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Charlie Rich: The Sun Years, 1958-62 (3-CD Deluxe Box Set)

3-CD box (LP-size) with 44-page book, 95 tracks. Playing time approx. 216 mns.

The deepest and most complete look yet at Charlie Rich's earliest recordings for the legendary Sun label reveals a startling talent only hinted in his 'Greatest Hits' collections. For the first time, it's all here: from rockabilly to blues, from country to boogie woogie, from pop to jazz. More than 90 recordings, many previously unissued or unreleased in stereo, with choral overdubs stripped away to reveal the staggering power of Rich's vocals and musicianship. It contains a book with biography and musical commentary by Hank Davis, along with rare and previously unpublished photos.

CD-1 is all the Phillips International singles and LP songs, many newly available in stereo. Titles include Rich classics like Lonely Weekends, Who Will The Next Fool Be, Sittin' And Thinkin', Break Up, and his rare Sun single issued as Bobby Sheridan. 

CD-2 has more than 30 songs that weren't originally issued, as well as alternate takes. These include Don't Put No Headstone On My Grave, You Made A Hit, There Won't Be Any More, etc.. 

CD-3 has midnight demo's, including songs like Juicehead Baby, Charlie's Boogie, It Hurt Me So, Right Behind You Baby, Thanks A Lot, Yes Ma'am, Graveyardville, etc.. A dream package.

Article properties: Charlie Rich: The Sun Years, 1958-62 (3-CD Deluxe Box Set)

  • Interpret: Charlie Rich

  • Album titlle: The Sun Years, 1958-62 (3-CD Deluxe Box Set)

  • Genre Rock'n'Roll

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
  • Artikelart Box set

  • EAN: 4000127161529

  • weight in Kg 1.1
Rich, Charlie - The Sun Years, 1958-62 (3-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01 Whirlwind (undubbed version) Charlie Rich
02 Philadelphia Bay Charlie Rich
03 Big Man Charlie Rich
04 Rebound Charlie Rich
05 Everything I Do Is Wrong Charlie Rich
06 Lonely Weekends (master) Charlie Rich
07 School Days (undubbed) Charlie Rich
08 Gonna Be Waitin' Charlie Rich
09 Stay Charlie Rich
10 On My Knees Charlie Rich
11 Who Will The Next Fool Be Charlie Rich
12 Caught In The Middle Charlie Rich
13 It's Too Late (undubbed) Charlie Rich
14 Just A Little Bit Sweet Charlie Rich
15 Midnite Blues Charlie Rich
16 Easy Money Charlie Rich
17 Sittin' And Thinkin' Charlie Rich
18 Finally Found Out Charlie Rich
19 There's Another Place I Can't Go Charlie Rich
20 I Need Your Love Charlie Rich
21 Red Man Charlie Rich
22 Juanita Charlie Rich
23 Break Up Charlie Rich
24 That's How Much I Love You Charlie Rich
25 Apple Blossom Time Charlie Rich
26 C.C. Rider Charlie Rich
27 Come Back (undubbed) Charlie Rich
28 Sad News (instrumental) Charlie Rich
29 Whirlwind (mono) Charlie Rich
30 It's Too Late (mono) Charlie Rich
31 School Days (mono) Charlie Rich
Rich, Charlie - The Sun Years, 1958-62 (3-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2
01 Rebound (intro) Charlie Rich
02 Rebound (1) Charlie Rich
03 Time And Again Charlie Rich
04 Stop Thief Charlie Rich
05 Lonely Hurt Within Charlie Rich
06 Big Man (alt.) Charlie Rich
07 Stay Charlie Rich
08 Goodbye Mary Ann Charlie Rich
09 My Heart Cries For You Charlie Rich
10 Unchained Melody Charlie Rich
11 Lonely Weekends Charlie Rich
12 Sail Away Charlie Rich
13 My Baby Done Left Me Charlie Rich
14 That's Rich Charlie Rich
15 Everything I Do Is Wrong (alt.) Charlie Rich
16 Too Many Tears Charlie Rich
17 Rebound (2) Charlie Rich
18 I've Lost My Heart To You Charlie Rich
19 What's My Name Charlie Rich
20 You Made A Hit Charlie Rich
21 Stay Charlie Rich
22 Now Everybody Knows Charlie Rich
23 Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair Charlie Rich
24 Everyday Charlie Rich
25 Popcorn Polly Charlie Rich
26 Cloud Nine Charlie Rich
27 Gentle As A Lamb Charlie Rich
28 The Wedding Is Over Charlie Rich
29 I Need Your Love (alt.) Charlie Rich
30 Lonely Weekends (alt.) Charlie Rich
Rich, Charlie - The Sun Years, 1958-62 (3-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3
01 Little Woman Friend Of Mine (intro) Charlie Rich
02 Little Woman Friend Of Mine Charlie Rich
03 Ain't It A Shame Charlie Rich
04 Stop Fakin' Your Love (alt.) Charlie Rich
05 It Hurt Me So Charlie Rich
06 Juicehead Baby Charlie Rich
07 The Loneliest Days Charlie Rich
08 Baby I Need You Charlie Rich
09 I Said Baby Charlie Rich
10 There Won't Be Anymore Charlie Rich
11 Charlie's Boogie Charlie Rich
12 Every Day Charlie Rich
13 Yes Ma'am Charlie Rich
14 Don't Put No Headstone On My Grave Charlie Rich
15 My Baby Done Left Me Charlie Rich
16 Sail Away Charlie Rich
17 Graveyardville (instr.) Charlie Rich
18 Time's A-Wasting Charlie Rich
19 I Love No One But You Charlie Rich
20 The Ways Of A Woman In Love Charlie Rich
21 Deep Freeze Charlie Rich
22 How Blue Can You Be Charlie Rich
23 Blue Suede Shoes Charlie Rich
24 Sittin' And Thinkin' Charlie Rich
25 untitled instrumental Charlie Rich
26 Thanks A Lot Charlie Rich
27 Right Behind You Baby Charlie Rich
28 Baby I Need You Charlie Rich
29 Oh Lonely Days Charlie Rich
30 Life Is A Flower Charlie Rich
31 Portrait Of My Love Charlie Rich
32 I'm Making Plans Charlie Rich
33 Donna Lee Charlie Rich
CHARLIE RICH If ever a musician deserved attention for more than his hit records, it was... more
"Charlie Rich"

