Complete Smash Sessions

Charlie Rich | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 25, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B000008K01
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #243,179 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Tracks: 01. Dance of Love 02. Man About Town 03. Mohair Sam 04. I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water 05. Down and Out 06. I Can't Go On 07. The Best Years 08. A Field of Yellow Daisies 09. Something Just Came over Me 10. When My Baby Comes Home 11. She's a Yum Yum 12. Double Dog Dare Me 13. Just a Little Bit of You 14. Santa Claus' Daughter 15. Just a Little Bit of Time 16. Hawg Jaw 17. Moonshine Minnie 18. Have I Stayed Away Too Long? 19. It Ain't Gonna Be That Way 20. That's My Way 21. Everything I Do Is Wrong 22. Party Girl 23. You Can Have Her 24. Lonely Weekends 25. Blowin' Town 26. Tears A-Go-Go 27. No Home 28. So Long 29. Let the Party Roll On

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another masterpiece by the brilliant Charlie Rich., March 14, 2004

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Ronald Brackney (Santa Clara, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Complete Smash Sessions (Audio CD)

This CD combines two albums put out by Charlie Rich
in the mid-1960s - "The Many New Sides of Charlie Rich"
and "The Best Years" plus three previously unreleased tracks.
If you are a Charlie Rich fan (and you should be) and don't have this CD, your collection isn't complete. Charlie considered these tracks among his best "studio" work. There is such a variety here that listeners will be stunned and Charlie plays all the piano (something he often gave up until "Pictures and Paintings" in 1992). From rockers like "Down and Out" to incredible ballads like "The Best Years" to little gems like "Tears A Go-Go" and the magnificent, "ahead of its time" "I Can't Go On" and the wonderful rendition of "I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water," this is the eclectic master singer and pianist at his best. As liner notes writer "Dave Marsh" states: "I slipped needle into groove and entered a new world. What gave Charlie Rich his continuing grip on me is his heart." This is a must have CD - grab it!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Never sounded better, March 18, 2003

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Nuno M. Ferreira (LISBON, PORTUGAL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Complete Smash Sessions (Audio CD)

Charlie Rich was one of the greatest singers of all time. He was brilliant singing jazz,R&B or country. Unfortunately, the charts didn't gave him the recognition he deserved. The Smash Sessions show Charlie Rich in his best moment ever. This record is part of the history of the american popular music. It's time to give the great and late Charlie Rich the credits he allways deserved.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Charlie Rich--probably the best music ever!, January 16, 2007

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Cecilia C. Hull (Richmond, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Complete Smash Sessions (Audio CD)

From 1965-1966 at Smash Records, as on "Pictures and Paintings" (his final album before his death), Charlie Rich worked with kindred souls who let him do what he wanted. The difference between the two albums is age. On "Pictures," Rich is wiser and mellower; on the Smash cuts he's young and full of juice. Both are essential, but the Smash sessions more so. The vitality of these recordings--as Rich rolls from hip, stuttering growls to transcendent falsetto and tosses jazzy piano arabesques against throbbing rock rhythms--is unbelievable.