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5.0 out of 5 stars
This could be all 41 songs from 1949-1952, April 3, 2007
This review is from: Mess Around (Audio CD)
You can tell by the song titles these are from his first years recording, that is, 1949-1952. There are at minimum, 27 different releases on 24 different labels of his Swing Time & Down Beat (Downbeat becaome Swingtime) recordings from 1949-1952 when he was 19 to 22 years old. I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now is an incredible song. Lost love, so emotional. Kissa Me Baby could be my favorite song. It and Misery in My Heart (refrain is Goin' down to the river and drown myself) both have fantastic horns, very lively. Unforgetable. If you follow the song titles here you'll see that it appears to include possibly all 41 of those early years songs. I'm not sure if the other 6 songs are from those years or not. You can't go wrong with them. Fantastic stuff, unfettered. Not over produced. He belts it out. I'm Glad For Your Sake is another big favorite of mine, so mournful of the loss of his love. 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 Mess Around. All three are 2xCD sets.
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