CHARLIE RICH

If ever a musician deserved attention for more than his hit records, it was Charlie Rich. To several generations of casual listeners, Charlie was nothing more than the ‘Silver Fox’: the guy who sang Behind Closed Doors and The Most Beautiful Girl. The tunnel vision of pop culture has done a profound disservice to Charlie Rich. He was much, much more than those records.

Even listeners who remember his earlier work like Mohair Sam and Lonely Weekends rarely see the full picture. Charlie Rich was a true original in a field that pays lip service to originality but doesn't know what to do with it. An irrepressible eclectic in a field that is enslaved to musical categories. A singer/songwriter/musician in a field that prefers you to be just one thing so everyone else can earn a living.

Worse yet, Charlie Rich was a profoundly shy man with virtually no desire for stardom. He was thrust into a spotlight he feared and distrusted. A quiet, intense man pushed nearly beyond the limits of his endurance to severe substance abuse. A performer so talented and good looking that nobody could stand to leave him alone. A press agent's dream and a promoter's nightmare. Charlie was a gentle giant who would rather spend quiet time with his family and play anonymous gigs in smoky clubs than endure the scrutiny and demands of a hit record and a concert tour. 

Charlie Rich began a career that spanned more than three decades at the legendary Sun label in Memphis, recording for Sam Phillips. Without question, Rich's earliest work is his most interesting. It is also the rawest, least disciplined and most revealing. Rich was never more prolific as a songwriter than during his formative years at Sun. There is nothing in his later career that wasn't foreshadowed in some manner at Sun. Unfortunately, however, there is much in these earliest recordings that was lost or remained undeveloped in Rich's later work.

Never before have Charlie Rich's Sun recordings been examined in such depth. Most reissues have taken a Greatest Hits approach, focussing on Lonely Weekends and half a dozen single releases and cuts from his lone Sun LP. In fact, Charlie's catalogue is much deeper. He recorded over a hundred titles for Sun. Many were carefully produced masters; others were rough publishing demos. Almost all were compelling.

We have divided Charlie's music into three categories. The first CD presents every title originally issued on the Phillips International label as a single or on an LP. Note that these tracks are not necessarily carbon copies of the originals. In some cases, we have remixed the original master tapes into stereo, although the original 45s were reduced to mono. In some cases, we have removed the choral or string overdubs that marred the original releases. For the first time you can hear Charlie's performance as it actually sounded in the studio before the producers started painting the proverbial mustache on the Mona Lisa.

The second CD contains a combination of finished studio performances that were overlooked by Sun - for whatever reason - during Charlie's five year stay with the label beginning in 1958. Many of these titles first surfaced only after Shelby Singleton bought the original Sun masters and began issuing LPs during the late 1960s/early '70s. Other titles - so called ‘deeper catalogue’ - appeared during the peak period of Sun archaeology prompted by British and European record collectors in the 1970s. But there are still some surprises here. We have managed to find titles that escaped all this scrutiny. In addition, this CD contains alternate takes of familiar titles that will surprise even hardcore Sun and Charlie Rich fans.

