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B.B. King - B.B. King - Original Greatest Hits

B.B. King - B.B. King - Original Greatest Hits

Band: B.B. King Title: B.B. King - Original Greatest Hits Rating: Release Date: 13 September, 2005 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: 3 O'Clock Blues 2: Blind Love 3: She's Dynamite 4: You Know I Love You 5: Please Love Me 6: Story Fom My Heart And Soul 7: The Woman I Love 8: Neighborhood Affair 9: When My Heart Beats Like A Hammer 10: Every Day I Have The Blues 11: Love You Baby (Take A Swing With Me) 12: Ten Long Years 13: You Upset Me, Baby 14: Boogie Rock (House Rocker) 15: Crying Won't Help You 16: Bad Luck 17: Did You Ever Love A Woman 18: You Don't Know 19: Sweet Little Angel 20: On My Word Of Honor 21: Be Careful With A Fool 22: Please Accept My Love 23: Days Of Old 24: Worry, Worry 25: Confessin' The Blues 26: Sweet Sixteen Parts 1 & 2 27: Ain't Nobody's Business 28: Walkin' Dr. Bill 29: My Own Fault 30: You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now 31: Downhearted (How Blue Can You Get?) 32: I'll Survive 33: Mashed Potato Twist 34: Down Now 35: Peace Of Mind 36: That Evil Child 37: Blues Stay Away From Me 38: Rock Me Baby 39: Miss Martha King 40: When Your Baby Packs Up And Goes

Customer Reviews the real BB King stands up TALL Here's what my research turned up: Live at the Regal, the live Blues is King, Live at the Cook County Jail, Live in Japan and this little gem of a collection. I knew the real BB existed somewhere, behind all the recent tribute type collections released under his name in recent years(I've passed on all of these, figuring I would search out his best stuff, when I found the time). My only quibble with this would be the missing track by track musician credits. The music itself is the real BB, standing tall, king of the blues. Definetly the greatest! What a mistake that would have been. I was originally going to pass this set up because there are so many greatest hits and repackaged compilations of BB King coming out in the last few years. This is prime, choice, early BB. This is the real deal. 40 cuts in all, with wonderful remastered sound. There is no filler here, just 40 killer cuts of BB in his prime. If you love REAL blues, don't pass this one up. This is timeless music that will never get old. . Classic B.B. King from the Early Years B. At age 80, B. King is universally regarded as the reigning king of the blues. What ORIGINAL GREATEST HITS does is demonstrate that King's most influential work was not limited to the forty years he spent recording for MCA. A full decade before he recorded his MCA debut in 1962, B. B. King went all the way to No. 1 with a remake of Lowell Fulson's "Three O'Clock Blues" on the RPM label. This 40-track collection is prime B. B. King, covering such classics as "Every Day I Have the Blues," "You Upset Me, Baby," "Sweet Little Angel," and "Please Love Me" from his tenure at RPM and Kent between 1952 and 1962. His only crossover pop hit from this era came in 1964 (but recorded in 1962) when "Rock Me Baby" charted for three weeks in 1964, peaking at No. 34. The final two tracks, "Miss Martha King" and the b-side "When Your Baby Packs Up and Goes," are from his 1949 debut single on the Bullet label. There have been a number of excellent B. B. King compilations over the past few years, but they all shortchange his early years. This collection rectifies that problem with two hours of classic blues. ESSENTIAL. . You can see a complete list of all B.B. King discography, or go back to the B.B. King tabs