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

Ray Charles

Atlantic / Cleopatra

An 8 CD box set of recordings made for Atlantic. Includes tracks from a David Newman LP with Ray Charles on piano and Milt Turner on drums. David Newman plays on a number of other albums that are included in this collection.

Tracks

• The Sun's Gonna Shine Again (Charles)
• Roll with My Baby (Sweet)
• The Midnight Hour (Sweet)
• Jumpin' in the Mornin' (Charles)
• It Should've Been Me (Curtis)
• Losing Hand (Calhoun)
• Heartbreaker (Nugetre)
• Sinner's Prayer (Fulson / Glenn)
• Mess Around (Ertegun / Stone)
• Funny (But I Still Love You) (Charles)
• Feelin' Sad (Jones)
• I Wonder Who (Charles)
• Don't You Know (Charles)
• Nobody Cares (Charles)
• Ray's Blues (Charles)
• I Got a Break Baby (Walker)
• Blackjack (Charles)
• I Got a Woman (Charles / Richard)
• Greenbacks (Charles / Richard)
• Come Back Baby (Charles)
• A Fool for You (Charles)
• This Little Girl of Mine (Charles)
• Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I) (Charles)
• Blues Hangover (Glenn)
• Mary Ann (Charles)
• Drown in My Own Tears (Glover)
• Hallelujah, I Love Her So (Charles)
• What Would I Do Without You? (Charles)
• Dawn Ray (Charles)
• The Man I Love (Gershwin / Gershwin)
• Music, Music, Music (Gershwin / Gershwin)
• Black Coffee (Burke / Webster)
• Lonely Avenue (Pomus)
• I Want to Know (Charles)
• Leave My Woman Alone (Charles)
• The Ray (Jones)
• I Surrender Dear (Barris / Clifford)
• Hornful Soul (Charles)
• Ain't Misbehavin' (Brooks / Razaf / Waller)
• Joy Ride (Charles)
• Sweet Sixteen Bars (Charles)
• Doodlin' (Silver)
• There's No You (Adair / Hopper)
• Undecided (Robins / Shavers)
• My Melancholy Baby (Burnett / Norton)
• It's Alright (Charles)
• Ain't That Love (Charles)
• Rockhouse, Pts. 1 & 2 (Charles)
• Get on the Right Track Baby (Turner)
• Swanee River Rock (Talkin' 'Bout That River) (Charles)
• That's Enough (Charles)
• Talkin' 'Bout You (Charles)
• What Kind of Man Are You (Charles)
• I Want a Little Girl (Mencher / Moll)
• How Long Blues (Carr)
• Cosmic Ray (Charles)
• The Genius After Hours (Charles)
• Charlesville (Charles)
• Bags of Blues (Jackson)
• 'Deed I Do (Hirsch / Rose)
• Blue Funk (Charles)
• Soul Brothers (Jackson)
• Bag's Guitar Blues (Jackson)
• Yes, Indeed! (Oliver)
• I Had a Dream (Charles / Harper)
• You Be My Baby (Charles / Pomus / Shuman)
• Tell All the World About You (Charles)
• My Bonnie (Traditional)
• Soul Meeting (Jackson)
• Hallelujah, I Love Her So (Charles)
• Blue Genius (Charles)
• X-Ray Blues (Charles)
• Love on My Mind (Charles)
• The Spirit-Feel (Jackson)
• Blues Waltz (Roach)
• In a Little Spanish Town (Lewis / Wayne / Young)
• Sherry (Crawford)
• (Night Time Is) The Right Time (Brown / Cadena / Herman)
• A Fool for You (Charles)
• I Got a Woman (Charles / Richard)
• Talkin' 'Bout You (Charles)
• Swanee River Rock (Talkin' 'Bout That River) (Charles)
• Yes, Indeed! (Oliver)
• Early in the Morning (Glover)
• (Night Time Is) The Right Time (Brown / Cadena / Herman)
