Ray Charles Sings for America

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
Ray at his Patrotic Best
Only one
Lift Every Voice and Sing !
Ray Charles was a great man

Ray Charles Sings for America
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Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006HICB
Release Date: 2002-09-03

Tracks:

America the Beautiful
Imagine (featuring The Harlem Gospel Singers)
Let It Be
New York's My Home
Over the Rainbow
That Lucky Old Sun
Ol' Man River
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
Take Me Home, Country Roads
Ray Reflects on America
My God and I
Lift Every Voice and Sing
There'll Be No Peace Without All Men as One
Light Out of Darkness
Heaven Help Us All
Abraham, Martin and John
Hey Mister
Sail Away
The Danger Zone
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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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