The Complete Swing Time & Down Beat Recordings 1949-1952

Living Blues
"This two-disc set marks the first comprehensive domestic compilation of Charles' 1949 to 1952 output..."

Product Description
"This two-disc set marks the first comprehensive domestic compilation of Charles’ 1949 to 1952 output for Jack Lauderdale’s Swing Time and Down Beat logos that pays proper homage to its contents." -LIVING BLUES

Tuff City is excited to announce that in response to the overwhelming demand for their Ray Charles 2XCD, they are re-launching it at a new low price! This is the most comprehensive collection ever created from this time period, consisting of 45 tracks on two CDs and including previously unreleased alternate takes! As the owners of the original label that recorded these Ray Charles gems, Tuff City Music Group offers the highest-quality and only legitimate collection of these recordings. Listen for their Brother Ray Swing Time tracks in the film Ray starring Jamie Foxx.

The Complete Swing Time & Down Beat Recordings 1949-1952,Ray Charles,Night Train Int'l,Blues,Piano Blues,Pop,R&B,Soul,Urban Blues

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Symphony 9: Introduction to Dvorak Dvorak Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Instructional | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: An Introduction to Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 An Introduction to Schubert's Piano Quintet "Trout" Classics Explained: Pastoral Symphony An Introduction to Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" Classics Explained: Rite of Spring ASIN: B000069HGK Release Date: 2002-09-17

Average customer rating: The Begining of The Genius Good, valuable collection, but Buyer Beware

The Complete Swing Time & Down Beat Recordings 1949-1952 Ray Charles Manufacturer: Night Train Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music Piano | Blues | Styles | Music Classic R&B | R&B | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Similar Items: Ray Charles: Unreleased Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959) Ray Charles: The Complete Country & Western Recordings 1959-1986 The Genius of Ray Charles Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music ASIN: B000654ZB4 Release Date: 2004-10-05

Tracks:

1. I Love You I Love You
2. Confession Blues
3. Alone In This City
4. Can Anyone Ask For More
5. Let's Have A Ball
6. Rockin' Chair Blues
7. If I Give You My Love
8. Can't You SeeDarling
9. This Love Of Mine
10. How Long Blues
11. Blues Before Sunrise
12. A Sentimental Blues
13. You'll Never Miss The Water
14. Ain't That Fine
15. Don't Put All Your Dreams In One Basket
16. Sittin' On Top Of The World
17. I've Had My Fun
18. See See Rider
19. What Have I Done
20. Honey Honey
21. She's On The Ball
22. The Ego Song (Sweet As Can Be)
23. Sweet As Can Be (Take 3, Alternate Take)

Tracks:

1. Someday
2. I'll Do Anything But Work
3. I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
4. All To Myself
5. Lonely Boy
6. Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand
7. I'm Glad For Your Sake
8. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
9. Kissa Me Baby
10. Hey Now
11. The Snow Is Falling
12. Misery In My Heart
13. Let Me Hear You Call My Name
14. Why Did You Go
15. I'm Wondering And Wondering
16. Walkin' And Talkin'
17. Guitar Blues
18. Back Home
19. Sweet As Can Be (Take 2, Alternate Take)
20. I'll Do Anything But Work (Take 2, Alternate Take)
21. Someday (Take 2, Alternate Take)
22. Late In The Evening Blues

Album Description

"This two-disc set marks the first comprehensive domestic compilation of Charles' 1949 to 1952 output for Jack Lauderdale's Swing Time and Down Beat logos that pays proper homage to its contents." -LIVING BLUES

Tuff City is excited to announce that in response to the overwhelming demand for their Ray Charles 2XCD, they are re-launching it at a new low price! This is the most comprehensive collection ever created from this time period, consisting of 45 tracks on two CDs and including previously unreleased alternate takes! As the owners of the original label that recorded these Ray Charles gems, Tuff City Music Group offers the highest-quality and only legitimate collection of these recordings. Listen for their Brother Ray Swing Time tracks in the film Ray starring Jamie Foxx.

Customer Reviews:

The Begining of The Genius .......2007-05-14

This is the absolute best compilation of Ray Charles' early recordings that I've ever seen or heard. No personal collection of Rays's music is complete without it. If you're a fan of The Genius, this collection of his Swing Time & Doen Beat recordings is a "must have".

Good, valuable collection, but Buyer Beware.......2006-04-14

Anyone purchasing this album should be made aware that it's not quite complete: Late in the Evening Blues, while included on the tracklist of the CD, is not included in error. "Sweet As Can Be" is the actual track 22 of disc 2 (in addition to track 22 of disc 1) in it's place. Unfortunately, this error occurs on all versions of this collection and was mysteriously not corrected with the 2005 re-release. With all the half-hearted, sketchy, and downright awful sounding releases of Ray's pre-Atlantic material out there for consumers to sort through, it's a shame that Night Train Int'l/Tuff City missed a fabulous opportunity to put out a definitive collection once and for all.

