Time Is) The 6. What'd I Say, Parts I & II 7. Sticks and Stones 8. Georgia on My Mind 9. One Mint Julep 10. Hit the Road Jack 11. Unchain My Heart 12. I Can't Stop Loving You 13. You Are My Sunshine 14. Busted 15. Let's Go Get Stoned 16. Seven Spanish Angels (with Willie Nelson) |
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Personnel includes: Ray Charles (vocals, acoustic & electric pianos); Margei Hendrix, Willie Nelson (vocals); Wesley Jackson (guitar); Terry McMillan (harmonica); David "Fathead" Newman (alto, tenor & baritone saxophones); Donald Wilkerson (tenor saxophone); Cecil Payne (baritone saxophone); Joe Bridgewater, Charles Whitley (trumpet); Jimmy Cleveland, Urbie Green, Julian Priester (trombone); Billy Preston (organ); Jimmy Bell (bass); Glenn Brooks, Roy Haynes (drums); The Raeletts (background vocals). Producers include: Ahmet Ertegun, Jerry Wexler, Sid Feller, Creed Taylor, Joe Adams. Compilation producer: James Austin. Recorded between 1954 & 1984. Includes liner notes by Bill Dahl. It's hard to dispute this disc's title; just about every song here was a hit, and many of them are certifiable classics of postwar American pop. This may be, in fact, the most representative one-disc Ray Charles best-of extant. It's impossible to quibble about the pulsating, minor-key pathos of Brother Ray's stinging prisoner-... |
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