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Etta James: At Last!

On November 15, 1960, “Argo” label released “At Last!”, the debut Etta James studio album. It was recorded January – October 1960, and was produced by Phil Chess and Leonard Chess. Magazine “Rolling Stone” ranked “At Last!” at number 191 on its list of “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”.

Personnel:

  • Etta James – vocals
  • Harvey Fuqua – vocals
  • Riley Hampton – arrangements, conductor
  • Don Bronstein – cover
  • Don Kamerer – liner notes

Track listing:

  1. Anything to Say You’re Mine – Sonny Thompson
  2. My Dearest Darling – Edwin “Eddie Bo” Bocage, Paul Gayten
  3. Trust in Me – Milton Ager, Jean Schwartz, Ned Wever
  4. A Sunday Kind of Love – Louis Prima, Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Stan Rhodes
  5. Tough Mary – Etta James, Joe Josea
  6. I Just Want to Make Love to You – Willie Dixon
  7. At Last – Mack Gordon, Harry Warren
  8. All I Could Do Was Cry – Billy Davis, Gwen Fuqua, Berry Gordy
  9. Stormy Weather – Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler
  10. Girl of My Dreams – Charles “Sunny” Clapp

Etta James: Heart of a Woman

In June 1999, “RCA” label released “Heart of a Woman”, the twenty-third Etta James studio album. It was recorded in March 1999, and was produced by John Snyder and Etta James.

Personnel:

  • Etta James – vocals, arrangements, art direction, photography, liner notes
  • Bobby Murray – guitar
  • Josh Sklair – acoustic and electric guitar, arrangements, musical director, production assistant
  • Dave Matthews – electric piano, piano, arrangements
  • Mike Finnigan – organ
  • Sametto James – bass, drum programming, production assistant
  • Donto Metto James – drums, drum programming, production assistant
  • Pete Escovedo – conga, horn, percussion
  • Red Holloway – tenor saxophone
  • Jimmy Zavala – tenor saxophone
  • Lee Thornburg – alto horn, flugelhorn, horn arrangements, trumpet, valve trombone
  • Tom Poole – flugelhorn, trumpet
  • Jay Newland – engineer, mastering
  • Rob Brill – engineer assistant
  • Sonny Mediana – art direction, photography
  • Jeff Dunas – photography
  • Lupe DeLeon – executive producer

Track listing:

  1. You Don’t Know What Love Is – Gene de Paul, Don Raye
  2. Good Morning Heartache – Ervin Drake, Dan Fisher, Irene Higgenbotham
  3. My Old Flame – Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston
  4. Say It Isn’t So – Irving Berlin
  5. At Last – Mack Gordon, Harry Warren
  6. Tenderly – Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence
  7. I Only Have Eyes for You – Al Dubin, Warren
  8. I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good) – Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster
  9. You Go to My Head – John Frederick Coots, Haven Gillespie
  10. A Sunday Kind of Love – Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Louis Prima, Stan Rhodes
  11. If It’s the Last Thing I Do – Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin
  12. Only Women Bleed – Alice Cooper, Dick Wagner