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My World is an album by the American musician Ray Charles, released in 1993. [2] [3] Charles incorporated elements of gospel, funk, and New jack swing. [4] The album peaked at No. 145 on the Billboard 200. [5] "A Song for You" won a Grammy Award, in the "Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male" category. [6]
"Hallelujah I Love Her So" is a single by American musician Ray Charles. The rhythm and blues song was written and released by Charles in 1956 on the Atlantic label, and in 1957 it was included on his self-titled debut LP, also released on Atlantic. The song peaked at number five on the Billboard R&B chart.
1963: The Ray Charles Story, Volume Three (Atlantic) 1964: The Ray Charles Story, Volume Four (Atlantic) 1967: A Man And His Soul (ABC) 1970: The Best of Ray Charles (Atlantic) (BPI: Silver) [11] 1971: A 25th Anniversary in Show Business Salute to Ray Charles (ABC) 1973: Ray Charles Live (Atlantic) 1978: The Tender Side of Ray Charles (Suffolk ...
[11] [33] Later that year, he released his first country song (a cover of Hank Snow's "I'm Movin' On") and recorded three more albums for the label: a jazz record (The Genius After Hours, 1961); a blues record (The Genius Sings the Blues, 1961); and a big band record (The Genius of Ray Charles, 1959) which was his first Top 40 album, peaking at ...
In 1954 Charles began merging gospel sounds and instruments with lyrics that addressed more secular issues. His first attempt was in the song "I Got a Woman", based either on the melodies from the gospel songs, The Southern Tones "It Must Be Jesus" or an uptempo, "I Got a Savior (Way Across Jordan)". It was the first Ray Charles record that got ...
From the Pages of My Mind is an album by the American musician Ray Charles, released in 1986. [1] [2] It was Charles's final album dedicated to country music. [3] From the Pages of My Mind peaked at No. 16 on the Top Country Albums chart. [4] "Class Reunion" was released as a single. [5]
Ray Charles (born Charles Raymond Offenberg; September 13, 1918 – April 6, 2015) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, vocal arranger and conductor who was best known as organizer and leader of the Ray Charles Singers, who accompanied Perry Como on his records and television shows for 35 years [1] [2] and were also known for a series of 30 choral record albums produced in the 1950s ...
True Genius is a box set of material by American musician Ray Charles, first released on September 10, 2021, by Tangerine Records, as a six-CD collection. [1] The set contains 90 remastered tracks by Charles, as well as eight previously unreleased songs, which were recorded live in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1972. [1]