Etta James
The Very Best of Etta James: The Chess Singles

Etta James - The Very Best of Etta James: The Chess Singles

  • Release date: 5/30/2005
  • Genre: Soul Blues/Early R&B
  • Format: 3CD
  • Category: blues
  • Duration: 2:41:53
  • **** 1/2
  • Added November 7, 2011
  • Played June 9, 2019
  • Rated November 7, 2011

Tracks

CD1
1. Billy Davis/Gwen Gordy Fuqua/Berry Gordy Jr. - All I Could Do Was Crynot rated2:57
2. Etta James with Harvey Fuqua, Harvey Fuqua/Etta James - If I Can't Have Younot rated3:01
3. Edward Bocage/Paul Gayten - My Dearest Darlingnot rated3:04
4. Willie Dixon - Spoonfulnot rated2:48
5. Mack Gordon/Harry Warren - At Lastnot rated3:01
6. Willie Dixon - I Just Want To Make Love To Younot rated3:08
7. Milton Ager/Jean Schwartz/Ned Wever - Trust In Menot rated3:00
8. Floyd Hunt - Fool That I Amnot rated2:59
9. Saul Bernie/Jimmy Johnson/Stella Unger - Don't Cry Babynot rated2:27
10. Barbara Belle/Anita Leonard/Louis Prima/Stan Rhodes - A Sunday Kind Of Lovenot rated3:18
11. Etta James/Leroy Kirkland/Pearl Woods - Something's Got A Hold On Menot rated2:50
12. Burt Bacharach/Bob Hilliard - Waiting For Charlie (To Come Home)not rated2:07
13. Fred Johnson/Leroy Kirkland/Pearl Woods - Stop The Weddingnot rated2:53
14. Etta James/Leroy Kirkland/Pearl Woods - Next Door To The Bluesnot rated2:49
15. Bob Forshee - Would It Make Any Difference To Younot rated2:39
16. Michael Angelo Graham/Mark Silverman - In My Diarynot rated2:36
17. Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler - Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All The Time)not rated3:07
18. Jack Strachey/Holt Marvell/Harry Link - These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)not rated4:00
52:52
CD2
1. Tony Clarke/Billy Davis - Pushovernot rated2:57
2. Billy Davis - Pay Backnot rated2:40
3. Tony Clarke/Billy Davis - Two Sides (To Every Story)not rated3:03
4. Jimmy Reed - Baby What You Want Me To Donot rated4:20
5. Ronnie Mitchell - Lovin' You More Every Daynot rated3:24
6. McAllister - Breaking Pointnot rated2:26
7. Etta James/Ed Townsend - Bobby Is His Namenot rated3:31
8. Etta James with Sugar Pie DeSanto, Shena De Mell/Peylia Parham - Do I Make Myself Clearnot rated3:00
9. Maurice McAllister/Terry Vail - Only Time Will Tellnot rated3:24
10. Etta James with Sugar Pie DeSanto, Billy Davis/Raynard Miner/Clifton William Smith - In The Basement Part Onenot rated2:24
11. Maurice Dollison/Monk Higgins - I Prefer Younot rated3:06
12. Chuck Bernard/Maurice Dollison/Billy Foster/Monk Higgins - It Must Be Your Lovenot rated2:57
13. Maurice Dollison/Billy Foster/Monk Higgins - 842-3089 (Call My Name)not rated3:00
14. Ellington Jordan/Billy Foster - I'd Rather Go Blindnot rated2:35
15. Marcus Lewis Daniel/Wilbur Terrell/Clarence George Carter - Tell Mamanot rated2:22
16. Irma Thomas - I Wish Someone Would Carenot rated2:37
17. Chips Moman/Dan Penn - Do Right Woman, Do Right Mannot rated3:00
18. Jim Morrison/John Densmore/Robbie Krieger/Ray Manzarek - Light My Firenot rated2:53
53:47
CD3
1. Otis Redding/Margaret Wesson - Securitynot rated2:30
2. Don Covay - I'm Gonna Take What He's Gotnot rated2:35
3. Dan Penn/Spooner Oldham - I Worship The Ground You Walk Onnot rated2:26
4. Don Covay - You Got Itnot rated2:26
5. Sonny Bono - I Got You Babenot rated2:28
6. Billy Sherill/Glenn Sutton - Almost Persuadednot rated3:22
7. Otis Redding/Steve Cropper - Miss Pitifulnot rated2:22
8. Pearl Woods - Tighten Up Your Own Thingnot rated2:41
9. Leon David Bonds - Loser's Weepers Part Onenot rated3:00
10. Wilson Pickett/Willie Schofield/Robert West - I Found A Lovenot rated3:27
11. Johnnie Morisette - Nothing From Nothing Leaves Nothingnot rated3:37
12. Dorothy Hawkins/Etta James/Abbye Mallory/Jean Mitchell - W.O.M.A.N.not rated3:15
13. Trevor Lawrence/Gabriel Mekler/Catherine C. Williamson - All The Way Downnot rated5:35
14. Randy Newman - You Can Leave Your Hat Onnot rated3:24
15. Trevor Lawrence/Gabriel Mekler - Out On The Street Againnot rated4:19
16. Thomas Jans - Lovin' Armsnot rated3:48
17. Richard Addrisi/Donald Addrisi - Never My Lovenot rated3:51
55:13

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