The Best of Ray Charles

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Hallelujah I Love Her So
  2:36
• 2
  I’ve Got a Woman
  2:51
• 3
  Mess Around
  2:42
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Heartbreaker
  2:47
• 5
  It Should’ve Been Me
  2:44
• 6
  Don’t You Know
  2:57
• 7
  Blackjack
  2:20
  1.0 ★
• 8
  This Little Girl of Mine
  2:33
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Drown in My Own Tears
  3:21
  3.4 ★
• 10
  Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand
  3:00
• 11
  Kisssa Me Baby
  3:09
• 12
  Back Home (instrumental)
  2:32
• 13
  Let Me Hear You Call My Name
  3:32
• 14
  Hey Now
  2:19
• 15
  Baby Won’t You Please Come Home
  2:54
• 16
  Why Did You Go?
  2:50
• 17
  Walkin’ and Talkin’
  3:10
• 18
  I’m Glad for Your Sake
  2:41
• 19
  The Ego Song
  2:21
• 20
  The Snow Is Falling
  2:50
• CD 2
• 1
  See See Rider
  2:37
• 2
  I’ve Had My Fun
  2:43
• 3
  What Have I Done?
  2:34
• 4
  Honey Honey
  2:44
• 5
  She’s on the Ball
  2:31
• 6
  Ain’t That Fine
  2:18
• 7
  Don’t Put All Your Dreams Into One Basket
  2:52
• 8
  How Long Blues
  2:36
  3.0 ★
• 9
  You’ll Never Miss the Water (Until the Well’s Gone Dry)
  2:49
  4.0 ★
• 10
  I’ll Do Anything but Work
  2:28
• 11
  Misery in My Heart
  3:05
• 12
  Blues Before Sunrise
  2:50
• 13
  A Sentimental Blues
  2:27
  3.0 ★
• 14
  If I Give You My Love
  2:38
• 15
  Can’t You See My Darling
  2:39
• 16
  This Love of Mine
  3:03
  2.0 ★
• 17
  Let’s Have a Ball
  2:35
• 18
  Alone in This City
  2:57
• 19
  Confession Blues
  2:32
• 20
  Sittin’ on Top of the World
  2:18

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Release credits

• Ahmet Ertegun
  producer [3, 8-9]
• Cecil Payne
  baritone saxophone [9]
• Charles "Clanky" Whitley
  trumpet [7]
• Connie Kay
  drums (drum set) [3]
• Dave McRae
  baritone saxophone [3]
• David “Fathead” Newman
  alto saxophone [8], baritone saxophone [7-8]
• Don Wilkerson
  tenor saxophone [7-9]
• Glenn Brooks
  drums (drum set) [7]
• Herb Abramson
  producer [3]
• Jerry Wexler
  producer [3, 8-9]
• Jesse Drakes
  trumpet [3]
• Jesse Stone
  arranger [3]
• Jimmy Bell
  bass [7]
• Joe Bridgewater
  trumpet [7-9]
• Joshua Willis
  trumpet [9]
• Lloyd Trotman
  double bass [3]
• Mickey Baker
  guitar [3]
• Panama Francis
  drums (drum set) [9]
• Paul West
  double bass [9]
• Ray Charles
  arranger [9], performer [15], piano [3, 7-9], vocal [3, 7-9]
• Ray Charles Trio
  performer [5]
• Ray Charles and His Orchestra
  performer [20]
• Renald Richard
  vocal [3]
• Riley Webb
  trumpet [8]
• Roosevelt Sheffield
  double bass [8]
• Sam “The Man” Taylor
  tenor saxophone [3]
• The Maxim Trio
  performer [6, 8-9, 12, 14-16]
• Wesley Jackson
  guitar [7]
• William Peeples
  drums (drum set) [8]
• Show all credits (29)

Issues

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  The Best of Ray Charles

  2x CD
  30 April 2010