True Genius (Remastered) Ray Charles

• 1 Georgia on My Mind 03:40
• 2 Them That Got 02:49
• 3 Ruby 03:54
• 4 Hardhearted Hannah 03:17
• 5 One Mint Julep 03:06
• 6 I've Got News for You 04:33
• 7 I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town 03:44
• 8 Hit the Road Jack 02:00
• 9 Unchain My Heart 02:52
• 10 Baby, It's Cold Outside 04:10
• 11 Hide Nor Hair 03:11
• 12 I Can't Stop Loving You 04:15
• 13 You Don't Know Me 03:16
• 14 You Are My Sunshine 03:00
• 15 Take These Chains from My Heart 02:57
• 16 No One 03:11
• 17 Busted 02:36
• 18 That Lucky Old Sun 04:24
• 19 Baby, Don't You Cry 02:35
• 20 Smack Dab in the Middle 03:18
• 21 My Heart Cries for You 02:50
• 22 Cry 03:34
• 23 Makin' Woopie (Live) 06:13
• 24 Hallelujah I Love Her So (Live) 03:00
• 25 I've Got A Woman (Live) 06:11
• 26 What'd I Say (Live) 04:33
• 27 I'm a Fool to Care 03:18
• 28 The Cincinnati Kid 02:24
• 29 Crying Time 02:56
• 30 Together Again 02:41
• 31 Let's Go Get Stoned 02:57
• 32 Please Say You're Fooling 02:43
• 33 I Don't Need No Doctor 02:33
• 34 Here We Go Again 03:17
• 35 Somebody Ought to Write a Book About It 03:07
• 36 In the Heat of the Night 02:36
• 37 Yesterday 02:50
• 38 Sweet Young Thing Like You 02:18
• 39 Eleanor Rigby 03:00
• 40 If It Wasn't for Bad Luck 04:45
• 41 I Didn't Know What Time It Was 04:52
• 42 Let Me Love You 02:49
• 43 I'm Satisfied 02:30
• 44 We Can Make It 03:43
• 45 Laughin and Clownin 03:24
• 46 If You Were Mine 03:52
• 47 Booty Butt 04:14
• 48 Feel so Bad 03:16
• 49 Your Love Is so Doggone Good 03:03
• 50 Something 04:04
• 51 America the Beautiful 03:37
• 52 Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma 03:43
• 53 There'll Be No Peace Without All Men as One 03:53
• 54 Every Saturday Night 03:23
• 55 Our Suite 08:08
• 56 I Can Make It Through The Days (But Oh Those Lonely Nights) 03:55
• 57 Ring of Fire 03:08
• 58 Come Live with Me 03:25
• 59 Somebody 04:06
• 60 Till There Was You 04:10
• 61 Living for the City 06:04
• 62 It Ain't Easy Being Green 04:15
• 63 3/4 of the Time 02:51
• 64 Summertime 06:16
• 65 Take Me Home Country Roads (Live) 04:32
• 66 Am I Blue (Live) 06:58
• 67 I Can See Clearly Now 04:25
• 68 How Long Has This Been Going On 05:21
• 69 Let It Be 03:32
• 70 Is There Anyone Out There? 05:57
• 71 Drift Away 03:47
• 72 Blues in the Night 07:39
• 73 3/4 Time 04:24
• 74 Compared to What 04:23
• 75 Do I Ever Cross Your Mind 03:51
• 76 Two Old Cats Like Us 02:37
• 77 Seven Spanish Angels 03:50
• 78 Anybody with the Blues Knows 03:30
• 79 Baby Grand 04:05
• 80 Stranger in My Own Home Town 03:20
• 81 Save the Bones for Henry Jones 03:43
• 82 Ellie My Love 04:14
• 83 I'll Be Good to You 04:58
• 84 A Song for You 04:17
• 85 Still Crazy After All These Years 05:00
• 86 If I Could 04:56
• 87 None of Us Are Free 05:06
• 88 Imagine 04:28
• 89 Here We Go Again 03:59
• 90 The Long and Winding Road 04:04
• Total Runtime 05:48:11

Info for True Genius (Remastered)

90 of Ray Charles greatest songs: Every Ray Charles album post-1960 is represented here, along with singles not available on any of his previously released albums. Most of these recordings will be available on major streaming services for the very first time in a decade or more. Released on Ray Charles own Tangerine Records and remastered from the original master tapes.

