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 ).

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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.

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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 ".

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* 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 )

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In his first home game as the Padres ' new owner in 1974, Ray Kroc grabbed the public address system microphone and apologized to fans for the poor performance of the team, saying, " I have never seen such stupid ballplaying in my life.

On the Indigo Girls album 1200 Curfews ( Disc 2 ) Amy Ray starts the song " Land of Cannaan " ( which originally was on their 1987 Strange Fire album ) by saying " When I first wrote this song it was a ballad, and then I heard The Replacements, and it wasn't any more.

Of this infatuation, Keynes had written " I seem to have fallen in love with Ray a little bit, but as she isn't male I haven't able to think of any suitable steps to take.

Once Ray had heard Unwin talking he said simply: " I want him in the series.

In the Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451, some of the character Beatty's last words are " There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, for I am armed so strong in honesty that they pass me as an idle wind, which I respect not!

Ray Charles is often cited as inventing the soul genre with his string of hits starting with 1954's " I Got a Woman ".

Every now and then we then one thing hard-for example one week we were mad on Cat's cradle – at least Rivers, Ray and I were-McDougall soon fell victim and even Myers eventually succumbed.

Another example is a 1979 recording by Ray Stevens titled " I Need Your Help, Barry Manilow " where the song's intro is reminiscent of Manilow's hit, " I Write the Songs " and the vocal performance, melody, and name-dropping of Manilow song titles is a pastiche of Barry Manilow.

Morrison's father had what was at the time one of the largest record collections in Ulster ( acquired during his sojourn in Detroit, Michigan in the early 1950s ), and the young Morrison grew up listening to artists such as Jelly Roll Morton, Ray Charles, Lead Belly, and Solomon Burke ; of whom Morrison later said, " If it weren't for guys like Ray and Solomon, I wouldn't be where I am today.

* " I Miss A Friend Like You " from The Gospel Record, Shaking Ray Records, 2005

In Gnosis I, Boris Mouravieff corresponds the solfege to the descending scale of the Ray of Creation from esoteric cosmology, presenting the following:

When asked by Ross what he thought about making an E. T .- based video game, Atari CEO Ray Kassar replied, " I think it's a dumb idea.

", her version of the Ray Charles song " What ’ d I Say ", was released.

According to Mike Evans in his book Ray Charles: The Birth of Soul ( 2007 ), the singer developed his hit " What'd I Say " as part of an after-show jam in Brownsville in December 1958.

In 1960, they refused to release " Tell Laura I Love Her " by Ray Peterson and even destroyed thousands of copies of the single.

" I was so nervous I couldn't sing ," he told the journalist Ray Connolly, " but I like the lyrics.