40 Greatest Hits: The Very Best of Ray Charles

~ Release by Ray Charles (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

# Title Rating Length
  CD 1: Disc 1
11 I've Got a Woman 2:55
22 Kissa Me Baby
3:06
33 The Midnight Hour 4 3:00
44 Mess Around
2:40
55 It Should've Been Me 2:41
66 Don't You Know
2:58
77 Losing Hand 3:12
88 Comeback Baby 3:07
99 A Fool for You
3:03
1010 This Little Girl of Mine 2:33
1111 Black Jack 2:20
1212 Greenbacks 2:52
1313 Mary Ann 2:47
1414 Drown in My Own Tears
3:23
1515 What Should I Do Without You 2:36
1616 Hallelujah I Love Her So
2:36
1717 Lonely Avenue
2:36
1818 Leave My Woman Alone 2:41
1919 Ain't That Love
2:54
2020 It's Alright 2:15
  CD 2: Disc 2
11 (Night Time Is) The Right Time
5 3:25
22 Swanee River Rock 2:21
33 My Bonnie
4 2:48
44 Rockhouse, Parts 1 & 2 3:56
55 What'd I Say, Parts 1 & 2 5:07
66 I Believe to My Soul
3:02
77 Come Rain or Come Shine
3:43
88 I'm Moving on 2:24
99 Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin' 5:17
1010 Let the Good Times Roll
2:54
1111 My Baby! (I Love Her, Yes I Do) 3:00
1212 Just for a Thrill
3:25
1313 Tell the Truth 3:05
1414 Sticks and Stones
2:15
1515 Georgia on My Mind
3.5 3:40
1616 Them That Got 2:48
1717 Hardhearted Hannah
3:18
1818 Hit the Road Jack
1:56
1919 Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I) 2:55
2020 Unchain My Heart
2:50

Relationships

alto saxophone:
Marshall Royal (track 2.10)
arranger:
Ralph Burns (tracks 2.7, 2.12, 2.15)
Ray Charles (soul musician, singer and songwriter) (tracks 2.1, 2.20)
Quincy Jones (track 2.10)
Jesse Stone (track 1.4)
bass:
Wendell Marshall (tracks 2.7, 2.12)
composer:
Milton Ager (track 2.17)
Charles Bates (track 2.17)
Ray Charles (soul musician, singer and songwriter) (tracks 1.2, 1.6, 1.9, 1.16, 1.19, 2.6)
Henry Glover (track 1.14)
Lew Herman (track 2.1)
Percy Mayfield (track 2.18)
Doc Pomus (track 1.17)
Titus Turner (track 2.14)
Jack Yellen (track 2.17)
[traditional] (track 2.3)
Hoagy Carmichael (1930) (track 2.15)
Harold Arlen (1946) (track 2.7)
flute and saxophone:
Frank Wess (track 2.10)
lyricist:
Ozzie Cadena (track 2.1)
Ray Charles (soul musician, singer and songwriter) (tracks 1.2, 1.6, 1.19, 2.6)
Henry Glover (track 1.14)
Stuart Gorrell (track 2.15)
Percy Mayfield (track 2.18)
Doc Pomus (track 1.17)
Titus Turner (track 2.14)
Johnny Mercer (1946) (track 2.7)
piano:
Ray Charles (soul musician, singer and songwriter) (tracks 2.7, 2.10, 2.12)
tenor saxophone:
Paul Gonsalves (track 2.10)
David "Fathead" Newman (track 2.10)
Zoot Sims (US jazz saxophonist) (track 2.10)
trombone:
Quentin Jackson (track 2.10)
Melba Liston (track 2.10)
trumpet:
Marcus Belgrave (track 2.10)
Joe Newman (track 2.10)
Ernie Royal (track 2.10)
Clark Terry (track 2.10)
Snookie Young (track 2.10)
valve trombone:
Bob Brookmeyer (tracks 2.7, 2.12)
vocals:
Ray Charles (soul musician, singer and songwriter) (tracks 2.7, 2.10, 2.12)
writer:
Ahmet Ertegün (track 1.4)
Henry Glover (track 2.14)
sampled by:
Georgia (feat. Ludacris & Jamie Foxx) by Field Mob (track 2.15)
cover recording of:
Come Rain or Come Shine (track 2.7)
Drown in My Own Tears (track 1.14)
Georgia on My Mind (track 2.15)
Night Time Is the Right Time (track 2.1)
recording of:
A Fool for You (track 1.9)
Ain't That Love (track 1.19)
Don't You Know (track 1.6)
Hallelujah, I Love Her So (track 1.16)
Hardhearted Hannah (track 2.17)
Hit the Road Jack (track 2.18)
I Believe to My Soul (track 2.6)
Kissa Me Baby (track 1.2)
Lonely Avenue (track 1.17)
Mess Around (track 1.4)
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean (track 2.3)
Sticks and Stones (track 2.14)