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Track Listing
1. I've Got a Woman
2. Fool For You, A
3. Drown in My Own Tears
4. Hallelujah I Love Her So
5. Right Time, (Night Time Is) The
6. What'd I Say, Parts I & II
7. Sticks and Stones
8. Georgia on My Mind
9. One Mint Julep
10. Hit the Road Jack
11. Unchain My Heart
12. I Can't Stop Loving You
13. You Are My Sunshine
14. Busted
15. Let's Go Get Stoned
16. Seven Spanish Angels - (with Willie Nelson)
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Ray Charles (vocals, acoustic & electric pianos); Margei Hendrix, Willie Nelson (vocals); Wesley Jackson (guitar); Terry McMillan (harmonica); David "Fathead" Newman (alto, tenor & baritone saxophones); Donald Wilkerson (tenor saxophone); Cecil Payne (baritone saxophone); Joe Bridgewater, Charles Whitley (trumpet); Jimmy Cleveland, Urbie Green, Julian Priester (trombone); Billy Preston (organ); Jimmy Bell (bass); Glenn Brooks, Roy Haynes (drums); The Raeletts (background vocals).
Producers include: Ahmet Ertegun, Jerry Wexler, Sid Feller, Creed Taylor, Joe Adams.
Compilation producer: James Austin.
Recorded between 1954 & 1984.
Includes liner notes by Bill Dahl.
It's hard to dispute this disc's title; just about every song here was a hit, and many of them are certifiable classics of postwar American pop. This may be, in fact, the most representative one-disc Ray Charles best-of extant.
It's impossible to quibble about the pulsating, minor-key pathos of Brother Ray's stinging prisoner-of-love plea "Unchain My Heart." Likewise the deeply-felt blues of "Drown in My Own Tears," the jazz/country hybrid "Busted," or the late-night piano-and-organ plaint "Let's Go Get Stoned." Another plus is that the salacious "What I'd Say" is represented by both parts I and II. Worth a reappraisal is the instrumental version of "One Mint Julep" (arrangement courtesy of Quincy Jones), which could have fit perfectly into one of the AUSTIN POWERS films.
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