Gold (Etta James album)

Gold
Compilation album by
Etta James
ReleasedJanuary 30, 2007
RecordedVarious
GenreBlues, jazz, R&B, soul
Length1hr, 56min
LabelHip-O Records/Chess Records
ProducerAndy McKaie[1]
Etta James chronology
Miss Etta James: The Complete Modern and Kent Recordings
(2006) 		Gold
(2007) 		Who's Blue?: Rare Chess Recordings of the 60s and 70s
(2011)

Gold is a compilation album of 36 songs from Etta James. Unlike many collections, this two-disc album presents an overview of her work over five decades, rather than presenting a more in-depth look at the singer's heyday.

Track listing

Disc 1

# Song Title Length Credit[2] Year
1 "The Wallflower" 2:59 Johnny Otis, Hank Ballard, Etta James 1955
2 "Good Rockin' Daddy" 2:25 Richard Berry, Joe Josea 1955
3 "Tough Lover" 2:10 Etta James, Joe Josea 1956
4 "All I Could Do Was Cry" 2:57 Billy Davis, Gwen Gordy Fuqua, Berry Gordy, Jr. 1960
5 "If I Can't Have You" 3:01 Harvey Fuqua, Etta James 1960
6 "My Dearest Darling" 3:04 Edwin "Eddie Bo" Bocage, Paul Gayten 1960
7 "A Sunday Kind of Love" 3:18 Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Louis Prima, Stan Rhodes 1961
8 "At Last" 3:01 Mack Gordon, Harry Warren 1961
9 "Trust in Me" 3:00 Milton Ager, Jean Schwartz, Ned Wever 1961
10 "Don't Cry Baby" 2:26 Saul Bernie, James Johnson, Stella Unger 1961
11 "Fool That I Am" 2:59 Floyd Hunt 1961
12 "Waiting for Charlie (to Come Home)" 2:08 Bob Hilliard, Burt Bacharach 1962
13 "Something's Got a Hold On Me" 2:50 Etta James, Leroy Kirkland, Pearl Woods 1962
14 "Next Door to the Blues" 2:49 Leroy Kirkland, Pearl Woods 1962
15 "Stop the Wedding" 2:52 Freddy Johnson, Kirkland, Woods 1962
16 "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" 3:59 Jack Strachey, Harry Link, Eric "Holt Marvell" Maschwitz 1962
17 "Pushover" 2:56 Billy Davis, Tony Clarke 1963
18 "Baby What You Want Me to Do" 4:17 Jimmy Reed 1964

Disc 2

# Song Title Length Credit Year
1 "Loving You More Every Day" 3:21 Mitchell 1964
2 "In the Basement (Part One)" 2:23 Davis, Raynard Miner, Smith 1966
3 "Tell Mama" 2:24 Clarence Carter, Marcus Daniel, Wilbur Terrell 1967
4 "I'd Rather Go Blind" 2:36 Bill Foster, Ellington Jordan 1968
5 "Security" 2:29 Otis Redding, Margaret Wessen 1968
6 "Almost Persuaded" 3:23 Bill Sherill, Glenn Sutton 1969
7 "Losers Weepers (Part One)" 3:00 Leon David Bonds 1970
8 "All the Way Down" 5:35 Trevor Lawrence, Gabriel Mekler, Catherine C. Williamson 1973
9 "God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)" 3:37 Randy Newman -
10 "Feeling Uneasy" 2:48 Lawrence, Mekler -
11 "Let's Burn Down the Cornfield" 3:43 Newman -
12 "Loving Arms" 3:50 Tom Jans 1974
13 "Take it to the Limit" 4:06 Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Randy Meisner -
14 "Damn Your Eyes" 4:11 Steve Bogard, Barbara Wyrick 1989
15 "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" 3:51 Bucky Lindsey, Dan Penn, Carson Whitsett 1990
16 "The Man I Love" 4:25 George & Ira Gershwin 1994
17 "The Blues is My Business" 3:32 Kevin Bowe, Todd Cerney 2003
18 "The Sky is Crying" 3:58 Morgan Robinson, Clarence Lewis, Elmore James 2004

See also

References

  1. ^ "Etta James - Gold CD Album". Cduniverse.com. Retrieved 2012-01-06.
  2. ^ Leggett, Steve. "Gold - Etta James". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-01-06.