Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959) [VINYL]

Artist: Ray Charles
Label: Cleopatra
Category: Music

New (3) Used (3) from £8.80

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

2 reviews
Sales Rank: 46934

Format: Box Set, Import
Media: Vinyl
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.2

UPC: 741157201512
EAN: 0741157201512
ASIN: B000W8ONBW

Release Date: November 6, 2007

Tracks:

Disc 1

•	Sun's Gonna Shine Again
•	Roll with My Baby
•	Midnight Hour
•	Jumpin' in the Mornin'
•	It Should've Been Me
•	Losing Hand
•	Heartbreaker
•	Sinner's Prayer
•	Mess Around
•	Funny (But I Still Love You)
•	Feelin' Sad
•	I Wonder Who
•	Don't You Know
•	Nobody Cares
•	Ray's Blues
•	I Got a Break Baby
•	Blackjack
•	I Got a Woman
•	Greenbacks
•	Come Back Baby
•	Fool for You
•	This Little Girl of Mine
•	Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)
•	Blues Hangover
•	Mary Ann
•	Drown in My Own Tears
•	Hallelujah, I Love Her So
•	What Would I Do Without You?

Disc 2

•	Dawn Ray
•	Man I Love
•	Music, Music, Music
•	Black Coffee
•	Lonely Avenue
•	I Want to Know
•	Leave My Woman Alone
•	Ray
•	I Surrender Dear
•	Hornful Soul
•	Ain't Misbehavin'
•	Joy Ride
•	Sweet Sixteen Bars
•	Doodlin'
•	There's No You
•	Undecided
•	My Melancholy Baby
•	It's Alright
•	Ain't That Love

Disc 3

•	Rockhouse, Pts. 1 & 2
•	Get on the Right Track Baby
•	Swanee River Rock (Talkin' 'Bout That River)
•	That's Enough
•	Talkin' 'Bout You
•	What Kind of Man Are You
•	I Want a Little Girl
•	How Long Blues - Ray Charles, Milt Jackson
•	Cosmic Ray - Ray Charles, Milt Jackson
•	Genius After Hours
•	Charlesville
•	Bags of Blues - Ray Charles, Milt Jackson
•	'Deed I Do - Ray Charles, Milt Jackson
•	Blue Funk - Ray Charles, Milt Jackson
•	Soul Brothers - Ray Charles, Milt Jackson

Disc 4

•	Bag's Guitar Blues - Ray Charles, Milt Jackson
•	Yes, Indeed!
•	I Had a Dream
•	You Be My Baby
•	Tell All the World About You
•	My Bonnie
•	Soul Meeting - Ray Charles, Milt Jackson
•	Hallelujah, I Love Her So - Ray Charles, Milt Jackson
•	Blue Genius - Ray Charles, Milt Jackson
•	X-Ray Blues - Ray Charles, Milt Jackson
•	Love on My Mind - Ray Charles, Milt Jackson
•	Spirit-Feel [Live]
•	Blues Waltz [Live]
•	In a Little Spanish Town [Live]
•	Sherry [Live]
•	(Night Time Is) The Right Time [Live]
•	Fool for You [Live]

Disc 5

•	I Got a Woman [Live]
•	Talkin' 'Bout You [Live]
•	Swanee River Rock (Talkin' 'Bout That River) [Live]
•	Yes, Indeed! [Live]
•	Early in the Morning
•	(Night Time Is) The Right Time
•	Carrying That Load [Single Version]
•	Carrying That Load [LP Version]
•	Tell Me How Do You Feel
•	Fathead - David "Fathead" Newman
•	Tin Tin Deo - David "Fathead" Newman
•	Bill for Bennie - David "Fathead" Newman
•	Hard Times - David "Fathead" Newman
•	Mean to Me - David "Fathead" Newman
•	Sweet Eyes - David "Fathead" Newman
•	Weird Beard - David "Fathead" Newman
•	Willow Weep for Me - David "Fathead" Newman
•	Tell the Truth
•	What'd I Say, Pts. 1 & 2 [Mono LP Version]

