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Ray Charles - What I'd Say (1964 Ballad In Blue performance)

submitted by benjee

1 decade 7 years 6 months 3 weeks ago

The song that's credited for starting Soul in 1959 - originally improvised by Ray Charles, who told the rest of the band to follow him and the backing singers to repeat what he said. Combining Rhythm & Blues with Gospel and Jazz elements - it was an instant classic which is the grandfather of one of the most important forms of music.

What can you say? Three legendary minutes and eleven seconds of moaning, groaning and release. One of the first R&B songs to successfully 'crossover' to the pop/rock charts - it peaked #6 on the pop charts in August 1959, and will surely live forever as one the greatest songs of the 20th Century - From RayCharles.com

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This published video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by eric3579.

Awarding gorgonheap with one star point for fixing this video's dead embed code.

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Awarding kronosposeidon with one Power Point for fixing this video's dead embed code.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'rhythm blues, improvised, birth of soul' to 'rhythm, blues, improvised, soul, birth of soul, 60s' - edited by kronosposeidon

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