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Posts Tagged ‘Ray Charles’
Song of the Week #13: “Hallelujah, I Love Her So”
Written by admin on August 2, 2010 – 7:40 am -| Ray Charles’ rhythm and blues standard “Hallelujah, I Love Her So” is this week’s Song of the Week.
“Hallelujah, I Love Her So” was released in 1956 on Atlantic Records, backed with “What Would I Do Without You,” and was one of a string of R&B hits for Charles before his crossover success at the end of the decade. |
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Tags: Eddie Cochran, Hallelujah I Love Her So, Jerry Reed, Peggy Lee, Ray Charles, stevie wonder
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Happy Fourth of July
Written by admin on July 4, 2010 – 3:51 pm -Happy Fourth of July to all our American readers.
Here’s a trio of great American songs to mark America’s Birthday.
Ray Charles – “America the Beautiful”
The words to America the Beautiful were written by Katharine Lee Bates in 1895. The song didn’t come together as “America the Beautiful” until 1910 when the words were added to music that Samuel A. Ward had written for the hymn “O’ Mother dear, Jerusalem” in 1882.
Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles
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Thirty years of the Blues Brothers
Written by admin on June 28, 2010 – 9:45 pm - |
This month marks 30 years since the release of The Blues Brothers. The Blues Brothers opened on June 20, 1980 and was the tenth most popular movie of 1980, with an international box office of around $115 million. |
Tags: aretha franklin, Ray Charles, The Blues Brothers
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Pop legends say “Things Go Better with Coke”
Written by admin on April 8, 2010 – 4:46 pm -Before the New Seekers had the world singing along to “I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke” in 1971, dozens of the biggest artists of the 1960s, including Marvin Gaye, Tom Jones, The Supremes and Roy Orbison, had recorded a Coca-Cola jingle as part of the “Things Go Better with Coke” campaign.
Tags: aretha franklin, Connie Francis, Everly Brothers, marvin gaye, Ray Charles, Roy Orbison, The Four Seasons, The Moody Blues, The Shirelles, the supremes, The Troggs, Tom Jones
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Ray Charles musical heading for Broadway
Written by admin on March 12, 2010 – 11:08 pm -A musical celebrating Ray Charles will open on Broadway on November 7th, with preview performances beginning October 8th.
The musical, titled “Unchain My Heart,” was originally staged at the Pasadena Playhouse in 2007 with the title “Ray Charles Live! A New Musical.”
Tags: Ray Charles
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