Not sure what everyone else heard, I didn’t hear Margie sing one note, I heard her Soul speak from the deepest place a human can draw from. Pure emotion.
@@EricCole69 mostly yes but not totally ______ influenced by Ray many types of music exhibit great soul. Especially country music ____ CHRIS STAPLETON ___before him TRAVIS TRITT ___ BEFORE HIM HANK WILLIAMS JR. ____ JUST TO NAME A FEW
Factz. Notice the feeling you get from the live actual instruments being played and a real emotional voice no auto tune. Thats why the created artificial music.
Margie Hendrix’s vocals in this song is arguably the most intense vocal ever recorded. This a real feel good type of record, but Margie’s solo puts it over the top. You can actually feel the love she felt for this man through this verse, almost like she was speaking directly to his soul. Ray Charles was absolute genius for discovering her.
Sadly there's only a few that are carrying the torch and keeping this kind of music alive. The youth of today aren't interested in this kind of music. There's a few but not many.
My father just passed away two weeks ago from Alzheimer’s after a long battle and I remember him playing this song and dancing singing his heart out. I was in a store last night and it came on the radio and I danced my ass off through the whole store in honor of my father. Thank you dad for having excellent taste in music and making me not afraid to dance while everyone is looking. I know you saw me and laughed just like everyone else was in that store.
@@dennisp5725 . Thank you. I went out and bought the CD and I think I listen to this song at least three times a week and it makes me smile thinking of my father. I know he’s not suffering anymore and even though we miss him at least I have all these memories to remember him until we meet again.
I cannot get enough of Margie Hendrick's superlative vocals without which this song would be simply very good rather than iconic. Notice how she can scream "Baby" without losing any resonance or sounding nasal and she can repeat it several times. And you can hear the effortless melisma after each "Baby" which is sung quieter creating the effect of a dying scream. Her versatility is a joy to listen to. What a voice.
+TheMusicZone That's because Ray had sense enough to cut Margie loose on the song. When a bandleader trusts his musicians, magic happens. And Margie had more than enough magic to make this song eternal.
In 1953 I attended a Ray Charles concert in Ft Worth, Tx. He had the Rayelettes and the Red Prysock Orch. I must've been the only white guy at the performance. No black person bothered me in the least. I owned every album he recorded. This tune was covered by Rufus Thomas and his daughter Carla. Magic!!!.
+Robert Gough I still can't believe what has happened to bill Cosby- how could he have done this to this many women and it stayed as quiet as it did for so many years?
My mother gave me all my father records he died in 1980 she died in 2019 before she got sick we would sit together and listen to this record over and over rip mommy and daddy i dont have a record player to listen to this classic anymore but i still have the record ❤😊
Margie was singing to her man!!! Ray!!!!! they had an affair and a kid. His Wife Della knew about it, along with the other women. But yeah, margie Killed it. No doubt about it!!!!!
That would have to be my first introduction to Ray Charles.... That episode. I know I've never forgotten it. Thank God I have appreciation for him Now. He's always on my playlist.
I get goosebumps and cry every time I hear it. Her voice touches my soul with this song. Her and Ray Charles killed it! Still 🔥 after all these decades.
+Hartm-the-man And Regina King as Margie, when they performed this song in the film, looked like she could have just eaten him UP! Loved her performance in RAY.
I remember being a very young child and this woman named Ruth, who used to babysit me and my sisters, would play this on the turntable. Cigarette in one hand, drink in the other. Old raggedy slippers with the heel out...dancing around the house. That was 50+ years ago.
I remember my parents listening to this one; and it was definitely a "drink in one hand, a cigarette in the other hand" kinda' song. Mom was drinking Christian Brothers brandy and Daddy's glass had either Johnny Walker Red or Jim Beam. They used to drink it out of those little shot glasses. A shot glass didn't hold much liquor, but Mom and Dad kept refilling them.
TRIPLE AMEN! They don't make music like this any more, and very few people in modern times know anything about it and will never experience it. You had to of been born at the right time to know what this sound is all about! It's about the Living Soul of a person or persons speaking, the ACTUAL PERSON! The One who exists when the body has returned to dust! THAT PERSON!
