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 ".

* 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 )

Longtime friend Billy Ray Cyrus, singer of Brother Clyde, released their self-titled debut album on August 10, 2010.

" Gaye's main musical influences were Rudy West of The Five Keys, Clyde McPhatter, Ray Charles and Little Willie John.

Notable athletes within the list include NFL players Wilson Whitley, Glenn Montgomery, Alfred Oglesby, Craig Veasey, Donnie Avery, David Klingler, Kevin Kolb, Sebastian Vollmer, and Heisman Trophy winner Andre Ware ; baseball stars Doug Drabek, Michael Bourn, and Brad Lincoln ; golfers Fred Couples, Billy Ray Brown, Steve Elkington, and Fuzzy Zoeller ; track and field legends Carl Lewis and Leroy Burrell ; NBA legends Hakeem " The Dream " Olajuwon, Clyde " The Glide " Drexler and " The Big E " Elvin Hayes as well as Bo Outlaw, Don Chaney, Michael Young, Damon Jones, Carl Herrera and Otis Birdsong ; and legendary Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry.

Set in 1950s London it starred James Clyde, Anita Graham, Jamie Oliver, Ian Jentle, Oliver Smith and Ray Winstone.

Notable shooting guards include current NBA players Ray Allen, Manu Ginóbili, Vince Carter, Dwyane Wade, Joe Johnson, Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady, Richard Hamilton, Monta Ellis and former players Michael Jordan, Clyde Drexler, Sam Jones, Earl Monroe, Reggie Miller and Jerry West.

Notable shooting guards: Dwyane Wade, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Jason Terry, Tracy McGrady, Richard Hamilton, Reggie Miller, Ray Allen, Clyde Drexler, Jerry West.

In his search for a temporary replacement, Rickey had been rebuffed by former New York Yankees manager Joe McCarthy and two of Durocher's coaches, Clyde Sukeforth ( who managed the first two games of the season on an emergency basis ) and Ray Blades.

So many performers refused to participate in the project that Goldwyn actually considered Jackie Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson and singer Clyde McPhatter for major roles.

They include: Dean Jeffries ' " Manta Ray ," Larry Stellings ' " Britannica ," the Greer, Black and Prudhomme fuel dragster " Freida "-driven by Don Prudhomme, ' TV ' Tommy Ivo's fuel dragster and four-Buick-engined " Showboat " dragster-the one Clyde drives to a new speed record.

Notable guest stars included Rachel Ticotin, Ray Wise, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Patricia Wettig, Tom Atkins, Kurtwood Smith, Robert Vaughn, Stuart Pankin, Steven Williams, Marcia Strassman, Eugene Roche, Gregg Henry, Lori Petty, Samantha Eggar, Jeff Altman, Shannon Tweed, Dennis Christopher, Doug Savant, Jeff Conaway, Joseph Ruskin, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, John Amos, and Clyde Kusatsu.

Dr. Ray is a Fellow of the Foundation -- appointed thrice to assist his studies of William Makepeace Thackeray and of H. G. Wells -- and, before his appointment to the Foundation's executive staff, had been given our highest scholarly accolade, appointment to the Advisory Board.

There, they hoped to find Descartes material that had not been contaminated by ejecta from South Ray Crater, a large crater south of the landing site.

During the third and final lunar excursion of the mission, astronauts Young and Duke were to explore North Ray Crater, the largest of any of the craters any Apollo expedition had visited.

After Ray Wallace's death, his children came forward with a pair of wooden feet, which they said their father had used to fake the Bigfoot tracks in 1958.

Shortstop Ray Chapman, who often crowded the plate, was batting against Carl Mays, who had an unusual underhand delivery.

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.

Around the same time, East Bay Ray had tried to pressure the rest of the band to sign to the major record label Polydor Records ; Biafra stated that he was prepared to leave the group if the rest of the band wanted to sign to the label, though East Bay Ray asserts that he recommended against signing with Polydor.

Biafra claims that guitarist East Bay Ray had long expressed displeasure with Alternative Tentacles and with the amount of money he received from them, thus the original incentive for the discovery of the back payments.

In 1992, the team acquired Ray Sheppard, who had a career-best 52 goals two years later ; and in ' 93, top defenseman Paul Coffey.

One of the most famous was The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) from critically acclaimed Bengali film director Satyajit Ray, whose films had a profound influence on world cinema, with directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, James Ivory, Abbas Kiarostami, Elia Kazan, François Truffaut, Steven Spielberg ,< ref name = unmaderay >

Bradbury often attended meetings with his friend Ray Harryhausen ; the two Rays had been introduced to each other by Ackerman.

From then on, he used ' Ray ', after " having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family before him ".

After he left Dead Kennedys, he took over the influential independent record label Alternative Tentacles, which he had co-founded in 1979 with Dead Kennedys bandmate East Bay Ray.

As a result of NHC's forecasts there had been a massive evacuation of New Orleans amid warnings ( for example from the city's mayor, Ray Nagin ) that this would be the “ storm of the century ”, potentially more devastating than Katrina almost exactly three years earlier, but these fears were not realised.

After the death of Ray Wallace in 2002, following a request by Loren Coleman to Seattle Times reporter Bob Young to investigate, the family of Wallace went public with claims that he had started the Bigfoot phenomenon with fake footprints ( made from a wooden foot-shaped cutout ) left in Californian sites in 1958.

Benaud was another contender with 219 wickets, but it was Statham who broke the record ( only to be overtaken by Trueman in New Zealand ) and Benaud had to be content with breaking Ray Lindwall's Australian record of 228 Test wickets.

James became a leading member of the Carry On films team, originally to replace Ted Ray who had appeared in Carry On Teacher in 1959.

It was intended that Ray would become a recurring Carry On star, but he had been dropped after just one film because of contract problems ( he was contracted to ABC films who had never used him ).

The team also had a solid but not stellar supporting cast including Marquis Grissom ( 22, 90,. 279 ) and Pedro Feliz ( 22, 84,. 276 ), along with decent showings by Ray Durham, Edgardo Alfonzo, Michael Tucker and AJ Pierzynski.

Lionel Aldridge had replaced Quinlan, but Jordan and Davis still anchored the defensive line, linebacker Ray Nitschke excelled at run stopping and pass coverage, while the secondary was led by defensive backs Herb Adderley and Willie Wood.

Later in the period, the Vikings had a great opportunity to score when linebacker Fred McNeill blocked a punt from punter Ray Guy and recovered it on the Raiders 3-yard line.