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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: ratioci nation on June 10, 2004, 03:49:00 pm
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he is
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I was just about to post this:
Grammy-Winning Crooner Ray Charles Dies
(AP, 06/10/2004 2:42 PM)
Ray Charles , the Grammy-winning crooner who blended gospel and blues in such crowd-pleasers as "What'd I Say" and heartfelt ballads like "Georgia on My Mind," died Thursday, a spokesman said. He was 73.
Charles died at his Beverly Hills home surrounded by family and friends, said spokesman Jerry Digney.
Charles last public appearance was alongside Clint Eastwood on April 30, when the city of Los Angeles designated the singer's studios, built 40 years ago in central Los Angeles, as a historic landmark.
Blind by age 7 and an orphan at 15, Charles spent his life shattering any notion of musical boundaries and defying easy definition. A gifted pianist and saxophonist, he dabbled in country, jazz, big band and blues, and put his stamp on it all with a deep, warm voice roughened by heartbreak from a hardscrabble childhood in the segregated South.
"His sound was stunning â?? it was the blues, it was R&B, it was gospel, it was swing â?? it was all the stuff I was listening to before that but rolled into one amazing, soulful thing," singer Van Morrison told Rolling Stone magazine in April.
Charles won nine of his 12 Grammy Awards between 1960 and 1966, including the best R&B recording three consecutive years ("Hit the Road Jack," "I Can't Stop Loving You" and "Busted").
His versions of other songs are also well known, including "Makin' Whoopee" and a stirring "America the Beautiful." Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell wrote "Georgia on My Mind" in 1931 but it didn't become Georgia's official state song until 1979, long after Charles turned it into an American standard.
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I wonder who # 3 is going to be?
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Elvis Costello.
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now that would be poetic justice.
i actually read this a little while ago while lurking on another chatboard, but couldn't find confirmation.
Originally posted by thirsty moore:
Elvis Costello.
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Now we gotta listen to this for a couple of days.....OYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!, Maybe they'll name the music awards after him, or the Pentagon.
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Originally posted by Bollocks:
I wonder who # 3 is going to be?
the pope?
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Wow, if my math is right, this means he was a heroin addict at 14. That rivals Steve Earle.
Charles was no angel. He could be mercurial and his womanizing was legendary. He also struggled with a heroin addiction for nearly 20 years before quitting cold turkey in 1965 after an arrest at the Boston airport.
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Originally posted by Rob_Gee_a.k.a _Guiny:
Now we gotta listen to this for a couple of days.....OYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!, Maybe they'll name the music awards after him, or the Pentagon.
Don't worry Guiny, they won't stop your Reagan coverage for this.
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Dammit Pollard, I want to be the person who gives the news of the recently deceased! :)
he is
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Originally posted by palahniukkubrick:
Dammit Pollard, I want to be the person who gives the news of the recently deceased! :)
oh sorry, can you let us know when the Pope or Elvis Costello die then, thanks ;)
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I always liked Ray Charles, even before being completely won over by his skit in the Blues Brothers. Umm, its about time to hunt down a copy and watch it again.
He was the oldest looking 73 year old I have ever seen though. Perhaps he was 73, 10 years ago?
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Originally posted by Rob_Gee_a.k.a _Guiny:
Now we gotta listen to this for a couple of days.....OYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!, Maybe they'll name the music awards after him, or the Pentagon.
Were they to name a musical award after him, it would be much more fitting and deserving than putting a certain someone on the Dime.
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Originally posted by pollard:
Originally posted by palahniukkubrick:
Dammit Pollard, I want to be the person who gives the news of the recently deceased! :)
oh sorry, can you let us know when the Pope or Elvis Costello die then, thanks ;) [/b]
will do.
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His Pepsi comercials were my favorite.
"You got the right one baby"
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Originally posted by Rob_Gee_a.k.a _Guiny:
Now we gotta listen to this for a couple of days.....OYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!, Maybe they'll name the music awards after him, or the Pentagon.
While the republicans are in power there'll be nothing named after no dumb nig......I mean African American. We got token Rice and Uncle Tom Powell.
Isn't that right Messrs Bush, Cheney and Asscrotch.
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Morrissey said he wished Stevie Wonder had died instead.
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Originally posted by Bollocks:
Originally posted by Rob_Gee_a.k.a _Guiny:
Now we gotta listen to this for a couple of days.....OYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!, Maybe they'll name the music awards after him, or the Pentagon.
While the republicans are in power there'll be nothing named after no dumb nig......I mean African American. We got token Rice and Uncle Tom Powell.
Isn't that right Messrs Bush, Cheney and Asscrotch. [/b]
What a dumb comment . . .