Disc 6

•	What'd I Say, Pts. 1 & 2 [Stereo LP Version]
•	Tell Me You'll Wait for Me
•	Come Rain or Come Shine
•	Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'
•	Just for a Thrill
•	You Won't Let Me Go
•	Am I Blue
•	Spirit-Feel [Live]
•	Frenesi [Live]
•	Tell the Truth [Live]
•	Drown in My Own Tears [Live]
•	(Night Time Is) The Right Time [Live]
•	What'd I Say [Live]
•	Let the Good Times Roll
•	Alexander's Ragtime Band
•	'Deed I Do
•	When Your Lover Has Gone
•	Two Years of Torture
•	It Had to Be You
•	I'm Movin' On
•	I Believe to My Soul

Disc 7

•	Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand [#]
•	Unknown Title [#]
•	Piano Improvisation & Dialog #1 [#]
•	"Losing Hand" & Dialog #1 [#]
•	"Little Rock Getaway" & Dialog
•	Kentucky Waltz [#]
•	Heartbreaker [Instrumental Version][#]
•	"Heartbreaker" & Dialog [#]
•	Piano Improvisation & Dialog #2 [#]
•	Heartbreaker [False Starts 1-2][#]
•	"Losing Hand" & Dialog #2 [#]
•	"Losing Hand" & Dialog #3 [W/Reverb][#]
•	"Losing Hand" & Dialog #4 [W/Reverb]
•	Heartbreaker [#]
•	"It Should've Been Me" & Dialog [#]
•	Nobody Cares [#]
•	Piano Improvisation & Dialog #3 [#]
•	Mess Around [#]
•	Funny (But I Still Love You) [#]
•	Sinner's Prayer [#]
•	Piano Improvisation & Dialog 4 [#]
•	"Low Society" & Dialog, No. 1 [#]
•	Boogie Woogie [#]
•	"Low Society" & Dialog, No. 2 [#]
•	Worried Life Blues [#]
•	"Come Back Baby" [Walter Davis Version][#]
•	Low Society
•	(Night Time Is) The Right Time [Takes 1-7][#]
•	Tell Me How Do You Feel [Take 1][#]
•	Dialog [#]
•	"It Had to Be You" & Dialog [#]
•	"My Buddy" & Dialog [#]
•	Dialog [#]
•	"When Your Lover Has Gone" & Dialog [#]
•	I'm Beginning to See the Light [#]
•	"Let the Good Times Roll" & Dialog [#]

Disc 8

•	Lil' Darlin' [DVD][Live][#]
•	Blues Waltz [DVD][Live][#]
•	Let the Good Times Roll [DVD][Live][#]
•	Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin' [DVD][Live][#]
•	Sticks and Stones [DVD][Live][#]
•	My Baby! (I Love Her, Yes I Do) [DVD][Live][#]
•	Drown in My Own Tears [DVD][Live][#]
•	What'd I Say [DVD][Live][#]
•	I Believe to My Soul [DVD][Live][#]
•	Interview with Ahmet Ertegu [DVD][#][*]

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars

great music - lousy packaging March 10, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

Ray Charles at Atlantic made beautiful music and it's all here. The problem is the way it is packaged. It comes in a fake 1950s record player box and contains a good hardback book with session info and complete discography. all well and good if a little extravagant but the problem comes with the CDs. It is presented in sesssion order bit is divided into arbitrary 79 minute CDs. A good example is CD4. It begins with one track from "Soul brothers", the collaboration with Milt Jackson - the rest of Soul Brothers is on CD3. There then follows 5 tracks recorded in February 1958. Next is 5 tracks from "Soul meeting" recorded with Milt Jackson - the other track from that LP is on CD3. After this there are 6 tracks from "Live at Newport" and the other 4 tracks from that LP are on CD5.
I'm a little disappointed this great music hasn't been sequenced with as much thought and sympathy as the book and case. After all, which would you prefer - great sequencing and poor packaging or great packaging and poor sequencing?

5 out of 5 stars

Fantastic March 16, 2006
This box set is fantastic! Even the packaging is worth paying the money for, with the box appearing like an old portable record player.

The music speaks for itself; you would only part with this much cash if you know Ray Charles, and for anyone who does this is a great collection of his music.

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