• Carrying That Load (Pomus / Shuman)
• Carrying That Load (Pomus / Shuman)
• Tell Me How Do You Feel (Charles / Mayfield)
• Fathead (Newman)
• Tin Tin Deo (Pozo)
• Bill for Bennie (Crawford)
• Hard Times (Mitchell)
• Mean to Me (Ahlert / Turk)
• Sweet Eyes (Crawford)
• Weird Beard (Crawford)
• Willow Weep for Me (Ronell)
• Tell the Truth (Pauling)
• What'd I Say, Pts. 1 & 2 (Charles)
• What'd I Say, Pts. 1 & 2 (Charles)
• Tell Me You'll Wait for Me (Brown / Moore)
• Come Rain or Come Shine (Arlen / Mercer)
• Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin' (Greene)
• Just for a Thrill (Armstrong / Raye)
• You Won't Let Me Go (Allen / Johnson)
• Am I Blue (Akst / Clarke)
• The Spirit-Feel (Jackson)
• Frenesi (Dominguez)
• Tell the Truth (Pauling)
• Drown in My Own Tears (Glover)
• Night Time Is) The Right Time (Brown / Cadena / Herman)
• What'd I Say (Charles)
• Let the Good Times Roll (Moore / Theard)
• Alexander's Ragtime Band (Berlin)
• 'Deed I Do (Hirsch / Rose)
• When Your Lover Has Gone (Swan)
• Two Years of Torture (Mayfield / Morris)
• It Had to Be You (Jones / Kahn)
• I'm Movin' On (Snow)
• I Believe to My Soul (Charles)
• Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand (Charles)
• Unknown Title
• Piano Improvisation & Dialog
• Losing Hand & Dialog (Calhoun)
• Little Rock Getaway & Dialog (Sullivan)
• Kentucky Waltz (Monroe)
• Heartbreaker (Nugetre)
• Heartbreaker & Dialog (Nugetre)
• Piano Improvisation & Dialog
• Heartbreaker (Nugetre)
• Losing Hand & Dialog (Calhoun)
• Losing Hand & Dialog (Calhoun)
• Losing Hand & Dialog (Calhoun)
• Heartbreaker (Nugetre)
• It Should've Been Me & Dialog (Memphis Curtis)
• Nobody Cares (Charles)
• Piano Improvisation & Dialog
• Mess Around (Ertegun / Stone)
• Funny (But I Still Love You) (Charles)
• Sinner's Prayer (Fulson / Glenn)
• Piano Improvisation & Dialog
• Low Society & Dialog (Fulson / Glenn)
• Boogie Woogie (Basie / Rushing)
• Low Society & Dialog (Fulson / Glenn)
• Worried Life Blues (Merriweather)
• Come Back Baby (Davis)
• Low Society (Fulson)
• (Night Time Is) The Right Time (Brown / Cadena / Herman)
• Tell Me How Do You Feel (Charles / Mayfield)
• Dialog
• It Had to Be You & Dialog (Jones / Kahn)
• My Buddy & Dialog (Donaldson / Kahn)
• Dialog
• When Your Lover Has Gone & Dialog (Swan)
• I'm Beginning to See the Light (Ellington / George / Hodges / James)
• Let the Good Times Roll & Dialog (Moore / Theard)
• Lil' Darlin' (Hefti)
• Blues Waltz (Roach)
• Let the Good Times Roll (Moore / Theard)
• Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin' (Greene)
• Sticks and Stones (Glover / Turner)
• My Baby! (I Love Her, Yes I Do) (Charles)
• Drown in My Own Tears (Glover)
• What'd I Say (Charles)
• I Believe to My Soul (Charles)
• Interview with Ahmet Ertegu

Includes tracks from the albums:

• The Great Ray Charles, Ray Charles, 1957
• Ray Charles At Newport, Ray Charles, 1958
• Fathead: Ray Charles Presents, David Newman, 1959
• The Genius After Hours, Ray Charles, 1961