The Essential

Etta James

Chess / MCA

A double CD compilation.

Tracks

• All I Could Do Was Cry (Davis / Fuqua / Gordy)
• My Dearest Darling (Bocage / Gayten)
• If I Can't Have You (Fuqua / James)
• A Sunday Kind of Love (Belle / Leonard / Prima / Rhodes)
• Anything to Say You're Mine (Thompson)
• At Last (Gordon / Warren)
• Seven Day Fool (Davis / Gordy / Woods)
• Trust in Me (Ager / Schwartz / Wever)
• Don't Cry Baby (Bernie / Johnson / Unger)
• Fool That I Am (Hunt)
• One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) (Arlen / Mercer)
• Waiting for Charlie (To Come Home) (Bacharach / Hilliard)
• Something's Got a Hold on Me (James / Kirkland / Woods)
• Next Door to the Blues (Kirkland / Woods)
• These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) (Link / Marvell / Strachey)
• Stop the Wedding (Johnson / Kirkland / Woods)
• Prisoner of Love (Columbo / Gaskill / Robin)
• Pushover (Clarke / Davis)
• Would It Make Any Difference to You (Forshee)
• Pay Back (Davis)
• Two Sides to Every Story (Clarke / Davis)
• Baby, What You Want Me to Do (Reed)
• In the Basement, Pt. 1 (Davis / Miner / Smith)
• Loving You More Every Day (Mitchell)
• Do I Make Myself Clear? (DeMell / Parham)
• I Prefer You (Dollison / Higgins)
• It Must Be Your Love (Bernard / Dollison / Foster / Higgins)
• 842-3089 (Call My Name) (Dollison / Foster / Higgins)
• I'd Rather Go Blind (Foster / Jordan)
• Tell Mama (Carter / Daniel / Terrell)
• Do Right Woman / Do Right Man (Moman / Penn)
• Security (Redding / Wessen)
• Almost Persuaded (Sherrill / Sutton)
• You Got It (Covay)
• Miss Pitiful (Cropper / Redding)
• Losers Weepers / Pt. 1 (Bonds)
• W-O-M-A-N (Hawkins / James / Mallory / Mitchell)
• I Never Meant to Love Him (Carson / McFaddin)
• You Can Leave Your Hat On (Newman)
• God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind) (Newman)
• All the Way Down (Lawrence / Mekler / Williamson)
• Lovin' Arms (Jans)
• Feeling Uneasy (Lawrence / Mekler)
• Let's Burn Down the Cornfield (Newman)