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Ray Charles dies at 73
BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP) -- Ray Charles, the Grammy-winning crooner who blended gospel and blues in such crowd-pleasers as "What'd I Say" and heartfelt ballads like "Georgia on My Mind," died Thursday, a spokesman said. He was 73.
Charles died at his Beverly Hills home surrounded by family and friends, said spokesman Jerry Digney.
Charles' last public appearance was alongside Clint Eastwood on April 30, when the city of Los Angeles designated the singer's studios, built 40 years ago in central Los Angeles, as a historic landmark.
Blind by age 7 and an orphan at 15, Charles spent his life shattering any notion of musical boundaries and defying easy definition. A gifted pianist and saxophonist, he dabbled in country, jazz, big band and blues, and put his stamp on it all with a deep, warm voice roughened by heartbreak from a hardscrabble childhood in the segregated South.
"His sound was stunning -- it was the blues, it was R&B, it was gospel, it was swing -- it was all the stuff I was listening to before that but rolled into one amazing, soulful thing," singer Van Morrison told Rolling Stone magazine in April.
Charles won nine of his 12 Grammy Awards between 1960 and 1966, including the best R&B recording three consecutive years ("Hit the Road Jack," "I Can't Stop Loving You" and "Busted").
His versions of other songs are also well known, including "Makin' Whoopee" and a stirring "America the Beautiful." Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell wrote "Georgia on My Mind" in 1931 but it didn't become Georgia's official state song until 1979, long after Charles turned it into an American standard.
1. Mess around 13. I'm movin' on 2. It should've been me 14. Come rain or come shine 3. I've got a woman 15. Don't let the sun catch you crying 4. This little girl of mine 16. Sticks and stones 5. A fool for you 17. Georgia on my mind 6. Drown in my own tears 18. Ruby 7. Leave my woman alone 19. One mint julep 8. Hallelujah I love her so 20. I'm gonna move to the outskirts of town 9. Lonely avenue 21. Hit the road jack 10. (Night time is) the right time 22. Unchain my heart 11. What'd I say (parts 1 and 2) 23. Baby it's cold outside 12. I believe to my soul 24. At the club
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1. I can't stop loving you 12. I don't need no doctor 2. Born to lose 13. In the heat of the night 3. You don't know me 14. Yesterday 4. You are my sunshine 15. Elanor Rigby 5. Your cheatin' heart 16. I can make it thru' the days 6. Take these chains from my heart 17. Rainy night in Georgia 7. Busted 18. The jealous kind 8. That lucky old sun 19. Shake your tailfeather (with the blues bros.) 9. Crying time 20. Seven spanish angels (with willie nelson) 10. Cincinnati kid 21. I'll be good to you 11. Let's go get stoned 22. Imagine
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