Ray Charles Sings for America
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Artist: Ray Charles
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 081227609825
EAN: 0081227609825
ASIN: B00006HICB
Release Date: 2002-09-03 |
Ray Charles Sings for America
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Tracks:
- America the Beautiful
- Imagine (featuring The Harlem Gospel Singers)
- Let It Be
- New York's My Home
- Over the Rainbow
- That Lucky Old Sun
- Ol' Man River
- Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
- Take Me Home, Country Roads
- Ray Reflects on America
- My God and I
- Lift Every Voice and Sing
- There'll Be No Peace Without All Men as One
- Light Out of Darkness
- Heaven Help Us All
- Abraham, Martin and John
- Hey Mister
- Sail Away
- The Danger Zone
- God Bless America Again (previously unreleased, with Billy Preston and Slash)
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Album Description
Gathering 20 soulful recordings from albums and singles released between 1960-1997. Featuring a brand new (2002) track 'God Bless America Again' featuring an all-star cast of supporting musicians including Billy Preston and Slash.
Customer Reviews:
Ray Charles Sings for America.......2005-09-26
This is a great CD. The songs are by far some of his very
best work. We enjoyed it from start to finish.
Ray at his Patrotic Best.......2005-08-31
I am the typical patrotic American and I just loved this collection of Ray Charles. Everytime I hear it I get chills up an ddown my spine and a tear in my eye. I would recommend this to every and all Americans.
Only one.......2004-10-17
Yes a definite Legend!! There a singer in the U.K. named Elkie Brooks, I always felt a duet between Ray Charles and Elkie Brooks, would have been something else. Alas! not possible.
Lift Every Voice and Sing !.......2004-07-26
This CD is well worth the price for the classic Ray Charles singing America The Beautiful. His soulful versions of Randy Newman's Sail Away, John Denver's Take Me Home, Country Roads, John Lennon's Imagine (featuring the Harlem Gospel Singers), are added bonuses. He makes every one of these songs his own.
I decided to purchase this CD when I heard Ray's rockin' rendition of Lift Every Voice and Sing. Even the syrup-y strings and too-perfect background singers on Somewhere Over the Rainbow can't squelch the gritty soul when Brother Ray sings that old chestnut.
Ray Charles was a great man.......2004-06-14
He created soul. His rendition of America The Beautiful, and the fact he never sang The Star Spangled Banner is evidence we have our priorities out of whack in America. Ray had them straight. The land, the people, and their sacrifices are what matters.
The last person's comment talking about how great Reagan was is a slur towards Ray Charles. Don't dare do that to this great man.
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