Gold (Etta James album)
Gold is a compilation album of 36 songs from Etta James. Unlike many collections, this two-disc album presents an overview of her work over five decades, rather than presenting a more in-depth look at the singer's heyday.
Track listing
Disc 1
# | Song Title | Length | Credit[2] | Year |
1 | "The Wallflower" | 2:59 | Johnny Otis, Hank Ballard, Etta James | 1955 |
2 | "Good Rockin' Daddy" | 2:25 | Richard Berry, Joe Josea | 1955 |
3 | "Tough Lover" | 2:10 | Lorenzo Manley | - |
4 | "All I Could Do Was Cry" | 2:57 | Billy Davis, Gwen Fuqua, Berry Gordy, Jr. | 1960 |
5 | "If I Can't Have You" | 3:01 | Gwen Fuqua, Etta James | 1960 |
6 | "My Dearest Darling" | 3:04 | Eddie Bocage, Paul Gayten | 1960 |
7 | "A Sunday Kind of Love" | 3:18 | Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Louis Prima, Stan Rhodes | 1961 |
8 | "At Last" | 3:01 | Mack Gordon, Harry Warren | 1961 |
9 | "Trust in Me" | 3:00 | Milton Ager, Jean Schwartz, Ned Weaver | 1961 |
10 | "Don't Cry Baby" | 2:26 | Saul Bernie, James Johnson, Stella Unger | 1961 |
11 | "Fool That I Am" | 2:59 | Floyd Hunt | 1961 |
12 | "Waiting for Charlie (to Come Home)" | 2:08 | Bob Hilliard, Burt Bacharach | 1962 |
13 | "Something's Got a Hold On Me" | 2:50 | Etta James, Leroy Kirkland, Pearl Woods | 1962 |
14 | "Next Door to the Blues" | 2:49 | Leroy Kirkland, Pearl Woods | - |
15 | "Stop the Wedding" | 2:52 | Freddy Johnson, Kirkland, Woodland | 1962 |
16 | "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" | 3:59 | Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey, Harry Link, Eric Maschwitz | - |
17 | "Pushover" | 2:56 | Billy Davis, Tony Clarke | 1963 |
18 | "Baby What You Want Me to Do" | 4:17 | Jimmy Reed | 1964 |
Disc 2
# | Song Title | Length | Credit | Year |
1 | "Loving You More Every Day" | 3:21 | Mitchell | 1964 |
2 | "In the Basement (Part One)" | 2:23 | Davis, Raynard Miner, Smith | 1966 |
3 | "Tell Mama" | 2:24 | Clarence Carter, Marcus Daniel, Wilbur Terrell | 1967 |
4 | "I'd Rather Go Blind" | 2:36 | Bill Foster, Ellington Jordan | 1968 |
5 | "Security" | 2:29 | Otis Redding, Margaret Wessen | 1968 |
6 | "Almost Persuaded" | 3:23 | Bill Sherill, Glenn Sutton | 1969 |
7 | "Losers Weepers (Part One)" | 3:00 | Leon David Bonds | 1970 |
8 | "All the Way Down" | 5:35 | Trevor Lawrence, Gabriel Mekler, Catherine C. Williamson | 1973 |
9 | "God's Song "That's Why I Love Mankind)" | 3:37 | Randy Newman | - |
10 | "Feeling Uneasy" | 2:48 | Lawrence, Mekler | - |
11 | "Let's Burn Down the Cornfield" | 3:43 | Newman | - |
12 | "Loving Arms" | 3:50 | Tom Jans | 1974 |
13 | "Take it to the Limit" | 4:06 | Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Randy Meisner | - |
14 | "Damn Your Eyes" | 4:11 | Steve Bogard, Barbara Wyrick | 1989 |
15 | "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" | 3:51 | Bucky Lindsey, Dan Penn, Carson Whitsett | 1990 |
16 | "The Man I Love" | 4:25 | George & Ira Gershwin | 1994 |
17 | "The Blues is My Business" | 3:32 | Kevin Bowe, Todd Cerney | 2003 |
18 | "The Sky is Crying" | 3:58 | Morgan Robinson, Clarence Lewis, Elmore James | 2004 |
- For a partial list of singles and their first appearances, refer to the Etta James discography.
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