Ray Charles: Ray!: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack album is out (Rhino Records). Ray Charles, who died June 10 at the age of 73, was personally involved with the film and hand-picked three of the six live tracks that appear on the Ray Charles: Ray!: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack album: Hallelujah I Love Her So, What'd I Say, and You Don't Know Me, which were taken from a 1964 concert at the fabled Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Ray!: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - .
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Product Details
  • Artist: Ray Charles
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  • Binding: Audio CD
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  • EAN: 0081227654023
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  • Format: Soundtrack
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  • Label: Atlantic / Wea
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  • Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
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  • Number of Discs: 1
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  • Product Group: Music
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  • Publisher: Atlantic / Wea
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  • Release Date: 2004-10-19
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  • Studio: Atlantic / Wea
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  • Title: Ray!: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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  • UPC: 081227654023
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Avg Customer Rating: 4 stars

Product Description: Soul and R&B legend Ray Charles may not have lived to see the success of Hollywood's ultimate tribute to him, but director Taylor Hackford's biopic (featuring a landmark performance by Jamie Foxx as the musical legend) will further burnish his legacy as one of the cornerstones of contemporary American music. Though it stretches from 1953's ecstatic, proto-soul "Mess Around" to a sublime, bluesy live take of "Georgia on My Mind" recorded in Japan in the mid-'70s, this 17-track song-score can only be an inviting appetizer to the singer's epochal body of work. Charles's artistry may have virtually defined soul music, yet it also triumphed in genres as far afield as blues ("Nightime Is the Right Time") and country ("I Can't Stop Loving You," "Bye Bye Love") during the '60s, the impossibly rich era from which the bulk of this soundtrack is culled. Crucially, fully a third of the cuts here are live recordings--including electrifying 1965 performances of "What'd I Say," "You Don't Know Me," and "Hallelujah I Love Her So" hand-picked for the film by Charles himself--the forum in which the singer consistently operated on a whole other artistic plateau from mere mortals. -- Jerry McCulley
Customer Reviews

5 stars Ray charles
This was a gift for someone. it made an excellent gift
cause they are really into Ray.


4 stars Something extrange
I bought this CD, it has not arrived yet.
Aparently it costed 12.97 but I am payng for two of this cds.
Has anything like this happened to you?

There are two cds with all the songs?
Or did I make a mistake?

Thanks for the answers.


3 stars Songs are good but...
These are great songs and it matches up well with the movie, however the sound quality is less than stellar. Sounded so much better in the actual movie. I can't understand why the CD producers didn't enhance the sound quality to be the same as the movie itself.


5 stars This is THE Ray Charles greatest hits compilation to buy!
This has all of Ray Charles' hits from both Atlantic and ABC-Paramount, which make this THE collection to buy. Perfection, genious and emotion, all given to us by one of America's truly great artists!


5 stars Ray will be long remembered with this album
I'm one of the recent fans of Ray Charles since I've watched the movie. then I had to have a decent compilation about Ray, so I thought about the Sountrack, and it's been great!! It gets you trhought the whole feeling of the movie, since the beggining to the end of it. Ray is the Genius, he'll always be...


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