Complete Recordings 1949–1962

Compilation by B.B. King

Released July 2015

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Tracklist

CD 1
1
Got the Blues
2:47
2
Take a Swing With Me
2:33
3
Miss Martha King
2:41
4
When Your Baby Packs Up and Goes
2:26
5
My Baby’s Gone
2:02
6
Walkin’ and Cryin’
2:51
7
The Other Night Blues
3:36
8
B.B. Boogie
3:15
9
Mistreated Woman
2:45
10
I Am
2:18
11
B.B. Blues
2:27
12
Shake It Up and Go
2:30
13
Hard Working Woman
2:32
14
She Don’t Move Me No More
3:04
15
She’s Dynamite
2:30
16
Fine Looking Woman
2:18
17
Pray for You
2:26
18
She Is a Mean Woman
2:31
19
Someday Somewhere
2:53
20
It’s My Own Fault
3:21
21
Story From My Heart and Soul
2:57
22
Neighbourhood Affair
2:54
23
Highway Bound
2:45
24
Can’t We Talk It Over
3:22
25
Worry Worry Worry
2:42
26
Don’t Have to Cry
3:14
27
You Didn’t Want Me
2:32
28
Gotta Find My Baby
2:26
29
Bye Bye Baby
2:30
30
Please Hurry Home
2:45
CD 2
1
Please Help Me
3:16
2
Why Did You Leave Me
3:10
3
Praying to the Lord
2:49
4
Boogie Rock
3:00
5
Everything I Do Is Wrong
2:24
6
Sixteen Sons
2:32
7
Jump With You Baby
2:11
8
Lonely and Blue
2:57
9
Talking the Blues
2:19
10
You Know I Love You
3:05
11
Please Love Me
2:51
2.0 ★
12
You Upset Me Baby
3:02
2.5 ★
13
Bad Luck
2:53
14
Ten Long Years
2:47
15
Sweet Little Angel
3:12
16
Three O’Clock Blues
3:02
17
Blind Love
3:01
18
Crying Won’t Help You
2:59
19
Woke Up This Morning
2:57
20
Everyday I Have the Blues
2:48
2.0 ★
21
On My Word of Honour
2:55
22
I’m Cracking Up Over You
2:51
23
Dark Is the Night, Part 1
2:36
24
Let’s Do the Boogie
2:26
25
Did You Ever Love a Woman
2:33
26
How Do I Love You
2:57
27
You Can’t Fool My Heart
2:44
28
My Heart Belongs to You
2:21
29
I Wonder
2:50
CD 3
1
The Key to My Kingdon
2:33
2
You Don’t Know
2:26
3
Early in the Morning
2:35
4
That Ain’t the Way to Do It
2:18
5
I Want to Get Married
2:49
6
When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer
2:54
7
Troubles, Troubles, Troubles
2:55
8
Don’t You Want a Man Like Me
2:20
9
I Need You So Bad
2:55
10
Why Does Everything Happen to Me’
2:51
11
Boogie Woogie Woman
2:48
12
Ruby Lee
2:36
13
You Know I Go for You
2:38
14
What Can I Do
2:48
15
You’ve Been an Angel
2:39
16
Please Accept My Love
2:33
17
Mean Old Frisco
2:31
18
Don’t Look Now, but I’ve Got the Blues
2:42
19
Past Day
3:16
20
Tomorrow Is Another Day
2:57
21
Fool
2:41
22
I Love You So
2:55
23
We Can’t Make It
2:40
24
Treat Me Right
2:23
25
The Woman I Love
2:39
26
Time to Say Goodbye
2:08
27
Sweet Thing
2:54
28
I’ve Got Papers On You Baby
2:21
29
Sugar Mama
2:44
30
A Lonely Lover’s Plea
2:47
CD 4
1
Come by Here
2:16
2
Just Sing the Blues
2:48
3
Someday Baby
2:50
4
Whole Lotta’ Love
3:10
5
Be Careful With a Fool
2:51
6
(I’m Gonna) Quit My Baby
2:33
7
Days of Old
2:28
8
Sweet Sixteen
6:12
9
Sneaking Around
3:01
10
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
3:23
11
Things Are Not the Same
3:08
12
Fishin’ After Men
2:31
13
Servant’s Prayer
3:03
14
Precious Lord
3:24
15
Old Time Religion
2:21
16
Sweet Chariot
2:08
17
Army of the Lord
3:03
18
Save a Seat for Me
3:03
19
Jesus Gave Me Water
3:02
20
I Never Heard a Man
2:35
21
I’m Willing to Run All the Way
2:14
22
I’m Working on the Building
2:47
23
I Was Blind
3:07
24
I Had a Woman
2:49
25
I’ve Got Right to Love My Baby
3:16
26
What Way to Go
3:08
27
Long Nights (The Feeling They Call the Blues)
3:34
CD 5
1
Feel Like a Million
3:32
2
I’ll Survive
2:44
3
Good Man Gone Bad
2:48
4
You’re on the Top
2:52
5
If I Lost You
2:42
6
Partin’ Time
3:00
7
I’m King
2:19
8
Mr Pawn Broker
3:12
9
Driving Wheel
2:49
10
Cat Fish Blues (Fishin’ After Me)
2:30
11
Please Set the Date
2:47
12
Walking Dr Bill (O.D.)
3:41
13
Hold That Train
5:05
14
You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now
5:14
15
My Own Fault, Darling
3:33
16
Understand
2:39
17
Bad Case of Love
2:22
18
Get Out of Here
2:41
19
Baby, Look at You
3:11
20
You’re Breaking My Heart
4:14
21
My Reward
2:17
22
Don’t Cry Anymore
2:20
23
Blues for Me
2:20
24
Just Like a Woman
3:15
25
Shut Your Mouth
2:40
26
Bad Luck Soul
2:13
27
Peace of Mind
2:18
CD 6
1
Someday
2:35
2
I’m Gonna Sit Till You Give In
2:12
3
Tomorrow Night
2:22
4
You’re Gonna Miss Me
2:49
5
Got ’em Bad
2:59
6
Troubles Don’t Last
3:29
7
Your Letter
3:33
8
I Can’t Explain
3:33
9
The Wrong Road
3:02
10
I Need You Baby
3:28
11
So Many Days
3:20
12
Down Hearted
3:14
13
Strange Things
3:26
14
Easy Listening Blues
2:37
15
Blues for Me
2:55
16
Night Long
2:59
17
Confessin’
2:42
18
Don’t Touch
2:47
19
Slow Walk
3:16
20
Walking’
2:47
21
Hully Gully Twist
2:58
22
Shoutin’ the Blues
2:44
23
Rambler
2:29
24
My Sometime Baby
4:05
25
Down Now
3:05

