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Ray!: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

by Ray Charles
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Product Details

Media: Audio CD
Release Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Label: Rhino Records
Average Customer Review: 4.5 Based on 48 reviews.
Sales Rank: 83

Tracks

1.	Hit The Road Jack (Studio)
2.	Unchain My Heart (Studio)
3.	I Can't Stop Loving You
4.	Born To Lose (Studio)
5.	Bye Bye Love (Studio)
6.	You Don't Know Me (Live)
7.	Let The Good Times Roll (Live)
8.	Georgia On My Mind (Studio)
9.	What'd I Say(Live)
10.	Hard Times (Studio)
11.	Marianne (Studio)
12.	Night Time Is The Right Time (Studio)
13.	Drown In My Own Tears
14.	Hallelujah I Love Her So (Live)
15.	I Got A Woman
16.	Mess Around (Studio)
17.	I Can't Stop Loving You
18.	What'd I Say(Live)
19.	You Don't Know Me (Live)
20.	Georgia On My Mind (Live)

Editorial Review

Soul and R&B legend Ray Charles may not have lived to see the success of Hollywood's ultimate tribute to him, but director Taylor Hackford's biopic (featuring a landmark performance by Jamie Foxx as the musical legend) will further burnish his legacy as one of the cornerstones of contemporary American music. Though it stretches from 1953's ecstatic, proto-soul "Mess Around" to a sublime, bluesy live take of "Georgia on My Mind" recorded in Japan in the mid-'70s, this 17-track song-score can only be an inviting appetizer to the singer's epochal body of work. Charles's artistry may have virtually defined soul music, yet it also triumphed in genres as far afield as blues ("Nightime Is the Right Time") and country ("I Can't Stop Loving You," "Bye Bye Love") during the '60s, the impossibly rich era from which the bulk of this soundtrack is culled. Crucially, fully a third of the cuts here are live recordings--including electrifying 1965 performances of "What'd I Say," "You Don't Know Me," and "Hallelujah I Love Her So" hand-picked for the film by Charles himself--the forum in which the singer consistently operated on a whole other artistic plateau from mere mortals. -- Jerry McCulley

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Ray!: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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