Charlie Rich The Sun Years, 1958-62 (3-CD Deluxe Box Set)
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Charlie Rich: The Sun Years, 1958-62 (3-CD Deluxe Box Set)
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 It contains a book with biography and musical commentary by Hank Davis, along with rare and previously unpublished photos.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)
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Interpret: Charlie Rich
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Album titlle: The Sun Years, 1958-62 (3-CD Deluxe Box Set)
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Genre Rock'n'Roll
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Label Bear Family Records
- Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
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Artikelart Box set
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EAN: 4000127161529
- weight in Kg 1.1
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01 | Whirlwind (undubbed version) | Charlie Rich |
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02 | Philadelphia Bay | Charlie Rich |
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03 | Big Man | Charlie Rich |
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04 | Rebound | Charlie Rich |
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05 | Everything I Do Is Wrong | Charlie Rich |
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06 | Lonely Weekends (master) | Charlie Rich |
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07 | School Days (undubbed) | Charlie Rich |
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08 | Gonna Be Waitin' | Charlie Rich |
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09 | Stay | Charlie Rich |
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10 | On My Knees | Charlie Rich |
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11 | Who Will The Next Fool Be | Charlie Rich |
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12 | Caught In The Middle | Charlie Rich |
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13 | It's Too Late (undubbed) | Charlie Rich |
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14 | Just A Little Bit Sweet | Charlie Rich |
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15 | Midnite Blues | Charlie Rich |
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16 | Easy Money | Charlie Rich |
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17 | Sittin' And Thinkin' | Charlie Rich |
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18 | Finally Found Out | Charlie Rich |
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19 | There's Another Place I Can't Go | Charlie Rich |
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20 | I Need Your Love | Charlie Rich |
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21 | Red Man | Charlie Rich |
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22 | Juanita | Charlie Rich |
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23 | Break Up | Charlie Rich |
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24 | That's How Much I Love You | Charlie Rich |
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25 | Apple Blossom Time | Charlie Rich |
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26 | C.C. Rider | Charlie Rich |
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27 | Come Back (undubbed) | Charlie Rich |
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28 | Sad News (instrumental) | Charlie Rich |
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29 | Whirlwind (mono) | Charlie Rich |
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30 | It's Too Late (mono) | Charlie Rich |
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31 | School Days (mono) | Charlie Rich |
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01 | Rebound (intro) | Charlie Rich |
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02 | Rebound (1) | Charlie Rich |
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03 | Time And Again | Charlie Rich |
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04 | Stop Thief | Charlie Rich |
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05 | Lonely Hurt Within | Charlie Rich |
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06 | Big Man (alt.) | Charlie Rich |
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07 | Stay | Charlie Rich |
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08 | Goodbye Mary Ann | Charlie Rich |
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09 | My Heart Cries For You | Charlie Rich |
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10 | Unchained Melody | Charlie Rich |
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11 | Lonely Weekends | Charlie Rich |
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12 | Sail Away | Charlie Rich |
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13 | My Baby Done Left Me | Charlie Rich |
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14 | That's Rich | Charlie Rich |
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15 | Everything I Do Is Wrong (alt.) | Charlie Rich |
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16 | Too Many Tears | Charlie Rich |
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17 | Rebound (2) | Charlie Rich |
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18 | I've Lost My Heart To You | Charlie Rich |
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19 | What's My Name | Charlie Rich |
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20 | You Made A Hit | Charlie Rich |
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21 | Stay | Charlie Rich |
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22 | Now Everybody Knows | Charlie Rich |
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23 | Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair | Charlie Rich |
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24 | Everyday | Charlie Rich |
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25 | Popcorn Polly | Charlie Rich |
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26 | Cloud Nine | Charlie Rich |
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27 | Gentle As A Lamb | Charlie Rich |
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28 | The Wedding Is Over | Charlie Rich |
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29 | I Need Your Love (alt.) | Charlie Rich |
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30 | Lonely Weekends (alt.) | Charlie Rich |
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Rich, Charlie - The Sun Years, 1958-62 (3-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3 | ||||
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01 | Little Woman Friend Of Mine (intro) | Charlie Rich |
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02 | Little Woman Friend Of Mine | Charlie Rich |
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03 | Ain't It A Shame | Charlie Rich |
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04 | Stop Fakin' Your Love (alt.) | Charlie Rich |
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05 | It Hurt Me So | Charlie Rich |
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06 | Juicehead Baby | Charlie Rich |
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07 | The Loneliest Days | Charlie Rich |
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08 | Baby I Need You | Charlie Rich |
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09 | I Said Baby | Charlie Rich |
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10 | There Won't Be Anymore | Charlie Rich |
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11 | Charlie's Boogie | Charlie Rich |
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12 | Every Day | Charlie Rich |
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13 | Yes Ma'am | Charlie Rich |
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14 | Don't Put No Headstone On My Grave | Charlie Rich |
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15 | My Baby Done Left Me | Charlie Rich |
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16 | Sail Away | Charlie Rich |
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17 | Graveyardville (instr.) | Charlie Rich |
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18 | Time's A-Wasting | Charlie Rich |
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19 | I Love No One But You | Charlie Rich |
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20 | The Ways Of A Woman In Love | Charlie Rich |
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21 | Deep Freeze | Charlie Rich |
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22 | How Blue Can You Be | Charlie Rich |
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23 | Blue Suede Shoes | Charlie Rich |
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24 | Sittin' And Thinkin' | Charlie Rich |
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25 | untitled instrumental | Charlie Rich |
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26 | Thanks A Lot | Charlie Rich |
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27 | Right Behind You Baby | Charlie Rich |
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28 | Baby I Need You | Charlie Rich |
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29 | Oh Lonely Days | Charlie Rich |
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30 | Life Is A Flower | Charlie Rich |
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31 | Portrait Of My Love | Charlie Rich |
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32 | I'm Making Plans | Charlie Rich |
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33 | Donna Lee | Charlie Rich |
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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).
Charlie Rich The Sun Years, 1958-62 (3-CD)
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