Nutonce Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 Rest In Power. The man is a legend. RESPECT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 shit..... newsflash from ch.zero. :cool: ^ my man in the shades. RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 http://www.cedmagic.com/featured/demo-program/0453-ray-charles.jpg'> rip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 damn....that sucks. talk about a cat that deserves a parade and all the honors a country has to bestow. ray charles was the joint. respect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S@T@N Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/040610/040610_raycharles_hmed_1p.hmedium.jpg'> Rest in peace, Brother Ray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Dazzle Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 No shit? For real? I guess he'll be playing that big piano in the sky.... RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 to be honest... he didn't get a lot of respect from his peers. They all acused him of playing 'watered down jazz' to the masses. Maybe they were a bit jealous of his success, but he did introduce a whole bunch of people to new styles of rhytm and blues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dusty Lipschitz Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 i will forever regret not having seen him live in concert. respect in peace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 yeah... that's why I'm going to see Oscar Peterson next time he's in town. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GnomeToys Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 R.I.P. This man is winning a piano battle with the archangels right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milton Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 It's tough to see the great ones go... RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_Europe Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 Rest in Peace Good thing I saw him before he passed. A truly great legend. His music will live forever. :cool: :king: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DETO Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 :cool: Rest In Power... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_El Mamerro Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 RIP This man brought the funk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamblersGrin Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 guy went blind when he was 7 but still has a legible signature. amazing! http://clinton4.nara.gov/media/jpg/ray-charles-dark-glasses.jpg'> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InDY_500 Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 Rest In Peace my good sir.... Damn, he was the greatest too....Loved his music.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest uncle-boy Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nelACKson Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 are you serious? fuck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavyLox Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 http://www.nydailynews.com/images/Masthead_breakingnews.gif'> Singing legend Ray Charles dies at 73 BY DAVID HINCKLEY New York Daily News (KRT) - Ray Charles, who against unthinkable odds created one of the great musical legacies of the 20th century, died Thursday at his Beverly Hills, Calif., home. He was 73. Charles had suffered from acute liver disease for the last year, said his spokesman, Jerry Digney. He was surrounded by family and friends when he died at 11:35 a.m. PDT time. He had a dozen No. 1 hits, won 12 Grammy Awards and sang for a half dozen Presidents. His recording studio in Los Angeles was designated a historic landmark in April. Charles' personal story was as inspirational as his music. Born to a poor family in Albany, Ga., in 1930, he went blind at 7 and was orphaned at 15. "Picture an African-American child in the 1930s South," said Jonathan Schwartz, program director of the popular standards channel Frank's Place on FM radio. "He is blind and alone. Think of what this man did. Out of this, he made Ray Charles." "Man, did he uplift souls," said Dion DiMucci, who played with Charles at Harlem's Apollo Theater in the late '50s. "Guys like me would look at him and say, `Oh, so that's how it's done.'" Frank Sinatra called Charles "the only genius in our business." Charles always rejected the term but equally admired Sinatra, who died in 1998. Last month, Charles and Willie Nelson, who had a No. 1 country hit together in 1984 with "Seven Spanish Angels," recorded Sinatra's "It Was a Very Good Year." Rocker Dion noted that Charles had "some struggles," including a 20-year heroin addiction he kicked in 1965. For years, he could not be licensed to play New York cabarets because of his drug convictions. He was also a shrewd businessman and perfectionist, who could be moody and abrupt. If he didn't like the way his singers did choruses, he might overdub all the voices himself. But Ruth Brown, whom Charles accompanied on his first tour in the late 1940s, said Thursday that he had a great sense of humor. "I talked to him a few months ago," said Brown. "He told me they were making a movie about his life and asked who should play me. I said, `Halle Berry.' He said, `Ruth, I ain't that blind.'" Charles began his professional career in the style of Nat King Cole, but soon developed his own sound. Eventually, he would incorporate every type of American music, from gospel and blues to pop, country and jazz. His first No. 1 hit, "I've Got a Woman," in 1955, was based on the gospel song "It Must Be Jesus" by the Southern Tones, said Anthony Heilbut, author of the book "The Gospel Sound." He hit No. 1 again in 1956 with the bluesy "Drown in My Own Tears," then in 1959 with the exuberant dance workout "What'd I Say." His next two No. 1 hits were the funky "Hit the Road Jack" and "Unchain My Heart" in 1961, then a year later he had his biggest hit with a country song, Don Gibson's "I Can't Stop Loving You." Tying all his styles together was his voice, rough as a gravel road and uniquely expressive. "He wasn't one kind of singer," said Dion. "He was Ray Charles." "If he heard a great sound," said Heilbut, "he adapted it." Born Ray Charles Robinson, he attended the St. Augustine School for the Deaf and Blind in Georgia, where he learned to read and write music in Braille and play a dozen instruments. He also noticed the facilities were racially segregated ("in a place where no one could see") and he would later become friends with civil-rights activists like Martin Luther King Jr. But he professed a deep faith in America and in 1972 he recorded what many consider the definitive version of "America the Beautiful," a gospel-drenched rendition of the song he thought should be the National Anthem. Divorced since 1952 but with a lifelong fondness for women, Charles is survived by 12 children. Memorial services will be held next week in Los Angeles. daily news story Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FightTheBuff Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 what a savage...sad times RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flow ish Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 R.I.P. http://www.secondhandlps.de/pix_rb_soul/charles_ray_true_life.jpg'> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fermentor666 Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 On a serious note, Ray Charles was a great musician. Don't know about his personal life, but he was one hell of a charmer on stage. It's sad he had to go, but such is life. R.I.P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 http://home.hawaii.rr.com/ax1s/cantsee.jpg'> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpoppa.k Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 R........... I.............. P.................. mother fucker. you ARE the man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Peanut Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 i was waiting for somebody to post that picture. i can always count on 12oz for bad taste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 Originally posted by Mr. Peanut i was waiting for somebody to post that picture. i can always count on 12oz for bad taste. Oh please. There was no bad taste involved. You swear like if someone mentioned to him that he was blind he would get offended or something. I love Ray Charles' music I was just bumping the post. Go ahead and get off of your high horse, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kr430n5_666 Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 http://www.kak.ru/images/archive/15/DesignDepo/AgushKAK01.jpg'> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoter Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 why can't ray charles read? cus he's black. hate me.r.i.p. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarzAbove Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 R.I.P music in pepsi commercials will be missed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justaname Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 i watched msnbc earlier this morning and they managed to squeeze a tiny bit segment of ray charles along with ronald fucking regan. R I P Ray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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