Blues Is My Middle Name

~ Release by Ray Charles (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

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1Baby Won’t You Please Come Home
recorded in:
Los Angeles, California, United States (in 1951)
performer:
Ray Charles (soul musician, singer and songwriter)
cover recording of:
Baby Won’t You Please Come Home (in 1951)
writer:
Charles Warfield and Clarence Williams (US jazz pianist, composer, singer and bandleader)
publisher:
Redwood Music Ltd. (Carlin), Universal‐MCA Music Publishing (US) and Universal/MCA Music Ltd. (not for release label use!)
2:52
2She’s on the Ball
recorded in:
Los Angeles, California, United States (in 1950)
performer:
Ray Charles Trio
recording of:
She’s on the Ball (in 1950)
lyricist and composer:
Ray Charles (soul musician, singer and songwriter)
2:30
3Th’ Ego Song
recording of:
Th’ego Song
writer:
Lloyd Glenn
2:21
4Hey Now
recording of:
Hey Now
writer:
Ray Charles (soul musician, singer and songwriter)
2:20
5I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now?
cover recording of:
I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now
lyricist:
Frank R. Adams (American author, screenwriter, composer & newspaper reporter) and Will M. Hough
composer:
Joseph E. Howard and Harold Orlob
publisher:
B. Feldman & Co. Ltd. (publisher est. 1946) and Redwood Music Ltd. (Carlin)
2:18
6Back Home
recording of:
Back Home
writer:
Ray Charles (soul musician, singer and songwriter)
2:30
7Sitting on Top of the World
cover recording of:
Sitting on Top of the World (“Now she’s gone, I don’t worry…”)
writer:
Lonnie Carter and Walter Vinson (performance name for Walter Vinson)
publisher:
Chappell Music Ltd., E. H. Morris & Co., Inc. (a division of MPL Communications Inc.) and Mayfair Music Corp.
2:16
8How Long Blues
recorded in:
Los Angeles, California, United States (in 1949)
performer:
The Maxim Trio
cover recording of:
How Long, How Long Blues (in 1949)
lyricist and composer:
Leroy Carr
publisher:
Compact Music and MCA Music Publishing (renamed since c. 1996 as Universal Music Publishing Group)
32:35
9C.C. Rider
2:34
10Can’t You See Me Darling
recording of:
Can’t You See Darling
lyricist and composer:
William York
2:37
11Alone in the City
recording of:
Alone in the City
lyricist and composer:
Ray Charles (soul musician, singer and songwriter)
2:55
12Blues Before Sunrise
recorded in:
Los Angeles, California, United States (in 1949)
performer:
The Maxim Trio
cover recording of:
Blues Before Sunrise (in 1949)
lyricist and composer:
Leroy Carr
publisher:
MCA Music Publishing (renamed since c. 1996 as Universal Music Publishing Group)
2:47
13I’ve Had My Fun (Going Down Slow)
cover recording of:
I've Had My Fun
lyricist and writer:
James Burke Oden (blues singer and songwriter)
arranger:
Ray Charles (soul musician, singer and songwriter)
is based on:
Goin’ Down Slow
2:41
14Let’s Have a Ball
recording of:
Let's Have a Ball (Here I Am)
lyricist and composer:
Ray Charles (soul musician, singer and songwriter)
2:31
15Some Day (Blues Is My Middle Name)
3:07