Album · Compilation

The R&B Box: 30 Years of Rhythm & Blues

Released 1994108 tracks · 304:31EnglishRhino

Tracks

#	Title	Sung by
1.1	Five Guys Named Mo	Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five	3:10
1.2	When My Man Comes Home	Buddy Johnson & His Orchestra	3:10
1.3	Flying Home, Part 1	Illinois Jacquet & His All Stars	2:50
1.4	The Honeydripper	Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers	3:06
1.5	Hey! Ba‐Ba‐Re‐Bop	Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra	3:23
1.6	Drifting Blues	Charles Brown	3:17
1.7	R.M. Blues	Roy Milton	3:00
1.8	Ol’ Man River	The Ravens	3:00
1.9	King Size Papa	Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends	2:44
1.10	Fine Brown Frame	Nellie Lutcher & Her Rhythm	2:56
1.11	Elevator Boogie	Mabel Scott	2:34
1.12	Chicken‐Shack Boogie	Amos Milburn	2:52
1.13	The Huckle‐Buck	Paul Williams & His Hucklebuckers	3:10
1.14	The Deacon’s Hop	Big Jay McNeely's Blue Jays	2:51
1.15	Drinkin’ Wine, Spo‐Dee‐O‐Dee	Stick McGhee	3:16
1.16	Baby Get Lost	Dinah Washington	3:04
1.17	Cupid Boogie	Little Esther, Mel Walker	2:37
1.18	Please Send Me Someone to Love	Percy Mayfield	2:53
2.1	Rocket “88”	Jackie Brenston	2:49
2.2	The Glory of Love	The Five Keys	3:10
2.3	Lawdy Miss Clawdy	Lloyd Price	2:32
2.4	(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean	Ruth Brown	2:58
2.5	Hound Dog	Big Mama Thornton	2:50
2.6	Crying in the Chapel	The Orioles	3:04
2.7	Shake a Hand	Faye Adams	2:52
2.8	Drunk	Jimmy Liggins & His 3‐D Music	2:32
2.9	Honey Hush	Big Joe Turner	2:40
2.10	Tipitina	Professor Longhair	2:39
2.11	A Sunday Kind of Love	The Harp-Tones feat. Willie Winfield	3:00
2.12	Lovey Dovey	The Clovers	2:44
2.13	Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite	Spaniels	2:45
2.14	Sh‐Boom	The Chords	2:26
2.15	Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)	The Penguins	2:57
2.16	Tweedle Dee	LaVern Baker & The Gliders	3:09
2.17	Sincerely	Harvey Fuqua, Bobby Lester, Pete Graves, Prentiss Barnes	3:11
2.18	All Night Long	Joe Houston Orchestra	2:37
3.1	I’ve Got a Woman	Ray Charles	2:52
3.2	Pledging My Love	Johnny Ace	2:30
3.3	What’cha Gonna Do	Clyde McPhatter, Bill Pinkney, Gerhart Thrasher, Andrew Thrasher	2:48
3.4	Bo Diddley	Bo Diddley	2:30
3.5	Feel So Good	Shirley & Lee	2:52
3.6	I Hear You Knocking	Smiley Lewis	2:35
3.7	At My Front Door	The El Dorados	2:36
3.8	Smokey Joe’s Cafe	The Robins	2:48
3.9	Speedo	The Cadillacs	2:23
3.10	Please, Please, Please	James Brown, Bobby Byrd, Johnny Terry, Sylvester Keels, Nashpendle Knox	2:48
3.11	I’m in Love Again	Fats Domino	1:59
3.12	I Want You to Be My Girl	Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers	2:58
3.13	In the Still of the Night	Fred Parris, Al Denby, Ed Martin, Jim Freeman, Nat Mosley	3:06
3.14	Candy	Big Maybelle	2:43
3.15	It’s Too Late	Chuck Willis, The Cookies	2:37
3.16	Oh What a Night	The Dells	2:55
3.17	Since I Met You Baby	Ivory Joe Hunter	2:45
3.18	Goodnight My Love (Pleasant Dreams)	Jesse Belvin	3:05
