the golden cream of the country is the album name of ray charles hit the road jack.
ray charles hit the road jack album name?
the golden cream of the country
ray charles anthology





























ray charles anthology is the first compact disc to collect many of soul music icon ray charles' abc-paramount-era recordings. allmusic considers it to be "the best single cd collection of ray charles' '60s and '70s abc-paramount material", while rhino records, the issuing label, refers to it in the liner notes as "the compact disc edition of ray charles' greatest hits", alluding to the two rhino lps issued the same year. it is one of the first cds to be released by rhino.
ray charles anthology
soon after the album's release, abrams commented that he already had ideas for "several" new albums "brewing". at least one of these he hoped would be more in line with traditional jazz and would include jazz covers. one ray charles standard did make it onto this album - "hit the road jack", which abrams performed as a duet with fellow "american idol" season ten finalist haley reinhart. abrams and reinhart had previously recorded a cover of "baby, it's cold outside" together. the two are close friends, and when asked, abrams said that he "wouldn't be opposed" to recording an entire album with her. the track's producer steve jordan suggested that they do a "funky" version of "hit the road jack", after abrams mentioned his desire to cover a ray charles song. they sought to give the song an "urban twist" - something which abrams described as "a big risk". initially, abrams was going to record the song without reinhart. however, he and jordan decided to try recording the song as a duet, so as to better evoke the ray charles original. abrams remarked that he "pulled [reinhart] into the recording session to see what would happen, and it was magic."
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