The Very Best of Ray Charles

Tracklist

• 1
  Born to Lose
  3:15
• 2
  Hit the Road Jack
  1:59
  4.4 ★
• 3
  Yesterday
  2:48
• 4
  What’d I Say
  6:29
  3.5 ★
• 5
  Georgia on My Mind
  3:39
  4.2 ★
• 6
  Crying Time
  2:57
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Together Again
  2:40
• 8
  Eleanor Rigby
  2:58
• 9
  Take These Chains From My Heart
  2:55
  4.0 ★
• 10
  I Don’t Need No Doctor
  2:47
• 11
  Here We Go Again
  3:18
• 12
  I Can’t Stop Loving You
  4:12
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Unchain My Heart
  2:50
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Busted
  2:10
• 15
  My Heart Cries for You
  2:49
• 16
  Makin’ Whoope, Parts 1 & 2
  6:17

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Release credits

• Ahmet Ertegun
  producer [4]
• Al Schmitt
  engineer [9]
• Benny Carter
  arranger [14]
• Bill Putnam
  engineer [1, 12, 14]
• Bob Arnold
  engineer [14]
• Bruno Carr
  drums (drum set) [2, 13]
• Buddy Pearson
  alto saxophone [14]
• David “Fathead” Newman
  solo [13], tenor saxophone [2, 4, 13-14]
• Edgar Willis
  bass [2-4, 13], bass guitar [5, 14]
• G. T. Hogan
  drums (drum set) [14]
• Hank Crawford
  alto saxophone [2, 13-14], baritone saxophone [4]
• Henderson Chambers
  trombone [14]
• James Clay
  tenor saxophone [14]
• James Harbert
  trombone [14]
• Jerry Wexler
  producer [4]
• John Hunt
  trumpet [2, 13]
• Julian Priester
  trombone [14]
• Keg Johnson
  trombone [14]
• Leroy Cooper
  baritone saxophone [2, 13-14]
• Marcus Belgrave
  trumpet [4]
• Margie Hendrix
  vocal [2]
• Marty Paich
  arranger [1, 9, 12], conductor [9]
• Milt Turner
  drums (drum set) [4-5]
• Oliver Beener
  trumpet [14]
• Phillip Guilbeau
  trumpet [2, 13-14]
• Ralph Burns
  arranger [5]
• Ray Charles
  arranger [2, 4, 13], electric piano [4], organ [3], piano [1-3, 5-6, 9, 12-14], vocal [1-6, 9, 12-14]
• Sid Feller
  arranger [3, 6], producer [2, 5, 12-14]
• Sonny Forriest
  guitar [14]
• The Jack Halloran Singers
  background vocals [6, 9]
• The Raelettes
  background vocals [2, 4, 13]
• The Ray Charles Big Band
  performer [14]
• Wallace Davenport
  trumpet [14]
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Issues

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  The Very Best of Ray Charles

  CD
  2004