Friendship [Original recording remastered]

Ray Charles | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 12, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000CELOCC
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #300,081 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Two Old Cats Like Us

2. This Old Heart (Is Gonna Rise Again)

3. We Didn't See a Thing

4. Who Cares

5. Rock and Roll Shoes

6. Friendship

7. It Ain't Gonna Worry My Mind

8. Little Hotel Room

9. Crazy Old Soldier

10. Seven Spanish Angels

11. Everybody Has the Blues [*]

12. Baby Grand [*]

Customer Reviews

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ray Charles Duet Greats, February 24, 2006

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Rosemary Larkins - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Friendship (Audio CD)

I love all the duets on this Friendship CD, but my favorite is the duet with George Jones, "We Didn't See A Thing". Each duet friend with Ray is easy for me to identify because most are well-known country music stars. My next favorite is "Who Cares " with Janie Fricke, the only female star. He also sings with Tony Bennett, Billy Joel & B. J. Thomas.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Re-mastered country duets album with non-country bonus tracks, January 10, 2006

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Friendship (Audio CD)

This album was originally released on vinyl, then later on CD with the same artwork, later repackaged with the same track listing as Super hits. Now it has been re-issued with the original artwork and title, but re-mastered and with two extra tracks. As so often with such bonus tracks, they don't really belong on this album (the rest of the album is country music) but if you don't like them, you can stop playing when you reach them.

It is fitting that Ray should have recorded this album - after all, he recorded R+B versions of country songs back in the sixties and took them high in the pop charts including I can't stop loving you, a number one in Britain and America. Those records didn't sound country, but twenty years later, here is Ray singing country and having a great time doing it.

The big hit here (a country number one) is Seven Spanish angels, the duet with Willie Nelson that closes the album. I love all the songs but I particularly like Who cares (with Janie Fricke, the only female singer featured), Two old cats like us (with Hank Williams Junior) and We didn't see a thing (with George Jones and Chet Atkins). Other guests include Johnny Cash, B J Thomas, Ricky Skaggs, Merle Haggard and the Oak ridge boys.

This is an upbeat country album that shows just how talented Ray Charles was - one of the few singers equally brilliant in several different genres of music. And you get a glimpse of Ray's versatility in the two bonus tracks, one featuring Tony Bennett and the other featuring Billy Joel.