RAY CHARLES — Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959)

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Boxset / Compilation · 2005

Filed under RnB
By RAY CHARLES

Tracklist

Disc 1
1. The Sun's Gonna Shine Again (2:38)
2. Roll With My Baby (2:37)
3. The Midnight Hour (3:02)
4. Jumpin' in the Mornin' (2:48)
5. It Should've Been Me (2:43)
6. Losing Hand (3:14)
7. Heartbreaker (2:53)
8. Sinner's Prayer (3:24)
9. Mess Around (2:42)
10. Funny (But I Still Love You) (3:15)
11. Feelin' Sad (2:51)
12. I Wonder Who (2:50)
13. Don't You Know (2:57)
14. Nobody Cares (2:40)
15. Ray's Blues (2:54)
16. I Got a Break Baby (2:47)
17. Blackjack (2:20)
18. I've Got a Woman (2:54)
19. Greenbacks (2:52)
20. Come Back Baby (3:06)
21. A Fool for You (3:03)
22. This Little Girl of Mine (2:33)
23. Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I) (2:55)
24. Blues Hangover (2:19)
25. Mary Ann (2:48)
26. Drown in My Own Tears (3:21)
27. Hallelujah I Love Her So (2:35)
28. What Would I Do Without You (2:34)

Total Time: 79:47

Disc 2
1. Dawn Ray (5:03)
2. The Man I Love (4:28)
3. Music, Music, Music (2:56)
4. Black Coffee (5:32)
5. Lonely Avenue (2:34)
6. I Want to Know (2:11)
7. Leave My Woman Alone (2:41)
8. The Ray (3:59)
9. I Surrender Dear (5:06)
10. Hornful Soul (5:30)
11. Ain't Misbehavin' (5:41)
12. Joy Ride (4:39)
13. Sweet Sixteen Bars (4:08)
14. Doodlin' (5:53)
15. There's No You (4:47)
16. Undecided (3:42)
17. My Melancholy Baby (4:22)
18. It's All Right (2:17)
19. Ain't That Love (2:51)

Total Time: 78:29

Disc 3
1. Rockhouse, Parts 1 & 2 (3:52)
2. Get on the Right Track Baby (2:19)
3. Swanee River Rock (Talkin' 'Bout That River) (2:17)
4. That's Enough (2:46)
5. Talkin' 'Bout You (2:49)
6. What Kind of Man Are You (2:50)
7. I Want a Little Girl (2:56)
8. How Long Blues (9:17)
9. Cosmic Ray (5:24)
10. The Genius After Hours (5:24)
11. Charlesville (4:56)
12. Bags of Blues (8:53)
13. Deed I Do (5:51)
14. Blue Funk (8:12)
15. Soul Brothers (9:33)

Total Time: 77:28

Disc 4
1. Bag's Guitar Blues (6:28)
2. Yes Indeed! (2:17)
3. I Had a Dream (2:54)
4. You Be My Baby (2:30)
5. Tell All the World About You (2:02)
6. My Bonnie (2:50)
7. Soul Meeting (6:05)
8. Hallelujah I Love Her So (5:31)
9. Blue Genius (6:42)
10. X-Ray Blues (7:07)
11. Love on My Mind (3:49)
12. The Spirit-Feel (live) (3:46)
13. Blues Waltz (live) (6:24)
14. In a Little Spanish Town (live) (3:48)
15. Sherry (live) (4:26)
16. (Night Time Is) The Right Time (live) (4:04)
17. A Fool for You (live) (7:11)

Total Time: 78:02

Disc 5
1. I've Got a Woman (live) (6:19)
2. Talkin' 'Bout You (live) (4:22)
3. Swanee River Rock (Talkin' 'Bout That River) (live) (2:09)
4. Yes Indeed! (live) (2:40)
5. Early in the Mornin' (2:48)
6. (Night Time Is) The Right Time (3:26)
7. Carrying That Load (single version) (2:16)
8. Carrying That Load (LP version) (2:24)
9. Tell Me How Do You Feel (2:44)
10. Fathead (5:23)
11. Tin Tin Deo (5:22)
12. Bill for Bennie (4:17)
13. Hard Times (4:43)
14. Mean to Me (4:16)
15. Sweet Eyes (3:45)
16. Weird Beard (4:49)
17. Willow Weep for Me (4:59)
18. Tell the Truth (3:06)
19. What'd I Say, Parts I & II (mono LP version) (5:04)

