Ray Charles Sings for America

Ray Charles Sings for America

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Product Description
Gathering 20 soulful recordings from albums and singles released between 1960-1997. Featuring a brand new (2002) track 'God Bless America Again' featuring an all-star cast of supporting musicians including Billy Preston and Slash.

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Ray Charles Sings for America
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Ray Charles Sings for America
  • Ray at his Patrotic Best
  • Only one
  • Lift Every Voice and Sing !
  • Ray Charles was a great man
Ray Charles Sings for America
Ray Charles
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006HICB
Release Date: 2002-09-03

Tracks:

  1. America the Beautiful
  2. Imagine (featuring The Harlem Gospel Singers)
  3. Let It Be
  4. New York's My Home
  5. Over the Rainbow
  6. That Lucky Old Sun
  7. Ol' Man River
  8. Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
  9. Take Me Home, Country Roads
  10. Ray Reflects on America
  11. My God and I
  12. Lift Every Voice and Sing
  13. There'll Be No Peace Without All Men as One
  14. Light Out of Darkness
  15. Heaven Help Us All
  16. Abraham, Martin and John
  17. Hey Mister
  18. Sail Away
  19. The Danger Zone
  20. God Bless America Again (previously unreleased, with Billy Preston and Slash)

Album Description

Gathering 20 soulful recordings from albums and singles released between 1960-1997. Featuring a brand new (2002) track 'God Bless America Again' featuring an all-star cast of supporting musicians including Billy Preston and Slash.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Ray Charles Sings for America.......2005-09-26

This is a great CD. The songs are by far some of his very
best work. We enjoyed it from start to finish.

5 out of 5 stars Ray at his Patrotic Best.......2005-08-31

I am the typical patrotic American and I just loved this collection of Ray Charles. Everytime I hear it I get chills up an ddown my spine and a tear in my eye. I would recommend this to every and all Americans.

2 out of 5 stars Only one.......2004-10-17

Yes a definite Legend!! There a singer in the U.K. named Elkie Brooks, I always felt a duet between Ray Charles and Elkie Brooks, would have been something else. Alas! not possible.

5 out of 5 stars Lift Every Voice and Sing !.......2004-07-26

This CD is well worth the price for the classic Ray Charles singing America The Beautiful. His soulful versions of Randy Newman's Sail Away, John Denver's Take Me Home, Country Roads, John Lennon's Imagine (featuring the Harlem Gospel Singers), are added bonuses. He makes every one of these songs his own.

I decided to purchase this CD when I heard Ray's rockin' rendition of Lift Every Voice and Sing. Even the syrup-y strings and too-perfect background singers on Somewhere Over the Rainbow can't squelch the gritty soul when Brother Ray sings that old chestnut.

5 out of 5 stars Ray Charles was a great man.......2004-06-14

He created soul. His rendition of America The Beautiful, and the fact he never sang The Star Spangled Banner is evidence we have our priorities out of whack in America. Ray had them straight. The land, the people, and their sacrifices are what matters.

The last person's comment talking about how great Reagan was is a slur towards Ray Charles. Don't dare do that to this great man.

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