The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  At Last
  3:02
  4.5 ★
• 2
  W-O-M-A-N
  2:45
• 3
  Dance With Me, Henry (‘the Wallflower’)
  3:02
• 4
  Good Rockin’ Daddy
  2:24
• 5
  Crazy Feeling
  3:19
• 6
  Hey, Henry (Doin’ Fine, Henry)
  2:53
• 7
  Be Mine
  2:46
• 8
  That’s All
  2:15
• 9
  My One and Only (Number One)
  2:27
• 10
  I’m a Fool
  2:33
• 11
  Shortnin’ Bread Rock
  2:35
• 12
  Tears of Joy
  2:32
• 13
  Tough Lover
  2:12
• 14
  Fools We Mortals Be
  2:24
• 15
  Good Lookin’
  2:12
• 16
  Then I’ll Care
  2:35
• 17
  The Pick Up
  2:22
• 18
  Market Place
  2:38
• 19
  Come What May
  2:05
• 20
  I Hope You’re Satisfied

  Etta James with Harvey Fuqua
  3:01
• CD 2
• 1
  I Just Want to Make Love to You
  3:04
  3.0 ★
• 2
  All I Could Do Was Cry
  2:56
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Don’t Cry, Baby
  2:20
• 4
  Baby, Baby, Every Night
  2:25
• 5
  How Big a Fool
  2:43
• 6
  If I Can’t Have You

  Etta James with Harvey Fuqua
  2:56
  5.0 ★
• 7
  Spoonful

  Etta James with Harvey Fuqua
  2:48
• 8
  Girl of My Dreams (Rendered as ‘Boy of My Dreams’)
  2:21
• 9
  My Dearest Darling
  3:00
• 10
  Tough Mary
  2:23
• 11
  Anything to Say You’re Mine
  2:35
  5.0 ★
• 12
  Strange Things Happening
  2:32
• 13
  Stormy Weather
  3:08
  3.0 ★
• 14
  Fool That I Am
  2:56
• 15
  Dream
  2:25
• 16
  A Sunday Kind of Love
  3:16
  4.5 ★
• 17
  It’s Too Soon to Know
  2:47
• 18
  One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)
  3:21
• 19
  In My Diary
  2:34
• 20
  I’ll Dry My Eyes
  2:35
• CD 3
• 1
  Trust in Me
  3:10
• 2
  Something’s Got a Hold on Me
  2:46
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Seven Day Fool
  2:56
• 4
  Plum Nuts
  3:00
• 5
  Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
  2:25
• 6
  Waiting for Charlie to Come Home
  2:06
• 7
  Guess Again
  2:14
• 8
  A Lover’s Mourn
  2:22
• 9
  You Can Count on Me
  2:34
• 10
  My Dear
  2:34
• 11
  Nobody but You
  2:22
• 12
  Let Me Know
  3:04
• 13
  How Do You Speak to an Angel?
  2:34
• 14
  Fools Rush In
  1:59
• 15
  Next Door to the Blues
  2:46
• 16
  Don’t Blame Me
  2:22
• 17
  I Want to Be Loved (but Only by You)
  3:20
• 18
  These Foolish Things
  3:57
• 19
  Prisoner of Love
  2:13
• 20
  Would It Make Any Difference to You?
  2:37

More by Etta James

At Last: The Best of Etta James

At Last: The Best of Etta James 2012

The Essential Modern Records Collection

The Essential Modern Records Collection 2011

Jazz

Jazz 2007

The Definitive Collection

The Definitive Collection 2006

Blues to the Bone

Blues to the Bone 2004

Let's Roll

Let's Roll 2003

Release credits

• Al Duncan
  drums (drum set) [2]
• Etta James
  lead vocals [3.2, 3.5, 2.1-2, 2.6-7, 2.9-14, 2.16, 2.20, 1.1, 1.4], vocal [1.2-3, 1.5-20, 2.3-5, 2.8-11, 2.14-19, 3.1-4, 3.6-20]
• Harvey Fuqua
  lead vocals [6-7], performer [7], vocal [20]
• John Young
  piano [2]
• Leonard & Phil Chess
  producer [1.1, 2.1, 2.9-11, 2.13, 2.16]
• Leonard Chess
  producer [2.1-2, 2.6-7, 2.9-11, 2.13-14, 2.16, 2.20, 1.1, 3.5]
• Matt Murphy
  guitar [2]
• Maxwell Davis and His Orchestra
  performing orchestra [4-5]
• Phil Chess
  producer [3.5, 1.1, 2.1-2, 2.6-7, 2.9-11, 2.13-14, 2.16, 2.20]
• Reggie Boyd
  bass guitar [2]
• Riley Hampton
  arranger [2.1-2, 2.6-7, 2.9-11, 2.13-14, 2.16, 2.20, 1.1, 3.5], conductor [1.1, 3.5, 2.1-2, 2.6-7, 2.9-11, 2.13-14, 2.16, 2.20]
• Riley Hampton Orchestra
  performing orchestra [1.1, 2.1-2, 2.6-7, 2.9-11, 2.13-14, 2.16, 2.20, 3.5]
• Sugar Pie DeSanto
  performer [16]
• [unknown]
  background vocals [2]

Issues

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  The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection

  3x CD
  2017