Ray Charles

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

Release date September 20, 2005

Tracklist

1
The Sun's Gonna Shine Again
2:38
2:38
2
Roll With My Baby
2:37
2:37
3
The Midnight Hour
3:02
3:02
4
Jumpin’ in the Morning
2:48
2:48
5
It Should Have Been Me
2:43
2:43
6
Losing Hand
3:14
3:14
7
Heartbreaker
2:53
2:53
8
Sinner's Prayer
3:24
3:24
9
Mess Around
2:42
2:42
10
Funny but I Still Love You
3:15
3:15
11
Feelin' Sad
2:51
2:51
12
I Wonder Who
2:50
2:50
13
Don’t You Know
2:57
2:57
14
Nobody Cares
2:40
2:40
15
Ray's Blues
2:54
2:54
16
I Got a Break Baby
2:47
2:47
17
Blackjack
2:20
2:20
18
I’ve Got a Woman
2:54
2:54
19
Greenbacks
2:52
2:52
20
Come Back Baby
3:06
3:06
21
A Fool for You
3:03
3:03
22
This Little Girl of Mine
2:33
2:33
23
Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)
2:55
2:55
24
Blues Hangover
2:19
2:19
25
Mary Ann
2:48
2:48
26
Drown in My Own Tears
3:21
3:21
27
Hallelujah I Love Her So
2:35
2:35
28
What Would I Do Without You
2:34
2:34
29
Dawn Ray
5:03
5:03
30
The Man I Love
4:28
4:28
31
Music, Music, Music
2:56
2:56
32
Black Coffee
5:32
5:32
33
Lonely Avenue
2:34
2:34
34
I Want to Know
2:11
2:11
35
Leave My Woman Alone
2:41
2:41
36
The Ray
3:59
3:59
37
I Surrender, Dear
5:06
5:06
38
Hornful Soul
5:30
5:30
39
Ain’t Misbehavin’
5:41
5:41
40
Joy Ride
4:39
4:39
41
Sweet Sixteen Bars
4:08
4:08
42
Doodlin’
5:53
5:53
43
There’s No You
4:47
4:47
44
Undecided
3:42
3:42
45
My Melancholy Baby
4:22
4:22
46
It’s All Right
2:17
2:17
47
Ain’t That Love
2:51
2:51
48
Rockhouse Parts 1 & 2
3:52
3:52
49
Get on the Right Track, Baby
2:19
2:19
50
Swanee River Rock (Talkin’ ’Bout That River)
2:17
2:17
51
That’s Enough
2:46
2:46
52
Talkin’ about You
2:49
2:49
53
What Kind of Man Are You
2:50
2:50
54
I Want a Little Girl
2:56
2:56
55
How Long Blues
9:17
9:17
56
Cosmic Ray
5:24
5:24
57
The Genius After Hours
5:24
5:24
58
Charlesville
4:56
4:56
59
Bags Of Blues
8:53
8:53
60
’Deed I Do
5:51
5:51
61
Blue Funk
8:12
8:12
62
Soul Brothers
9:33
9:33
63
Bag's Guitar Blues
6:28
6:28
64
Yes Indeed
2:17
2:17
65
I Had a Dream
2:54
2:54
66
You Be My Baby
2:30
2:30
67
Tell All the World about You
2:02
2:02
68
My Bonnie
2:50
2:50
69
Soul Meeting
6:05
6:05
70
Hallelujah I Love Her So
5:31
5:31
71
Blue Genius
6:42
6:42
72
X-Ray Blues
7:07
7:07
73
Love on My Mind
3:49
3:49
74
The Spirit‐Feel (live)
3:46
3:46
75
Blues Waltz (live)
6:24
6:24
76
In a Little Spanish Town (live)
3:48
3:48
77
Sherry (live)
4:26
4:26
78
Night Time Is the Right Time (live)
4:04
4:04
79
A Fool for You (live)
7:11
7:11
80
I’ve Got a Woman (live)
6:19
6:19
81
Talkin’ ’Bout You (live)
4:22
4:22
82
Swanee River Rock (Talkin’ ’Bout That River) (live)
2:09
2:09
83
Yes Indeed! (live)
2:40
2:40
84
Early in the Mornin’
2:48
2:48
85
(Night Time Is) The Right Time
3:26
3:26
86
Carrying That Load (single version)
2:16
2:16
87
Carrying That Load (LP version)
2:24
2:24
88
Tell Me How Do You Feel
2:44
2:44
89
Fathead
5:23
5:23
90
Tin Tin Deo
5:22
5:22
91
Bill for Bennie
4:17
4:17
92
Hard Times
4:43
4:43
93
Mean to Me
4:16
4:16
94
Sweet Eyes
3:45
3:45
95
Weird Beard
4:49
4:49
96
Willow Weep for Me
4:59
4:59
97
Tell the Truth
3:06
3:06
98
What’d I Say, Parts I & II (mono LP version)
5:04
5:04
99
What'd I Say, Parts 1 & 2
6:30
6:30
100
Tell Me You’ll Wait for Me
3:25
3:25
101
Come Rain or Come Shine
3:42
3:42
102
Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Cryin’
3:46
3:46
103
Just for a Thrill
3:26
3:26
104
You Won’t Let Me Go
3:22
3:22
105
Am I Blue?
3:41
3:41
106
The Spirit‐Feel (live)
4:23
4:23
107
Frenesi
5:04
5:04
108
Tell the Truth (live)
3:35
3:35
109
Drown in My Own Tears (live)
6:24
6:24
110
Night Time Is the Right Time (live)
4:05
4:05
111
What’d I Say (live)
4:25
4:25
112
Let the Good Times Roll
