Kicks! The Best of Oscar Brown Jr.

Original Release Date:  June 8, 2004

Track Listing

• 1. Work Song
• 2. The Snake
• 3. The Snake [Mono Version]
• 4. Straighten Up and Fly Right
• 5. Hum Drum Blues
• 6. Signifying Monkey
• 7. It Ain't Necessarily So
• 8. Afro Blue
• 9. Dat Dere
• 10. Hazel's Hips
• 11. Watermelon Man
• 12. Jeannie [Mono Version]
• 13. Tall Like Pine [Mono Version]
• 14. Sixteen Tons
• 15. But I Was Cool
• 16. One for My Baby
• 17. Opportunity Please Knock
• 18. All Blues [Mono Version]
• 19. Excuse Me for Living
• 20. Work Song [2nd Version]
• 21. When Malindy Sings
• 22. Elegy (Plain Black Boy)
• 23. The Tree and Me [Mono Version]

Credits

• George Gershwin: Composer
• Merle Travis: Composer
• Nat Adderley: Composer
• Miles Davis: Composer
• Quincy Jones: Arranger
• Duke Pearson: Composer
• Bobby Timmons: Composer
• Ralph Burns: Arranger
• Irving Mills: Composer
• Harold Arlen: Composer
• Oscar Brown, Jr.: Composer
• Gwendolyn Brooks: Composer
• Michael Berniker: Producer
• Nat King Cole: Composer
• Ira Gershwin: Composer
• Al Hamm: Producer
• Johnny Mercer: Composer
• Bob Morgan: Producer
• Floyd Morris: Arranger
• Nick Robbins: Mastering
• Mongo Santamarķa: Composer
• Dean Rudland: Liner Notes, Compilation, Archive Research, Interviewer
• Valerie Wilmer: Photography
• DuBose Heyward: Composer
• Paul Lawrence Dunbar: Composer
• Barrie Smith: Package Design