Anthology [Rhino]

by Ray Charles

Overview

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

Product Details

Release Date:	03/10/2017
Label:	Aao Music / United Audio Entertainment
UPC:	0778325637125
Rank:	202590

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. The Snow Is Falling
14. What Have I Done?
15. Ray's Blues

Disc 2

16. Hit the Road Jack [Live]
17. Let's Go Get Stoned [Live]
18. Some Day (Blues Is My Middle Name)
19. Hey Now
20. Don't Put All Your Dreams in One Basket
21. Alone in the City
22. Blues Before Sunrise
23. Honey Honey
24. Walkin' and Talkin'
25. She's on the Ball
26. I've Had My Fun
27. You'll Never Miss the Water
28. A Sentimental Blues
29. Late in the Evening Blues
30. The Sun Is Gonna Shine Again

Disc 3

31. What'd I Say [Live]
32. The Midnight Hour
33. Eleanor Rigby [Live]
34. Ain't That Fine
35. Can't You See Darling?
36. I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now?
37. Let's Have a Ball
38. You Are My Sunshine [Live]
39. I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town
40. Guitar Blues
41. Roll With My Baby
42. Sitting on Top of the World (Now She's Gone)
43. Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand
44. Let the Good Times Roll [Live]
45. Georgia on My Mind [Live]

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Ray Charles   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Hoagy Carmichael   Composer
Jimmie Davis   Composer
Nickolas Ashford   Composer
Todd Everett   Liner Notes
Buck Owens   Composer
Don "DJ Snake" Brown   Art Direction
Katharine Lee Bates   Composer
Don Lanier   Composer
Teddy Powell   Composer
Paul McCartney   Composer
Steve Hoffman   Remixing
Ray Charles   Composer,Remixing
Bobby Sharp   Composer
Bill Inglot   Remastering,Digital Remastering
Ken Perry   Remastering,Digital Remastering
Churchill Kohlman   Composer
Jo Armstead   Composer
Frankie Brown   Composer
Don Gibson   Composer
Ted Daffan   Composer
Charles Mitchell   Composer
John Lennon   Composer
Samuel A. Ward   Composer
Valerie Simpson   Composer
Joseph Armstead   Composer
Rudy Toombs   Composer
Percy Mayfield   Composer
Red Steagall   Composer
Renald Richard   Composer
Don Brown   Art Direction
Harry Beasley Smith   Composer
Haven Gillespie   Composer
Ken Niles   Design
Stuart Gorrell   Composer
Harlan Howard   Composer