The Best of Ray Charles

Tracklist

• 1
  I Can't Stop Loving You
  4:18
• 2
  Hallelujah, I Love Her So
  2:35
• 3
  Hit the Road, Jack
  1:59
• 4
  Unchain My Heart
  2:52
• 5
  What'd I Say (Parts I & II)
  6:29
• 6
  Georgia on My Mind
  3:40
• 7
  But on the Other Hand, Baby
  3:14
• 8
  Hide nor Hair
  3:11
• 9
  At the Club
  3:00
• 10
  Who You Gonna Love
  2:05
• 11
  Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'
  3:46
• 12
  (Night Time Is) The Right Time
  3:25
• 13
  Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
  2:01
• 14
  California, Here I Come
  2:09
• 15
  Basin' Street Blues
  2:45
• 16
  Alabamy Bound
  1:54
• 17
  Together
  1:34
• 18
  I Wonder
  2:36
• 19
  Drown in My Own Tears
  3:20
• 20
  Mess Around
  2:41
• 21
  This Little Girl of Mine
  2:32
• 22
  Busted
  2:12
• 23
  You Don't Know Me
  3:16
• 24
  Ain't That Love
  2:53
• 25
  Let the Good Times Roll
  2:53
• 26
  Swanee River Rock
  2:21
• 27
  I've Got a Woman
  2:49

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Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

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Ray Sings, Basie Swings

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Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959)

Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959) 2005

What’d I Say

What’d I Say 2004

At the Olympia 2000

At the Olympia 2000 2004

Release credits

• Al Porcino
  trumpet [17]
• Allen Hanlon
  guitar [11]
• Bennie Crawford
  alto saxophone [6, 8-9, 13-18], baritone saxophone [3-7, 10, 12-16]
• Benny Carter
  arranger [22], conductor [22]
• Betty Carter
  lead vocals [17]
• Bill Pitman
  guitar [17]
• Bob Brookmeyer
  valve trombone [11]
• Bruno Carr
  drums (drum set) [3-4, 7-9], percussion [17]
• Cecil Payne
  baritone saxophone [2, 19]
• Charles "Clanky" Whitley
  trumpet [27]
• Connie Kay
  drums (drum set) [20]
• Dave McRae
  baritone saxophone [20]
• David “Fathead” Newman
  alto saxophone [10, 21, 26], baritone saxophone [21, 27], tenor saxophone [3-10, 12-18]
• Dick Nash
  trombone [17]
• Don Fagerquist
  trumpet [17]
• Don Wilkerson
  tenor saxophone [2, 8-9, 19, 21, 27]
• Edgar Willis
  double bass [3-4, 6-10, 12-18, 26], instrument [5]
• Emmott Dennis
  baritone saxophone [26]
• Frank Rosolino
  trombone [17]
• Glenn Brooks
  drums (drum set) [27]
• Harry Betts
  trombone [17]
• Jesse Drakes
  trumpet [20]
• Jimmy Bell
  double bass [27]
• Joe Bridgewater
  double bass [21], trumpet [2, 19, 27]
• John Hunt
  trumpet [3-4, 6-10, 12-18]
• Joshua Willis
  trumpet [2, 19]
• Ken Shroyer
  trombone [17]
• Leroy Cooper
  baritone saxophone [6, 8-9, 13-18]
• Lloyd Trotman
  double bass [20]
• Marcus Belgrave
  trumpet [5-6, 10, 12-16]
• Martin Banks
  trumpet [18]
• Marty Paich
  arranger [1, 23], conductor [1, 23]
• Mel Lewis
  drums (drum set) [17]
• Mickey Baker
  guitar [20]
• Milt Turner
  drums (drum set) [5-6, 13-16, 18]
• Mongo Santamaría
  congas [5]
• Panama Francis
  drums (drum set) [2, 19]
• Paul West
  double bass [2, 19]
• Phillip Guilbeau
  trumpet [3-4, 7-9, 17]
• Quincy Jones
  arranger [25], conductor [25]
• Ralph Burns
  arranger [6, 13-16], conductor [6, 13-16]
• Ray Charles
  Wurlitzer electric piano [5], arranger [5, 8-9], lead vocals, piano [1-4, 6-27]
• Ray Triscari
  trumpet [17]
• Richard Payne
  double bass [24]
• Ricky Harper
  trumpet [26]
• Riley Webb
  trumpet [21]
• Roosevelt Sheffield
  double bass [21]
• Sam “The Man” Taylor
  tenor saxophone [20]
• Teagle Fleming
  drums (drum set) [10, 12]
• Ted Sommer
  drums (drum set) [11]
• The Raelettes
  background vocals [3-5, 7, 10, 18, 24, 26]
• Wendell Marshall
  double bass [11]
• Wesley Jackson
  guitar [27]
• William Peeples
  drums (drum set) [21, 26]
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Issues

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  The Best of Ray Charles

  CD
  26 November 2021