Nevertheless, for those that don't mind missing just one song, it's a great collection with decent sound quality, with the alternate takes acting as its greatest redeeming value.

As for the music that made its way onto the discs, it of course does not have near the same fire as anything Ray recorded afterwards, but it serves as above average 1950s blues. Even though it is true that he was coming close to a straight-up imitation of Charles Brown and Nat King Cole, as was his intention in those years, he could not help but mix a little bit of his own, future vocal style in there, peaking out in hints and flashes. This is classy music from an underrated portion of his career. Some might even say that this era of his recorded studio work outshines some of his later output, such as his 3 underacheiving, synthesizer-drenched studio albums from the 1990s.

Nevertheless, unless this collection is corrected upon future re-issues, I would recommend spending just a little bit more (usually around $25-$30 as of 2006) for the currently out-of-print, but still relatively easy to find, "Birth of a Legend 1949-1952" for a truly complete collection of all of Ray's officially released pre-Atlantic sides. Then, if you're a Ray Charles completist, pick up this album along with 2006s wonderful "Unreleased," put out by the same label, for all the alternate takes. This will give you every currently known Swingtime and Downbeat Ray Charles recording ever released, finally allowing you to shove all those other shady releases of the same material to the side.

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Complete Vol. 1 Midge Williams Manufacturer: Swing Time Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Vintage Dance Bands | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Complete Vol. 2 ASIN: B000058DVV Release Date: 2001-01-16

Tracks:

1. St. Louis Blues
2. Dinah
3. Lazy Bones
4. Harlem on My Mind
5. Dinah
6. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
7. Whatcha Gonna Do When There Ain't No Swing
8. Organ Grinder's Swing
9. Rhythm Lullaby
10. It All Begins and Ends With You
11. Alabama Barbecue
12. Copper-Colored Gal
13. Mr. Ghost Goes to Town
14. My Newest Excitement
15. I'm With You Right or Wrong
16. Where the Lazy River Goes By
17. On a Little Bamboo Bridge
18. How Could You?
19. In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
20. Let's Begin Again
21. Walkin' the Dog

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Complete Vol. 2 Midge Williams Manufacturer: Swing Time Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Vintage Dance Bands | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Complete Vol. 1 ASIN: B000058DVW Release Date: 2001-01-16

Tracks:

1. I'm Getting Sentimental over You
2. I Know Now
3. That Old Feeling
4. I Was Born to Swing
5. Oh, Miss Hannah
6. One Rose
7. Lady Is a Tramp
8. Old Flame Never Dies
9. Fortune Tellin' Man
10. Singin' the Blues
11. Mama's Gone, Goodbye
12. Goodnight, Angel
13. Greatest Mistake of My Life
14. I'm in a Happy Frame of Mind
15. Love Is Like Whiskey
16. Don't Wake up My Heart
17. Where in the World
18. In Any Language
19. Rosie the Redskin
20. Why Is a Good Man So Hard to Find
21. Cow Cow Boogie

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The Complete Swing Time & Down Beat Recordings 1949-1952 Ray Charles Manufacturer: Night Train Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music Piano | Blues | Styles | Music Classic R&B | R&B | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000001JF0 Release Date: 1996-08-16

Tracks:

1. I Love You I Love You
2. Confession Blues
3. Alone in the City
4. Can Anyone Ask for More?
5. Let's Have a Ball
6. Rockin' Chair Blues
7. If I Give You My Love
8. Can't You See Darling?
9. This Love of Mine
10. How Long Blues
11. Blues Before Sunrise
12. Sentimental Blues
13. You'll Never Miss the Water
14. Ain't That Fine
15. Don't Put All Your Dreams in One Basket
16. Sitting on Top of the World
17. I've Had My Fun
18. See See Rider
19. What Have I Done?
20. Honey, Honey
21. She's on the Ball
22. Ego Song
23. Sweet as Can Be [3][Alternate Take][Take]

Tracks:

1. Someday
2. I'll Do Anything But Work
3. I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now?
4. All to Myself
5. Lonely Boy
6. Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand
7. I'm Glad for Your Sake
8. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
9. Kissa Me Baby
10. Hey Now
11. Snow Is Falling
12. Misery in My Heart
13. Let Me Hear You Call My Name
14. Why Did You Go?
15. I'm Wonderin' and Wonderin'
16. Walkin' and Talkin'
17. Guitar Blues [Instrumental]
18. Back Home [Instrumental]
19. Sweet as Can Be [Take 2][Alternate Take][#]
20. I'll Do Anything But Work [Take 2][Alternate Take][#]
21. Someday [Take 2][Alternate Take][#]
22. Late in the Evening Blues

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6. The Pendulum Vibe
7. The Source
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10. Valence Street

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