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Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings 1952-1959

by Ray Charles

Album Details

  • Artist: Ray Charles
  • Genre: R&B
  • Label: Rhino
  • Release Year: 2005
  • Type: Compilation

Track Listing

  • 1. The Sun's Gonna Shine Again
  • 2. Roll With My Baby
  • 3. The Midnight Hour
  • 4. Jumpin' in the Morning
  • 5. It Should Have Been Me
  • 6. Losing Hand
  • 7. Heartbreaker
  • 8. Sinner's Prayer
  • 9. Mess Around
  • 10. Funny (But I Still Love You)
  • 11. Feeling 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 Got a Woman
  • 19. Greenbacks
  • 20. Come Back Baby
  • 21. A Fool for You
  • 22. This Little Girl of Mine
  • 23. Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)
  • 24. Knows Better Than I
  • 25. Blues Hangover
  • 26. Mary Ann
  • 27. Drown in My Own Tears
  • 28. Hallelujah I Love Her So
  • 29. What Would I Do
  • 30. Without You
  • 31. Dawn Ray
  • 32. The Man I Love
  • 33. Music, Music, Music
  • 34. Black Coffee
  • 35. Lonely Avenue
  • 36. I Want to Know
  • 37. Leave My Woman Alone
  • 38. The Ray
  • 39. I Surrender Dear
  • 40. Hornful Soul
  • 41. Ain't Misbehavin'
  • 42. Joy Ride
  • 43. Sweet Sixteen Bars
  • 44. Doodlin'
  • 45. There's No You
  • 46. Undecided
  • 47. My Melancholy Baby
  • 48. It's Allright
  • 49. Ain't That Love
  • 50. Rockhouse Parts 1 & 2 [Instrumental]
  • 51. Get on the Right Track Baby
  • 52. Swanee River Rock (Talkin' 'Bout That River)
  • 53. That's Enough
  • 54. Talkin' 'Bout You
  • 55. What Kind of Man Are You
  • 56. I Want a Little Girl
  • 57. How Long Blues
  • 58. Cosmic Ray
  • 59. The Genius After Hours
  • 60. Charlesville
  • 61. Bags of Blues
  • 62. Deed I Do
  • 63. Blue Funk
  • 64. Soul Brothers
  • 65. Bag's Guitar Blues
  • 66. Yes Indeed!
  • 67. I Had a Dream
  • 68. You Be My Baby
  • 69. Tell All the World About You
  • 70. My Bonnie
  • 71. Soul Meeting
  • 72. Hallelujah I Love Her So
  • 73. Blue Genius
  • 74. X-Ray Blues
  • 75. Love on My Mind
  • 76. The Spirit-Feel (Live, 1958)
  • 77. Blues Waltz (Live, 1958)
  • 78. In a Little Spanish Town (Live, 1958)
  • 79. Sherry (Live, 1958)
  • 80. (Night Time Is) The Right Time (Live, 1958)
  • 81. A Fool for You (Live, 1958)
  • 82. I've Got a Woman (Live, 1958)
  • 83. Talkin’ ’bout You (Live, 1958)
  • 84. Swanee River Rock (Talkin' 'Bout That River) (Live, 1958)
  • 85. Yes Indeed! (Live, 1958)
  • 86. Early in the Mornin'
  • 87. (Night Time Is) The Right Time
  • 88. Carrying That Load (Single Version)
  • 89. Carrying That Load (LP Version)
  • 90. Tell Me How Do You Feel
  • 91. Fathead
  • 92. Tin Tin Deo
  • 93. Bill for Bennie
  • 94. Hard Times
  • 95. Mean to Me
  • 96. Sweet Eyes
  • 97. Weird Beard
  • 98. Willow Weep for Me
  • 99. Tell the Truth
  • 100. What'd I Say Parts I & II (Mono LP Version)
  • 101. What'd I Say Parts I & II (Stereo LP Version)
  • 102. Tell Me You'll Wait for Me
  • 103. Come Rain or Come Shine
  • 104. Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin
  • 105. Just for a Thrill
  • 106. You Won't Let Me Go
  • 107. Am I Blue
  • 108. The Spirit-Feel (Live, 1959)
  • 109. Frenesi (Live, 1959)
  • 110. Tell the Truth (Live, 1959)
  • 111. Drown in My Own Tears (Live, 1959)
  • 112. (Night Time Is) The Right Time (Live, 1959)
  • 113. What'd I Say (Live, 1959)
  • 114. Let the Good Times Roll
  • 115. Alexander's Ragtime Band
  • 116. Deed I Do
  • 117. When Your Lover Has Gone
  • 118. Two Years of Torture
  • 119. It Had to Be You
  • 120. I'm Movin' on
  • 121. I Believe to My Soul
  • 122. Rehearsal Session With
  • 123. Ahmet Ertegun (1953)
  • 124. Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand
  • 125. [Unknown Title]
  • 126. Piano Improvisation & Dialog #1
  • 127. Losing Hand & Dialog #1
  • 128. Little Rock Getaway & Dialog
  • 129. Kentucky Waltz
  • 130. Heartbreaker (Instrumental Version)
  • 131. Heartbreaker & Dialog
  • 132. Piano Improvisation & Dialog #2
  • 133. Heartbreaker (False Starts 1–2)
  • 134. Losing Hand & Dialog #2
  • 135. Losing Hand & Dialog #3 (W/ Reverb)
  • 136. Losing Hand & Dialog #4 (W/ Reverb)
  • 137. Heartbreaker
  • 138. It Should’ve Been Me & Dialog
  • 139. Nobody Cares
  • 140. Piano Improvisation & Dialog #3
  • 141. Mess Around
  • 142. Funny (But I Still Love You)
  • 143. Sinner's Prayer
  • 144. Piano Improvisation & Dialog #4
  • 145. Low Society & Dialog #1
  • 146. Boogie Woogie
  • 147. Low Society & Dialog #2
  • 148. Worried Life Blues
  • 149. Come Back Baby (Walter Davis Version)& Dialog
  • 150. Low Society
  • 151. (Night Time Is) The Right Time (Takes 17)& Dialog
  • 152. Tell Me How Do You Feel (Take 1)
  • 153. Ray's Arrangement Suggestions For
  • 154. The Genius of Ray Charles Album (1959)Dialog
  • 155. It Had to Be You & Dialog
  • 156. My Buddy & Dialog Dialog
  • 157. When Your Lover Has Gone & Dialog
  • 158. I’m Beginning to See the Light.
  • 159. Let the Good Times Roll & Dialog
  • 160. Ray Charles on Voice of America, 1960 (Live at the Newport Jazz Festival)
  • 161. Lil' Darlin'
  • 162. Blues Waltz
  • 163. Let the Good Times Roll
  • 164. Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin
  • 165. Sticks and Stones
  • 166. My Baby! (I Love Her, Yes I Do)
  • 167. Drown in My Own Tears
  • 168. What'd I Say
  • 169. I Believe to My Soul
  • 170. Interview with Ahmet Ertegun