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 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 )

* 1971 – Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.

* 1971 – Ray Sefo, New Zealand kickboxer

FXRH ( Special Effects by Ray Harryhausen ) ( 1971 – 1976 ) was a specialized zine co-created by future Hollywood FX artist Ernest D. Farino.

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.

* In the song 20th Century Man from the Kinks ' 1971 album Muswell Hillbillies, Ray Davies lists Gainsborough as one of the painters he prefers to " your smart modern painters.

* Ray Durham ( born 1971 ), American baseball player

The town has had a building boom since the completion of Lake Ray Hubbard in 1971 – growing to 1, 600 by 1973 ; 10, 573 by 1989 ; 23, 260 by 1990 ; and 44, 503 by 2000.

The book has been reprinted many times: in 1953 by Galaxy, in 1957 and 1964 by Bantam, in 1958 and 1982 by Corgi as the first British edition, in 1968 by Sidgwick & Jackson in hardcover, in 1969, 1972, 1974 ( both paper and hard cover editions ) and 1981 by Sphere Science Fiction, in 1971 and 1975 by Fawcett Books, in 1983 by Del Ray Books, in 1986 in hardcover by Grafton and in 1990 again by Doubleday in hardcover ; in addition, it was reprinted as part of the Empire series, in 1986 by Ballantine Books, in 1992 by Spectra and in 2010 by Orb Books, in both print and Kindle editions.

Teilhard's term recurs in later writings, such as those of John Godolphin Bennett ( 1965 ), John David Garcia ( 1971 ), Paolo Soleri ( 1981 ), Frank Tipler ( 1994 ), and Ray Kurzweil, as well as in science fiction literature.

Introducing a new name, " Sting Ray ", the 1963 model was the first year for a Corvette coupe and it featured a distinctive tapering rear deck ( a feature that reappeared on the 1971 " Boattail " Buick Riviera ) with, for 1963 only, a split rear window.

Stockley joined rock group Axiom, which had top ten hits with " Arkansas Grass " and " A Little Ray Of Sunshine ", before they disbanded in 1971.

* Numerous well-known snooker players come from the town, the best-known being Ray Edmonds ( b 1936 ), Dean Reynolds ( b 1963 ), Mike Hallett ( b 1959 ), and Sean Storey ( b 1971 ).

This group produced a number of records for Blue Note, disbanding in 1969, after which Mitchell joined and toured with Ray Charles till 1971.

Selleck was married to model Jacqueline Ray from 1971 to 1982, a marriage during which he adopted her son, Kevin ( born 1966 ), from a previous marriage.

Daliah Lavi recorded a successful German version of the song in 1971 and Ray Charles released a cover ( as " Look What They've Done To My Song, Ma ") in 1972.

The Datapoint 2200 was a mass-produced programmable terminal, designed by Phil Ray and Gus Roche, announced by Computer Terminal Corporation ( CTC ) in June, 1970 ( with units shipping in 1971 ).

Besides Dick Enberg and Rod Hundley ( who worked with Merle Harmon on the January 7, 1973 contest between Kansas and Notre Dame ), other broadcast teams for TVS ' college basketball coverage included John Ferguson and Joe Dean ( who called the February 21, 1970 contest between Kentucky and LSU ), Monte Moore and Ed Macauley ( who called the January 2, 1971 contest between Dayton and UCLA ), Charlie Jones and Elgin Baylor ( who called the January 26, 1972 contest between Providence and USC ), Ray Scott and Bill O ' Donnell ( who called the January 14, 1973 contest between SW Louisiana and Oral Roberts ), Al Michaels and Tom Hawkins ( who called the January 26, 1974 contest between Notre Dame and UCLA ), and Jay Randolph and Billy Packer ( who called the November 17, 1979 contest between Duke and Kentucky and November 22, 1980 contest between DePaul and Louisville ).

Cast members throughout the program's 40-year run included Bob Bell as Bozo ( 1960 – 1984 ), Ned Locke as Ringmaster Ned ( 1961 – 1976 ), Don Sandburg as Sandy the Tramp ( 1961 – 1969 ), Ray Rayner as Oliver O. Oliver ( 1961 – 1971 ), Roy Brown as Cooky the Cook ( 1968 – 1994 ), Marshall Brodien as Wizzo the Wizard ( 1968 – 1994 ), Frazier Thomas as the circus manager ( 1976 – 1985 ), Joey D ' Auria as Bozo ( 1984 – 2001 ), Andy Mitran as Professor Andy ( 1987 – 2001 ) and Robin Eurich as Rusty the Handyman ( 1994 – 2001 ).

F & SF assembled more than a dozen special issues devoted to a single author, beginning with a special issue on Theodore Sturgeon ( September 1962 ), followed by Ray Bradbury ( May 1963 ), Isaac Asimov ( October 1966 ), Fritz Leiber ( July 1969 ), Poul Anderson ( April 1971 ), James Blish ( April 1972 ), Frederik Pohl ( September 1973 ), Robert Silverberg ( April 1974 ), Damon Knight ( November 1976 ), Harlan Ellison ( July 1977 ), Stephen King ( December 1990 ), Lucius Shepard ( March 2001 ), Kate Wilhelm ( September 2001 ), Barry N. Malzberg ( June 2003 ) and Gene Wolfe ( April 2007 ).

For example, he joined other notable jazz musicians ( including Ray Brown and Jimmy Rowles ) in playing Doug Goodwin's music for the cartoon series The Ant and the Aardvark ( 1969 – 1971 ).

* 1971 Ray Henderson

BBN helped develop e-mail and, in 1971, one of BBN's researchers, Ray Tomlinson, chose the "@" sign for e-mail addresses.

The Rosemary Hill Observatory ( RHO ) started observing 3C 279 in 1971, and was further observed by the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory in 1991, when it was unexpectedly discovered to be one of the brightest gamma ray objects in the sky.

From 1971 to 1973, Ray taught filmmaking where he and his students produced We Can't Go Home Again, an autobiographical film employing multiple superimpositions.