Music Legend Ray Charles Dies

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[HEY4QDEMS]

Posted as breaking on Fox News

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[Our man in washington]

Yesterday at the gate:

St. Peter: "Okay, I want you to move those purple mountains within sight of the gate, and get me some amber waves of grain right over here. And a Georgia landscape over there."

Junior angel: "Why all the work, boss?"

St. Peter: "Ray could make other people see those things. Now, it's his turn."

Thanks for the old sweet songs, Mr. Charles!

[GreenLanternCorps]

Tonight in Heaven: A Command Performance for the Almighty
by Mr. Ray Charles.

[Bobby777]

favorite RC song, "Shake a Tail Feather" from 'The Blues Brothers' ...

[cyborg]

Yeah Ray will be jamming with the angels.

[Huck]

He sorta reminds me of Rev Gary Davis a little, albeit not as coarse. I think their voices sound similar in a way. Or else I am nuts. They even look kinda similar.

http://www.revgarydavis.com/pix.html

[Ed Straker]

Funny joke, not offensive :

Ray's not only blind, he's deaf:

Hit the road Jack,
and dontcha come back, no more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road, Jack, and dontcha come back no more.

What you say?

[GreenLanternCorps]

Darn, you're making me tear up...

[Tribune7]

ping

[metesky]

A small taste of the Great One's diversity:

Cryin' Time

I Just Can't Get Enough of You

Georgia On My Mind

Seven Spanish Angels

Here We Go Again

[Lunatic Fringe]

At Ronald Reagan's first inauguration, the first lady wore a silver gown and Ray Charles sang "God Bless America."

[BagCamAddict]

BTW 11/05/2004 will not happen until about five months from now.

That's the european way to write the date.... so it's May 11, 2004.

[Reagan Man]

RIP Ray.

[Steve_Seattle]

"His rendition of "America the Beatiful" is an American treasure."

His version made my spine tingle, no matter how often I heard it. I think Ray and Sam Cooke were the two greatest [male] soul singers I ever heard

[FrankR]

Ray Charles, a great musician. He recorded one, or maybe two, country music albums, and they were great.

When I took piano lessons as a kid, my teacher would get upset, for instead of learning those boring scales, I would spend hours with my Sears record changer on the piano stool with me, and a 45 RPM of "What'd I Say", trying to learn the piano part...finally did, but it took a while.

Now, Ray can see, again.

[HEY4QDEMS]

That's the european way to write the date.... so it's May 11, 2004.

D'oh

[propertius]

I'm listening to Ray Charles sing "America the Beautiful" On Congolese television in a town which government troops have just liberated from renegade soldiers. Nothing for surreal than that. Nothing more comforting. RIP Ray.

[beckett]

He had a genuine modesty, an inner delight that always shone through, and a helluva lot of talent.

God bless you and Godspeed Ray Charles.

[wjcsux]

We lost another great American within a week. Ray Charles was the best R&B musician of all times.

[Huck]

Sam Cooke had a GREAT voice.

[Uncle Hal]

I agree. It would be nice if they played Ray Charles rendition of "America the Beautiful" at the Reagan funeral tomorrow at the National Cathedral.