Ray Charles: Eight Classic Albums

Tracklist

• CD 1: Ray Charles (1957) / The Great Ray Charles (1957)
• 1
  Ain’t That Love
  2:53
• 2
  Drown in My Own Tears
  3:22
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Come Back Baby
  3:06
• 4
  Sinner’s Prayer
  3:24
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Funny (But I Still Love You)
  3:14
• 6
  Losing Hand
  3:11
• 7
  A Fool for You
  3:02
• 8
  Hallelujah, I Love Her So
  2:35
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Mess Around
  2:41
  3.0 ★
• 10
  This Little Girl of Mine
  2:33
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Mary Ann
  2:46
• 12
  Greenbacks
  2:52
• 13
  Don’t You Know
  2:56
• 14
  I Got a Woman
  2:50
  4.0 ★
• 15
  The Ray
  3:57
• 16
  My Melancholy Baby
  4:22
• 17
  Black Coffee
  5:31
• 18
  There’s No You
  4:46
• 19
  Doodlin’
  5:52
• 20
  Sweet Sixteen Bars
  4:06
• 21
  I Surrender Dear
  5:06
• 22
  Undecided
  3:36
• CD 2: Yes Indeed (1958) / Ray Charles at Newport (1959)
• 1
  What Would I Do Without You
  2:34
• 2
  It’s All Right
  2:17
• 3
  I Want to Know
  2:11
• 4
  Yes Indeed
  2:17
• 5
  Get on the Right Track Baby
  2:19
• 6
  Talkin’ About You
  2:49
• 7
  Swanee River Rock (Talkin’ ’Bout That River)
  2:17
• 8
  Lonely Avenue
  2:34
• 9
  Blackjack
  2:20
• 10
  The Sun’s Gonna Shine Again
  2:38
• 11
  I Had a Dream
  2:54
• 12
  I Want a Little Girl
  2:56
• 13
  Heartbreaker
  2:53
• 14
  Leave My Woman Alone
  2:41
• 15
  Night Time Is the Right Time
  4:04
• 16
  In a Little Spanish Town
  3:43
• 17
  I Got a Woman
  6:19
• 18
  Blues Waltz
  6:20
• 19
  Hot Rod (The Spirit Feel)
  3:46
• 20
  Talkin’ ’Bout You
  4:16
• 21
  Sherry
  4:25
• 22
  A Fool for You
  7:11
• CD 3: What’d I Say (1959) / The Genius of Ray Charles (1959)
• 1
  What’d I Say, Parts 1 & 2
  5:04
  4.5 ★
• 2
  Jumpin’ In the Morning
  2:48
• 3
  You Be My Baby
  2:30
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Tell Me How Do You Feel
  2:44
• 5
  What Kind of Man Are You
  2:50
• 6
  Rockhouse, Parts 1 & 2
  3:52
• 7
  Roll With Me Baby
  2:37
• 8
  Tell All the World About You
  2:02
• 9
  My Bonnie
  2:50
  4.0 ★
• 10
  That’s Enough
  2:46
• 11
  Let the Good Times Roll
  2:53
• 12
  It Had to Be You
  2:45
• 13
  Alexander’s Ragtime Band
  2:53
• 14
  Two Years of Torture
  3:25
• 15
  When Your Lover Has Gone
  2:51
• 16
  ’Deed I Do
  2:27
• 17
  Just for a Thrill
  3:26
• 18
  You Won’t Let Me Go
  3:22
• 19
  Tell Me You’ll Wait for Me
  3:25
• 20
  Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Cryin’
  3:46
  4.0 ★
• 21
  Am I Blue
  3:41
• 22
  Come Rain or Come Shine
  3:42
• CD 4: Soul Brothers (1958) / The Genius Hits the Road (1960)
• 1
  Soul Brothers
  9:33
• 2
  How Long Blues
  9:13
• 3
  Cosmic Ray
  5:21
• 4
  Blue Funk
  8:07
• 5
  Bag’s Guitar Blues
  6:27
• 6
  Deed I Do
  5:47
• 7
  Alabamy Bound
  1:53
• 8
  Georgia on My Mind
  3:35
  4.2 ★
• 9
  Basin Street Blues
  2:44
• 10
  Mississippi Mud
  3:23
• 11
  Moonlight in Vermont
  3:02
  3.0 ★
• 12
  New York’s My Home
  3:03
• 13
  California, Here I Come
  2:08
• 14
  Moon Over Miami
  3:18
• 15
  Deep in the Heart of Texas
  2:26
• 16
  Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
  2:00
• 17
  Blue Hawaii
  2:57
• 18
  Chattanooga Choo-choo
  3:00

