Description
DESCRIPTION
Digitally remastered two-fer containing a pair of albums from the Pop vocalist plus seven bonus tracks. Johnnie Ray was an incredible singer whose emotionally uninhibited hit recordings in the early 1950s anticipated the rock & roll era. Ray's performing style earned him the nickname 'Mr. Emotion,' and he became a teen idol whose popularity at it's peak was comparable to the hysteria generated by Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley (though in Ray's case, the glory was fleeting). This quintessential CD includes two of Johnnie Ray's finest albums. The first LP featured here is THE BIG BEAT (1957), filled with passionate numbers. The second album on this release consists of the singer's eponymous debut LP, JOHNNY RAY (1952). These two masterpieces have been remastered and packaged together in this collector's edition, which also contains 7 bonus tracks from the same period.
TracksCredits
1 Pretty-Eyed Baby
2 How Long, How Long Blues
3 Sent for You Yesterday
4 I'll Never Be Free
5 I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town
6 Shake a Hand
7 Lotus Blossom
8 Everyday (I Have the Blues)
9 I Want to Be Loved
10 I Miss You So
11 Trouble in Mind
12 So Long
13 Don't Blame Me
14 Walkin' My Baby Back Home
15 Don't Take Your Love from Me
16 All of Me
17 Give Me Time
18 The Lady Drinks Champagne
19 Out in the Cold Again
20 Coffee and Cigarettes
21 Such a Night
22 Up Above My Head
23 Papa Loves Mambo
24 Cry
25 Parade of Broken Hearts
26 Cool Water
27 Endlessly
