Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic

Ray Charles

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A stunning seven-CD/one-DVD box set designed to look like avintage 1950s record player, PURE GENIUS is aptly summed upby its full title--this mammoth collection features the complete '52-'59 Atlantic recording sessions of genre-defying legend Ray Charles. The first six discs encapsulate the Genius's groundbreaking Atlantic LPs, where Charles essentially invented soul music by tapping into unrestrained, gospel-inspired passion and channeling it into the secular sounds of jazz, R&B, and rock & roll. The seventh CD offers up an array of revealing outtakes, studio-dialogue snippets, and other tracks (most of which are previously unreleased), while the DVD presents Charles performing at the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival, as well as RAY biopic director Taylor Hackford interviewing Atlantic Records' Ahmet Ertegun, who was crucial in helping the beloved artist find his signature sound.



Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic - Track Listings:

Disk 1

  • 1.The Sun’s Gonna Shine Again
  • 2.Roll With My Baby
  • 3.The Midnight Hour
  • 4.Jumpin’ In The Mornin’
  • 5.It Should’ve Been Me
  • 6.Losing Hand
  • 7.Heartbreaker
  • 8.Sinner’s Prayer
  • 9.Mess Around
  • 10.Funny (But I Still Love You)
  • 11.Feelin’ Sad
  • 12.I Wonder Who
  • 13.Don’t You Know
  • 14.Nobody Cares
  • 15.Ray’s Blues
  • 16.I Got A Break Baby
  • 17.Blackjack
  • 18.I’ve Got A Woman
  • 19.Greenbacks
  • 20.Come Back Baby

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Disk 2

  • 1.Dawn Ray
  • 2.The Man I Love
  • 3.Music, Music, Music
  • 4.Black Coffee
  • 5.Lonely Avenue
  • 6.I Want To Know
  • 7.Leave My Woman Alone
  • 8.The Ray
  • 9.I Surrender Dear
  • 10.Hornful Soul
  • 11.Ain’t Misbehavin’
  • 12.Joy Ride
  • 13.Sweet Sixteen Bars
  • 14.Doodlin’
  • 15.There’s No You
  • 16.Undecided
  • 17.My Melancholy Baby
  • 18.It’s All Right
  • 19.Ain’t That Love

Disk 3

  • 1.Rockhouse Parts 1 & 2
  • 2.Get On The Right Track Baby
  • 3.Swanee River Rock (Talkin’ ’Bout That River)
  • 4.That’s Enough
  • 5.Talkin’ ’Bout You
  • 6.What Kind Of Man Are You
  • 7.I Want A Little Girl
  • 8.How Long Blues - Milt Jackson & Ray Charles
  • 9.Cosmic Ray - Milt Jackson & Ray Charles
  • 10.The Genius After Hours
  • 11.Charlesville
  • 12.Bags Of Blues - Ray Charles & Milt Jackson
  • 13.Deed I Do - Milt Jackson & Ray Charles
  • 14.Blue Funk - Milt Jackson & Ray Charles
  • 15.Soul Brothers - Milt Jackson & Ray Charles

Disk 4

  • 1.Bag’s Guitar Blues - Milt Jackson & Ray Charles
  • 2.Yes Indeed!
  • 3.I Had A Dream
  • 4.You Be My Baby
  • 5.Tell All The World About You
  • 6.My Bonnie
  • 7.Soul Meeting - Ray Charles & Milt Jackson
  • 8.Hallelujah I Love Her So - Ray Charles & Milt Jack
  • 9.Blue Genius - Ray Charles & Milt Jackson
  • 10.X-Ray Blues - Ray Charles & Milt Jackson
  • 11.Love On My Mind - Ray Charles & Milt Jackson
  • 12.The Spirit-Feel (Live, 1958)
  • 13.Blues Waltz (Live, 1958)
  • 14.In A Little Spanish Town (Live, 1958)
  • 15.Sherry (Live, 1958)
  • 16.(Night Time Is) The Right Time (Live, 1958)
  • 17.A Fool For You (Live, 1958)

Disk 5

  • 1.I’ve Got A Woman (Live, 1958)
  • 2.Talkin’ ’bout You (Live, 1958)
  • 3.Swanee River Rock (Talkin’ ’Bout That River)(Live,
  • 4.Yes Indeed! (Live, 1958)
  • 5.Early In The Mornin’
  • 6.(Night Time Is) The Right Time
  • 7.Carrying That Load (Single Version)
  • 8.Carrying That Load (LP Version)
  • 9.Tell Me How Do You Feel
  • 10.Fathead - David Newman
  • 11.Tin Tin Deo - David Newman
  • 12.Bill For Bennie - David Newman
  • 13.Hard Times - David Newman
  • 14.Mean To Me - David Newman
  • 15.Sweet Eyes - David Newman
  • 16.Weird Beard - David Newman
  • 17.Willow Weep For Me - David Newman
  • 18.Tell The Truth
  • 19.What’d I Say Parts I & II (Mono LP Version)

Disk 6

  • 1.What’d I Say Parts I & II (Stereo LP Version)
  • 2.Tell Me You’ll Wait For Me
  • 3.Come Rain Or Come Shine
  • 4.Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Cryin’
  • 5.Just For A Thrill
  • 6.You Won’t Let Me Go
  • 7.Am I Blue
  • 8.The Spirit-Feel (Live, 1959)
  • 9.Frenesi (Live, 1959)
  • 10.Tell The Truth (Live, 1959)
  • 11.Drown In My Own Tears (Live, 1959)
  • 12.(Night Time Is) The Right Time (Live, 1959)
  • 13.What’d I Say (Live, 1959)
  • 14.Let The Good Times Roll
  • 15.Alexander’s Ragtime Band
  • 16.Deed I Do
  • 17.When Your Lover Has Gone
  • 18.Two Years Of Torture
  • 19.It Had To Be You
  • 20.I’m Movin’ On

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Disk 7

  • 1.Rehearsal Session With
  • 2.Ahmet Ertegun (1953)
  • 3.Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand
  • 4.Unknown Title
  • 5.Piano Improvisation & Dialog #1
  • 6.Losing Hand & Dialog #1
  • 7.Little Rock Getaway & Dialog
  • 8.Kentucky Waltz
  • 9.Heartbreaker (Instrumental Version)
  • 10.Heartbreaker & Dialog
  • 11.Piano Improvisation & Dialog #2
  • 12.Heartbreaker (False Starts 1–2)
  • 13.Losing Hand & Dialog #2
  • 14.Losing Hand & Dialog #3 (W/ Reverb)
  • 15.Losing Hand & Dialog #4 (W/ Reverb)
  • 16.Heartbreaker
  • 17.It Should’ve Been Me & Dialog
  • 18.Nobody Cares
  • 19.Piano Improvisation & Dialog #3
  • 20.Mess Around

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Disk 8

  • 1.Ray Charles On Voice Of America, 1960(Live At The
  • 2.Lil’ Darlin’
  • 3.Blues Waltz
  • 4.Let The Good Times Roll
  • 5.Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Cryin’
  • 6.Sticks And Stones
  • 7.My Baby! (I Love Her, Yes I Do)
  • 8.Drown In My Own Tears
  • 9.What’d I Say
  • 10.I Believe To My Soul
  • 11.Interview With Ahmet Ertegun



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