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The Wallflower (Roll with Me Henry) - Etta James ; the Peaches
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Hold Me Squeeze Me - Etta James ; the Peaches
3
Hey Henry
4
Be Mine
5
Good Rockin Daddy
6
Crazy Feeling
7
W-O-M-A-N
8
That's All
9
Number One 1
10
I'm a Fool 1
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Tears of Joy 1
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Shortin' Bread Rock 1
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Tough Lover 1
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Fools We Mortals Be 1
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Good Lookin' 1
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Then I'll Care 1
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Market Place 1
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The Pick-Up 1
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon 2
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Come What May 2
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Sunshine of Love 2
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Baby, Baby Every Night 2
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I Hope You're Satisfied - Betty ; Dupree 2
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If It Ain't One Thing - Betty ; Dupree 2
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How Big a Fool 2
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If I Can't Have You - Etta James ; Harvey Fuqua 2
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My Heart Cries - Etta James ; Harvey Fuqua 2
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Spoonful - Etta James ; Harvey Fuqua 2
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It's a Crying Shame - Etta James ; Harvey Fuqua 3
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All I Could Do Was Cry 3
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Boy of My Dreams 3
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My Dearest Darling 3
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Tough Mary 3
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At Last 3
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I Just Want to Make Love to You 3
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Trust in Me 3
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Anything to Say You're Mine 3
38
Fool That I Am 3
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Dream 4
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Don't Cry, Baby 4
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Sunday Kind of Love 4
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It's Too Soon to Know 4
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Seven Day Fool 4
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Something's Got a Hold on Me 4
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Waiting for Charlie to Come Home 4
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Stop the Wedding 4
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Street of Tears 4
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Next Door to the Blues 4
49
Fools Rush in 5
50
How Do You Speak to An Angel 5
51
Would It Make Any Difference to You 5
52
Dance with Me Henry
Item UPC: 824046320423
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Label: ACROBAT
ABOUT THE ALBUM
Etta James is widely regarded as one of the finest female blues, R&B and soul singers of the modern era, second only in some eyes to Aretha Franklin - Atlantic's Jerry Wexler called her "the greatest of all modern blues singers". After a chequered early life, she was discovered in Los Angeles singing with a vocal group at the age of 16 by Johnny Otis, who signed her to Modern, and she scored an R&B No. 1 in 1955 with her debut recording "The Wallflower (Roll With Me Henry)", a re-working of Hank Ballard's "Work With Me, Annie", following it up with another Top 10 R&B hit "Good Rockin' Daddy". After recording briefly for Modern subsidiary Kent, she signed to the Chess label, and began recording material that combined the intensity of R&B with the accessibility of pop and the Polish of jazz, switching to the Chess sister label Argo in 1960, and hitting the pop and R&B charts with more than fifteen records between 1960 and '62, including Top 5 successes like "All I Could Do Was Cry", "My Dearest Darling", "At Last", "Trust In Me" and "Something's Got A Hold On Me", before aspects of her life began to unravel in subsequent years. This great-value 52-track 2-CD set comprises all her A & B sides during those first important years of her career, plus a bonus album version of "Dance With Me Henry", so it's a comprehensive overview of her early work.
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