Ray Charles Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings UK Box set

RAY CHARLES Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings 1952 - 1959 (2005 UK 8-disc Box Set, comprising 7 digitally remastered CDs encompassing his entire Atlantic back catalogue from 1952-59, with highlights including 'Mess Around', full-length version of 'Doodlin', a wealth of live recordings from 1958 & 1959, 8 tracks from 'Fathead: Ray Charles Presents...', Rehearsal Sessions with Ahmet Ertegun in 1953, Outtakes & Ray's Arrangement Suggestions For 'The Genius Of...' album plus BONUS DVD featuring 9 great performances from 1960 and an Interview With Ahmet Ertegun! Beautifully packaged in a textured '50s-inspired Record Player Case. The outer case has a little mild corner wear to the back corner of the lid and has just the odd cosmetic surafce scuff but is otherwise in excellent shape, in perfect working order and fully intact. The contents all remain near mint with disc #8 remaining sealed from new in its original shrinkwrap - a great collectable!)

TRACKLISTING AND EXTRA INFORMATION
Presented in a beautifully packaged 50s-inspired record-player case complete with a linen-bound liner notes book featuring an essay by Ahmet Ertegun [who also co-produced this boxed set], detailed recording session information, discography, rare photos, all the original liner notes for all of his Atlantic LPs including insightful writing by renowned music scribes Nat Hentoff, Bill Randle, Guy Remark, Billy Taylor, Leonard Feather, and more!!)

CD ONE:
1. Sun's Gonna Shine Again
2. Roll With My Baby
3. Midnight Hour
4. Jumpin' in the Mornin'
5. It Should've 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. I Got a Break Baby
17. Blackjack
18. I've Got a Woman
19. Greenbacks
20. Come Back Baby
21. Fool for You
22. This Little Girl of Mine
23. Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)
24. Blues Hangover
25. Mary Ann
26. Drown in My Own Tears
27. Hallelujah I Love Her So
28. What Would I Do Without You

CD TWO:
1. Dawn Ray
2. Man I Love
3. Music, Music, Music
4. Black Coffee
5. Lonely Avenue
6. I Want to Know
7. Leave My Woman Alone
8. Ray
9. I Surrender Dear
10. Hornful Soul
11. Ain't Misbehavin'
12. Joy Ride
13. Sweet Sixteen Bars
14. Doodlin'
15. There's No You
16. Undecided
17. My Melancholy Baby
18. It's All Right
19. Ain't That Love

CD THREE:
1. Rockhouse Parts 1 & 2
2. Get on the Right Track Baby
3. Swanee River Rock (Talkin' 'Bout That River)
4. That's Enough
5. Talkin' 'Bout You
6. What Kind of Man Are You
7. I Want a Little Girl
8. How Long Blues
9. Cosmic Ray
10. Genius After Hours
11. Charlesville
12. Bags of Blues
13. Deed I Do
14. Blue Funk
15. Soul Brothers

CD FOUR:
1. Bag's Guitar Blues
2. Yes Indeed!
3. I Had a Dream
4. You Be My Baby
5. Tell All the World About You
6. My Bonnie
7. Soul Meeting
8. Hallelujah I Love Her So
9. Blue Genius
10. X-Ray Blues
11. Love on My Mind
12. Spirit-Feel - Live 1958
13. Blues Waltz - Live 1958
14. In a Little Spanish Town - Live 1958
15. Sherry - Live 1958
16. (Night Time Is) The Right Time - Live 1958
17. Fool for You - Live 1958

CD FIVE:
1. I've Got a Woman - Live 1958
2. Talkin' 'Bout You - Live 1958
3. Swanee River Rock (Talkin' 'Bout That River) - Live 1958
4. Yes Indeed! - Live 1958
5. Early in the Mornin'
6. (Night Time Is) The Right Time)
7. Carry That Load - Single Version
8. Carry That Load - LP Version
9. Tell Me How You Feel
10. Fathead - David Newman
11. Tin Tin Deo - David Newman
12. Bill for Bennie - David Newman
13. Hard Times - David Newman
14. Mean to Me - David Newman
15. Sweet Eyes - David Newman
16. Weird Beard - David Newman
17. Willow Weep for Me - David Newman
18. Tell the Truth
19. What'd I Say Parts I & II - Mono LP Version

