The Ultimate Collection

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Hit the Road Jack
  1:59
• 2
  What’d I Say
  5:05
  4.0 ★
• 3
  I Got a Woman
  2:51
  4.5 ★
• 4
  Leave My Woman Alone
  2:40
• 5
  Let the Good Times Roll
  2:52
  2.0 ★
• 6
  Unchain My Heart
  2:52
  3.6 ★
• 7
  Someday (You’ll Want Me to Want You)
  2:39
• 8
  I Wonder
  2:32
• 9
  Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye
  4:40
• 10
  Sticks and Stones
  2:13
• 11
  Ruby
  3:53
• 12
  When Your Lover Has Gone
  2:51
• 13
  You Won’t Let Me Go
  3:20
  1.0 ★
• 14
  Mississippi Mud
  3:23
• 15
  It Had to Be You
  2:44
• 16
  Yes Indeed!
  2:15
• 17
  Swanee River Rock
  2:20
  2.0 ★
• 18
  Lonely Avenue
  2:35
  3.0 ★
• 19
  California, Here I Come
  2:09
• 20
  Take These Chains From My Heart
  2:56
• 21
  Get on the Right Track Baby
  2:19
• 22
  I’m Movin’ On
  2:22
  1.0 ★
• 23
  Drown in My Own Tears
  3:21
  3.4 ★
• 24
  Hide nor Hair
  3:11
• 25
  You Win Again
  3:31
  1.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Georgia on My Mind
  3:46
• 2
  Mess Around
  2:41
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Night Time Is the Right Time
  3:28
• 4
  It Should Have Been Me
  2:44
• 5
  Born to Lose
  3:14
• 6
  I’m Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town
  3:45
• 7
  But on the Other Hand, Baby
  3:19
• 8
  Come Rain or Come Shine
  3:41
• 9
  Rockhouse
  3:54
• 10
  Baby, It’s Cold Outside
  4:11
• 11
  Them That Got
  2:50
• 12
  Don’t You Know
  2:57
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Greenbacks
  2:51
  1.0 ★
• 14
  That’s Enough
  2:46
  1.0 ★
• 15
  Moon Over Miami
  3:19
• 16
  This Little Girl of Mine
  2:34
  3.0 ★
• 17
  Blackjack
  2:20
  1.0 ★
• 18
  Chattanooga Choo‐Choo
  3:03
• 19
  Don’t Tell Me Your Troubles
  2:09
• 20
  Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Cryin’
  3:46
• 21
  What Would I Do Without You?
  2:37
• 22
  ’Deed I Do
  2:27
• 23
  Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
  2:01
• 24
  Sweet Georgia Brown
  2:31
• 25
  You Are My Sunshine
  3:01
• CD 3
• 1
  Hallelujah, I Love Her So
  2:35
  3.4 ★
• 2
  C C Rider
  2:36
• 3
  A Fool for You
  3:02
  2.0 ★
• 4
  Your Cheatin’ Heart
  3:35
  1.0 ★
• 5
  One Mint Julep
  3:10
• 6
  You Don’t Know Me
  3:16
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Hard Hearted Hannah
  3:18
• 8
  The Danger Zone
  2:25
• 9
  Careless Love
  4:00
• 10
  I Love You So Much It Hurts
  3:34
• 11
  I’ve Got News for You
  4:33
  1.0 ★
• 12
  Ain’t That Love?
  2:53
  2.0 ★
• 13
  Come Back Baby
  3:06
• 14
  Alabamy Bound
  1:54
• 15
  Tell the Truth
  3:05
• 16
  Deep in the Heart of Texas
  2:26
• 17
  Mary Ann
  2:47
  2.0 ★
• 18
  At the Club
  3:01
• 19
  Moonlight in Vermont
  3:01
  3.0 ★
• 20
  I Can’t Stop Loving You
  4:13
• 21
  Blue Hawaii
  2:57
• 22
  Oh, Lonesome Me
  2:09
• 23
  Just for a Thrill
  3:25
• 24
  My Bonnie
  2:47
  2.5 ★
• 25
  Hey, Good Lookin’
  2:21

