The Very Best Of Ray Charles

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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.
録音 : モノラル／ステレオ (Studio)