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Ray Charles
Cocktail Hour: Ray Charles
Genres: Blues, Jazz, Pop, R&B

Track Listings (14) - Disc #1
1. Ain't That Fine - Ray Charles, Hall, Betty
2. Hey Now
3. What Have I Done?
4. Sitting on Top of the World - Ray Charles, Chatmon, Lonnie
5. Let's Have a Ball
6. How Long Blues - Ray Charles, Carr, Leroy
7. Can't You See Darling?
8. She's on the Ball
9. If I Give You My Love - Ray Charles, Leventhal, Herbert
10. This Love of Mine - Ray Charles, Parker, Sol
11. Baby Won't You Please Come Home - Ray Charles, Warfield, Charles
12. You Always Miss the Water (When the Well Runs Dry) - Ray Charles, Andre, Rod
13. Blues Before Sunrise - Ray Charles, Carr, Leroy
14. Guitar Blues
Track Listings (14) - Disc #2
1. Back Home
2. C.C. Rider - Ray Charles, Rainey, Ma
3. Kissa Me Baby
4. Money Honey - Ray Charles, York, William
5. Late in the Evening Blues - Ray Charles, Henry, Shifty
6. I'm Just a Lonely Boy - Ray Charles, Henry
7. Let Me Hear You Call My Name
8. I'm Wonderin' and Wonderin'
9. Don't Put All Your Dreams in One Basket - Ray Charles, Morgan, Dennis [Cou
10. Why Did You Go?
11. Walkin' and Talkin'
12. Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand
13. Going Down Slow
14. A Sentimental Blues - Ray Charles, York, William

CD Details

All Artists: Ray Charles
Title: Cocktail Hour: Ray Charles
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Columbia River Ent.
Release Date: 1/9/2001
Album Type: Original recording remastered
Genres: Blues, Jazz, Pop, R&B
Styles: Vocal Jazz, Oldies, Vocal Pop, Classic R&B
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 723723946324

CD Reviews

This appears to be at least 27 of his 41 earliest recorded s

Chris bct | San Diego, CA USA | 04/03/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I see from pressing the Listen buttons that almost all or all of these songs are from his 1949-1952 period before signing to Atlantic. There are at minimum, 27 different releases on 24 different labels of his Swing Time & Down Beat (Downbeat became Swingtime) recordings from 1949-1952 when he was 19 to 22 years old. You can hit Listen and see that these are well recorded. He doesn't have high production touches added like back up singers that sound corny like in the later 50's. The horns here rock, hard. It's good stuff folks. 'Sittin' On Top of the World' is lyrically great, he's sayin' how happy he is yet his love has left him. There's apparently 41 to 42 released songs from this period and they appear on 1) The Complete Swing Time & Down Beat Recordings 1949-1952, 2) Ray Charles 45 Great Performances and 3) Mess Around. All three are 2xCD sets. This stuff rocks, in the classic Ray way."