“Sweet And Sour Tears” by Ray Charles - album review
| features in: Album Chart of 1964 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1960s |
Released January, 1964. The latest in a long line of Ray’s concept albums, this time featuring 12 cover songs (I wonder why he doesn’t seem to write much anymore?) with titles or lyrics referring to crying. Wow, critics love deep dudes. Supposedly, this concept was engineered in an attempt to console the States, deep in mourning after the Kennedy assassination of November, 1963. It’s a crass stinker to my ears - “A Tear Fell” (Teresa Brewer, 1956) is the only thing which sounds remotely cool here. It’s also the only song which sounds remotely black. Just sayin’…
The Jukebox Rebel
26–Jul–2008
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [03:34]  Ray Charles - Cry (Churchill Kohlman) Crooner / Cabaret |
| A2 | [04:20]  Ray Charles - Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) Crooner / Cabaret |
| A3 | [02:45]  Ray Charles - A Tear Fell (Eugene Randolph, Dorian Burton) Soul Ballad |
| A4 | [02:43]  Ray Charles - No One To Cry To (Sydney Robin, Foy Willing) Crooner / Cabaret |
| A5 | [02:52]  Ray Charles - You’ve Got Me Crying Again (Charles Newman, Isham Jones) Crooner / Cabaret |
| A6 | [03:13]  Ray Charles - After My Laughter Came Tears (Charles Tobias, Roy Turk) Crooner / Cabaret |
| B1 | [03:29]  Ray Charles - Teardrops From My Eyes (Rudy Toombs) Big Band / Jive / Swing |
| B2 | [03:09]  Ray Charles - Don’t Cry Baby (Saul Bernie, James P. Johnson, Stella Unger) Jazz |
| B3 | [03:20]  Ray Charles - Cry Me A River (Arthur Hamilton) Jazz |
| B4 | [02:40]  Ray Charles - Baby, Don’t You Cry (Buddy Johnson, Ned Washington) Big Band / Jive / Swing |
| B5 | [04:37]  Ray Charles - Willow, Weep For Me (Ann Ronell) Crooner / Cabaret |
| B6 | [02:40]  Ray Charles - I Cried For You (Gus Arnheim, Arthur Freed, Abe Lyman) Big Band / Jive / Swing |
