| Gold | |
| Type: | compilation |
| Artist: | Etta James |
| Cover: | Etta_James.AlbumCover.Gold.jpg |
| Border: | yes |
| Released: | January 30, 2007 |
| Recorded: | Various |
| Genre: | Blues, jazz, R&B, soul |
| Length: | 1hr, 56min |
| Label: | Hip-O Records/Chess Records |
| Producer: | Andy McKaie[1] |
| Prev Year: | 2006 |
| Next Title: | Who's Blue?: Rare Chess Recordings of the 60s and 70s |
| Next Year: | 2011 |
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.
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 | 1955 | ||
| 3 | "Tough Lover" | 2:10 | Etta James, Joe Josea | 1956 | |
| 4 | "All I Could Do Was Cry" | 2:57 | 1960 | ||
| 5 | "If I Can't Have You" | 3:01 | Harvey Fuqua, Etta James | 1960 | |
| 6 | "My Dearest Darling" | 3:04 | 1960 | ||
| 7 | "A Sunday Kind of Love" | 3:18 | Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Louis Prima, Stan Rhodes | 1961 | |
| 8 | "At Last" | 3:01 | 1961 | ||
| 9 | "Trust in Me" | 3:00 | 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 | 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 | 1962 | |
| 15 | "Stop the Wedding" | 2:52 | Freddy Johnson, Kirkland, Woods | 1962 | |
| 16 | "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" | 3:59 | 1962 | ||
| 17 | "Pushover" | 2:56 | 1963 | ||
| 18 | "Baby What You Want Me to Do" | 4:17 | 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 | 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 | style="text-align: center;" | - | |
| 10 | "Feeling Uneasy" | 2:48 | Lawrence, Mekler | style="text-align: center;" | - |
| 11 | "Let's Burn Down the Cornfield" | 3:43 | Newman | style="text-align: center;" | - |
| 12 | "Loving Arms" | 3:50 | 1974 | ||
| 13 | "Take it to the Limit" | 4:06 | style="text-align: center;" | - | |
| 14 | "Damn Your Eyes" | 4:11 | 1989 | ||
| 15 | "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" | 3:51 | 1990 | ||
| 16 | "The Man I Love" | 4:25 | 1994 | ||
| 17 | "The Blues is My Business" | 3:32 | 2003 | ||
| 18 | "The Sky is Crying" | 3:58 | 2004 |