2:53
2:53
113
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
2:53
2:53
114
Deed I Do
2:27
2:27
115
When Your Lover Has Gone
2:51
2:51
116
Two Years of Torture
3:25
3:25
117
It Had to Be You
2:45
2:45
118
I’m Moving On
2:22
2:22
119
I Believe to My Soul
2:59
2:59
120
Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
0:21
0:21
121
Unknown Title (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
1:16
1:16
122
Piano Improvisation – Dialog #1 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
0:31
0:31
123
Losing Hand – Dialog #1 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
1:47
1:47
124
Little Rock Getaway – Dialog (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
1:16
1:16
125
Kentucky Waltz (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
1:23
1:23
126
Heartbreaker (instrumental) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
2:13
2:13
127
Heartbreaker – Dialog (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
1:13
1:13
128
Piano Improvisation – Dialog #2 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
0:42
0:42
129
Heartbreaker (False Starts 1 & 2) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
1:12
1:12
130
Losing Hand – Dialog #2 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
1:20
1:20
131
Losing Hand – Dialog #3 (with reverb) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
1:27
1:27
132
Losing Hand – Dialog #4 (with reverb) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
4:55
4:55
133
Heartbreaker (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
2:53
2:53
134
It Should’ve Been Me – Dialog (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
2:56
2:56
135
Nobody Cares (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
3:57
3:57
136
Piano Improvisation – Dialog #3 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
0:33
0:33
137
Mess Around (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
2:39
2:39
138
Funny (but I Still Love You) (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
3:17
3:17
139
Sinner’s Prayer (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
3:44
3:44
140
Piano Improvisation – Dialog #4 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
1:01
1:01
141
Low Society – Dialog #1 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
3:08
3:08
142
Boogie Woogie (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
1:56
1:56
143
Low Society – Dialog #2 (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
3:28
3:28
144
Worried Life Blues (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
3:01
3:01
145
Come Back Baby (Walter Davis version) – Dialog (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
1:59
1:59
146
Low Society (rehearsal session with Ahmet Ertëgun, 1953)
2:56
2:56
147
(Night Time Is) The Right Time (Takes 1–7) – Dialog (recording session outtake, 1958)
8:17
8:17
148
Tell Me How Do You Feel (take 1) (recording session outtake, 1958)
3:21
3:21
149
Dialog (Ray’s Arrangement Suggestions for “The Genius of Ray Charles” album, 1959)
1:01
1:01
150
It Had to Be You – Dialog (Ray’s Arrangement Suggestions for “The Genius of Ray Charles” album, 1959)
1:40
1:40
151
My Buddy – Dialog (Ray’s Arrangement Suggestions for “The Genius of Ray Charles” album, 1959)
1:45
1:45
152
Dialog (Ray’s Arrangement Suggestions for “The Genius of Ray Charles” album, 1959)
0:18
0:18
153
When Your Lover Has Gone – Dialog (Ray’s Arrangement Suggestions for “The Genius of Ray Charles” album, 1959)
1:50
1:50
154
I’m Beginning to See the Light (Ray’s Arrangement Suggestions for “The Genius of Ray Charles” album, 1959)
1:26
1:26
155
Let the Good Times Roll – Dialog (Ray’s Arrangement Suggestions for “The Genius of Ray Charles” album, 1959)
2:46
2:46