Ray Charles - The Origins (FULL ALBUM - GREATEST R&B SINGER EVER)

TRACKLIST
01- Georgia On My Mind 00:11
02- I Can't Stop Loving You 04:05
03- I Got A Woman 08:16
04- Ruby 11:12
05- Sweet Georgia Brown 15:05
06- Chattanooga Choo-Choo 17:37
07- The Man I Love 21:05
08- Ain't Misbehavin' 25:30
09- Soul Meeting 31:10
10- I'm Movin' On 37:10
11- Night Time Is The Right Time 39:21
12- Bags of Blues 42:48
13- Doodlin' 51:38
14- What'd I Say 57:32
15- Hallelujah I Love Her So 01:03:59
16- Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand 01:06:37
17- Alone in the City 01:09:39
18- How Long Blues 01:12:41
19- Confession Blues 01:15:15
20- I Love You, I Love You 01:17:43

Ray Charles - The Origins (FULL ALBUM)
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Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known professionally as Ray Charles, was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and composer. Among friends and fellow musicians he preferred being called "Brother Ray." He was often referred to as "The Genius." Charles was blind from the age of seven. He pioneered the genre of soul music during the 1950s by combining blues, rhythm and blues, and gospel styles into the music he recorded for Atlantic Records. He also contributed to the integration of country and rhythm and blues and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his two Modern Sounds albums. While he was with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be granted artistic control by a mainstream record company. Charles cited Nat King Cole as a primary influence, but his music was also influenced by country, jazz, blues, and rhythm and blues artists of the day, including Louis Jordan and Charles Brown. In the late forties, he became friends with Quincy Jones, to whom he learned the ropes of arranging jazz music. Their friendship would last till the end of Charles' life. Frank Sinatra called him "the only true genius in show business," although Charles downplayed this notion. In 2002, Rolling Stone ranked Charles at number ten on their list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time," and number two on their November 2008 list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time." Billy Joel observed: "This may sound like sacrilege, but I think Ray Charles was more important than Elvis Presley". In 1979, Charles was one of the first musicians born in the state to be inducted into the Georgia State Music Hall of Fame. Charles' version of "Georgia On My Mind" was also made the official state song for Georgia. In 1981 he was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was one of the first inductees to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at its inaugural ceremony in 1986. He also received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986. In 1987, he was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1991, he was inducted to the Rhythm & Blues Foundation and was presented with the George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement during the 1991 UCLA Spring Sing. In 1993, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. In 1998 he was awarded the Polar Music Prize together with Ravi Shankar in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2004 he was inducted to the National Black Sports & Entertainment Hall of Fame. The Grammy Awards of 2005 were dedicated to Charles. In 2003, Charles was awarded an honorary degree by Dillard University, and upon his death he endowed a professorship of African-American culinary history at the school, the first such chair in the nation. A $20 million performing arts center at Morehouse College was named after Charles and was dedicated in September 2010. The United States Postal Service issued a forever stamp honoring Ray Charles as part of its Musical Icons series on September 23, 2013. In 2016, US president Obama said that "Ray Charles's version of 'America the Beautiful' will always be in my view the most patriotic piece of music ever performed--because it captures the fullness of the American experience, the view from the bottom as well as the top, the good and the bad, and the possibility of synthesis, reconciliation, transcendence.

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