I am in my seventies and remember this dude as listening to him as a 11 year old in New Zealand. Used to rush home from school every thursday to watch him on black and white Tv. He had his own show on the only Tv station in New Zealand. His music moved me. I was learning piano at the time. There has been no one with the ability to traverse various genres and his rolling of notes still brings tears to the eyes. He was a marvel. Certainly a trend setter and ahead of his time. Given his background and meagre background what he achieved was remarkable. Bless him
Ray Charles appeared on Saturday Night Live in 1977 performing his version of Johnny Nash's "Bright Sunshine Day" and his own "That's What I Say", but damn! Look at how many gorgeous ladies he had on board!
GenX'ers and millennials will never know what it was like, having amazing black music of the 50s, 60s and early to mid 70s. Seriously you GenXers and millennials missed out on the best time for rhythm and blues/soul music from the late 1957- 1975
Black music died in the 90's when people stopped learning and using instruments... thank Republicans and some crooked Democratic politicians for slashing music programs in urban schools. We lost countless future talent 👍🏾
@@sonofsocrates9899 I agree with this, black music was dying badly throughout the 90s. In your opinion what would you consider the golden era of black music?
Um..... the music is still very available and sounds exactly as it did the day it was recorded and if anything even better with remastering. But I get what you mean. But if you think about it back then musicians had basically a clean or cleaner slate so to speak for creating new music that had never been heard before and as the years go on it must get harder n harder to create new sounds never heard before you know what I mean.... I can't really imagine like a brand new guitar hero or band coming up with brand new hit music riffs n lyrics never ever even remotely heard of by now..... I don't know so yeah man I'd agree with what you mean by newer generations missing out but I think I would love to be a kid right now and be just discovering and hearing all the classic music of the past for the first time like I am with music from like the 20s and so on. It's kinda weird that even though that music has been old for so long especially to people of the era that somehow its not considered new to the present generations since they basically are hearing brand new for the first time just as the people back then heard it for the first time... But it doesn't seem to be, I mean it's like it's old music to them as well just as it is for the people who lived through those past generations, instead of being new as they are just hearing it for the first time. Like trying to get kids to watch classic cartoons or something like bugs bunny. Kids look at classic looney toons like what is this crap turn it to SpongeBob or what ever. Shit I'm getting old I think now SpongeBob is of the past idk what the toons are now but I my opinion I still think the classics are better.. I'll shut up now... carry on
The south African incident made me dislike ray charles and his music. Lost all respect for a man who would sell his dignity and self respect to make a quick buck. Plus he was also a dead beat dad
@@cindydufala7646 Disgusting habit and thanks to his celebrity status he is above the law and ridicule. Thank you for not falling into the habit of idol worship like many do these days.
GOAT 🙌🏾 When it came to music
One of my favorite entertainers. Ray Charles autobiography is a "must read."
I am in my seventies and remember this dude as listening to him as a 11 year old in New Zealand. Used to rush home from school every thursday to watch him on black and white Tv. He had his own show on the only Tv station in New Zealand. His music moved me. I was learning piano at the time. There has been no one with the ability to traverse various genres and his rolling of notes still brings tears to the eyes. He was a marvel. Certainly a trend setter and ahead of his time. Given his background and meagre background what he achieved was remarkable. Bless him
Ray Charles appeared on Saturday Night Live in 1977 performing his version of Johnny Nash's "Bright Sunshine Day" and his own "That's What I Say", but damn! Look at how many gorgeous ladies he had on board!
Ray is such an iconic figure in music. I never had the chance to see him in concert, but I sure wish I had!
Love Ray Charles
An absolute maestro. Wish I would have had a chance to see him.
Me to!
Well, he was one of the best.
Damn. Ray was a musical genius & redpilled 💯🙏🏾 7:07
GenX'ers and millennials will never know what it was like, having amazing black music of the 50s, 60s and early to mid 70s.
Seriously you GenXers and millennials missed out on the best time for rhythm and blues/soul music from the late 1957- 1975
Black music died in the 90's when people stopped learning and using instruments... thank Republicans and some crooked Democratic politicians for slashing music programs in urban schools.
We lost countless future talent 👍🏾
@@sonofsocrates9899 I agree with this, black music was dying badly throughout the 90s.
In your opinion what would you consider the golden era of black music?
Um..... the music is still very available and sounds exactly as it did the day it was recorded and if anything even better with remastering. But I get what you mean. But if you think about it back then musicians had basically a clean or cleaner slate so to speak for creating new music that had never been heard before and as the years go on it must get harder n harder to create new sounds never heard before you know what I mean.... I can't really imagine like a brand new guitar hero or band coming up with brand new hit music riffs n lyrics never ever even remotely heard of by now..... I don't know so yeah man I'd agree with what you mean by newer generations missing out but I think I would love to be a kid right now and be just discovering and hearing all the classic music of the past for the first time like I am with music from like the 20s and so on. It's kinda weird that even though that music has been old for so long especially to people of the era that somehow its not considered new to the present generations since they basically are hearing brand new for the first time just as the people back then heard it for the first time... But it doesn't seem to be, I mean it's like it's old music to them as well just as it is for the people who lived through those past generations, instead of being new as they are just hearing it for the first time. Like trying to get kids to watch classic cartoons or something like bugs bunny. Kids look at classic looney toons like what is this crap turn it to SpongeBob or what ever. Shit I'm getting old I think now SpongeBob is of the past idk what the toons are now but I my opinion I still think the classics are better.. I'll shut up now... carry on
@CrysJay
Your generation still missed young GenXer, you weren't there when these artists for soul music were *in their prime* which is my whole point.
I saw him one time, he was awesome too!
Great job!
great video! truly amazing!
Hit The Road Jack!
but please comd back unfortunately no more
Ray Charles was also the god father of Monster Kody one of the most well know crips y’all should do a video on him too.
I don’t know why people ever doubted him.
10 kids with 12 different women!?!?!?... Mr. Charles was getting down back in the day lol
12 Kids with 10 different women.
@@duran007fan5 ohhh ok thx for the correction 👍🏽👍🏽
Damn ray charles was getting down w some good tan
also paul simon defied yne UN BAN
Don’t skip over the fact he just said Malcolm x was selling drugs
😬🌀🌀
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Ray might have been blind, but he certainly had a nose for...😉
The south African incident made me dislike ray charles and his music.
Lost all respect for a man who would sell his dignity and self respect to make a quick buck.
Plus he was also a dead beat dad
Haha, you're obviously poor and jealous.
@@chickenlover657 Of what? A flawed man or the admiration of countless fools?
I don't praise heroin users. He got off Scott free.
@@cindydufala7646 Disgusting habit and thanks to his celebrity status he is above the law and ridicule.
Thank you for not falling into the habit of idol worship like many do these days.
@@sonofsocrates9899 Just for the record, I don't like the man or his music, just saying your issue is with him making money. Which reeks of jealousy.