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Complete Sun Masters [Box] [Charlie Rich]

Charlie Rich
3 discs

0. DISC 1:
1. Whirlwind
2. Philadelphia Baby
3. Rebound
4. Big Man
5. Lonely Weekends
6. Everything I Do is Wrong
7. School Days
8. Gonna Be Waitin'
9. On My Knees
10. Stay
11. Who Will the Next Fool Be?
12. Caught In the Middle
13. Just a Little Bit Sweet
14. It's Too Late
15. Easy Money
16. Midnight Blues
17. Sittin' and Thinkin'
18. Finally Found Out
19. There's Another Place I Can't Go
20. I Need Your Love
21. Sad News
22. Red Man
23. C.C. Rider
24. Come Back
25. Apple Blossom Times
26. Break Up
27. That's How Much I Love You
28. Juanita
29. Whirlwind
30. School Days
31. It's Too Late
32. Come Back
0. DISC 2:
1. My Baby Done Left Me
2. Charlie's Boogie
3. Blue Suede Shoes
4. Juicehead Baby
5. Baby, I Need You
6. Oh, Lonely Days
7. Portrait of My Love
8. Seven Dreams - (previously unreleased)
9. Waiting All Alone - (previously unreleased)
10. Ways of a Woman In Love, The
11. Thanks a Lot
12. It Hurt Me So
13. Donna Lee
14. Never Mind Little Girl - (previously unreleased)
15. I Love No One But You
16. Deep Freeze
17. Popcorn Polly
18. Give In
19. Those Places Round Town
20. Sail Away
21. Am I To Be the One? - (featuring Jerry Lee Lewis)
22. Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair
23. Unchained Melody
24. I've Lost My Heart To You
25. My Heart Cries For You
26. Right Behind You Baby
27. Loneliest Days, The
28. Lonely Hurt Within
29. Now Everybody Knows
30. Don't Put No Headstone On My Grave
31. That's Rich
32. Time and Again
33. Goodbye, Mary Ann
34. Gentle As a Lamb
35. Rock & Roll Party
36. You Never Know About Love
37. Lonely Weekends [Alternate] - (alternate take)
0. DISC 3:
1. Little Woman Friend of Mine
2. Time's a-Wasting
3. You Made a Hit
4. Yes, Ma'am
5. Stop Thief
6. What's My Name?
7. How Blue Can You Be?
8. I Said Baby
9. Cloud Nine
10. Ain't It a Shame?
11. Wedding is Over, The
12. Unsuspecting Me - (previously unreleased)
13. If You Knew
14. Somehow We'll Find a Way - (previously unreleased)
15. Every Day (and Every Night)
16. There Won't Be Anymore
17. Closed For Repair - (previously unreleased)
18. (We Belong To) Each Other - (previously unreleased)
19. Untitled Instrumental
20. Long Way To Tennessee
21. Every Day (That You're Away From Me)
22. Baby, I Need You
23. When
24. My Mountain Dew - (previously unreleased)
25. Graveyardville
26. Ballad of Billy Joe [Undubbed]
27. Since You Said Goodbye - (previously unreleased)
28. Too Many Tears
29. Little By Little - (previously unreleased)
30. Life is a Flower
31. I'm Making Plans
32. Stop Fakin' Your Love [Alternate] - (alternate take)
33. Sail Away
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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): SNAJ 744 CD
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Long before before he reached his greatest success as Nashville's smooth "Silver Fox" in the '70s, singer-pianist Charlie Rich was one of the more intriguing rockabilly artists on Sam Phillips's Sun label. (Phillips himself considered Rich to be the most talented artist of his roster). THE COMPLETE SUN MASTERS gathers all the recordings that Rich cut for Sun between 1958 and 1962. Even starting out, Charlie Rich was a little more mature, a little suaver, more downright soulful than his fellow rockabillies, including that other piano-pumper Jerry Lee Lewis, boppin' Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Billy Lee Riley, and all the others. (Elvis Presley, whom Rich strongly resembles vocally, had long since left the label). Still, as his first hit, "Lonely Weekend," and other tracks like "Breakup" and "Rebound" clearly demonstrate, Rich rocked with the best of them. Clearly more black-gospel influenced than his contemporaries (except for Elvis, of course), medium tempo numbers like "Who Will The Next Fool Be?" and "Sittin' and Thinkin'" point the way to the future.
Critic Reviews

Record Collector (magazine) (p.94) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The 102 tracks here, mostly recorded for the Sun subsidiary Phillips International, offer a complete picture of a genuinely gifted performer..."