The Definitive Ray Charles

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Mess Around
  2:42
  3.0 ★
• 2
  It Should’ve Been Me
  2:40
• 3
  I’ve Got a Woman
  2:55
  4.5 ★
• 4
  This Little Girl of Mine
  2:33
  3.0 ★
• 5
  A Fool for You
  3:02
  2.0 ★
• 6
  Drown in My Own Tears
  3:20
  3.4 ★
• 7
  Leave My Woman Alone
  2:40
  2.0 ★
• 8
  Hallelujah I Love Her So
  2:37
  3.4 ★
• 9
  Lonely Avenue
  2:35
  3.0 ★
• 10
  (Night Time Is) The Right Time
  3:28
  3.5 ★
• 11
  What’d I Say (Parts 1 and 2)
  6:28
  3.0 ★
• 12
  I Believe to My Soul
  3:02
  1.0 ★
• 13
  I’m Movin On
  2:21
  1.0 ★
• 14
  Come Rain or Come Shine
  3:41
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying
  3:45
• 16
  Sticks and Stones
  2:14
• 17
  Georgia on My Mind
  3:40
  4.0 ★
• 18
  Ruby
  3:53
  1.0 ★
• 19
  One Mint Julep
  3:05
  1.0 ★
• 20
  I’m Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town
  3:45
• 21
  Hit the Road Jack
  1:58
  4.5 ★
• 22
  Unchain My Heart
  2:51
  3.6 ★
• 23
  Baby It’s Cold Outside
  4:11
• 24
  At the Club
  2:59
• CD 2
• 1
  I Can’t Stop Loving You
  4:21
• 2
  Born to Lose
  3:20
  1.0 ★
• 3
  You Don’t Know Me
  3:16
  3.0 ★
• 4
  You Are My Sunshine
  3:00
  2.0 ★
• 5
  Your Cheatin’ Heart
  3:35
  1.0 ★
• 6
  Take These Chains From My Heart
  2:57
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Busted
  2:11
  1.0 ★
• 8
  That Lucky Old Sun
  4:26
• 9
  Crying Time
  2:58
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Cincinnati Kid
  2:25
• 11
  Let’s Go Get Stoned
  3:03
  1.0 ★
• 12
  I Don’t Need No Doctor
  2:36
  1.0 ★
• 13
  In the Heat of the Night
  2:37
  5.0 ★
• 14
  Yesterday
  2:48
  1.0 ★
• 15
  Eleanor Rigby
  2:59
• 16
  I Can Make It Thru’ the Days
  3:56
• 17
  Rainy Night in Georgia
  6:15
• 18
  The Jealous Kind
  4:41
  3.0 ★
• 19
  Shake Your Tailfeather

  feat. the Blues Bros.
  2:50
  3.9 ★
• 20
  Seven Spanish Angels

  feat. Willie Nelson
  3:52
  3.2 ★
• 21
  I’ll Be Good to You
  4:57
  1.0 ★
• 22
  Imagine
  4:28

