1963 HITS ARCHIVE: Take These Chains From My Heart - Ray Charles

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).

[@hidenseek4889]

A good version of the old Hank Williams classic.

[@reneleclerc6119]

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.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

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?

[@reneleclerc6119]

@@MrJoeybabe25, Charlie Pride had his first hit (on the Country charts) in 1966.

[@lordsatanicus1622]

@@MrJoeybabe25 is was a little later than that for Pride...more like 64 or 5

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Was Billboard & Music Vendor a merger of Billboard with Music Vender? I'm not aware of that as a magazine.

[@the45prof98]

No, separate publications.