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Ray Charles The Complete Swing Time And Down Beat Recordings 1949-1952 (2-CD)
catalog number: CDNTICD2001
weight in Kg 0,200
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Ray Charles: The Complete Swing Time And Down Beat Recordings 1949-1952 (2-CD)
(1996/Night Train) 45 Tracks - Covering the first period of his career, from his earliest sides, recorded in Seattle to the last session for Swing Time in LA. Great sides, including many unissued tracks and alternate takes!Songs
Ray Charles - The Complete Swing Time And Down Beat Recordings 1949-1952 (2-CD) Medium 1 | |||
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1: | I Love You I Love You | ||
2: | Confession Blues | ||
3: | Alone In This City | ||
4: | Can Anyone Ask For More | ||
5: | Let's Have A Ball | ||
6: | Rockin' Chair Blues | ||
7: | If I Give You My Love | ||
8: | Can't You Seedarling | ||
9: | This Love Of Mine | ||
10: | How Long Blues | ||
11: | Blues Before Sunrise | ||
12: | A Sentimental Blues | ||
13: | You'll Never Miss The Water | ||
14: | Ain't That Fine | ||
15: | Don't Put All Your Dreams In One Basket | ||
16: | Sittin' On Top Of The World | ||
17: | I've Had My Fun | ||
18: | See See Rider | ||
19: | What Have I Done | ||
20: | Honey Honey | ||
21: | She's On The Ball | ||
22: | The Ego Song (Sweet As Can Be) | ||
23: | Sweet As Can Be (Take 3, Alternate Take) |
Ray Charles - The Complete Swing Time And Down Beat Recordings 1949-1952 (2-CD) Medium 2 | |||
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1: | Someday | ||
2: | I'll Do Anything But Work | ||
3: | I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now | ||
4: | All To Myself | ||
5: | Lonely Boy | ||
6: | Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand | ||
7: | I'm Glad For Your Sake | ||
8: | Baby Won't You Please Come Home | ||
9: | Kissa Me Baby | ||
10: | Hey Now | ||
11: | The Snow Is Falling | ||
12: | Misery In My Heart | ||
13: | Let Me Hear You Call My Name | ||
14: | Why Did You Go | ||
15: | I'm Wondering And Wondering | ||
16: | Walkin' And Talkin' | ||
17: | Guitar Blues | ||
18: | Back Home | ||
19: | Sweet As Can Be (Take 2, Alternate Take) | ||
20: | I'll Do Anything But Work (Take 2, Alternate Take) | ||
21: | Someday (Take 2, Alternate Take) | ||
22: | Late In The Evening Blues |
Artikeleigenschaften von Ray Charles: The Complete Swing Time And Down Beat Recordings 1949-1952 (2-CD)
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Interpret: Ray Charles
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Albumtitel: The Complete Swing Time And Down Beat Recordings 1949-1952 (2-CD)
- Format CD
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Genre R&B, Soul
- Music Genre R&B / Soul
- Music Style Rhythm 'n' Blues / R&B
- Music Sub-Genre 930 Rhythm 'n' Blues
- Title The Complete Swing Time And Down Beat Recordings 1949-1952 (2-CD)
- Release date 1996
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Label NIGHT TRAIN
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SubGenre R&B Music - Classic R&B
EAN: 0048612200135
- weight in Kg 0.200
Artist description "Charles, Ray"
Ray Charles
Ray Charles
Losing Hand
(Charles Calhoun)
Atlantic 1037
Ray Charles had only recently joined the roster of Atlantic Records when he waxed the mournful blues Losing Hand on May 17, 1953 with a New York session crew consisting of saxists Dave McRae, Freddie Mitchell, and Pinky Williams, bassist Lloyd Trotman, drummer Connie Kay, and guitarist Mickey Baker, whose slippery chords cascade downward like thick, murky molasses. Brother Ray didn't use a guitarist on his subsequent Atlantic sides, making Baker's presence quite unusual (arranger Jesse Stone wrote the song under his alias of Charles Calhoun). Ray had yet to explode with his groundbreaking gospel/blues synthesis, although his impassioned vocal and two-fisted piano offered clues as to his immediate future.
"He still was being recorded in the conventional way, like you'd record almost any single singing artist," said Ray's late co-producer, Jerry Wexler. "We got the backing musicians, we got the arranger Jesse Stone, we rehearsed, and so on."
Born in Albany, Georgia on September 23, 1930 but raised in Greenville, Florida, Ray Charles Robinson lost his sight as a child but gained a love for music—blues, boogie-woogie, jazz, country—that was unshakable. He left the state school for the blind at 15, his piano skills already formidable, and somehow made his way cross-country from Jacksonville, Florida to Seattle. Jack Lauderdale of Swing Time/Down Beat Records brought Charles and his McSon Trio aboard in 1949. His first release was a hit and two more after that too, though his predilection for imitating Nat King Cole and Charles Brown hadn't been tamed yet.
Swing Time was experiencing financial difficulties in 1952, so Lauderdale peddled Charles' contract to Atlantic. There Ray would transform R&B with his daring gospel/blues synthesis on the smashes I've Got A Woman, Hallelujah I Love Her So, and What'd I Say (speaking of advancements in electric instrumentation, he played a Wurlitzer piano on the latter). His sessions were like no other at Atlantic.
"They were exciting, edifying, thrilling," said Wexler. "We're talking about Ray Charles. There were no downers. I mean, there was never anything negative or worrying, because Ray Charles had the whole thing figured out from beginning to end. And so, as would be the case with many other sessions, when there had to be some direction from us because we weren't going anywhere, or some changes to be made, that wasn't the case with Ray."
Of course, Ray's ceaseless musical experiments rendered him a superstar right up to his June 10, 2004 death. No wonder they called him a genius.
- Bill Dahl -
Chicago, Illinois