CD SIX:
1. What'd I Say Parts I & II - Stereo LP Version
2. Tell Me You'll Wait for Me
3. Come Rain or Come Shine
4. Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'
5. Just for a Thrill
6. You Won't Let Me Go
7. Am I Blue
8. Spirit-Feel - Live 1959
9. Frenesi - Live 1959
10. Tell the Truth - Live 1959
11. Drown in My Own Tears - Live 1959
12. (Night Time Is) The Right Time - Live 1959
13. What'd I Say - Live 1959
14. Let the Good Times Roll
15. Alexander's Ragtime Band
16. Deed I Do
17. When Your Lover Has Gone
18. Two Years of Torture
19. It Had to Be You
20. I'm Movin' on
21. I Believe to My Soul

CD SEVEN:
Rehearsal Session With Ahmet Ertegun (1953)
1. Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand - Previously Unreleased
2. Unknown Title - Previously Unreleased
3. Piano Improvisation and Dialog #1 - Previously Unreleased
4. Losing Hand and Dialog #1 - Previously Unreleased
5. Little Rock Getaway and Dialog
6. Kentucky Waltz - Previously Unreleased
7. Heartbreaker - Instrumental Version - Previously Unreleased
8. Heartbreaker and Dialog - Previously Unreleased
9. Piano Improvisation and Dialog #2 - Previously Unreleased
10. Heartbreaker ­ False Starts 1-2 - Previously Unreleased
11. Losing Hand and Dialog #2 - Previously Unreleased
12. Losing Hand and Dialog #3 - With Reverb - Previously Unreleased
13. Losing Hand and Dialog #4 - With Reverb - Previously Unreleased
14. Heartbreaker - Previously Unreleased
15. It Should Have Been Me and Dialog - Previously Unreleased
16. Nobody Cares - Previously Unreleased
17. Piano Improvisation and Dialog #3 - Previously Unreleased
18. Mess Around - Previously Unreleased
19. Funny (But I Still Love You) - Previously Unreleased
20. Sinner's Prayer - Previously Unreleased
21. Piano Improvisation and Dialog #4 - Previously Unreleased
22. Low Society and Dialog #1 - Previously Unreleased
23. Boogie Woogie - Previously Unreleased
24. Low Society and Dialog #2 - Previously Unreleased
25. Worried Life Blues
26. Come Back Baby - Walter Davis Version - Previously Unreleased
27. Low Society

Recording Session Outtakes (1958)
28. (Night Time Is) The Right Time And Dialog - Takes 1-7 - Previously Unreleased
29. Tell Me How You Feel (Take 1) - Previously Unreleased

Ray's Arrangement Suggestions For The Genius Of Ray Charles Album (1959)
30. Dialog - Previously Unreleased
31. It Had to Be You and Dialog - Previously Unreleased
32. My Buddy and Dialog

Artist - Ray Charles (click link for complete listing)
Title - Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (click link for more of the same title)
Year of Release - 2005
Format - box set
Record Label - Rhino
Catalogue No - 8122747312 (click link for more)
Country of Origin - United Kingdom (UK)
Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info - Deleted, Picture Sleeve
Barcode - 081227473129
Condition - This item is in Excellent condition or better (unless it says otherwise in the above description). We buy items as close to Mint condition as possible and many will be unplayed and as close to new as you could hope to find. Irrespective of the source, all of our collectables meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed. Click here for more info.
RareVinyl.com Ref No - RYHBXPU336259
Related Artists - Ray Charles And Betty Carter, Rita Graham, The Friends Of Distinction.

GENRES
Male Solo, Soul and r&b.

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