Sweet & Sour Tears
Sweet & Sour Tears | ||||
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Studio album by Ray Charles | ||||
Released | March 1964 | |||
Recorded | 1964 | |||
Genre | R&B, soul, country soul | |||
Label | ABC 480 | |||
Producer | Ray Charles, Sid Feller | |||
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Sweet & Sour Tears is a 1964 album by Ray Charles. It is a concept album featuring songs with titles or lyrics referring to crying. In 1997, Rhino Records reissued the album on compact disc with seven bonus tracks from his early career (1956-1971) that added to the "crying" theme.
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Track listing
Side one
- "Cry" (Churchill Kohlman) – 3:34
- "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 4:20
- "A Tear Fell" (Eugene Randolph, Dorian Burton) – 2:45
- "No One to Cry To" (Sid Robin, Foy Glenn Willing) – 2:43
- "You've Got Me Crying Again" (Isham Jones, Charles Newman) – 2:52
- "After My Laughter Came Tears" (Charles Tobias, Roy Turk) – 3:13
Side two
- "Teardrops from My Eyes" (Rudolph Toombs) – 3:29
- "Don't Cry Baby" (Saul Bernie, James P. Johnson, Stella Unger) – 3:09
- "Cry Me a River" (Arthur Hamilton) – 3:20
- "Baby, Don't You Cry" (Buddy Johnson, Ned Washington) – 2:40
- "Willow, Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) – 4:37
- "I Cried for You" (Arthur Freed, Abe Lyman, Gus Arnheim) – 2:40
Bonus tracks (1997 CD release)
- "My Heart Cries for You" (Carl Sigman, Percy Faith) – 2:51
- "I Wake Up Crying" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 3:00
- "Drown in My Own Tears" (Henry Glover) – 3:21
- "Teardrops in My Heart" (Vaughn Horton) – 3:05
- "Crying Time" (Buck Owens) – 2:58
- "No Use Crying" (Freddie Lee Kober, J.B. Daniels, Roy Gaines) – 3:19
- "Tired of My Tears" (Jimmy Holiday, Jimmy Lewis) – 2:23
Personnel
- Ray Charles – vocals, keyboards
- Gene Lowell Singers – backing vocals
- Billy Preston – electric organ on "No Use Crying"
- Calvin Jackson, Sid Feller – arrangements
- Technical
- Bill Putnam, Phil Macy – engineer
- Joe Lebow – design
- Howard Morehead – photography
References
- ↑ Richie Unterberger. "Sweet & Sour Tears - Ray Charles | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
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