Ray Charles
Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959)
2005

CD 1
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 The Sun's Gonna Shine Again 2:39
2 Roll With My Baby 2:38
3 The Midnight Hour 3:02
4 Jumpin' in the Mornin' 2:48
5 It Should've Been Me 2:44
6 Losing Hand 3:14
7 Heartbreaker 2:53
8 Sinner's Prayer 3:24
9 Mess Around 2:41
10 Funny (But I Still Love You) 3:15
11 Feelin' Sad 2:51
12 I Wonder Who 2:50
13 Don't You Know 2:58
14 Nobody Cares 2:40
15 Ray's Blues 2:55
16 I Got a Break Baby 2:48
17 Blackjack 2:21
18 I've Got a Woman 2:54
19 Greenbacks 2:52
20 Come Back Baby 3:07
21 A Fool for You 3:04
22 This Little Girl of Mine 2:33
23 Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I) 2:55
24 Blues Hangover 2:20
25 Mary Ann 2:48
26 Drown in My Own Tears 3:22
27 Hallelujah I Love Her So 2:36
28 What Would I Do Without You 2:35
Total time 79:46
CD 2
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Dawn Ray 5:04
2 The Man I Love 4:28
3 Music, Music, Music 2:56
4 Black Coffee 5:33
5 Lonely Avenue 2:35
6 I Want to Know 2:11
7 Leave My Woman Alone 2:41
8 The Ray 3:60
9 I Surrender Dear 5:07
10 Hornful Soul 5:30
11 Ain't Misbehavin' 5:42
12 Joy Ride 4:40
13 Sweet Sixteen Bars 4:09
14 Doodlin' 5:53
15 There's No You 4:47
16 Undecided 3:42
17 My Melancholy Baby 4:23
18 It's All Right 2:18
19 Ain't That Love 2:51
Total time 78:31
CD 3
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Rockhouse, Parts 1 & 2 3:53
2 Get on the Right Track Baby 2:20
3 Swanee River Rock (Talkin' 'Bout That River) 2:20
4 That's Enough 2:47
5 Talkin' 'Bout You 2:50
6 What Kind of Man Are You 2:51
7 I Want a Little Girl 2:56
8 How Long Blues 9:18
9 Cosmic Ray 5:25
10 The Genius After Hours 5:25
11 Charlesville 4:57
12 Bags of Blues 8:53
13 Deed I Do 5:52
14 Blue Funk 8:13
15 Soul Brothers 9:33
Total time 77:31
CD 4
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Bag's Guitar Blues 6:28
2 Yes Indeed! 2:17
3 I Had a Dream 2:55
4 You Be My Baby 2:30
5 Tell All the World About You 2:03
6 My Bonnie 2:50
7 Soul Meeting 6:06
8 Hallelujah I Love Her So 5:32
9 Blue Genius 6:42
10 X-Ray Blues 7:07
11 Love on My Mind 3:49
12 The Spirit-Feel (live) 3:46
13 Blues Waltz (live) 6:24
14 In a Little Spanish Town (live) 3:49
15 Sherry (live) 4:27
16 (Night Time Is) The Right Time (live) 4:04
17 A Fool for You (live) 7:12
Total time 78:03
CD 5
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 I've Got a Woman (live) 6:20
2 Talkin' 'Bout You (live) 4:22
3 Swanee River Rock (Talkin' 'Bout That River) (live) 2:09
4 Yes Indeed! (live) 2:40
5 Early in the Mornin' 2:48
6 (Night Time Is) The Right Time 3:24
7 Carrying That Load (single version) 2:17
8 Carrying That Load (LP version) 2:24
9 Tell Me How Do You Feel 2:45
10 Fathead 5:23
11 Tin Tin Deo 5:22
12 Bill for Bennie 4:17
13 Hard Times 4:43
14 Mean to Me 4:17
15 Sweet Eyes 3:45
16 Weird Beard 4:50
17 Willow Weep for Me 4:60
18 Tell the Truth 3:06
19 What'd I Say, Parts I & II (mono LP version) 5:04
Total time 74:57
CD 6
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 What'd I Say, Parts I & II (stereo LP version) 6:31
2 Tell Me You'll Wait for Me 3:25
3 Come Rain or Come Shine 3:43
4 Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin' 3:47
5 Just for a Thrill 3:26
6 You Won't Let Me Go 3:22
7 Am I Blue 3:41
8 The Spirit-Feel (live) 4:23
9 Frenesi (live) 5:05
10 Tell the Truth (live) 3:35
11 Drown in My Own Tears (live) 6:25
12 (Night Time Is) The Right Time (live) 4:06
13 What'd I Say (live) 4:26
14 Let the Good Times Roll 2:53
15 Alexander's Ragtime Band 2:53
16 Deed I Do 2:28
17 When Your Lover Has Gone 2:52
18 Two Years of Torture 3:25
19 It Had to Be You 2:45
20 I'm Movin' On 2:22
21 I Believe to My Soul 2:59
Total time 78:33
CD 7
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 0:21
2 Unknown Title (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 1:17
3 Piano Improvisation - Dialog #1 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 0:32
4 Losing Hand - Dialog #1 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 1:47
5 Little Rock Getaway - Dialog (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 1:16
6 Kentucky Waltz (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 1:23
7 Heartbreaker (instrumental) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 2:14
8 Heartbreaker - Dialog (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 1:14
9 Piano Improvisation - Dialog #2 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 0:42
10 Heartbreaker (False Starts 1 & 2) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 1:13
11 Losing Hand - Dialog #2 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 1:21
12 Losing Hand - Dialog #3 (with reverb) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 1:27
13 Losing Hand - Dialog #4 (with reverb) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 4:55
14 Heartbreaker (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 2:53
15 It Should've Been Me - Dialog (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 2:56
16 Nobody Cares (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 3:58
17 Piano Improvisation - Dialog #3 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 0:34
18 Mess Around (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 2:39
19 Funny (But I Still Love You) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 3:17
20 Sinner's Prayer (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 3:45
21 Piano Improvisation - Dialog #4 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 1:01
22 Low Society - Dialog #1 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 3:08
23 Boogie Woogie (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 1:57
24 Low Society - Dialog #2 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 3:29
25 Worried Life Blues (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 3:01
26 Come Back Baby (Walter Davis version) - Dialog (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 1:59
27 Low Society (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953) 2:57
28 (Night Time Is) The Right Time (Takes 1-7) - Dialog (recording session outtake, 1958) 8:17
29 Tell Me How Do You Feel (take 1) (recording session outtake, 1958) 3:22
30 Dialog (Ray's Arrangement Suggestions for "The Genius of Ray Charles" album, 1959) 1:01
31 It Had to Be You - Dialog (Ray's Arrangement Suggestions for "The Genius of Ray Charles" album, 1959) 1:40
32 My Buddy - Dialog (Ray's Arrangement Suggestions for "The Genius of Ray Charles" album, 1959) 1:46
33 Dialog (Ray's Arrangement Suggestions for "The Genius of Ray Charles" album, 1959) 0:18
34 When Your Lover Has Gone - Dialog (Ray's Arrangement Suggestions for "The Genius of Ray Charles" album, 1959) 1:51
35 I'm Beginning to See the Light (Ray's Arrangement Suggestions for "The Genius of Ray Charles" album, 1959) 1:27
36 Let the Good Times Roll - Dialog (Ray's Arrangement Suggestions for "The Genius of Ray Charles" album, 1959) 2:46
Total time 79:45



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