The Classic Earliest Recordings

Original Release Date:  March 18, 2003

Track Listing

• 1. Fugue in C Major
• 2. Melancholy Madeline
• 3. Tell Me You'll Wait for Me
• 4. Nightfall
• 5. Maureen
• 6. Lost in the Night
• 7. You Taught Me to Love
• 8. End O' War Blues
• 9. Johnny's Boogie
• 10. C.O.D.
• 11. B-Sharp You'll See
• 12. There Is No Greater Love
• 13. Hard Tack
• 14. Pasadena
• 15. I Want You, I Need You
• 16. My Silent Love
• 17. Googie's Boogie
• 18. Tonight I'm Alone
• 19. Blazer's Boogie
• 20. Baby Don't You Cry
• 21. Driftin' Blues
• 22. Groovy
• 23. You Are My First Love
• 24. Racetrack Blues
• 25. 'Til the Real Thing Comes Along
• 26. Rocks in My Bed
• 27. Travelin' Blues
• 28. I'll Get Along Somehow
• 29. What Do You Know About Love?
• 30. Nutmeg
• 31. It's the Talk of the Town
• 32. Warsaw Concerto, Pts. 1 & 2
• 33. How Deep Is the Ocean?
• 34. You Left Me Forsaken
• 35. So Long
• 36. You Won't Let Me Go
• 37. It Had to Be You
• 38. You Showed Me the Way
• 39. More Than You Know
• 40. Sail on Blues
• 41. Blue Because of You
• 42. Make Believe Land
• 43. If You Should Ever Leave
• 44. When Your Lover Has Gone
• 45. Way Over There by the Cherry Tree
• 46. Sunny Road
• 47. Be Fair With Me
• 48. Falling in Love With You
• 49. Huggin' Bug
• 50. Gloria
• 51. I Wouldn't Mind
• 52. Now That You're Gone
• 53. St. Louis Blues
• 54. Bobby Sox Blues
• 55. Juke Box Lil
• 56. Why Is Love Like That?
• 57. It's Over
• 58. Changeable Woman Blues
• 59. I Surrender Dear
• 60. Better Watch What You Do
• 61. I Love to Make Love to You
• 62. New Orleans Blues
• 63. I Cried for You
• 64. Moonrise
• 65. I'm Looking for Love
• 66. Merry Christmas, Baby
• 67. Peek-A-Boo
• 68. Don't Get Salty Sugar
• 69. Lonesome Blues
• 70. Soothe Me
• 71. I'll Miss You So
• 72. Money's Getting Cheaper
• 73. I'm So Happy I Could Cry
• 74. If You Don't Why Don't Cha
• 75. Scratch Sheet
• 76. Jilted Blues
• 77. Tomorrow
• 78. So There
• 79. Groovy Movie Blues
• 80. You Better Change Your Way of Lovin'
• 81. Free Lancin' Again
• 82. Any Old Place With Me
• 83. I Hate Myself
• 84. If I Had You
• 85. Friendless Blues
• 86. Walkin' in Circles
• 87. Cold in Here
• 88. Love Me Tonight
• 89. Snuff Dippin' Mama
• 90. B & O Blues
• 91. Teresa
• 92. Where Can I Find My Baby?
• 93. Honey, Keep Your Mind on Me
• 94. Foolish
• 95. My Last Affair
• 96. Homesick Blues
• 97. Wonder When My Baby's Comin' Home
• 98. Dedicated to You
• 99. What a Life
• 100. How High the Moon
• 101. Ooh! Ooh! Sugar
• 102. Get Yourself Another Fool
• 103. Baby Do You Know the Game
• 104. In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down
• 105. It's Nothing
• 106. Trouble Blues
• 107. I Don't Care Who Knows
• 108. When You're Alone
• 109. Please Be Kind
• 110. A Long Time
• 111. So Mistreated
• 112. Tormented
• 113. Alley Batting
• 114. I Stumbled Over You
• 115. Take Me
• 116. Let's Have a Ball
• 117. Did You Ever Love a Woman
• 118. My Baby's Gone
• 119. Again
• 120. Gee

