Released March 1964 Artist Ray Charles Label Rhino Entertainment | Recorded 1964 Release date March 1964 Producers Ray Charles, Sid Feller | |
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Sweet & Sour Tears
(1964) Have a Smile with Me
(1964) Genres Soul music, Rhythm and blues, Country soul, Southern soul Similar Ray Charles albums, Soul music albums | ||
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.
Contents
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
Songs
1Cry3:35
2Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry4:21
3A Tear Fell2:46
References
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