Blues Is My Middle Name

Ray Charles | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 14, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: St. Clair Records
• ASIN: B000002V5X
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #532,875 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Going Down Slow

2. Now She's Gone

3. Rockin' Chair Blues

4. Can Anyone Ask for More?

5. Let's Have a Ball

6. This Love of Mine

7. Sitting on Top of the World

8. Blues Is My Middle Name

9. I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now?

10. C.C. Rider

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This appears to be about 8 of his 41 early songs from 1949-1952, April 3, 2007

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Chris bct "music everyday" (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blues Is My Middle Name (Audio CD)

The song titles give it away. And I can tell by listening to the Listen buttons, 8 or so of the songs are from those early years. There are at minimum, 27 different releases on 24 different labels of his Swing Time & Down Beat Recordings from 1949-1952 when he was 19 to 22 years old. Kiss Me Baby (Kissa Me Baby) and I'm Going Down to the River are too of my favorite songs from that period. Both have blazing horns that you just don't hear that often, anywhere. Hit Listen, you'll see these are nicely recorded. He was young but you can't tell. 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.