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Release credits

• Ahmet Ertegun
  producer [1, 3-6, 8-12]
• Al Rubin
  trumpet [19]
• Al Schmitt
  engineer [5-6]
• Bennie Crawford
  saxophone [12]
• Benny Carter
  arranger [7]
• Betty Carter
  performer [23], vocal [23]
• Bill McElhiney
  conductor [20], trumpet [20]
• Bill Pitman
  guitar [18]
• Bill Putnam
  engineer [2-3, 7-8]
• Billy Preston
  organ [11]
• Billy Sanford
  classical guitar [20]
• Billy Sherrill
  producer [20]
• Blues Brothers
  performer [19]
• Bob Arnold
  engineer [7-8]
• Bob Brookmeyer
  valve trombone [14]
• Bruce Swedien
  drums (drum set) [21]
• Bruno Carr
  drums (drum set) [1.21-22, 1.24, 2.4]
• Budd Johnson
  tenor saxophone [19]
• Buddy Pearson
  alto saxophone [7]
• Cecil Payne
  baritone saxophone [6, 8]
• Chaka Khan
  vocal [21]
• Charles "Clanky" Whitley
  trumpet [3]
• Connie Kay
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Creed Taylor
  producer [19]
• Dale Sellers
  acoustic guitar [20]
• Dave McRae
  baritone saxophone [1]
• David Paich
  keyboard [21]
• David “Fathead” Newman
  alto saxophone [4-5, 10], baritone saxophone [3-5], saxophone [7], solo [9-10, 22], tenor saxophone [1.9, 1.11-12, 1.16, 1.21-22, 1.24, 2.4, 2.7]
• Diane Tidwell
  background vocals [20]
• Don Wilkerson
  solo [3, 8], tenor saxophone [1.3-6, 1.8, 2.4]
• Donald “Duck” Dunn
  bass guitar [19]
• Earle Warren
  alto saxophone [19]
• Edgar Willis
  bass [1.10-12, 1.16, 1.21-22, 1.24, 2.4, 2.14], bass guitar [2.7, 1.17-18]
• Elwood J. Blues
  background vocals [19]
• Emmott Dennis
  baritone saxophone [7, 9]
• Freddie Hubbard
  flugelhorn [23], trumpet [23]
• G. T. Hogan
  drums (drum set) [7]
• George Dorsey
  alto saxophone [19]
• George Johnson
  background vocals [21], guitar [21]
• George Matthews
  trombone [19]
• Gerald Wilson
  arranger [4]
• Glenn Brooks
  drums (drum set) [3]
• Greg Phillinganes
  keyboard [21]
• Hank Crawford
  alto saxophone [2.4, 2.7, 1.16, 1.21-22, 1.24], baritone saxophone [10-11]
• Hargus “Pig” Robbins
  keyboard [20]
• Harvey Mason
  drums (drum set) [21]
• Haywood Henry
  baritone saxophone [19]
• Henderson Chambers
  trombone [4, 7]
• Herb Abramson
  producer [1]
• Hurshel Wiginton
  background vocals [20]
• Ian Prince
  keyboard [21]
• Ian Underwood
  synthesizer [21]
• Irv Cottler
  drums (drum set) [18]
• Jake E. “Joliet” Blues
  background vocals [19]
• James Clay
  tenor saxophone [7]
• James Harbert
  trombone [4, 7]
• James Ingram
  background vocals [21]
• Jeff Pevar
  guitar [23]
• Jerry Wexler
  producer [1, 3-6, 8-12, 14]
• Jesse Drakes
  trumpet [1]
• Jesse Stone
  arranger [1]
• Jim Gilstrap
  background vocals [21]
• Jimmy Bell
  bass [3]
• Jimmy Cleveland
  trombone [19]
• Jimmy Nottingham
  trumpet [19]
• Joe Benjamin
  double bass [19]
• Joe Bridgewater
  trumpet [3-9]
• Joe Wilder
  trumpet [19]
• John Frosk
  trumpet [19]
• John Hunt
  trumpet [2.4, 1.7, 1.9, 1.12, 1.16, 1.21-22, 1.24]
• Jose McElhiney
  trumpet [20]
• Joshua Willis
  trumpet [6, 8]
• Julian Priester
  trombone [7]
• Keg Johnson
  trombone [2.4, 2.7, 1.19]
• Kenny Malone
  drums (drum set) [20]
