Definitive Ray Charles

Definitive Ray Charles Artist: Ray Charles
Label: Wea International
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 081227355623
EAN: 0081227355623
ASIN: B00005K9MQ


Release Date: 2001-10-16

Definitive Ray Charles


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Tracks:

  1. Mess Around
  2. It Should've Been Me
  3. I Got a Woman
  4. This Little Girl of Mine
  5. Fool for You
  6. Drown in My Own Tears
  7. Leave My Woman Alone
  8. Hallelujah, I Love Her So
  9. Lonely Avenue
  10. (Night Time Is) The Right Time
  11. What'd I Say, Pts. 1 & 2
  12. I Believe to My Soul
  13. I'm Movin' On
  14. Come Rain or Come Shine
  15. Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying
  16. Sticks and Stones
  17. Georgia on My Mind
  18. Ruby
  19. One Mint Julep
  20. I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town
  21. Hit the Road Jack
  22. Unchain My Heart
  23. Baby, It's Cold Outside
  24. At the Club

Tracks:

  1. I Can't Stop Loving You
  2. Born to Lose
  3. You Don't Know Me
  4. You Are My Sunshine
  5. Your Cheatin' Heart
  6. Take These Chains from My Heart
  7. Busted
  8. That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)
  9. Crying Time
  10. Cincinnati Kid
  11. Let's Go Get Stoned
  12. I Don't Need No Doctor
  13. In the Heat of the Night
  14. Yesterday
  15. Eleanor Rigby
  16. I Can Make It Thru the Day (But Oh Those Lonely Nights)
  17. Rainy Night in Georgia
  18. Jealous Kind
  19. Shake Your Tailfeather
  20. Seven Spanish Angels - Ray Charles, Willie Nelson
  21. I'll Be Good to You
  22. Imagine

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From Amazon.co.uk

All Ray Charles fans will want to check out The Definitive Ray Charles, because it's the first time a compiler has been able to combine the chart-topping hits from his Atlantic and ABC-Paramount years into one package. This means that we get the Genius's hits from 1953's "Mess Around" right through his golden R&B Atlantic era ("I've Got a Woman," "Drown in My Own Tears," "Hallelujah I Love Her So," "I Believe To My Soul," "What'd I Say" and so on) alongside tracks that were not only massive worldwide hits but helped redefine popular music. "Georgia on My Mind," "Hit the Road Jack," "Unchain My Heart," "I Can't Stop Loving You," and "You Don't Know Me" not only combined superior standards and country songs with Charles's patented soul-gospel vocal style, but they were couched in an orchestral or big band setting that had simply never been utilized in this way prior to Charles's arrival. Those who know of his thorough musical background will not be surprised by this development, one that kept him high in the charts until the mid-'60s. This compilation thins out after the classic "In the Heat of the Night", as well it should, his latter-day duets with the Blues Brothers and Willie Nelson tidying things up nicely. Genius plus compilation good taste: an unbeatable combination. --Keith Shadwick

Album Description

Import exclusive compilation featuring 46 tracks, 'Mess Around', 'It Should've Been Me', 'I've Got A Woman', 'This Little Girl Of Mine', 'A Fool For You', 'Drown In My Own Tears', 'Leave My Woman Alone', 'Hallelujah I Love Her So', 'Lonely Avenue', 'Night Time Is The Right Time', 'What I Say (Parts 1 & 2)', 'I Believe To My Soul', 'I'm Movin' On', 'Come Rain Or Come Shine', 'Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying', 'Sticks & Stones', 'Georgia On My Mind', 'Ruby', 'One Mint Julep', 'I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town', 'Hit The Road Jack', 'Unchain My Heart', 'Baby It's Cold Outside', 'At The Curb', 'I Can't Stop Loving You', 'Born To Lose', 'You Don't Know Me', 'You Are My Sunshine', 'Your Cheatin' Heart', 'Take These Chains From My Heart', 'Busted', 'That Lucky Old Sun', 'Crying Time', 'Cincinnati Kid', 'Let's Go Get Stoned', 'I Don't Need No Doctor', 'In The Heat Of The Night', 'Yesterday', 'Eleanor Rigby', 'I Can Make It Thru' The Days', 'Rainy Night In Georgia', 'Jealous Kind', 'Shake Your Tailfeather' feat. The Blues Brothers, 'Seven Spanish Girls', 'I'll Be Good To You' & 'Imagine'. Rhino/Warner.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Spectacular Double Disc Collection of the Man Whose Picture Ought to Appear in the Dictionary under 'soul Music', as his Recordings and Performances Are the Very Essence of the Genre. 46 Great Tracks with all the Hits from the L Ast 40+ Years!

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars From the fifties to the eighties - it's all here.......2002-12-08

There are plenty of Ray Charles compilations to choose from - some focusing on a particular era or a particular aspect of Ray's career. This particular compilation is the first to combine his fifties music (recorded for Atlantic) and his sixties music (recorded for ABC-Paramount) on one collection - it also includes a few tracks from more recent times.

The most famous of his early songs is probably the often-covered Hallelujah I love her so. What'd I say and I've got a woman are among the other great songs from Ray's fifties music that are included here. All those three were written by Ray, although he also recorded songs written by others even then. Fans of Ray's fifties music will need to buy a compilation devoted to those recordings - on this set, there are just 15 tracks from this era (about right for this compilation).

It is the sixties with which Ray will be forever associated and which is most strongly represented here. Despite Ray's ability to write his own songs, the two songs for which he is best remembered are both covers. Georgia on my mind is a Hoagy Carmichael song from 1931, while I can't stop loving you is a country song written by Don Gibson. In both cases, Ray did them his own way, broadening their appeal considerably.

I can't stop loving you was one of many country songs that Ray adapted to the R+B style. Some of his fans deserted him, but these recordings gained him more fans than he lost. What Ray showed was the main difference between different styles of music was the presentation - not the songs themselves. His re-interpretations of country songs are represented here by tracks 1 to 7 and track 9 of CD 2. Actually, he'd dabbled with the idea in the fifties, as his cover of I'm movin' on (CD 1, track 13) shows.

Among his other great recordings of the sixties are Baby it's cold outside (a duet with Betty Carter), Hit the road Jack (with Margie Hendrix), That lucky old sun, Yesterday and Eleanor Rigby.

After the sixties, Ray's success was limited, but he still had the talent. In 1984, he recorded a country album of duets with various country singers - it really was a country album, unlike his sixties covers. That album is represented here by Seven Spanish angels - a duet with Willie Nelson. Other (non-country) duets from the eighties are also included - Shake your tailfeather (with the Blues brothers) and I'll be good to you (with Chaka Khan).

The collection closes with an outstanding cover of Imagine, recorded for a French TV commercial in the late nineties.

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