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Track Listing
1. Hit the Road Jack
2. Georgia on My Mind
3. Let's Go Get Stoned
4. I Don't Need No Doctor
5. Hallelujah I Love Her So
6. One Mint Julep
7. That Lucky Old Sun
8. Unchain My Heart
9. Don't Set Me Free
10. I Can't Stop Loving You
11. Busted
12. Crying Time
13. Cry
14. What'd I Say
15. Here We Go Again
16. I Gotta Woman
17. Eleanor Rigby
18. You Are My Sunshine
19. Born to Lose
20. America, The Beautiful
| Details | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes
Includes liner notes by Todd Everett.
This is not a career retrospective per se, since it doesn't include any of Ray Charles' groundbreaking '50s R&B from his tenure at Atlantic Records. It is, however, an excellent greatest hits collection covering his years at ABC-Paramount. As always, what's most impressive is the sheer stylistic breadth of Charles' music making.
Here you have, among other goodies, a Latin-tinged blues rocker ("Unchain My Heart"), a reinvented Tin Pan Alley standard ("Georgia on My Mind"), and an unabashed country weeper ("I Can't Stop Lovin' You"). There's an early R&B tune written by the Motown team of Ashford and Simpson ("I Don't Need No Doctor"), a soulful cover of the Beatles at their most classically-tinged ("Eleanor Rigby"), and finally an all-out gospel assault on "America the Beautiful." Amazingly, it all fits together in a seamless whole. Essential listening.
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