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Ray Charles Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by
Ray Charles
ReleasedAugust 1962[1]
GenreR&B, Soul
Length36:32
LabelABC-Paramount
ProducerSid Feller
Ray Charles chronology
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(1962)
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Singles from Ray Charles Greatest Hits
  1. "Unchain My Heart"
    Released: November 1961

Ray Charles Greatest Hits is a 1962 album by Ray Charles. Although many similarly titled albums would be released over the years, this was the first, and it contained many tracks previously released by ABC only as singles.

The album is included in Robert Christgau's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981).[2]

  1. ^ "Billboard Music Week" (PDF). Billboard. August 18, 1962.
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "A Basic Record Library: The Fifties and Sixties". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 0899190251. Retrieved December 22, 2018.

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