The Very Best Of

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Unchain My Heart
  2:50
• 2
  Hit the Road Jack
  1:56
  4.4 ★
• 3
  What’d I Say (Part 1 & 2)

  Ray Charles & The Raylettes
  5:06
• 4
  Georgia on My Mind
  3:35
  4.2 ★
• 5
  You Are My Sunshine
  3:00
• 6
  Birth of the Blues

  Ray Charles & Quincy Jones
  5:09
• 7
  Hot Rod (live at Newport)
  3:43
• 8
  The Sun’s Gonna Shine Again
  2:38
• 9
  Baby, It’s Cold Outside

  Ray Charles & Betty Carter
  4:08
• 10
  I’ll Never Stand in Your Way
  2:18
• 11
  Making Believe
  2:51
• 12
  Mister C

  Ray Charles & Quincy Jones
  4:30
• 13
  Who You Gonna Love
  2:04
• 14
  Ruby
  2:54
• 15
  It Had to Be You
  2:43
• 16
  I Believe to My Soul
  2:56
• 17
  Carry Me Back to Old Virginy
  2:00
• 18
  Hide nor Hair
  3:04
• 19
  One Mint Julep

  Ray Charles & Quincy Jones
  3:03
• 20
  Tell Me How Do You Feel

  Ray Charles & The Raylettes
  2:38
• CD 2
• 1
  I Got a Woman
  2:54
• 2
  Hallelujah, I Love Her So
  2:33
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Alexander’s Ragtime Band
  2:51
• 4
  I’m Movin On
  2:15
• 5
  Roll With My Baby

  Ray Charles & The Raylettes
  2:37
• 6
  The Right Time
  3:27
  5.0 ★
• 7
  You Be My Baby

  Ray Charles & The Raylettes
  2:28
• 8
  Alone Together

  Ray Charles & Betty Carter
  4:41
• 9
  Hang Your Head in Shame
  3:15
• 10
  Jumpin’in the Morning
  2:46
• 11
  Let’s Go

  Ray Charles & Quincy Jones
  2:41
• 12
  Worried Mind
  2:54
• 13
  At the Club
  2:53
• 14
  It Makes No Difference Now
  3:30
• 15
  New York’s My Home
  3:03
• 16
  Side by Side

  Ray Charles & Betty Carter
  2:18
• 17
  What Kind of Man Are You for You

  Ray Charles & The Raylettes
  2:49
• 18
  Careless Love
  3:59
• 19
  A Fool for You
  3:00
• 20
  I’m Gonna Move to the Outshirts of Town

  Ray Charles & Quincy Jones
  3:39
• CD 3
• 1
  Oh Lonesome Me!
  2:09
• 2
  You Win Again
  3:29
• 3
  Your Cheating Heart
  3:34
• 4
  Swanee River Rock
  2:15
• 5
  My Bonnie

  Ray Charles & The Raylettes
  2:47
• 6
  See See Rider (See What You Have Done)
  2:35
• 7
  Bye Bye Love
  2:11
• 8
  For All We Know

  Ray Charles & Betty Carter
  3:40
• 9
  Yes Indeed!
  2:14
• 10
  You Don’t Know Me
  3:15
• 11
  Basin Street Blues
  2:44
• 12
  I’ve Got News for You

  Ray Charles & Quincy Jones
  4:31
• 13
  Just a Little Lovin’
  3:29
• 14
  Mississippi Mud
  3:23
• 15
  Stompin’ Room Only

  Ray Charles & Quincy Jones
  3:45
• 16
  You and I

  Ray Charles & Betty Carter
  3:22
• 17
  Blues Waltz (live at Newport)
  6:21
• 18
  Moon Over Miami
  3:18
• 19
  The Spirit I Feel
  4:25
• 20
  Moonlight in Vermont
  2:59
  3.0 ★
• CD 4
• 1
  Takes Two to Tango

  Ray Charles & Betty Carter
  3:18
• 2
  Moanin’

  Ray Charles & Quincy Jones
  3:17
• 3
  Let the Good Times Roll
  2:52
• 4
  Rockouse (Part 1 & 2)

  Ray Charles & The Raylettes
  3:54
• 5
  Come Rain or Come Shine
  3:39
• 6
  Talkin’ Bout You
  2:50
• 7
  From the Heart

  Ray Charles & Quincy Jones
  3:34
• 8
  Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye

  Ray Charles & Betty Carter
  4:38
• 9
  Frenesi
  5:06
• 10
  Chattanooga Choo Choo
  3:02
• 11
  This Little Girl of Mine
  2:33
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Sentimental Journey
  2:56
• 13
  California, Here I Come
  2:08
• 14
  In a Little Spanish Town (live at Newport)
  3:47
• 15
  Strike Up the Band

  Ray Charles & Quincy Jones
  2:35
• 16
  Don’t Tell Me Your Troubles
  2:03
• 17
  Alabamy Bound
  1:53
• 18
  Leave My Woman Alone
  2:38
• 19
  Blackjack
  2:18
• 20
  She’s on the Ball
  2:29
• CD 5
• 1
  Take These Chains From My Heart
  2:55
• 2
  Born to Lose
  3:08
• 3
  Cocktails for Two

  Ray Charles & Betty Carter
  3:09
• 4
  I Can’t Stop Loving You
  4:04
• 5
  Blue Hawaii
  2:56
• 6
  Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Cryin’
  3:44
• 7
  Heartbreaker
  2:50
• 8
  People Will Say We’re in Love

  Ray Charles & Betty Carter
  2:46
• 9
  Sittin’ on the Top of the World
  2:21
• 10
  Hey Good Lookin’
  2:12
• 11
  Lonely Avenue
  2:34
• 12
  That’s Enough

