James,Etta Complete As & Bs 1955-62 CD

Etta James is widely regarded as one of the finest female blues, R&B and soul singers of the modern era, second only in some eyes to Aretha Franklin - Atlantic's Jerry Wexler called her "the greatest of all modern blues singers". After a chequered early life, she was discovered in Los Angeles singing with a vocal group at the age of 16 by Johnny Otis, who signed her to Modern, and she scored an R&B No. 1 in 1955 with her debut recording "The Wallflower (Roll With Me Henry)", a re-working of Hank Ballard's "Work With Me, Annie", following it up with another Top 10 R&B hit "Good Rockin' Daddy". After recording briefly for Modern subsidiary Kent, she signed to the Chess label, and began recording material that combined the intensity of R&B with the accessibility of pop and the Polish of jazz, switching to the Chess sister label Argo in 1960, and hitting the pop and R&B charts with more than fifteen records between 1960 and '62, including Top 5 successes like "All I Could Do Was Cry", "My Dearest Darling", "At Last", "Trust In Me" and "Something's Got A Hold On Me", before aspects of her life began to unravel in subsequent years. This great-value 52-track 2-CD set comprises all her A & B sides during those first important years of her career, plus a bonus album version of "Dance With Me Henry", so it's a comprehensive overview of her early work.

1. The Wallflower (Roll with Me Henry) - Etta James ; the Peaches 2. Hold Me Squeeze Me - Etta James ; the Peaches 3. Hey Henry 4. Be Mine 5. Good Rockin Daddy 6. Crazy Feeling 7. W-O-M-A-N 8. That's All 9. Number One 10. I'm a Fool 11. Tears of Joy 12. Shortin' Bread Rock 13. Tough Lover 14. Fools We Mortals Be 15. Good Lookin' 16. Then I'll Care 17. Market Place 18. The Pick-Up 19. By the Light of the Silvery Moon 20. Come What May 21. Sunshine of Love 22. Baby, Baby Every Night 23. I Hope You're Satisfied - Betty ; Dupree 24. If It Ain't One Thing - Betty ; Dupree 25. How Big a Fool 26. If I Can't Have You - Etta James ; Harvey Fuqua 27. My Heart Cries - Etta James ; Harvey Fuqua 28. Spoonful - Etta James ; Harvey Fuqua 29. It's a Crying Shame - Etta James ; Harvey Fuqua 30. All I Could Do Was Cry 31. Boy of My Dreams 32. My Dearest Darling 33. Tough Mary 34. At Last 35. I Just Want to Make Love to You 36. Trust in Me 37. Anything to Say You're Mine 38. Fool That I Am 39. Dream 40. Don't Cry, Baby 41. Sunday Kind of Love 42. It's Too Soon to Know 43. Seven Day Fool 44. Something's Got a Hold on Me 45. Waiting for Charlie to Come Home 46. Stop the Wedding 47. Street of Tears 48. Next Door to the Blues 49. Fools Rush in 50. How Do You Speak to An Angel 51. Would It Make Any Difference to You 52. Dance with Me Henry