Credits

• Charles Brown: Piano, Celeste, Composer, Vocals
• Leroy Carr: Composer
• Floyd Dixon: Composer
• Lowell Fulson: Composer
• Johnny Otis: Drums
• Roosevelt Sykes: Composer
• Richard Addinsell: Composer
• Robin Williamson: Composer
• Irving Berlin: Composer
• Frankie Laine: Vocals
• Laura Branigan: Composer
• Sam Cooke: Composer
• Roy Orbison: Composer
• Bruce Springsteen: Composer
• Paul Stanley: Composer
• Ella Fitzgerald: Composer
• Jan Garbarek: Composer
• Herbie Hancock: Composer
• Jimmie Lunceford: Composer
• Jelly Roll Morton: Composer
• Perry Bradford: Composer
• Buddy Johnson: Composer
• Oscar Moore: Guitar, Composer
• Babe Russin: Composer
• Chick Webb: Composer
• W.C. Handy: Composer
• Abe Lyman: Composer
• Vincent Youmans: Composer
• Danny Kirwan: Composer
• Juliana Hatfield: Composer
• Judy Fields: Composer
• Sade Adu: Composer
• Benny Andersson: Composer
• Gus Arnheim: Composer
• Harry Barris: Composer
• Benny Carter: Composer
• Rube Bloom: Composer
• Harvey Brooks: Composer
• Kirwan Brown: Composer
• Kenny Burrell: Composer
• Sammy Cahn: Composer
• Saul Chaplin: Composer
• Randy Chavez: Composer
• Hal David: Composer
• Maxwell Davis: Composer
• Paul S. Denman: Composer
• Duke Ellington: Composer
• Agnetha Fältskog: Composer
• Arthur Freed: Composer
• Bud Green: Composer
• Andrew Hale: Composer
• Nancy Hamilton: Composer
• Frank Haywood: Composer
• Edward Heyman: Composer
• Jack Hoffman: Composer
• Will Hudson: Composer
• Isham Jones: Composer
• Gus Kahn: Composer
• B.B. King: Composer
• Huddie Ledbetter: Composer
• Stan Lewis: Composer
• Jerry Livingston: Composer
• Teddy McRae: Composer
• Al J. Neiburg: Composer
• Lionel Newman: Composer
• Jack Palmer: Composer
• Vini Poncia: Composer
• Don Raye: Composer
• Leon René: Composer
• Winston Rodney: Composer
• Robert Scherman: Composer
• Neil Slaven: Liner Notes
• Marty Symes: Composer
• Rudy Toombs: Composer
• Björn Ulvaeus: Composer
• Ned Washington: Composer
• Noel Williams: Composer
• Quinn Wilson: Composer
• Jimmy Witherspoon: Composer
• Hy Zaret: Composer
• Johnny Moore: Composer
• George Collier, Jr.: Guitar
• Jesse Cryor: Composer
• William York: Composer
• Charles Carpenter: Composer
• Dorinda Morgan: Composer
• Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis: Sax (Tenor)
• Unknown Blues Band: Composer
• Ted Fio Rito: Composer
• Chuck Norris: Guitar
• Harry Brooks: Composer
• Dana Suesse: Composer
• Harry Sukman: Composer
• Ted Shapiro: Composer
• Dootsie Williams: Composer
• Alain DuBois: Composer
• Edward Eliscu: Composer
• Jules Taub: Composer
• Gerald Marks: Composer
• Reginald Connelly: Composer
• Stig Anderson: Composer
• Lou Baxter: Composer
• Gordon Clifford: Composer
• Bill Dees: Composer
• Walter Hirsch: Composer
• Morgan Lewis: Composer
• Ruth Lowe: Composer
• Otis Rene: Composer
• Jessie Mae Robinson: Composer
• Einar A. Swan: Composer
• Mack David: Composer
• Porter Roberts: Composer
• Leopold Spitalny: Composer
• Jimmy Campbell: Composer
• Damon Black: Composer
• Florence Cadrez: Composer
• Dorcas Cochran: Composer
• Gladys Dubois: Composer
• Louis Dunlap: Composer
• Ben Ellison: Composer
• Buddy Fields: Composer
• Ernest Tucker: Composer
• Monroe Tucker: Composer
• Monte Wilhite: Composer
• D. Moore: Composer
• Anni-Frid Lyngstad: Composer
• Johnny Moore Band: Guitar
• Joe Greene: Composer
• Bertha Scott: Composer
• Allan Roberts: Composer
• Johnny Moore's Three Blazers: Composer
• Johnny Moore: Composer
• Eddie Williams: Bass, Composer
• Pope: Composer
• Billy Rose: Composer
• Haven Johnson: Composer
• Remus Harris: Composer
• John McNeil: Vocals
• Paul Vandervoort II: Composer
• Daniele Pace: Composer
• Lorenzo Pilat: Composer
• Mario Panzeri: Composer
• Ruth Poll: Composer
• Barry Mason: Composer
• Washington: Composer
• W. B. Johnson: Composer
• Johnson: Composer
• Jacob Schroeder: Composer
• Booker White: Composer
• T. Johnson: Composer