- Audio CD (Mar 21 2000)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Best of
- Label: Rhino-Atlantic
- ASIN: B00004R5ZP
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#26,250 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
- #71 in Music > R&B > Classic R&B
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Track Listings
| 1. I've Got A Woman |
| 2. A Fool For You |
| 3. Drown In My Own Tears |
| 4. Hallelujah I Love Her So |
| 5. (Night Time Is) The Right Time |
| 6. What'd I Say Parts I & II |
| 7. Sticks And Stones |
| 8. Georgia On My Mind |
| 9. One Mind Julep |
| 10. Hit The Road Jack |
| 11. Unchain My Heart |
| 12. I Can't Stop Loving You |
| 13. You Are My Sunshine |
| 14. Busted |
| 15. Let's Go Get Stoned |
| 16. Seven Spanish Angels |
Product Description
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Jazz, soul, rock'n'roll, country, rhythm'n'blues, music hall : Ray Charles a touché à tous les styles musicaux ou presque, et souvent en avance sur son époque. Puisqu'il faut bien choisir, cette compilation s'intéresse surtout à la période rhythm'n'blues du Genius. C'est l'époque de ses plus grands classiques comme "What'd I Say", un rock aussi électrisant et nerveux que les premiers succès d'Elvis chez Sun. Avec ce morceau, il peut se vanter d'avoir écrit un des riffs les plus connus de l'histoire du rock avec ceux de "Satisfaction" et "Smoke On The Water". L'idée de génie de Ray Charles fut de détourner la ferveur du gospel, sa charge émotionnelle et son swing vers des sujets profanes (cf. "I Got A Woman" ou "Hallelujah I Love Her So"). Plus tard, après son départ d'Atlantic, il obtint le succès surtout avec des ballades sentimentales comme la très célèbre "Georgia On My Mind" de Hoagy Carmichael. Ses interprétations d'alors, chaleureuses et veloutées, suscitaient l'admiration de Frank Sinatra entre autres concurrents. --Hubert Deshouse
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5.0 out of 5 stars
The Very Best of Ray Charles [Rhino],
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This review is from: The Very Best of (Audio CD)
The Very Best of Ray Charles [Rhino]~ Ray Charles is a tremedous singer, musician and entertainer. I loved every song on this stupendous compilation. 5/5.
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Absolutely Essential,
By M. Alther (Michigan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Very Best of (Audio CD)
This is the Essential Ray Charles collection. A must have for any fan. It has the best of the best of his recordings.
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Very Best Of Ray Charles In An 18-track CD? Can't Be Done,
By AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Very Best of (Audio CD)
I would think that, after putting this together and then releasing it in 2000, the folks at Rhino likely wished they had come up with a better title like, say, "18 Of His Very Best." Because, quite frankly, I don't believe it's possible to squeeze the "very best" of Ray Charles into one 18-track CD.After all, the man put 76 selections into the Billboard Hot 100 between 1957 and 1989, and from 1949 to 1993 added another 26 that scored only on the R&B Top 100 singles charts [most of the others charted on both]. As another reviewer points out, there are far too many notable omissions which, by any definition, would have to be included in anything labelled his "very best." For example, while track 5 was a solid R&B hit in 1959 [# 5], but a low # 95 on the pop charts, songs like You Don't Know Me [# 2 pop/# 5 R&B], Take These Chains From My Heart [# 7 R&B/# 8 pop], Crying Time [# 5 R&B/# 6 pop], Here We Go Again [# 5 R&B/# 15 pop], and Yesterday [# 9 R&B/# 25 pop] were smash hits on both. However, if you can get past the title and just accept these as 18 of his very best it is a welcome addition to any Ray Charles collection. Five pages of informative background notes written by Bill Dahl, and several more shots of Ray, are augmented by a complete discography of the contents showing label and chart details and the musicians involved on each track. The sound reproduction is flawless.
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