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Ray!: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Ray Charles List Price: $18.98 Our Price: $12.98
Audio CD - 19 October, 2004
Atlantic / Wea
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CD Tracks:
Mess Around (Studio)
I Got A Woman
Hallelujah I Love Her So (Live)
Drown In My Own Tears
Night Time Is The Right Time (Studio)
Marianne (Studio)
Hard Times (Studio)
What'd I Say(Live)
Georgia On My Mind (Studio)
Hit The Road Jack (Studio)
Unchain My Heart (Studio)
I Can't Stop Loving You
Born To Lose (Studio)
Bye Bye Love (Studio)
You Don't Know Me (Live)
Let The Good Times Roll (Live)
Georgia On My Mind (Live)
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| Audio CD Description Soul and R&B legend Ray Charles may not have lived to see the success of Hollywood's ultimate tribute to him, but director Taylor Hackford's biopic (featuring a landmark performance by Jamie Foxx as the musical legend) will further burnish his legacy as one of the cornerstones of contemporary American music. Though it stretches from 1953's ecstatic, proto-soul "Mess Around" to a sublime, bluesy live take of "Georgia on My Mind" recorded in Japan in the mid-'70s, this 17-track song-score can only be an inviting appetizer to the singer's epochal body of work. Charles's artistry may have virtually defined soul music, yet it also triumphed in genres as far afield as blues("Nightime Is the Right Time") and country ("I Can't Stop Loving You," "Bye Bye Love") during the '60s, the impossibly rich era from which the bulk of this soundtrack is culled. Crucially, fully a third of the cuts here are live recordings--including electrifying 1965 performances of "What'd I Say," "You Don't Know Me," and "Hallelujah I Love Her So" hand-picked for the film by Charles himself--the forum in which the singer consistently operated on a whole other artistic plateau from mere mortals. |
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Bait and switch... maybe The Ray Soundtrack was a disappointment in that the sound is not even close to the quality of the music on the DVD. Now to be sure, it is the same music. Allow me to explain; in the movie, each song has a dramatic "jump" to it that is absent in the soundtrack. It's like the editors pulled the original records, re-mastered them and laid the tracks down on this CD in the exact order as they appeared in the film. So what you get is Ray, but it is does not have the soul of the same music as in the movie. I'm not sure I can explain it correctly but it's as if the movie and Jamie Foxx stylized the same songs to have that "oomph" that's missing from this re-mastered collection of original tunes. To test my theory, I made a dub of "What'd I Say" from the DVD and played it back-to-back with this CD's version of the same song. The difference is unbelievable.
Wonderful!! I regret that didn't understand or know the complete genius that was Ray Charles when he was alive. I think that he was just one of the artist you take advantage of becuase he was always here. Sure, I knew a few songs. Being from GA, "Georgia on my Mind" is as much a part of me as breathing, but this soundtrack amazed me. This is simply great music. I'm now filling my CD collection with everything that is Ray. If you buy this soundtrack be prepared to be amazed. This is what music is supposed to sound like.
Georgia Through His Mind I really don't know how to ay it, but there just haven't been many movies in the past few years where the soundtrack actually outweighed the strength of the movie. That has been the case before with the Bee Gees and the success of the Saturday Night Fever music in the 70's, and also with Whitney Houston and the status of The Bodyguard soundtrack in the 1990's. What has been for them, it is also that way in this decade for Ray Charles. Since his unfortunate passing nearly over a year ago, his music has finally gotten the respect in this generation who is more interested in manufactured acts like Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez and Usher. That has been told in one word, Ray.
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