The Essential 3.0: The Columbia Years

Original Release Date:  June 15, 2010

Track Listing

• 1. Nobody Like You
• 2. Once in a While (Please Answer Me)
• 3. Maybe I'm a Fool
• 4. Muddy Water
• 5. Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?
• 6. Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)
• 7. Today I Sing the Blues
• 8. Won't Be Long
• 9. Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning
• 10. Evil Gal Blues
• 11. Lee Cross
• 12. Walk on By
• 13. I Wonder (Where Are You Tonight)
• 14. God Bless the Child
• 15. Blue Holiday
• 16. Looking Through a Tear
• 17. Tiny Sparrow
• 18. Here Today and Gone Tomorrow
• 19. Little Brown Book
• 20. Without the One You Love
• 21. This Bitter Earth
• 22. Just for a Thrill
• 23. Skylark
• 24. Skylark [Alternate Version] [Version]
• 25. Trouble in Mind
• 26. Runnin' Out of Fools
• 27. Drinking Again
• 28. Laughing on the Outside
• 29. What a Diff'rence a Day Makes
• 30. Soulville
• 31. You'll Lose a Good Thing
• 32. Take a Look
• 33. Cry Like a Baby
• 34. I Wish I Didn't Love You So
• 35. Only the Lonely
• 36. People [From Funny Girl]
• 37. Mockingbird
• 38. Until You Were Gone
• 39. My Coloring Book
• 40. Try a Little Tenderness
• 41. In My Solitude [*]
• 42. Love for Sale [*]
• 43. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive [*]
• 44. Unforgettable [*]
• 45. All Night Long [*]
• 46. Every Little Bit Hurts [*]
• 47. Sweet Bitter Love [*]
• 48. If Ever I Would Leave You [*]

Credits

• Hoagy Carmichael: Composer
• Ray Charles: Composer
• Aretha Franklin: Piano, Composer
• Ray Bryant: Piano
• Teddy Charles: Vibraphone
• Leonard Feather: Composer
• Al Sears: Sax (Tenor)
• Tyree Glenn: Trombone
• John Hammond, Sr.: Producer
• Irving Mills: Composer
• Ernie Royal: Trumpet
• Harold Arlen: Composer
• Burt Bacharach: Composer
• Gary Chester: Drums
• Nikki Giovanni: Liner Notes
• George Duvivier: Bass
• John Kander: Composer
• Frank Loesser: Composer
• Stanley Adams: Composer
• Bob Asher: Trombone
• Billie Holiday: Composer
• Kenny Burrell: Guitar
• Sammy Cahn: Composer
• Hal David: Composer
• Eddie DeLange: Composer
• Duke Ellington: Composer
• Sticks Evans: Drums
• Paul Griffin: Organ
• Ernie Hayes: Organ, Piano
• Belford Hendricks: Arranger, Conductor
• Arthur Herzog, Jr.: Composer
• Milt Hinton: Bass
• Osie Johnson: Drums
• Frank Laico: Original Engineering
• Ellis Larkins: Piano
• Bill Lee: Bass
• Alan Jay Lerner: Composer
• Buddy Lucas: Sax (Tenor)
• Johnny Mercer: Composer
• Robert Mersey: Arranger, Conductor, Producer
• Clyde Otis: Producer
• Fred Plaut: Original Engineering
• Cole Porter: Composer
• Bobby Scott: Arranger, Conductor, Producer
• Billy Strayhorn: Composer
• Jule Styne: Composer
• Jo Trent: Composer
• James Van Heusen: Composer
• Lord Westbrook: Guitar
• Mark Wilder: Mastering, Mixing
• David Ritz: Liner Notes
• Frederick Loewe: Composer
• Leo Sacks: Producer, Compilation, Mixing
• Stan Weiss: Original Engineering
• Bob Merrill: Composer
• Luther Dixon: Composer
• Don Hunstein: Photography
• Howard Fritzson: Art Direction
• Warren Vincent: Original Engineering
• Hank Parker: Photography, Cover Photo
• Curtis Lewis: Arranger
• Fred Ebb: Composer
• J. Leslie McFarland: Arranger, Composer
• L.C. Cooke: Composer
• Seth Foster: Digital Editing
• Barabra Lynn Ozen: Composer
• John Christiana: Packaging Manager
• Steve Berkowitz: A&R
• Arthur Resnick: Composer
• John Jackson: Project Director
• R.M. Jones: Composer
• Michael Boland: Design
• Stanley Tonkel: Original Engineering
• I. Gordon: Composer
• Bob Johnson: Producer
• B. Raleigh: Composer
• H. Richman: Composer
• J. Cleveland: Composer
• J. Byers: Composer
• B. Scott: Composer
• Willie Dennson: Composer
• R. Ahlert: Composer
• H. Woods: Composer
• V. McCoy: Composer
• Lil Hardin Armstrong: Composer
• J. Campbell: Composer
• J. Armstead: Composer
• B. Wayne: Composer
• H. Glover: Composer
• Keeter Best: Guitar
• James "Beans" Richardson: Bass
• Hindel Butts: Drums
• Teddy Harris: Piano