Amazon.co.uk Review
All Ray Charles fans will want to check out The Definitive Ray Charles, because it's the first time a compiler has been able to combine the chart-topping hits from his Atlantic and ABC-Paramount years into one package. This means that we get the Genius's hits from 1953's "Mess Around" right through his golden R&B Atlantic era ("I've Got a Woman", "Drown in My Own Tears", "Hallelujah I Love Her So", "I Believe To My Soul", "What'd I Say" and so on) alongside tracks that were not only massive worldwide hits but helped redefine popular music. "Georgia on My Mind", "Hit The Road Jack", "Unchain My Heart", "I Can't Stop Loving You" and "You Don't Know Me" not only combined superior standards and country songs with Charles's patented soul-gospel vocal style, but they were couched in an orchestral or big band setting that had simply never been utilised in this way prior to Charles's arrival. Those who know of his thorough musical background will not be surprised by this development, one that kept him high in the charts until the mid-60s. This compilation thins out after the classic "In The Heat of the Night", as well it should, his latter-day duets with the Blues Brothers and Willie Nelson tidying thing up nicely. Genius plus compilation good taste: an unbeatable combination. --Keith Shadwick
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Bumper 2CD best-of from the late R&B singer, whose prime period in the late 50s and 60s - where he fused jazz, blues, gospel, R&B, country and pop - was massively influential in the creation as what is now thought of as soul music. This collection brings together the best songs from all the diversegenres he dabbled in over the years, including several now considered classics and a surprising selection of cover versions.
01. Mess around
02. It should've been me
03. I've got a woman
04. This little girl of mine
05. Fool for
06. Drown in my own tears
07. Leave my woman alone you
08. Hallelujah I love her so
09. Lonely avenue
10. Night time is the right time
11. What I say (parts 1 & 2)
12. I believe to my soul
13. I'm movin' on
14. Come rain or come shine
15. Don't let the sun catch you crying
16. Sticks and stones
17. Georgia on my mind
18. Ruby
19. One mint julep
20. I'm gonna move to the outskirts of town
21. Hit the road Jack
22. Unchain my heart
23. Baby it's cold outside
24. At the club
Disc: 2
01. I can't stop loving you
02. Born to lose
03. You don't know me
04. You are my sunshine
05. Your cheatin' heart
06. Take these chains from my heart
07. Busted
08. That lucky old sun
09. Crying time
10. Cincinnati kid
11. Let's go get stoned
12. I don't need no doctor
13. In the heat of the night
14. Yesterday
15. Eleanor Rigby
16. I can make it thru' the days
17. Rainy night in Georgia
18. Jealous kind
19. Shake your tailfeather - Charles, Ray & The Blues Brothers
20. Seven Spanish girls
21. I'll be good to you
22. Imagine.
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