• Kevin Turner
  guitar [23]
• Larry Williams
  synthesizer [21]
• Leiber & Stoller
  producer [10]
• Leon Comegys
  trombone [4]
• Leroy Cooper
  baritone saxophone [2.4, 2.7, 1.16, 1.21-22, 1.24]
• Lisa Silver
  background vocals [20]
• Lloyd Trotman
  double bass [1]
• Lou Marini
  saxophone [19]
• Louis Johnson
  background vocals [21], bass [21]
• Louis Nunley
  background vocals [20]
• Marcus Belgrave
  trumpet [1.10-12, 2.4]
• Margie Hendrix
  vocal [2.4, 1.10, 1.21]
• Martin Banks
  trumpet [16]
• Marty Paich
  arranger [1.18, 1.23, 2.2-3, 2.5-6, 2.8], conductor [1.23, 2.5-6], producer [3]
• Matt Murphy
  guitar [19]
• Michael Boddicker
  synthesizer [21]
• Mickey Baker
  guitar [1]
• Milt Turner
  drums (drum set) [10-11, 17]
• Milton Turner
  drums (drum set) [16]
• Murphy Dunne
  keyboard [19]
• Nesuhi Ertegun
  producer [14]
• Oliver Beener
  trumpet [7]
• Panama Francis
  drums (drum set) [6, 8]
• Paul West
  double bass [6, 8]
• Pete Bordonali
  classical guitar [20]
• Pete Drake
  steel guitar [20]
• Phil Perry
  background vocals [21]
• Phillip Guilbeau
  trumpet [1.21-22, 1.24, 2.4, 2.7]
• Quincy Jones
  arranger [1.19, 2.21], producer [21]
• Ralph Burns
  arranger [14, 17]
• Ray Charles
  arranger [3, 5-6, 8-11, 16, 21-22, 24], electric piano [10-11, 16], lead vocals [19-20], organ [1.19, 2.14], piano [2.2-4, 2.6-7, 2.9, 2.11, 2.14, 1.1, 1.3-9, 1.12, 1.14, 1.17-18, 1.21-22, 1.24], vocal [1.1, 1.3-12, 1.14, 1.16-19, 1.21-24, 2.2-4, 2.6-7, 2.9, 2.11, 2.14, 2.21]
• Renald Richard
  vocal [1]
• Ricky Harper
  trumpet [10]
• Riley Webb
  trumpet [4-5]
• Robert Wray II
  bass [20]
• Roosevelt Sheffield
  bass [5, 7, 9], double bass [4]
• Roy Haynes
  drums (drum set) [19]
• Rudolph Johnson
  tenor saxophone [23]
• Rudy Powell
  alto saxophone [4]
• Sam Herman
  guitar [19]
• Sam “The Man” Taylor
  tenor saxophone [1]
• Seldon Powell
  tenor saxophone [19]
• Sid Feller
  arranger [9, 14], producer [1.16-18, 1.21-24, 2.4, 2.7-8]
• Siedah Garrett
  background vocals [21]
• Sonny Forriest
  guitar [4, 7]
• Steve Cropper
  guitar [19]
• Steve Hoffman
  engineer [23]
• Steve Porcaro
  synthesizer [21]
• Syreeta
  background vocals [21]
• Teagle Fleming
  drums (drum set) [12]
• Terry McMillan
  harmonica [20]
• The Cookies
  background vocals [9], performer [7]
• The Jack Halloran Singers
  background vocals [6, 8-9], vocal [5]
• The Raelettes
  background vocals [2.4, 2.11, 1.10-11, 1.16, 1.21-22]
• The Raeletts
  background vocals [23]
• The Ray Charles Big Band
  performer [7]
• The “A” Strings
  strings [20]
• Tom “Bones” Malone
  saxophone [19]
• Urbie Green
  trombone [19]
• Wallace Davenport
  trumpet [4, 7]
• Wendell Marshall
  bass [14]
• Wesley Jackson
  guitar [3]
• William Peeples
  drums (drum set) [4-5, 7, 9]
• Willie "Too Big" Hall
  drums (drum set) [19]
• Willie Nelson
  lead vocals [20]
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Issues

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  The Definitive Ray Charles

  2x CD
  13 September 2001
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  T
  The Definitive Ray Charles

  2x CD
  13 September 2001