1963 HITS ARCHIVE: Take These Chains From My Heart - Ray Charles
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Take These Chains From My Heart (Rose-Heath) by Ray Charles with The Jack Halloran Singers, conducted by Marty Paich
Top-10 single release from Ray’s hot-selling LP “Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, Volume Two” was a song that had first been a posthumous #1 C&W hit for Hank Williams in 1953.
Pop Chart Peaks: Billboard & Music Vendor 8, Cash Box 11 - R&B Chart Peak: 7
THE 1963 HITS ARCHIVE - here in one place, a good-quality library of original-release-version best-sellers and songs which made an impact that were either released or enjoyed a major chunk of their popularity within the calendar year 1963 (some were recorded in 1962).
A good version of the old Hank Williams classic.
Ray Charles loved the lyrics of Country songs, and was convinced that he could do a good job with the right songs. After getting up off the floor - after Ray first said he wanted to record a Country album - the folks at ABC-Paramount provided him with recordings of 250 Country songs, and Ray then chose the ones he wanted to record.
When "Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music" came out in 1962, I think Charlie Pride was already a country star.
But country music was so white then. And Ray did not dent the country chart.
Did he get any country play back then?
@@MrJoeybabe25, Charlie Pride had his first hit (on the Country charts) in 1966.
@@MrJoeybabe25 is was a little later than that for Pride...more like 64 or 5
Was Billboard & Music Vendor a merger of Billboard with Music Vender? I'm not aware of that as a magazine.
No, separate publications.