The Essential Collection

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

Tracklist

# Title Rating Length
  Medium 1
11 Don't Put All Your Dreams in One Basket
2:51
22 Late in the Evening Blues 3:07
33 She's on the Ball
2:31
44 Sittin' on Top of the World
2:19
55 Can't You See Darlin'
2:39
66 A Sentimental Blues
2:26
77 Kiss Me Baby
3:08
88 Heartbreaker 2:54
99 I'm Movin' On 2:15
1010 Talkin' About You 4:21
1111 Tell Me How do You Feel 2:44
1212 You Be My Baby 2:29
1313 I Got a Woman
6:18
1414 What'd I Say 6:27
1515 Georgia on My Mind
6:50
1616 Some Day 3:10
1717 Baby Won't You Please Come Home
2:54
1818 Ain't That Fine
2:17
1919 This Love of Mine
3:03
2020 I'm Going Down to the River
3:03

Relationships

composer:
Ray Charles (soul musician, singer and songwriter) (tracks 3, 7, 20)
Betty Hall Jones (track 18)
Sol Parker (track 19)
William York (tracks 5–6)
Hoagy Carmichael (1930) (track 15)
lyricist:
Ray Charles (soul musician, singer and songwriter) (tracks 3, 7, 20)
Stuart Gorrell (track 15)
Betty Hall Jones (track 18)
Henry Sanicola (track 19)
Frank Sinatra (track 19)
William York (tracks 5–6)
writer:
Ray Charles (soul musician, singer and songwriter) (track 13)
Lonnie Chatmon (track 4)
Betty Hall Jones (track 1)
Dorinda Morgan (track 1)
Renald Richard (track 13)
Walter Vinson (track 4)
Charles Warfield (track 17)
Clarence Williams (track 17)
cover recording of:
Baby Won't You Please Come Home (track 17)
Georgia on My Mind (track 15)
Sitting on Top of the World (track 4)
This Love of Mine (track 19)
recording of:
A Sentimental Blues (track 6)
Ain't That Fine (track 18)
Can't You See Darling (track 5)
Don't Put All Your Dreams in One Basket (track 1)
I Got a Woman (track 13)
I'm Going Down to the River (track 20)
Kissa Me Baby (track 7)
She's on the Ball (track 3)