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Release credits

• Ahmet Ertegun
  producer [1.2-3, 1.5, 1.18, 1.23, 3.1, 3.3, 3.12, 2.2, 2.12-13, 2.16, 2.21]
• Al Grey
  trombone [11]
• Al Schmitt
  engineer [4]
• Benny Powell
  trombone [11]
• Bill Putnam
  engineer [1.25, 3.6]
• Billy Mitchell
  tenor saxophone [11]
• Bob Brookmeyer
  valve trombone [13]
• Bruno Carr
  drums (drum set) [6]
• Cecil Payne
  baritone saxophone [3.1, 2.21, 1.23]
• Charles "Clanky" Whitley
  trumpet [2.13, 2.17, 1.3]
• Charlie Fowlkes
  baritone saxophone [11]
• Clark Terry
  trumpet [1.5, 3.11]
• Connie Kay
  drums (drum set) [2]
• Creed Taylor
  producer [11]
• Dave McRae
  baritone saxophone [2]
• David “Fathead” Newman
  alto saxophone [3.3, 2.16], baritone saxophone [3.3, 1.3, 2.13, 2.16-17], saxophone [2.14, 3.24, 1.2], solo [2.13, 1.6, 1.18], tenor saxophone [3.12, 1.5-6, 1.18]
• Don Wilkerson
  solo [1.3, 3.1], tenor saxophone [2.13, 2.16-17, 2.21, 1.3, 1.23, 3.1, 3.3]
• Eddie Jones
  double bass [11]
• Edgar Willis
  bass [3.24, 2.14, 1.6], double bass [2]
• Emmott Dennis
  baritone saxophone [2.14, 3.12, 3.24, 1.18]
• Ernie Royal
  trumpet [5]
• Frank Foster
  tenor saxophone [11]
• Frank Mitchell
  trumpet [12]
• Frank Wess
  alto saxophone [11], flute [5], saxophone [5]
• Freddie Green
  guitar [11]
• Glenn Brooks
  drums (drum set) [2.13, 2.17, 1.3]
• Hank Crawford
  alto saxophone [6], baritone saxophone [2]
• Henry Coker
  trombone [11]
• Herb Abramson
  producer [2]
• Jerry Wexler
  producer [1.2-3, 1.5, 1.13, 1.18, 1.23, 3.1, 3.3, 3.12, 2.2, 2.12-13, 2.16, 2.21], tambourine [12]
• Jesse Drakes
  trumpet [2]
• Jesse Stone
  arranger [2]
• Jimmy Bell
  bass [2.13, 2.17, 1.3]
• Joe Bridgewater
  trumpet [1.3, 1.18, 1.23, 2.13-14, 2.16-17, 2.21, 3.1, 3.3, 3.12]
• Joe Newman
  trumpet [3.11, 1.5]
• Joe Tillman
  tenor saxophone [12]
• John Hunt
  trumpet [1.6, 1.18, 3.12]
• Joshua Willis
  trumpet [1.23, 2.21, 3.1]
• Leroy Cooper
  baritone saxophone [6]
• Lloyd Lambert
  bass [12]
• Lloyd Trotman
  double bass [2]
• Marcus Belgrave
  trumpet [1.5, 3.24]
• Marshall Royal
  alto saxophone [1.5, 3.11]
• Marty Paich
  arranger [1.25, 3.4, 3.6], conductor [4], producer [6]
• Mary Ann Fisher
  vocal [14]
• Melba Liston
  trombone [5]
• Mickey Baker
  guitar [2]
• Milt Turner
  drums (drum set) [2]
• Nesuhi Ertegun
  producer [5, 13]
• O'Neil Gerald
  alto saxophone [12]
• Oscar Moore
  drums (drum set) [12]
• Panama Francis
  drums (drum set) [3.1, 2.21, 1.23]
• Paul Gonsalves
  tenor saxophone [5]
• Paul West
  bass [21], double bass [3.1, 1.23]
• Phillip Guilbeau
  trumpet [3.11, 1.6]
• Quentin Jackson
  trombone [5]
• Quincy Jones
  arranger [5]
• Ralph Burns
  arranger [1.13, 3.11]
• Ray Charles
  arranger [2.13, 3.1, 3.3, 3.12, 3.17, 1.3, 1.6, 1.18, 1.23], keyboard [3.24, 2.14, 1.2], organ [11], piano [3.1, 3.3, 3.6, 3.12, 2.2, 2.12-13, 2.16-17, 2.21, 1.3, 1.5-6, 1.13, 1.18, 1.23, 1.25], vocal [1.2-3, 1.5-6, 1.13, 1.18, 1.23, 1.25, 3.1, 3.3, 3.6, 3.11-12, 3.24, 2.2, 2.12-14, 2.16-17, 2.21]
• Renald Richard
  vocal [2]
• Richie Goldberg
  drums (drum set) [24]
• Ricky Harper
  trumpet [2.14, 3.24]
• Riley Webb
  trumpet [3.3, 2.16]
• Roosevelt Sheffield
  bass [3.3, 3.12, 1.18], double bass [16]
• Sam “The Man” Taylor
  tenor saxophone [2]
• Sid Feller
  producer [6]
• Snookie Young
  trumpet [5]
• Snooky Young
  trumpet [11]
• Sonny Payne
  drums (drum set) [11]
• Thad Jones
  trumpet [11]
• The Cookies
  background vocals [18]
• The Jack Halloran Singers
  vocal [4]
• The Raelettes
  background vocals [3.12, 1.6], vocal [2.14, 3.24]
• Urbie Green
  trombone [11]
• Wallace Davenport
  trumpet [12]
• Warren Bell
  baritone saxophone [12]
• Wendell Marshall
  bass [13]
• Wesley Jackson
  guitar [1.3, 2.13, 2.17]
• William Peeples
  drums (drum set) [2.14, 2.16, 1.18, 3.3, 3.12]
• Zoot Sims
  tenor saxophone [5]
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Issues

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  The Ultimate Collection

  3x CD
  7 October 2013