Total Time: 74:59

Disc 6
1. What'd I Say, Parts I & II (stereo LP version) (6:30)
2. Tell Me You'll Wait for Me (3:25)
3. Come Rain or Come Shine (3:42)
4. Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin' (3:46)
5. Just for a Thrill (3:26)
6. You Won't Let Me Go (3:22)
7. Am I Blue (3:41)
8. The Spirit-Feel (live) (4:23)
9. Frenesi (live) (5:04)
10. Tell the Truth (live) (3:35)
11. Drown in My Own Tears (live) (6:24)
12. (Night Time Is) The Right Time (live) (4:05)
13. What'd I Say (live) (4:25)
14. Let the Good Times Roll (2:53)
15. Alexander's Ragtime Band (2:53)
16. Deed I Do (2:27)
17. When Your Lover Has Gone (2:51)
18. Two Years of Torture (3:25)
19. It Had to Be You (2:45)
20. I'm Movin' On (2:22)
21. I Believe to My Soul (2:59)

Total Time: 78:33

Disc 7
1. Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (0:21)
2. Unknown Title (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (1:16)
3. Piano Improvisation - Dialog #1 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (0:31)
4. Losing Hand - Dialog #1 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (1:47)
5. Little Rock Getaway - Dialog (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (1:16)
6. Kentucky Waltz (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (1:23)
7. Heartbreaker (instrumental) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (2:13)
8. Heartbreaker - Dialog (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (1:13)
9. Piano Improvisation - Dialog #2 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (0:42)
10. Heartbreaker (False Starts 1 & 2) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (1:12)
11. Losing Hand - Dialog #2 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (1:20)
12. Losing Hand - Dialog #3 (with reverb) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (1:27)
13. Losing Hand - Dialog #4 (with reverb) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (4:55)
14. Heartbreaker (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (2:53)
15. It Should've Been Me - Dialog (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (2:56)
16. Nobody Cares (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (3:57)
17. Piano Improvisation - Dialog #3 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (0:33)
18. Mess Around (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (2:39)
19. Funny (But I Still Love You) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (3:17)
20. Sinner's Prayer (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (3:44)
21. Piano Improvisation - Dialog #4 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (1:01)
22. Low Society - Dialog #1 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (3:08)
23. Boogie Woogie (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (1:56)
24. Low Society - Dialog #2 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (3:28)
25. Worried Life Blues (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (3:01)
26. Come Back Baby (Walter Davis version) - Dialog (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (1:59)
27. Low Society (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) (2:56)
28. (Night Time Is) The Right Time (Takes 1-7) - Dialog (recording session outtake, 1958) (8:17)
29. Tell Me How Do You Feel (take 1) (recording session outtake, 1958) (3:21)
30. Dialog (Ray's Arrangement Suggestions for "The Genius of Ray Charles" album, 1959) (1:01)
31. It Had to Be You - Dialog (Ray's Arrangement Suggestions for "The Genius of Ray Charles" album, 1959) (1:40)
32. My Buddy - Dialog (Ray's Arrangement Suggestions for "The Genius of Ray Charles" album, 1959) (1:45)
33. Dialog (Ray's Arrangement Suggestions for "The Genius of Ray Charles" album, 1959) (0:18)
34. When Your Lover Has Gone - Dialog (Ray's Arrangement Suggestions for "The Genius of Ray Charles" album, 1959) (1:50)
35. I'm Beginning to See the Light (Ray's Arrangement Suggestions for "The Genius of Ray Charles" album, 1959) (1:26)
36. Let the Good Times Roll - Dialog (Ray's Arrangement Suggestions for "The Genius of Ray Charles" album, 1959) (2:46)

Total Time: 79:44

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