The third CD contains Charlie's demos. Some have been issued before, although many exist only on rare or out-of-print LPs. Others appear here for the first time. These demos are undoubtedly the least polished recordings but, in many ways, his most rewarding. Bear in mind that none of them was ever intended for release. This is a very special glimpse into the development of Charlie's music. Some of it would probably have embarrassed him. During his earliest period Charlie was almost always searching musically. He was taking chances, playing in styles that were alien to him. Some of these experiments were surprisingly successful. Others were expendable failures. Some were abandoned, nearly on the spot. Others gave rise to patterns, songs, even instrumental riffs that would surface later in his career.

Most of the facts of Charlie's life have already been documented. Some of this material is worth re-examining, especially in the context of his Sun days. Perhaps most interesting are the memories of and reactions to Charlie by the persons closest to him during the Sun years and immediately thereafter. Many of these words about Charlie have not been publicly shared before and their speakers welcomed the opportunity to do so. Charlie Rich provoked deep reactions in those around him. Both his music and his personality stirred indelible memories. Nearly 40 years later, these impressions remained vivid to colleagues like guitarist Roland Janes, drummer J. M. Van Eaton, saxman Martin Willis, vocalist Barbara Pittman, and drummer/manager Harold Murchison. Here, pieced together with reminiscences by his widow Margaret Ann, is Charlie Rich's story.

 

THE EARLY YEARS

Despite his affinity for the blues, it would be sheer fantasy to claim that Charlie Rich grew up dirt poor in the rural South, scuffling for his next meal or a warm bed to sleep in. Such tales of rural poverty may not be far removed from the lives of Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley, but they bear little similarity to Rich's background. Rich was born on December 16, 1932 in Forrest City, Arkansas. There probably weren't many affluent people living in Forrest City during the Great Depression, so the Riches' economic circumstances were hardly exceptional. By the 1940s, the family's finances had stabilized and they settled in Colt, Arkansas (population 312).

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Tracklist
Rich, Charlie - The Sun Years, 1958-62 (3-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01 Whirlwind (undubbed version)
02 Philadelphia Bay
03 Big Man
04 Rebound
05 Everything I Do Is Wrong
06 Lonely Weekends (master)
07 School Days (undubbed)
08 Gonna Be Waitin'
09 Stay
10 On My Knees
11 Who Will The Next Fool Be
12 Caught In The Middle
13 It's Too Late (undubbed)
14 Just A Little Bit Sweet
15 Midnite Blues
16 Easy Money
17 Sittin' And Thinkin'
18 Finally Found Out
19 There's Another Place I Can't Go
20 I Need Your Love
21 Red Man
22 Juanita
23 Break Up
24 That's How Much I Love You
25 Apple Blossom Time
26 C.C. Rider
27 Come Back (undubbed)
28 Sad News (instrumental)
29 Whirlwind (mono)
30 It's Too Late (mono)
31 School Days (mono)
Rich, Charlie - The Sun Years, 1958-62 (3-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2
01 Rebound (intro)
02 Rebound (1)
03 Time And Again
04 Stop Thief
05 Lonely Hurt Within
06 Big Man (alt.)
07 Stay
08 Goodbye Mary Ann
09 My Heart Cries For You
10 Unchained Melody
11 Lonely Weekends
12 Sail Away
13 My Baby Done Left Me
14 That's Rich
15 Everything I Do Is Wrong (alt.)
16 Too Many Tears
17 Rebound (2)
18 I've Lost My Heart To You
19 What's My Name
20 You Made A Hit
21 Stay
22 Now Everybody Knows
23 Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair
24 Everyday
25 Popcorn Polly
26 Cloud Nine
27 Gentle As A Lamb
28 The Wedding Is Over
29 I Need Your Love (alt.)
30 Lonely Weekends (alt.)
Rich, Charlie - The Sun Years, 1958-62 (3-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3
01 Little Woman Friend Of Mine (intro)
02 Little Woman Friend Of Mine
03 Ain't It A Shame
04 Stop Fakin' Your Love (alt.)
05 It Hurt Me So
06 Juicehead Baby
07 The Loneliest Days
08 Baby I Need You
09 I Said Baby
10 There Won't Be Anymore
11 Charlie's Boogie
12 Every Day
13 Yes Ma'am
14 Don't Put No Headstone On My Grave
15 My Baby Done Left Me
16 Sail Away
17 Graveyardville (instr.)
18 Time's A-Wasting
19 I Love No One But You
20 The Ways Of A Woman In Love
21 Deep Freeze
22 How Blue Can You Be
23 Blue Suede Shoes
24 Sittin' And Thinkin'
25 untitled instrumental
26 Thanks A Lot
27 Right Behind You Baby
28 Baby I Need You
29 Oh Lonely Days
30 Life Is A Flower
31 Portrait Of My Love
32 I'm Making Plans
33 Donna Lee