More by B.B. King

Completely Well

Completely Well 1969

Live at Montreux 1993

Live at Montreux 1993 2009

One Kind Favor

One Kind Favor 2008

Fillmore East, NYC June 19, 1971 (Early Show)

Fillmore East, NYC June 19, 1971 (Early Show) 2008

Live at the BBC

Live at the BBC 2008

Black Blues Experience

Black Blues Experience 2007

Release credits

B.B. King
guitar [4.6, 1.8, 2.11-12, 2.20], vocal [2.11-12, 2.20, 4.6, 1.8]
Bill Harvey
arranger [11], tenor saxophone [11]
Charles Crosby
congas [11, 20]
Connie McBooker
piano [11]
Floyd Jones
trumpet [11]
Floyd Turnham
saxophone [12]
George Coleman
alto saxophone [11]
Harry D. Jones
trumpet [12]
James Walker
bass [11]
Jesse Sailes
drums (drum set) [12]
Jewell Grant
alto saxophone [12]
Joe Bihari
producer [11]
Maxwell Davis
arranger [12, 20], tenor saxophone [12]
Phineas Newborn, Jr.
piano [8]
Ralph Hamilton
bass [12]
Sam Phillips
producer [8]
Ted Curry
drums (drum set) [11]
Willard McDaniel
piano [12]

Issues

C
Complete Recordings 1949–1962
6x CD
July 2015