The Classic Years

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Stick and Stones
  2:15
• 2
  Georgia on My Mind
  3:39
  4.2 ★
• 3
  Ruby
  3:53
• 4
  Hard Hearted Hannah
  3:17
• 5
  Them That Got
  2:50
• 6
  One Mint Julep
  3:09
• 7
  I’ve Got News for You
  4:35
• 8
  Hit the Road Jack
  2:00
  4.4 ★
• 9
  Unchain My Heart
  2:52
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Hide nor Hair
  3:11
• 11
  At the Club
  3:01
• 12
  I Can’t Stop Loving You
  4:14
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Born to Lose
  3:16
• 14
  You Don’t Know Me
  3:17
• 15
  You Are My Sunshine
  2:58
• CD 2
• 1
  Your Cheatin’ Heart
  3:35
• 2
  Don’t Set Me Free
  2:38
• 3
  Take These Chains From My Heart
  2:56
• 4
  No One
  3:11
• 5
  Without Love (There Is Nothing)
  3:35
• 6
  Busted
  2:09
• 7
  That Lucky Old Sun
  4:23
• 8
  Baby Don’t You Cry
  2:37
• 9
  My Heart Cries for You
  2:49
• 10
  My Baby Don’t Dig Me
  2:34
• 11
  No One to Cry To
  2:41
• 12
  Smack Dab in the Middle
  3:18
• 13
  Makin’ Whoopee
  6:20
• 14
  Cry
  3:32
• 15
  Crying Time
  2:56
• 16
  Together Again
  2:40
• 17
  Let’s Go Get Stoned
  2:59
• CD 3
• 1
  Please Say You’re Fooling
• 2
  I Don’t Need No Doctor
• 3
  In the Heat of the Night
• 4
  Yesterday
• 5
  Eleanor Rigby
• 6
  Understanding
• 7
  If It Wasn’t for Bad Luck
• 8
  If You Were Mine
• 9
  Don’t Change on Me
• 10
  Feel So Bad
• 11
  What Am I Living For
• 12
  Look What They’ve Done to My Song Ma
• 13
  I Gotta Woman, Part 1
• 14
  I Chose to Sing the Blues
• 15
  I’m Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town

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Release credits

• Al Grey
  trombone [7]
• Al Schmitt
  engineer [1]
• Benny Powell
  trombone [7]
• Bill Pitman
  guitar [3]
• Bill Putnam
  engineer [12-14]
• Billy Mitchell
  tenor saxophone [7]
• Bruno Carr
  drums (drum set) [8-9, 15]
• Charlie Fowlkes
  baritone saxophone [7]
• Clark Terry
  trumpet [7]
• Creed Taylor
  producer [7]
• David “Fathead” Newman
  solo [9], tenor saxophone [8-9, 15]
• Don Wilkerson
  tenor saxophone [15]
• Eddie Jones
  double bass [7]
• Edgar Willis
  bass [8-9, 15], bass guitar [2-3]
• Frank Foster
  tenor saxophone [7]
• Frank Wess
  alto saxophone [7]
• Freddie Green
  guitar [7]
• Gerald Wilson
  arranger [15]
• Hank Crawford
  alto saxophone [8-9, 15]
• Henderson Chambers
  trombone [15]
• Henry Coker
  trombone [7]
• Irv Cottler
  drums (drum set) [3]
• James Harbert
  trombone [15]
• Joe Newman
  trumpet [7]
• John Hunt
  trumpet [8-9, 15]
• Keg Johnson
  trombone [15]
• Leon Comegys
  trombone [15]
• Leroy Cooper
  baritone saxophone [8-9, 15]
• Marcus Belgrave
  trumpet [15]
• Margie Hendrix
  vocal [8, 15]
• Marshall Royal
  alto saxophone [7]
• Marty Paich
  arranger [1.3, 1.12-14, 2.1], conductor [1], producer [14]
• Milt Turner
  drums (drum set) [2]
• Phillip Guilbeau
  trumpet [7-9, 15]
• Ralph Burns
  arranger [2, 7]
• Ray Charles
  arranger [8-9], organ [7], piano [2-3, 8-9, 12-15], vocal [2-3, 7-9, 12-15]
• Rudy Powell
  alto saxophone [15]
• Sid Feller
  producer [2-3, 8-9, 12, 15]
• Snooky Young
  trumpet [7]
• Sonny Forriest
  guitar [15]
• Sonny Payne
  drums (drum set) [7]
• Thad Jones
  trumpet [7]
• The Jack Halloran Singers
  vocal [1]
• The Raelettes
  background vocals [8-9, 15]
• Urbie Green
  trombone [7]
• Wallace Davenport
  trumpet [15]
• Show all credits (46)

Issues

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  The Classic Years

  3x CD
  1991