Ray Charles 24 Greatest Hits DMM 180g Import 2LP (Vinyl)

180 Gram Double LP! Includes "What’d I Say", "I Got A Woman", "Georgia On My Mind", "Born To Lose", "Hit The Road Jack" & "I Can’t Stop Loving You"!

An accomplished musician and songwriter, Charles was considered the creator of the soul music genre, a unique R&B forerunner to rock n’ roll and other musical offspring.

During a career that spanned some 58 years, Charles performed a total of more than 10,000 concerts, and starred on over 100 albums, many of them top sellers in a variety of musical genres. He received the Lifetime Achievement and the President’s Merit Award, is a recipient of the Presidential Medal For the Arts, Kennedy Center Honors, and France’s Legion of Honor, received the NAACP Image Awards “Hall of Fame Award in 2004, and is one of the original inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

He appeared in movies such as “The Blues Brothers,” and starred in commercials for Coca-Cola, Diet Pepsi and California Raisins, among numerous others. In 2004, the biopic Ray was released for the world to see the historic life and times of the “Genius.” Charles’ last public performance was on July 20, 2003, in Alexandria, VA. In 1998, Charles received the Polar Music Award, an award given for significant achievements in music.

Referring to his gift Charles said, “I don’t call myself a blues singer or a jazz singer or a country singer. I just call myself a singer that can sing the blues, a singer that can sing jazz, a singer that knows how to sing country music, but in my own way.”

Features:
• 180g Vinyl
• Double LP
• Direct Metal Master
• Made in the E.U.
• Original recordings remastered

Selections:
LP1 - Side 1
1. Georgia On My Mind
2. Hit the Road Jack
3. I've Got A Woman
4. You Don't Know Me
5. What'd I Say
6. I Can't Stop Loving You
LP1 - Side 2
1. (Night Time Is) the Right Time
2. Come Rain or Come Shine
3. Take These Chains From My Heart
4. Let the Good Times Roll
5. Lonely Avenue
6. Baby, It's Cold Outside (with Betty Carter)

LP2 - Side 3
1. Unchain My Heart
2. Born To Lose
3. One Mint Julep
4. Hide 'Nor Hair
5. Ruby
6. You Are My Sunshine
LP2 - Side 4
1. Your Cheating Heart
2. Sticks And Stones
3. Them That Got
4. I've Got News For You
5. But On The Other Hand Baby
6. I'm Movin' On