As a white man, I am happy to listen to music made by this brilliant artist. Try to see how artists with all sorts of ethnic backgrounds respect each other.
In my opinion, Ray Charles was deeply rooted in the U.S. Many styles went back to Africa, and the loop was looped, with artists such as Féla Kuti for the Funk, Ali Farka Touré for the Blues, or Mulatu Astatké for that particular kind of Jazz that is Ethio Jazz, but I think that Blues and Jazz are American first.
@@pierric2748 to be fair, the origins of the music styles would be African American first but of course it is influenced by both cultures. She has a point though, black people did put the "soul" into American Music.
Ray Charles was a very determined and savvy man. No one helped him while he was out in the country. He did it ALL HIMSELF. I salute this remarkable man. Miss his genius. God Bless Ray Charles my favorite singer of my generation. So missed by many. 😢❤️
I love ray now and I feel so stupid for not knowing his genius I literally went and either downloaded or bought all of his albums and projects but I’ll be a real one and say I wouldn’t of done it if Jamie Foxx didn’t play him in a movie called Ray that changed my life as a person and artist
"Ray Charles was a genius, especially considering that he was blind". There is a big difference between this phrase and the one you wrote. I'm hoping that's what you meant and I'm sure it's so.
what stands out most to me about this song, this artist and this period in time is the roots of music. You can hear gospel, blues even a tinge of jazz in this song. This mixture of styles created an absolutely beautiful hybrid called soul.... 01:30
+jmovip It's back in the 1950s and 60s. Ray was one of true pioneers of rock and roll before there officially was rock and roll. Same with Big Joe Turner.
I can listen to this all day! Margie loved him fierce! The words "put no one above you..." damn makes me think of my old man who passed" Margie the Best of the best!!
classic blues nothing can match this. Ray is mastering that Wurlitzer . The whole arrangment from the drums to the sax to miss Margie's voice is just one greatest songs in the rock era. Excellent.
This song reminds me of that episode on the Cosby Show where Dr Huxtable, his wife and kids performed this song for their grandparents.Despite all the creepiness that has come out regarding Bill Cosby lately, he always featured great songs and artists on his show. The first time I heard this song was on the Cosby Show.
+clarice525 Bill Cosby has had his reputation smeared deliberately by some ugly old bitches who LIED and said he got them high and raped them. I don't believe any of them. And especially one bitch says it and then there are a hundred bitches saying it. And that makes it true? So why did they wait 50 years? IT'S ALL A LIE, HE IS INNOCENT!
John Kirk Ho hum. Do I care that Cosby is getting pilloried in the press? I certainly do not. It seems like the people who have the most shady behavior to hide, are the ones calling out others on their so-called behavior. Remember all those ugly rants Cosby went on about black young men? Those rants were hurtful and cruel, but Cosby enjoyed every moment of congratulation and applause that he received after running his mouth. There are still plenty of delusional people like you who think that all these women are lying. Fine. But Cosby's career is finished. He no longer enjoys the respect that he used to take for granted. As the old saying goes, Cosby made his bed, he now has no choice but to sleep in it.
@@user-io5fq3jv8q I agree. I don't doubt for a second that he was unfaithful to his wife during all those years in Hollywood. And that's unfortunate. Very unfair to his wife. But do I believe that all of a sudden dozens of women, skanky ones at that, recall him drugging and raping them 30 and 40 years later? Nope. If he had, most of them would have hit him up for hush money decades ago. He's an imperfect man, and I'm sure if he had it all to do over again he'd do most of it differently. But he will always have a special place in my heart and childhood, as he was a bright spot in a sometimes dismal time for me.
I remember my mom dancing to this song. She didn't drink but she'd dance around with a cigarette in her hand, always had a smile on her face as she danced alone! Thanks for the memories!!❤
Sept.23rd: Happy birthday Jazz-Blues-Gospel-Country Singer-Pianist Ray Charles Robinson (1930-2004) Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Kennedy Center Honors, USPS stamp issued in his honor, star: Hollywood Walk of Fame, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Thank you and God bless. RIP Legend. Thanks for the upload, guldanden. Blessings
