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Track List
01) 3 O'Clock Blues
02) Blind Love
03) She's Dynamite
04) You Know I Love You
05) Please Love Me
06) Story From My Heart and Soul
07) The Woman I Love
08) Neighborhood Affair
09) When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer
10) Every Day I Have the Blues
11) Love You Baby (a.k.a. Take a Swing With Me)
12) Ten Long Years
13) You Upset Me Baby
14) Boogie Rock (a.k.a. House Rocker)
15) Crying Won't Help You
16) Bad Luck
17) Did You Ever Love a Woman
18) You Don't Know
19) Sweet Little Angel
20) On My Word of Honor
Cd 2
01) Be Careful With a Fool
02) Please Accept My Love
03) Days of Old
04) Worry, Worry
05) Confessin' the Blues
06) Sweet Sixteen, Parts 1 & 2
07) Ain't Nobody's Business
08) Walkin' Dr. Bill
09) My Own Fault (a.k.a. It's My Fault)
10) You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now
11) How Blue Can You Get? (a.k.a. Downhearted)
12) I'll Survive
13) Mashed Potato Twist
14) Down Now
15) Peace of Mind
16) That Evil Child
17) Blues Stay Away From Me
18) Rock Me Baby
19) Miss Martha King
20) When Your Baby Packs Up and Goes
01) 3 O'Clock Blues
02) Blind Love
03) She's Dynamite
04) You Know I Love You
05) Please Love Me
06) Story From My Heart and Soul
07) The Woman I Love
08) Neighborhood Affair
09) When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer
10) Every Day I Have the Blues
11) Love You Baby (a.k.a. Take a Swing With Me)
12) Ten Long Years
13) You Upset Me Baby
14) Boogie Rock (a.k.a. House Rocker)
15) Crying Won't Help You
16) Bad Luck
17) Did You Ever Love a Woman
18) You Don't Know
19) Sweet Little Angel
20) On My Word of Honor
Cd 2
01) Be Careful With a Fool
02) Please Accept My Love
03) Days of Old
04) Worry, Worry
05) Confessin' the Blues
06) Sweet Sixteen, Parts 1 & 2
07) Ain't Nobody's Business
08) Walkin' Dr. Bill
09) My Own Fault (a.k.a. It's My Fault)
10) You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now
11) How Blue Can You Get? (a.k.a. Downhearted)
12) I'll Survive
13) Mashed Potato Twist
14) Down Now
15) Peace of Mind
16) That Evil Child
17) Blues Stay Away From Me
18) Rock Me Baby
19) Miss Martha King
20) When Your Baby Packs Up and Goes
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First Released
2005
Blues
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2005 Release in celebration of B.B. King's 80th birthday. Virgin released the double-disc set Original Greatest Hits in September of 2005 -- the week B.B. turned 80. Since there have been so many comps of King's long career, all bearing titles similar to Original Greatest Hits, it's easy to assume that this collection is yet another recycling of the familiar B.B. standards from the late '60s and '70s, but that's not the case at all. Instead, this 40-track collection is one of the first American reissues to offer a comprehensive survey of his recordings for RPM and Kent in the '50s and early '60s (both sides of his debut 45 for Bullet, "Miss Martha King"/"When Your Baby Packs Up and Goes," are added to the end of the collection for good measure). While the material has been reissued extensively overseas, most notably on the U.K. label Ace, which has offered an exhaustive overview of the majority of his RPM and Kent sides, there has never been a good U.S. comp of this material until this deceptively plain-titled Original Greatest Hits. Over the course of two discs, the original single versions of such B.B. standards as "3 O'Clock Blues," "Every Day I Have the Blues," "You Upset Me, Baby," "Did You Ever Love a Woman," "Sweet Little Angel," "Sweet Sixteen," "My Own Fault," and "Downhearted (aka How Blue Can You Get?)" are presented, along with the cream of the crop of the rest of his early recordings. While there are certainly some great, even important, songs that didn't make the cut, there has never been an overview of this era that has been so succinct yet comprehensive (and it's also well annotated too, with good liner notes by Colin Escott). Serious collectors should invest either in Ace's excellent 2003 box King of the Blues or their ongoing LP reissue series, but all other fans should turn here to hear the best of B.B.'s earliest and arguably best work.
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2005 Release in celebration of B.B. King's 80th birthday. Virgin released the double-disc set Original Greatest Hits in September of 2005 -- the week B.B. turned 80. Since there have been so many comps of King's long career, all bearing titles similar to Original Greatest Hits, it's easy to assume that this collection is yet another recycling of the familiar B.B. standards from the late '60s and '70s, but that's not the case at all. Instead, this 40-track collection is one of the first American reissues to offer a comprehensive survey of his recordings for RPM and Kent in the '50s and early '60s (both sides of his debut 45 for Bullet, "Miss Martha King"/"When Your Baby Packs Up and Goes," are added to the end of the collection for good measure). While the material has been reissued extensively overseas, most notably on the U.K. label Ace, which has offered an exhaustive overview of the majority of his RPM and Kent sides, there has never been a good U.S. comp of this material until this deceptively plain-titled Original Greatest Hits. Over the course of two discs, the original single versions of such B.B. standards as "3 O'Clock Blues," "Every Day I Have the Blues," "You Upset Me, Baby," "Did You Ever Love a Woman," "Sweet Little Angel," "Sweet Sixteen," "My Own Fault," and "Downhearted (aka How Blue Can You Get?)" are presented, along with the cream of the crop of the rest of his early recordings. While there are certainly some great, even important, songs that didn't make the cut, there has never been an overview of this era that has been so succinct yet comprehensive (and it's also well annotated too, with good liner notes by Colin Escott). Serious collectors should invest either in Ace's excellent 2003 box King of the Blues or their ongoing LP reissue series, but all other fans should turn here to hear the best of B.B.'s earliest and arguably best work.
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