Ray Charles - Ray Charles (SongBook Collection (4-cd) [Box set] (2006)

Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. Charles was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm & blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company. Rolling Stone ranked Charles number 10 on their list of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2004, and number two on their November 2008 list of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". In honoring Charles, Billy Joel noted: "This may sound like sacrilege, but I think Ray Charles was more important than Elvis Presley. I don't know if Ray was the architect of rock & roll, but he was certainly the first guy to do a lot of things... Who the hell ever put so many styles together and made it work?"

Tracklist
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CD1 [41:10]
01. Georgia On My Mind
02. What'd I Say
03. You Are My Sunshine
04. Hallelujah, I Love Her So
05. Eleanor Rigby
06. Mess Around
07. C.C. Rider
08. Heartbreaker
09. I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
10. You Always Miss The Water (When The Well Runs Dry)
11. Let's Have A Ball
12. Going Down Slow

CD2 [33:16]
01. Hit The Road Jack
02. Let The Good Times Roll
03. Let's Go Get Stoned
04. Rockin' Chair Blues
05. Ray's Blues (Instrumental)
06. A Girl I Used To Know
07. She's On The Ball
08. Ain't That Fine
09. Sentimental Blues
10. Can Anyone Ask For More
11. I'll Do Anything But Work
12. Late In The Evening Blues

CD3 [34:42]
01. I've Got A Woman
02. I Believe To My Soul
03. Kissa Me Baby
04. Hey Now
05. Sitting On Top Of The World
06. They're Crazy About Me
07. How Long Blues
08. Baby, Tell Me What I've Done
09. All By Myself Alone
10. Snow Is Falling
11. If I Give You My Love
12. I Won't Leave 'Til I Get What I Come For

CD4 [36:57]
01. Night Time Is The Right Time
02. Crying Time
03. Blues Is My Middle Name
04. Walkin' And Talkin'
05. Don't Put All Your Dreams In One Basket
06. Lonely Boy
07. I'm Going Down To The River
08. Alone In The City
09. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
10. I Will Not Let You Go
11. Tell Me How Do You Feel
12. I'm Movin' On