RAY CHARLES HIS GREATEST HITS VOLUMES 1 & 2
This collection spans Ray Charles' post-Atlantic (ABC/Paramount and Impulse) period.
Ray Charles - His Greatest Hits Volume 1
Label DCC Compact Classics
Original Year 1987
Format:Flac
[quote=Bill Dahl]The first of two DCC compilations to collect the best of Brother Ray's 1960s stint at ABC-Paramount Records, when he flew off in a dozen different stylistic directions. Included on this 20-track disc are Charles' immortal rendering of "Georgia on My Mind," and the sinuously bluesy "Unchain My Heart," the Latin-beat instrumental "One Mint Julep," personalized remakes of the country standards "Born to Lose," "Your Cheating Heart," and "Crying Time," and his exultant rendition of the soulful "Let's Go Get Stoned." ~
Tracklist:
1. Georgia on My Mind
2 Unchain My Heart
3 Born to Lose
4 One Mint Julep
5 You Don't Know Me
6 Smack Dab in the Middle
7 Crying Time
8 Hide nor Hair
9 Let's Go Get Stoned
10 That Lucky Old Sun
11 Don't Change on Me
12 Your Cheatin' Heart
13 I Don't Need No Doctor
14 Careless Love
15 My Heart Cries for You
16 I Chose to Sing the Blues
17 If You Were Mine
18 Baby Don't You Cry
19 Here We Go Again
20 Yesterday
Ray Charles - His Greatest Hits Volume 2
Label DCC Compact Classics
Original Year 1987
Format:Flac
[quote=Bill Dahl]More seminal performances from the '60s ABC catalog of the Genius .
His beloved "Hit the Road Jack" (one of several Percy Mayfield copyrights dotting Charles' repertoire), the daring country crossover "I Can't Stop Loving You," an electric-piano powered "Sticks and Stones," a wise "Them That Got," and a wonderfully mellow "At the Club" rank with the 20-song disc's standouts (though versions of the Beatles' "Yesterday" and the corny "Look What They Done to My Song, Ma" end the set on a bummer note). ~
Tracklist
1. Busted
2. Hit The Road Jack
3. I Can't Stop Loving You
4. You Are My Sunshine
5. Ruby
6. Sticks and Stones
7. Take These Chains From My Heart
8. Them That Got
9. No One
10.Without Love (There is Nothing)
11.Don't Set Me Free
12.I'm a Fool To Care
13.Making' Whoopee, Parts 1&2
14.Hardhearted Hannah
15.Baby It's Cold Outside
16.At the Club
17.In The Heat Of The Night
18.Eleanor Rigby
19.Look What They Done To My Song ,Ma
20.America The Beautiful
Recorded between 1961 and 1972
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