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| Interesting Eulogy of Ray Charles |
| 2004-06-12 |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #1 Corrected link. OJ doesn't do much for me - cuz he's still breathing! ;-) Ray Charles was awesome. I saw him perform twice, once in a large concert setting and the other time in a small ritzy club. The quality and quantity was the same for both - he connected with each audience and nothing mattered but making that connection sizzle and laugh and clap and tap toes and feel what he felt when he performed - he just rocked. You went home tired and satisfied. I heard him remake songs - applying his inimitable style, he even took a song as copyrighted as Yesterday, a McCartney signature song - and made it his own - and Ray's version, utterly unique in a Reggae-ish style, is the one that lingers in my head - and always will. The fact that his mother expected no less of him than her sighted children made him a complete man, as Cavett discovered, he just happened to be blind. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-06-12 1:27:06 AM |