4.1	The Girl Can’t Help It	Little Richard & His Band	2:33
4.2	Young Blood	The Coasters, Young Jessie, Carl Gardner, Billy Guy, Bobby Nunn	2:21
4.3	Reet Petite (The Finest Girl You Ever Want to Meet)	Jackie Wilson	2:44
4.4	Little Bitty Pretty One	Thurston Harris & The Sharps	2:25
4.5	Maybe	The Chantels	2:55
4.6	Don’t You Just Know It	Huey “Piano” Smith & the Clowns	2:33
4.7	For Your Precious Love	Jerry Butler & The Impressions	2:47
4.8	A Lover’s Question	Clyde McPhatter	2:36
4.9	Kansas City	Wilbert Harrison	2:30
4.10	I Only Have Eyes for You	The Flamingos	3:24
4.11	Hey Little Girl	Dee Clark	2:20
4.12	Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)	Carla Thomas	2:22
4.13	At Last	Etta James	3:03
4.14	Spanish Harlem	Ben E. King	2:56
4.15	Every Beat of My Heart	Pips	2:05
4.16	I Pity the Fool	Bobby Bland	2:43
4.17	Mother‐in‐Law	Ernie K‐Doe	2:36
4.18	Blue Moon	The Marcels	2:16
5.1	I Like It Like That, Part 1	Chris Kenner	1:58
5.2	Just Out of Reach (of My Two Open Arms)	Solomon Burke	2:50
5.3	Gypsy Woman	The Impressions	2:23
5.4	Duke of Earl	Gene Chandler	2:29
5.5	The One Who Really Loves You	The Love Tones	2:30
5.6	Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird)	Chuck Jackson	3:21
5.7	Green Onions	Booker T. & the MG’s	2:55
5.8	Release Me	Esther Phillips	3:19
5.9	Just One Look	Doris Troy	2:32
5.10	Pride and Joy	Marvin Gaye	2:09
5.11	Mickey’s Monkey	The Temptations, Smokey Robinson, The Marvelettes, Martha Reeves, Warren “Pete” Moore, Mary Wilson, Ronnie White, Bobby Rogers, Claudette Robinson, Rosalind Ashford, Annette Beard, "Jockey Jack" Gibson	2:48
5.12	Quicksand	Martha & the Vandellas	2:42
5.13	Mercy, Mercy	Don Covay	2:26
5.14	Hold What You’ve Got	Joe Tex	3:10
5.15	Hurt So Bad	Little Anthony & the Imperials	2:20
5.16	We’re Gonna Make It	Little Milton	2:40
5.17	I Can’t Help Myself	Four Tops	2:48
5.18	Over the Rainbow	Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles	2:53
6.1	This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)	The Isley Brothers	2:47
6.2	634‒5789	Wilson Pickett	2:58
6.3	When a Man Loves a Woman	Percy Sledge	2:58
6.4	Ain’t Too Proud to Beg	Eddie Kendricks, David Ruffin, Otis Williams, Paul Williams, Melvin Franklin	2:36
6.5	Summertime	Billy Stewart	2:43
6.6	Knock on Wood	Eddie Floyd	3:07
6.7	Love Is a Hurtin’ Thing	Lou Rawls	2:17
6.8	Tell It Like It Is	Aaron Neville	2:43
6.9	Try a Little Tenderness	Otis Redding	3:21
6.10	The Dark End of the Street	James Carr	2:33
6.11	Do Right Woman – Do Right Man	Aretha Franklin, Cissy Houston, Erma Franklin, Carolyn Franklin	3:17
6.12	I Thank You	Sam & Dave	2:47
6.13	Slip Away	Clarence Carter	2:34
6.14	Who’s Making Love	Johnnie Taylor, Booker T. Jones	2:50
6.15	The Thrill Is Gone	B.B. King	5:27
6.16	Rainy Night in Georgia	The Sweet Inspirations	3:50
6.17	Proud Mary	Ike & Tina Turner	3:33
6.18	I’ll Be Around	Barbara Ingram, Billy Henderson, Bobbie Smith, Philippé Wynne, Henry Fambrough, Pervis Jackson, Yvette Benson, Carla Benton	3:10

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