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 )

Johnny Ray, at the same L. R., has something to cry about.

The contract with Ray Field, who has been converting the agencies electronic data processing program to magnetic tape, would renew his present salary of $8 an hour up to a maximum of 200 hours a month.

To date, one Major League player has died as a result of being struck by a pitch: Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit in the head by Carl Mays on August 16, 1920, and died the next morning.

Ray Magliozzi has a bachelor of science degree in humanities and science from MIT, while Tom has a bachelor of science degree in economics from MIT and an MBA and DBA from the Boston University Graduate School of Management.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Sitch has claimed that none of the characters were directly based on a single person, and indeed the character of Moore was a combination of well-known characteristics of several high-profile television figures, including A Current Affair host Ray Martin, Martin's predecessor Mike Willesee, and Real Life host Stan Grant.

This prediction has attracted debate and criticism from the AI research community, and some of its more notable members, such as Kevin Warwick, Bill Joy, Ken MacLeod, Ray Kurzweil, Hans Moravec, and Roger Penrose, have voiced their opinions on whether or not this future is likely.

In an anecdote Jarmusch has recounted of the formative experience of showing his mentor his first script, Ray disapproved of its lack of action, to which Jarmusch responded after meditating on the critique by reworking the script to be even less eventful.

" He has also cited filmmakers like Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini as a major influence on his career.

The song has been covered by artists such as Geri Halliwell, Megadeth, Jessica Simpson, Lil ' Kim, Little Birdy, Billy Ray Cyrus, Faster Pussycat, KMFDM, Symarip, Operation Ivy and the Del Rubio Triplets and The Supremes.

In the primary logo, designed by sports cartoonist Ray Gatto, each part of the skyline has special meaning — at the left is a church spire, symbolic of Brooklyn, the borough of churches ; the second building from the left is the Williamsburg Savings Bank, the tallest building in Brooklyn ; next is the Woolworth Building ; after a general skyline view of midtown comes the Empire State Building ; at the far right is the United Nations Building.

Ray tracing hardware, such as the experimental Ray Processing Unit developed at the Saarland University, has been designed to accelerate some of the computationally intensive operations of ray tracing.

Among recent authors, John Ray has stated that " the hieroglyphs were the most important of the scripts on the stone: they were there for the gods to read, and the more learned of their priesthood ".

As John Ray has observed, " the day may come when the stone has spent longer in the British Museum than it ever did in Rosetta.

Although the series used more composers than any other Star Trek series ( Dennis McCarthy, Jay Chattaway, David Bell, Paul Baillargeon, Velton Ray Bunch, Brian Tyler, Mark McKenzie, John Frizzell and Kevin Kiner ), only McCarthy's score for the pilot has been released.

Yuval Gabay formed the band UV Ray and has been recording and touring with Bristol-based Roni Size and Reprazent.

SMTP can trace its roots to two implementations described in 1971, the Mail Box Protocol, which has been disputed to actually have been implemented, but is discussed in RFC 196 and other RFCs, and the SNDMSG program, which, according to RFC 2235, Ray Tomlinson of BBN " invents " for TENEX computers the sending of mail across the ARPANET.

As of 2008, it has sold over four million copies in the U. S. The first single, the multi-format duet " Party for Two ", made the country top ten with Billy Currington, while the pop version with Sugar Ray lead singer Mark McGrath made top ten in the United Kingdom and Germany.

Joanna Rapf adds that Kazan was most admired for his close work with actors, noting that director Nicholas Ray considered him " the best actor's director the United States has ever produced.

His boss is telling Ray that he has been promoted to Vice President, and offers to buy him a drink.

The American alternative rock band Pixies has also recorded songs called " Manta Ray " and " Dancing the Manta Ray.