The Very Best Of

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Hit the Road Jack
  1:57
  4.5 ★
• 2
  Georgia on My Mind
  3:37
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Take These Chains From My Heart
  2:56
• 4
  Here We Go Again
  3:18
• 5
  Busted
  2:09
• 6
  Feel So Bad
  3:12
• 7
  Hard Hearted Hannah
  3:17
• 8
  You Don’t Know Me
  3:17
  3.0 ★
• 9
  What Have They Done to My Song Ma
  3:42
• 10
  Ruby
  3:53
• 11
  Born to Lose
  3:16
• 12
  Sticks & Stones
  2:14
• 13
  I’ve Got News for You
  4:35
  1.0 ★
• 14
  Without Love (There Is Nothing)
  3:34
• 15
  Smack Dab in the Middle
  3:19
• 16
  One Mint Julep
  3:08
• 17
  Your Cheatin’ Heart
  3:34
  1.0 ★
• 18
  I Can’t Stop Loving You
  4:11
• CD 2
• 1
  Unchain My Heart
  2:51
  3.6 ★
• 2
  You Are My Sunshine
  2:58
• 3
  Eleanor Rigby
  2:59
• 4
  Makin’ Whoopee
  6:13
• 5
  My Heart Cries for You
  2:49
• 6
  Don’t See Me Free
  2:37
• 7
  What Am I Living For
  3:41
• 8
  If You Were Mine
  2:48
• 9
  Crying Time
  2:56
• 10
  In the Heat of the Night
  2:36
• 11
  At the Club
  3:01
• 12
  Cry
  3:32
  2.0 ★
• 13
  Hide nor Hair
  3:10
• 14
  That Lucky Old Sun
  4:22
• 15
  If It Wasn’t for Bad Luck
  4:55
• 16
  Let’s Go Get Stoned
  2:53
• 17
  No One
  3:12
• 18
  Yesterday
  2:44
  1.0 ★

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Release credits

• Al Grey
  trombone [13]
• Al Schmitt
  engineer [17]
• Benny Powell
  trombone [13]
• Bill Putnam
  engineer [8]
• Billy Mitchell
  tenor saxophone [13]
• Bruno Carr
  drums (drum set) [2.1, 1.1]
• Charlie Fowlkes
  baritone saxophone [13]
• Clark Terry
  trumpet [13]
• Creed Taylor
  producer [13]
• David “Fathead” Newman
  solo [1], tenor saxophone [2.1, 2.6, 1.1]
• Ed Burke
  trombone [6]
• Eddie Jones
  double bass [13]
• Edgar Willis
  bass [1.1, 2.1, 2.6, 2.18], bass guitar [2]
• Frank Foster
  tenor saxophone [13]
• Frank Wess
  alto saxophone [13]
• Freddie Green
  guitar [13]
• G. T. Hogan
  drums (drum set) [6]
• Gerald Wilson
  arranger [6]
• Hank Crawford
  alto saxophone [2.1, 2.6, 1.1]
• Harold Vick
  tenor saxophone [6]
• Henderson Chambers
  trombone [6]
• Henry Coker
  trombone [13]
• James Harbert
  trombone [6]
• Joe Newman
  trumpet [13]
• John Hunt
  trumpet [2.1, 2.6, 1.1]
• Keg Johnson
  trombone [6]
• Leroy Cooper
  baritone saxophone [1.1, 2.1, 2.6]
• Marcus Belgrave
  trumpet [6]
• Margie Hendrix
  vocal [1.1, 2.6]
• Marshall Royal
  alto saxophone [13]
• Marty Paich
  arranger [8, 17], conductor [17], producer [8]
• Milt Turner
  drums (drum set) [2]
• Phillip Guilbeau
  trumpet [1.1, 1.13, 2.1, 2.6]
• Ralph Burns
  arranger [2, 13]
• Ray Charles
  arranger [1.1, 2.1], organ [1.13, 2.18], piano [2.1, 2.6, 2.18, 1.1-2, 1.8], vocal [1.1-2, 1.8, 1.13, 2.1, 2.6, 2.18]
• Rudy Powell
  alto saxophone [6]
• Sid Feller
  arranger [18], producer [2.1, 2.6, 1.1-2]
• Snooky Young
  trumpet [13]
• Sonny Forriest
  guitar [6]
• Sonny Payne
  drums (drum set) [13]
• Thad Jones
  trumpet [13]
• The Jack Halloran Singers
  vocal [17]
• The Raelettes
  background vocals [2.1, 2.6, 1.1]
• Urbie Green
  trombone [13]
• Wallace Davenport
  trumpet [6]
• Show all credits (45)

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  The Very Best Of

  2x CD
  1993