The True Genius album set consists of five albums including a never before released live concert from Stockholm in 1972. A beautifully designed, coffee table style book includes rare, unseen photos and other Charles memorabilia. The liner notes were written by Quincy Jones, Valerie Ervin and A. Scott Galloway.

This prestigious release and the campaign that surrounds it will create long awaited access to Ray’s music to generations of fans around the world as well as target new fans that will hear his music for the very first time.

Ray Charles was a legendary musician often called the "Genius,” who pioneered the genre of soul music during the 1950s.

Charles combined blues, gospel, R&B, rock, country music and jazz to create groundbreaking hits such as “Unchain My Heart,” “I’ve Got A Woman” and “What I’d Say.” His impressive multi-award winning 50-year career left an indelible mark on contemporary music all over the world.

Born Ray Charles Robinson on September 23, 1930, in Albany, Georgia, he was raised in Greenville, Florida, and started playing the piano before he was five. At age six, he contracted glaucoma that eventually left him blind. He studied composition (writing music in Braille) and learned to play the alto saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, and organ while attending the St. Augustine School for the Deaf and the Blind from 1937 to 1945. His father died when he was 10, his mother five years later, and he left school to work in dance bands around Florida, dropping his last name to avoid confusion with boxer Sugar Ray Robinson. In 1947, with $600 he moved to Seattle and worked as a Nat “King” Cole-style crooner.

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The name Ray Charles is on a Star on Hollywood Boulevard’s Walk of Fame. The name Ray Charles designates a superstar worldwide. His bronze bust is enshrined in the Playboy Jazz Hall of Fame. There is the bronze medallion that was cast and presented to him by the French Republic on behalf of the French people. In just about every Hall of Fame that has anything to do with music, be it Rhythm & Blues, Jazz, Rock & Roll, Gospel or Country & Western, Ray’s name is very prominently displayed. There are many awards given to him in the foregoing categories as proof.

Probably the strongest element in Ray Charles’ life, and the most concentrated driving force, was music. Ray often said, “I was born with music inside me. That’s the only explanation I know.”

Ray Charles was not born blind. In fact, it took almost seven years for him to lose his sight in its entirety, which means he had seven years to see the joy and sadness of this big wonderful world – a world he would never see again. As a seven year old child, in searching for light, he stared at the sun continuously, thereby eliminating all chances of the modern-day miracle, cornea transplants – a surgery unheard of in 1937.

Perhaps the reason that Ray Charles made music his mistress and fell madly in love with the lady is that music was a natural to him. Ray sat at a piano and the music began; he opened his mouth and the lyrics began. He was in absolute control.

But the rest of his life was not quite so simple. Ray was born at the very beginning of the Great Depression – a depression that affected every civilized country in the world. Ray was born in 1930 in Albany, Georgia, the same year that another Georgia native by the name of Hoagy Carmichael, was already making his mark on the world. In 1930, the year of Ray’s birth, Hoagy recorded a song that became an all-time classic and remains so to this day; a song titled “Stardust.” It’s ironic that these two Georgia natives would someday cross paths again, as they did 30 years later when Ray Charles was asked by the State of Georgia to perform, in the Georgia Legislative Chambers, the song they had selected as their state song. That song was Ray’s version of “Georgia,” written by Hoagy Carmichael. Hoagy, who unfortunately was too ill to attend the event, was listening via telephone/satellite tie-up.

Ray’s mother and father, Aretha and Bailey, were “no-nonsense” parents. Even after Ray lost his sight, his mother continued to give him chores at home, in the rural area in which they lived, such as chopping wood for the wood burning stove in the kitchen in order for them to prepare their meals. Chores such as this often brought complaints from the neighbors, which were met with stern words from Mrs. Robinson. She told them her son was blind, not stupid, and he must continue to learn to do things, not only for himself, but for others as well. Unfortunately, Ray lost the guidance of his mother and the counseling of his father at a very young age. At 15 years old, Ray Charles was an orphan, but he still managed to make his way in this world under very trying conditions; living in the South and being of African-American heritage, plus being blind and an orphan.

Ray refused to roll over and play dead. Instead he continued his education in St. Augustine, at Florida’s State School for the Deaf and Blind. A few years later, Ray decided to move. His choice was Seattle, Washington. It was in Seattle that Ray recorded his first record. It was also in Seattle that the seed was planted for a lifelong friendship with Quincy Jones. More information please visit the Ray Charles homepage.

This album contains no booklet.