  Ray Charles & The Raylettes
  2:44
• 13
  Midnight
  3:15
• 14
  Just You, Just Me

  Ray Charles & Betty Carter
  1:54
• 15
  Half as Much
  3:26
  3.0 ★
• 16
  I Love You So Much It Hurts
  3:33
• 17
  Someday
  3:11
• 18
  I Had a Dream
  2:52
• 19
  Deep in the Heart of Texas
  2:25
• 20
  Together

  Ray Charles & Betty Carter
  1:30

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Release credits

• Ahmet Ertegun
  producer [2.2, 2.6, 4.3, 4.11, 5.11]
• Al Grey
  trombone [12]
• Al Schmitt
  engineer [2.9, 3.3]
• Bennie Crawford
  baritone saxophone [9]
• Benny Powell
  trombone [12]
• Bill Putnam
  engineer [2, 10]
• Billy Mitchell
  tenor saxophone [12]
• Bruno Carr
  drums (drum set) [2, 5]
• Cecil Payne
  baritone saxophone [2]
• Charlie Fowlkes
  baritone saxophone [12]
• Clark Terry
  trumpet [4.3, 3.12]
• Creed Taylor
  producer [12]
• David “Fathead” Newman
  alto saxophone [4.11, 2.6], baritone saxophone [11], saxophone [6, 9], solo [5.11, 2.6], tenor saxophone [5.11, 1.2, 1.5, 4.3]
• Don Wilkerson
  solo [2], tenor saxophone [2.2, 1.5, 4.11, 5.15]
• Eddie Jones
  double bass [12]
• Edgar Willis
  bass [2.6, 4.6, 4.9, 1.2, 1.5], bass guitar [4]
• Emmott Dennis
  baritone saxophone [5.11, 4.4, 4.6]
• Ernie Royal
  trumpet [3]
• Frank Abbey
  engineer [15]
• Frank Foster
  tenor saxophone [12]
• Frank Wess
  alto saxophone [12], flute [3], saxophone [3]
• Freddie Green
  guitar [12]
• Gerald Wilson
  arranger [5]
• Hank Crawford
  alto saxophone [2, 5], baritone saxophone [6]
• Henderson Chambers
  trombone [5]
• Henry Coker
  trombone [12]
• James Harbert
  trombone [5]
• Jerry Wexler
  producer [5.11, 2.2, 2.6, 4.3, 4.11]
• Joe Bridgewater
  trumpet [4.4, 4.6, 4.11, 5.11, 2.2]
• Joe Newman
  trumpet [4.3, 3.12]
• John Hunt
  trumpet [5.11, 4.4, 4.9, 1.2, 1.5]
• Joshua Willis
  trumpet [2]
• Keg Johnson
  trombone [5]
• Leiber & Stoller
  producer [6]
• Leon Comegys
  trombone [5]
• Leroy Cooper
  baritone saxophone [2, 5]
• Marcus Belgrave
  trumpet [2.6, 1.5, 4.3, 4.9]
• Margie Hendrix
  vocal [1.2, 1.5, 2.6]
• Marjorie Hendricks
  vocal [9]
• Marshall Royal
  alto saxophone [4.3, 3.12]
• Marty Paich
  arranger [2.8-9, 3.2-3, 3.8, 3.10], conductor [3.3, 3.8, 2.8-9], producer [10]
• Mary Ann Fisher
  vocal [6]
• Melba Liston
  trombone [3]
• Milt Turner
  drums (drum set) [1.4, 2.6]
• Nesuhi Ertegun
  producer [3]
• Panama Francis
  drums (drum set) [2]
• Paul Gonsalves
  tenor saxophone [3]
• Paul West
  double bass [2]
• Phillip Guilbeau
  trumpet [1.2, 1.5, 3.12]
• Quentin Jackson
  trombone [3]
• Quincy Jones
  arranger [3]
• Ralph Burns
  arranger [1.4, 3.12]
• Ray Charles
  arranger [1.2, 2.2, 2.6, 5.11], electric piano [6], keyboard [4], organ [12], piano [3.2, 3.10, 2.2, 1.2, 1.4-5, 4.3, 4.6, 4.9, 4.11, 5.11, 5.15], vocal [1.2, 1.4-5, 2.2, 2.6, 4.3-4, 4.6, 4.11, 3.2, 3.10, 3.12, 5.11, 5.15]
• Ricky Harper
  trumpet [4.6, 2.6]
• Riley Webb
  trumpet [11]
• Roosevelt Sheffield
  bass [5.11, 4.4], double bass [11]
• Rudy Powell
  alto saxophone [5]
• Sid Feller
  producer [3.8, 2.8, 1.2, 1.4-5]
• Snookie Young
  trumpet [3]
• Snooky Young
  trumpet [12]
• Sonny Forriest
  guitar [5]
• Sonny Payne
  drums (drum set) [12]
• Steve Hoffman
  engineer [2.8, 3.8]
• Teagle Fleming
  drums (drum set) [9]
• Thad Jones
  trumpet [12]
• The Cookies
  background vocals [11]
• The Jack Halloran Singers
  vocal [3.3, 2.9]
• The Raelettes
  background vocals [2.6, 1.2, 1.5], vocal [6]
• Urbie Green
  trombone [12]
• Wallace Davenport
  trumpet [5]
• Walter “Gil” Fuller
  arranger [15]
• William Peeples
  drums (drum set) [4.4, 4.6, 4.11, 5.11]
• Zoot Sims
  tenor saxophone [3]
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Issues

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  The Very Best Of

  5x CD
  2013