Ray Charles is credited with the song's most well known rendition in current times ( although Elvis Presley had success with it in the 1970s ).

Category: Ray Charles songs

He wanted to develop collaborations between soul singers and rock ' n ' roll, hoping to make an album with Ray Charles and gospel legend Mahalia Jackson.

Simon Frith identifies the origins of the power ballad in the emotional singing of soul artists, particularly Ray Charles and the adaptation of this style by figures such as Eric Burdon, Tom Jones and Joe Cocker to produce slow tempo songs often building to a loud and emotive chorus backed by drums, electric guitars and sometimes choirs.

Ray Charles also issued his Modern Sounds recordings, which departed from his well-known R & B and soul style to conceptually country music records.

Ackerman was credited with nurturing and even inspiring the careers of several early contemporaries like Ray Bradbury, Ray Harryhausen, Charles Beaumont, Marion Zimmer Bradley and L. Ron Hubbard.

Ray Charles,

For his appearance on the heavily collaborative track " Back on the Block ", a composition by jazz musician Quincy Jones that " attempt to bring together black musical styles from jazz to soul to funk to rap ", Ice-T won a Grammy Award for the Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, an award shared by others who worked on the track including Jones and fellow jazz musician Ray Charles.

Past winners have included Angela Lansbury ( 1988 ), Ray Charles ( 1991 ), Mel Tormé ( 1994 ), Bernadette Peters ( 1995 ), Frank Sinatra ( 2000 ), Stevie Wonder ( 2002 ), k. d.

Influenced by the crossover success of Ray Charles, Brown backed away from his musical roots and incorporated productions of pop standards, finding success with his first Top 20 single, " Prisoner of Love ".

* 1929 – Charles Ray Hatcher, American serial killer ( d. 1984 )

* 1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.

Various theological and philosophical aspects have been expanded and developed by Charles Hartshorne ( 1897 – 2000 ), John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin.

* " Ruby ", a 1960 song by Ray Charles

" He also cites Otis Rush, Ike Turner and Ray Charles, as R & B artists who employed this feel.

Ray Charles in 1971.

Ray Charles came to national prominence in 1955 with " I Got a Woman ".

An influential arena for the great split screen movies of the 1960s were two world's fairs-the 1964 New York World's Fair, where Ray and Charles Eames had a 17-screen film they created for IBM's " Think " Pavilion ( it included sections with race car driving ) and the 3-division film To Be Alive, by Francis Thompson, which won the Academy Award that year for Best Short.

* 1930 – Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor ( d. 2004 )

Some tracks from an abandoned album dedicated to Sun Ra and Ray Charles have also surfaced.

The music in the film is performed by various artists, such as Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Bing Crosby, and Harry Connick, Jr ..

Jazz stars in the 1950s who came into prominence in their genres called Bebop, Hard bop, Cool jazz and the Blues, at this time included Lester Young, Ben Webster, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Art Tatum, Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, Oscar Peterson, Gil Evans, Jerry Mulligan, Cannonball Adderley, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Art Blakey, Max Roach, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, and Billie Holiday.

* November 23 – Charles Ray, American actor ( b. 1891 )

* 1930 – Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer ( d. 2006 )

* June 10 – Ray Charles, American singer and musician ( b. 1930 )

The biopic Ray, released in October 2004, portrays his life and career between 1930 and 1979 and stars Jamie Foxx as Charles.

* Ray Charles autobiography: The Early Years 1930 – 1960

In 1930, he was spotted and signed to accompany both Roy Fox's and Ray Noble's orchestras that November.

In the 1930s, he signed two contracts — one in May 1931 with Roy Fox, singing in his live band for the Monseigneur Restaurant in London, the other a record contract with Ray Noble's orchestra in November 1930.

The Smith – Morra is named after two players, Pierre Morra from France ( 1900 – 69 ), and Kenneth Ray Smith of the Dallas Chess Club ( 1930 – 99 ).

Ray Alan ( 18 September 1930 – 24 May 2010 ) was an English ventriloquist and television entertainer from the 1950s until the 1980s.

In appreciation, Pound allegedly offered Brandt an introduction to Man Ray, in whose Paris studio Brandt would assist in 1930.

He visited his father in France in 1930, where he met many artists, including Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, Alberto Giacometti, André Masson, Joan Miró, Man Ray and Yves Tanguy.

Sir Raymond " Ray " William Whitney, OBE ( 28 November 1930 – 15 August 2012 ) was a British Conservative politician and Member of Parliament.

Leonard Ray Blanton ( April 10, 1930 – November 22, 1996 ) was the 44th Governor of Tennessee from 1975 to 1979.

* Ray Price ( speechwriter ) ( born 1930 ), U. S. President Richard M. Nixon's chief speechwriter from 1969 to 1974

Bernie Naylor Medalists: ( 18 total ) 1894: W. Duffy ( 15 ), 1898: H. Loel ( N / A ), 1899: H. Loel ( 50 ), 1900: A. Daly ( 30 ), 1901: H. Loel ( 45 ), 1902: H. Loel ( 35 ), 1903: T. McNamara ( 32 ), 1911: William Bellion ( 30 ), 1925: Ted Flemming ( 50 ), 1930: Frank Hopkins ( 79 ), 1932: Ted Tyson ( 96 ), 1936: Ted Tyson ( 126 ), 1942: Ted Brunton ( 94 ), 1945: Bill Baker ( 91 ), 1951: Ray Scott ( 141 ), 1955: Ray Scott ( 83 ), 1963: Ron Evans ( 97 ), 1973: Phil Smith ( 84 )

* June 10 – Ray Charles, musician ( b. 1930 )

* Ray Williams ( footballer born 1930 ), footballer who played for Tranmere Rovers

Ray Malavasi ( November 8, 1930 – December 15, 1987 ) was an football coach who served as head coach of two National Football League teams: the Denver Broncos and the Los Angeles Rams.

* 1964 – Amy Ray, American singer-songwriter ( Indigo Girls )

* 1890 – Man Ray, American photographer and artist ( d. 1976 )

* 1941 – Ray Culp, American baseball player

* 1972 – Ray Lucas, American football player

* 1954 – Ray Jennings, South African cricketer and coach

Still captained by Bradman and now featuring the potent new ball partnership of Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller, Australia were convincing 3 – 0 winners.

In 1970 – 71, Ray Illingworth led England to a 2 – 0 win in Australia, mainly due to John Snow's fast bowling, and the prolific batting of Geoffrey Boycott and John Edrich.

* 1949 – Ray Nettles, American football player ( d. 2009 )

* 1911 – Nicholas Ray, American director and scenarist ( d. 1979 )

* 1908 – Ray Ventura, French bandleader ( d. 1979 )

* 1981 – Ray William Johnson, American comedian

* 1920 – Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day.

* 1961 – Billy Ray Cyrus, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

* 1968 – Rachael Ray, American chef, author, and television host

* 1988 – Ray Quinn, English singer, actor, and dancer

* 1974 – Ray Park, Scottish actor and martial artist

* 1978 – Jaime Ray Newman, American actress and singer

Following the death of Ray Wallace – a local logger – his family attributed the creation of the footprints to him.

The Valley Club ( CAFC Supporters Club ) was situated in Harvey Gardens behind the North Stand, and was managed by licensee Ray Donn from 1970 – 1984 the club had a full club licence supplying food and drink to its members and guests during match days and live entertainment, with cabaret and dancing every night of the week.

* The Ray Bradbury Theater ( 1992 ) – Polly in episode: " Tomorrow's Child "

* East Bay Ray – guitar ( 1978 – 1986, 2001 – present )