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Release credits

• Ahmet Ertegun
  producer [1.1-2, 1.7-10, 1.12, 1.14, 3.1, 3.11, 3.17]
• Allen Hanlon
  guitar [20]
• Billy Mitchell
  tenor saxophone [4.1-6, 3.12, 3.14-15]
• Bob Brookmeyer
  valve trombone [17-22]
• Cecil Payne
  baritone saxophone [2.1, 1.2, 1.8]
• Charles "Clanky" Whitley
  trumpet [1.12, 1.14, 2.9]
• Clark Terry
  trumpet [11-16]
• Connie Kay
  drums (drum set) [2.13, 1.9, 4.1-6]
• Dave McRae
  baritone saxophone [2.13, 1.9]
• David “Fathead” Newman
  alto saxophone [7, 10, 22], baritone saxophone [1.7, 1.10, 1.12, 1.14, 2.9], saxophone [2.2-8, 2.11-12, 2.14, 3.1, 3.3-5, 3.8-10], solo [12], tenor saxophone [2.15-22, 1.1, 1.20, 1.22, 3.11-16]
• Don Wilkerson
  solo [8, 14], tenor saxophone [1.2, 1.7-8, 1.10, 1.12, 1.14, 2.1, 2.9]
• Earle Brown
  recording [20, 22]
• Edgar Willis
  bass [2.4, 2.6-7, 2.11-12, 3.3-4, 3.8-10], bass guitar [8], double bass [2.15-22, 3.1]
• Emmott Dennis
  baritone saxophone [1.1, 1.22, 2.2-8, 2.11-12, 2.14, 3.3, 3.5-6, 3.8-10]
• Ernie Royal
  trumpet [11-16]
• Ernie Wilkins
  arranger [22]
• Frank Wess
  flute [11-16], saxophone [11-16]
• Glenn Brooks
  drums (drum set) [1.12, 1.14, 2.9]
• Hank Crawford
  baritone saxophone [3.1, 3.4, 2.15-22]
• Harold Chapman
  recording [15-22]
• Herb Abramson
  producer [9]
• Jerry Wexler
  producer [3.1, 3.11-22, 1.1-2, 1.7-8, 1.10, 1.12, 1.14, 1.20, 1.22], tambourine [1]
• Jesse Drakes
  trumpet [2.13, 1.9]
• Jesse Stone
  arranger [9]
• Jimmy Bell
  bass [2.9, 1.12, 1.14]
• Joe Bridgewater
  trumpet [1.1-2, 1.7-8, 1.10, 1.12, 1.14, 1.22, 3.5-6, 3.10, 2.1-3, 2.5-9, 2.12, 2.14]
• Joe Newman
  trumpet [11-16]
• John Hunt
  trumpet [1.1, 1.22, 3.4, 3.6, 2.2-3, 2.5, 2.8, 2.14]
• Joshua Willis
  trumpet [2.1, 1.2, 1.8]
• Lloyd Trotman
  bass [13], double bass [9]
• Marcus Belgrave
  trumpet [3.3-4, 3.8-9, 3.11-16, 2.4, 2.11, 2.15-22]
• Marshall Royal
  alto saxophone [11-16]
• Mary Ann Fisher
  vocal [3.5, 3.10, 2.6-7, 2.12]
• Melba Liston
  trombone [11-16]
• Mickey Baker
  guitar [1.9, 2.13]
• Milt Jackson
  guitar [6], piano [1-2], vibraphone [2-5]
• Milt Turner
  drums (drum set) [3.1, 4.8]
• Nesuhi Ertegun
  producer [2.15-22, 3.11-22, 1.20, 1.22, 4.1-6]
• Oscar Pettiford
  bass [1-6]
• Panama Francis
  drums (drum set) [2.1, 1.2, 1.8]
• Paul Gonsalves
  tenor saxophone [11-16]
• Paul West
  bass [1], double bass [2, 8]
• Quentin Jackson
  trombone [11-16]
• Quincy Jones
  arranger [3.11-16, 1.22]
• Ralph Burns
  arranger [3.17-22, 4.8]
• Ray Charles
  alto saxophone [4.1-2, 2.15-22], arranger [1-2, 7-8, 11-12, 14], keyboard [1, 3-6, 8-10], lead vocals [15, 20], piano [1.1-2, 1.7-10, 1.12, 1.14, 1.20, 1.22, 3.2, 3.7, 3.11-22, 4.2-6, 4.8, 2.1-18, 2.20-22], vocal [1.1-2, 1.7-10, 1.12, 1.14, 3.1-22, 2.1-14, 2.16-17, 2.22, 4.8]
• Renald Richard
  vocal [9]
• Richie Goldberg
  drums (drum set) [3.3, 3.8-9, 2.4, 2.11, 2.15-22]
• Ricky Harper
  trumpet [2.4, 2.6-7, 2.11-12, 2.15-22, 3.3, 3.5, 3.8-10]
• Riley Webb
  trumpet [7, 10]
• Roosevelt Sheffield
  bass [1.1, 1.7, 2.2-3, 2.5, 2.8, 2.14, 3.6], double bass [10, 20, 22]
• Sam “The Man” Taylor
  tenor saxophone [2.13, 1.9]
• Sid Feller
  producer [8]
• Skeeter Best
  guitar [1-4]
• Snookie Young
  trumpet [11-16]
• Teagle Fleming
  drums (drum set) [4]
• Ted Sommer
  drums (drum set) [20]
• The Cookies
  performer [3, 8, 14]
• The Raelettes
  background vocals [1.1, 2.15, 2.20], vocal [2.4, 2.6-7, 2.11-12, 3.3, 3.5, 3.8-10]
• Tom Dowd
  engineer [1-6], recording [1.20, 1.22, 2.15-22]
• Wendell Marshall
  bass [17-22]
• Wesley Jackson
  guitar [1.12, 1.14, 2.9]
• William Peeples
  drums (drum set) [1.1, 1.7, 1.10, 1.20, 1.22, 2.2-3, 2.5-8, 2.12, 2.14, 3.5-6, 3.10]
• Zoot Sims
  tenor saxophone [11, 13, 16]
• [unknown]
  background vocals [20], bass [2.10, 3.2, 3.7], drums (drum set) [2.10, 3.2, 3.7], saxophone [2, 7], trumpet [2.10, 3.2, 3.7]
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Issues

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  Ray Charles: Eight Classic Albums

  4x CD
  20 September 2011