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Product Identifiers

Record LabelAcbt, Acrobat

UPC0824046320423

eBay Product ID (ePID)18046041193

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year2017

GenreBlues

ArtistJames, Etta

Release TitleComplete As & Bs 1955-62

Dimensions

Item Height0.36 in

Item Weight0.25 lb

Item Length6.17 in

Item Width5.06 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs2

Number of Tracks52

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Tracks1.1 The Wallflower (Roll with Me Henry) - Etta James ; the Peaches 1.2 Hold Me Squeeze Me - Etta James ; the Peaches 1.3 Hey Henry 1.4 Be Mine 1.5 Good Rockin Daddy 1.6 Crazy Feeling 1.7 W-O-M-A-N 1.8 That's All 1.9 Number One 1.10 I'm a Fool 1.11 Tears of Joy 1.12 Shortin' Bread Rock 1.13 Tough Lover 1.14 Fools We Mortals Be 1.15 Good Lookin' 1.16 Then I'll Care 1.17 Market Place 1.18 The Pick-Up 1.19 By the Light of the Silvery Moon 1.20 Come What May 1.21 Sunshine of Love 1.22 Baby, Baby Every Night 1.23 I Hope You're Satisfied - Betty ; Dupree 1.24 If It Ain't One Thing - Betty ; Dupree 1.25 How Big a Fool 1.26 If I Can't Have You - Etta James ; Harvey Fuqua 2.1 My Heart Cries - Etta James ; Harvey Fuqua 2.2 Spoonful - Etta James ; Harvey Fuqua 2.3 It's a Crying Shame - Etta James ; Harvey Fuqua 2.4 All I Could Do Was Cry 2.5 Boy of My Dreams 2.6 My Dearest Darling 2.7 Tough Mary 2.8 At Last 2.9 I Just Want to Make Love to You 2.10 Trust in Me 2.11 Anything to Say You're Mine 2.12 Fool That I Am 2.13 Dream 2.14 Don't Cry, Baby 2.15 Sunday Kind of Love 2.16 It's Too Soon to Know 2.17 Seven Day Fool 2.18 Something's Got a Hold on Me 2.19 Waiting for Charlie to Come Home 2.20 Stop the Wedding 2.21 Street of Tears 2.22 Next Door to the Blues 2.23 Fools Rush in 2.24 How Do You Speak to An Angel 2.25 Would It Make Any Difference to You 2.26 Dance with Me Henry

NotesEtta James is widely regarded as one of the finest female blues, R&B and soul singers of the modern era, second only in some eyes to Aretha Franklin - Atlantic's Jerry Wexler called her "the greatest of all modern blues singers". After a chequered early life, she was discovered in Los Angeles singing with a vocal group at the age of 16 by Johnny Otis, who signed her to Modern, and she scored an R&B No. 1 in 1955 with her debut recording "The Wallflower (Roll With Me Henry)", a re-working of Hank Ballard's "Work With Me, Annie", following it up with another Top 10 R&B hit "Good Rockin' Daddy". After recording briefly for Modern subsidiary Kent, she signed to the Chess label, and began recording material that combined the intensity of R&B with the accessibility of pop and the Polish of jazz, switching to the Chess sister label Argo in 1960, and hitting the pop and R&B charts with more than fifteen records between 1960 and '62, including Top 5 successes like "All I Could Do Was Cry", "My Dearest Darling", "At Last", "Trust In Me" and "Something's Got A Hold On Me", before aspects of her life began to unravel in subsequent years. This great-value 52-track 2-CD set comprises all her A & B sides during those first important years of her career, plus a bonus album version of "Dance With Me Henry", so it's a comprehensive overview of her early work.