Track Listing
DISC 1: 1952-1954:
1. Sun's Gonna Shine Again, The
2. Roll With My Baby
3. Midnight Hour, The
4. Jumpin' in the Morning
5. It Should Have Been Me
6. Losing Hand
7. Heartbreaker
8. Sinner's Prayer
9. Mess Around
10. Funny But I Still Love You
11. Feelin' Sad
12. I Wonder Who
13. Don't You Know
14. Nobody Cares
15. Ray's Blues
16. Mr. Charles' Blues
17. Blackjack
DISC 2: 1954-1957:
1. I Got a Woman
2. Greenbacks
3. Come Back Baby
4. Fool For You, A
5. This Little Girl of Mine
6. Hard Times
7. Bit of Soul, A
8. Mary Ann
9. Drown in My Own Tears
10. Hallelujah I Love Her So
11. What Would I Do Without You
12. Lonely Avenue
13. I Want to Know
14. Leave My Woman Alone
15. It's Alright
16. Ain't That Love
17. Get on the Right Track
18. Rockhouse (Parts 1 and 2)
DISC 3: 1957-1959:
1. Swanee River Rock
2. That's Enough
3. Talkin' About You
4. What Kind of Man Are You
5. I Want a Little Girl
6. Yes Indeed - (stereo)
7. I Had a Dream - (stereo)
8. You Be My Baby - (stereo)
9. Tell All the World About You - (stereo)
10. My Bonnie - (stereo)
11. Early in the Morning - (stereo)
12. Right Time, The - (stereo)
13. Carryin' the Load - (stereo)
14. Tell Me How Do You Feel - (stereo)
15. What'd I Say (Parts 1 and 2) - (stereo)
16. Tell the Truth - (stereo)
17. I'm Movin' On - (stereo)
18. I Believe to My Soul - (stereo)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Cecil Payne, Connie Kay, Hank Crawford, Mongo Santamaria | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
This digitally remastered box set includes a 32-page booklet with an essay by Robert Palmer, complete credits and discography, and numerous illustrations.
Personnel includes: Ray Charles (vocals, acoustic & electric pianos, organ); Mary Ann Fisher, Margie Hendrix (vocals); Mickey Baker, Edgar Blanchard, Wesley Jackson (guitar); David Newman (alto, tenor & baritone saxophones); Hank Crawford (alto & baritone saxophones); Joe Tillman, Don Wilkerson (tenor saxophone); Cecil Payne (baritone saxophone); Freddie Mitchell, Pinky Williams (saxophone); Wallace Davenport, Frank Mitchell, Joe Bridgewater, Charles Whitley, Riley Webb (trumpet); Lloyd Lambert, Jimmy Bell, Roosevelt Sheffield, Paul West (bass); Connie Kay, Alonzo Stewart, Oscar Moore, Glenn Brooks, William Peebles, Panama Francis (drums); Candido Camero, Mongo Santamaria (congas); The Cookies, The Raeletts (background vocals).
Producers: Ahmet Ertegun, Herb Abramson, Jerry Wexler.
Compilation producer: Yves Beauvais, Kim Cooke, Bob Porter.
Digitally remastered by Ted Jensen (July 1991, Sterling Sound, New York, New York).
This excellent three-disc box set compiles the whole of Charles' output during his trail-blazing tenure with Atlantic Records in the '50s. Though the historical impact of the style he forged during this period is difficult to gauge, it seems fair to say that soul music as we know it would not exist without Ray Charles. Before Charles, two camps of black music existed--one being that of roots, jazz, and blues, the other being the commercial product of smooth balladeers like Charles Brown and Nat Cole. Charles merged the two worlds, creating accessible, radio-friendly pop melodies with a driving backbeat and raw, gospel-influenced vocals.
Charles' R&B work is, of course, only one among many phases in his boundary breaking and genre-blending career. This work still stands as one of his finest achievements--as such smash hits as "Hallelujah I Love Her So," "What'd I Say," and dozens of other phenomenal songs testify. Charles was undoubtedly one of the first musicians to bring this level of soulful, searing emotionality to pop, and almost every tune here bears the distinctive flair that is his signature. Rootsy, sexy, catchy, textured, bluesy, and rockin', THE BIRTH OF SOUL is everything its title indicates.
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