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UPC: 778325637125
Format: CD (3 disc)
Release Date: Mar 10, 2017
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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 Loving You"). There's an early R&B tune written by the Motown team of Ashford & 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. ~ Rovi Staff
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 Loving You"). There's an early R&B tune written by the Motown team of Ashford & 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. ~ Rovi Staff
Tracks:
Disc 1:
1 - Mess Around
2 - Rockin' Chair Blues
3 - Crying Time
4 - C.C. Rider
5 - Hallelujah I Love Her So [Live]
6 - Lonely Boy (I'm Just A)
7 - I'll Do Anything But Work
8 - Baby Won't You Please Come Home
9 - Can Anyone Ask for More?
10 - How Long
11 - I'm Wondering' and Wonderin'
12 - Kissa Me Baby
13 - Snow Is Falling
14 - What Have I Done?
15 - Ray's Blues
Disc 2:
1 - Hit the Road Jack [Live]
2 - Let's Go Get Stoned [Live]
3 - Some Day (Blues Is My Middle Name)
4 - Hey Now
5 - Don't Put All Your Dreams in One Basket
6 - Alone in the City
7 - Blues Before Sunrise
8 - Honey Honey
9 - Walkin' and Talkin'
10 - She's on the Ball
11 - I've Had My Fun
12 - You'll Never Miss the Water
13 - Sentimental Blues
14 - Late in the Evening Blues
15 - Sun Is Gonna Shine Again
Disc 3:
1 - What'd I Say [Live]
2 - Midnight Hour
3 - Eleanor Rigby [Live]
4 - Ain't That Fine
5 - Can't You See Darling?
6 - I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now?
7 - Let's Have a Ball
8 - You Are My Sunshine [Live]
9 - I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town
10 - Guitar Blues
11 - Roll With My Baby
12 - Sitting on Top of the World (Now She's Gone)
13 - Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand
14 - Let the Good Times Roll [Live]
15 - Georgia on My Mind [Live]
1 - Mess Around
2 - Rockin' Chair Blues
3 - Crying Time
4 - C.C. Rider
5 - Hallelujah I Love Her So [Live]
6 - Lonely Boy (I'm Just A)
7 - I'll Do Anything But Work
8 - Baby Won't You Please Come Home
9 - Can Anyone Ask for More?
10 - How Long
11 - I'm Wondering' and Wonderin'
12 - Kissa Me Baby
13 - Snow Is Falling
14 - What Have I Done?
15 - Ray's Blues
Disc 2:
1 - Hit the Road Jack [Live]
2 - Let's Go Get Stoned [Live]
3 - Some Day (Blues Is My Middle Name)
4 - Hey Now
5 - Don't Put All Your Dreams in One Basket
6 - Alone in the City
7 - Blues Before Sunrise
8 - Honey Honey
9 - Walkin' and Talkin'
10 - She's on the Ball
11 - I've Had My Fun
12 - You'll Never Miss the Water
13 - Sentimental Blues
14 - Late in the Evening Blues
15 - Sun Is Gonna Shine Again
Disc 3:
1 - What'd I Say [Live]
2 - Midnight Hour
3 - Eleanor Rigby [Live]
4 - Ain't That Fine
5 - Can't You See Darling?
6 - I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now?
7 - Let's Have a Ball
8 - You Are My Sunshine [Live]
9 - I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town
10 - Guitar Blues
11 - Roll With My Baby
12 - Sitting on Top of the World (Now She's Gone)
13 - Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand
14 - Let the Good Times Roll [Live]
15 - Georgia on My Mind [Live]