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Ray Charles

Index Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson Sr. (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 277 relations: A Fool for You, A Message from the People, ABC Records, Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy of Achievement, African Americans, Ahmet Ertegun, Albany State University, Albany, Georgia, Album era, AllMusic, America the Beautiful, American Federation of Musicians, Apartheid, Apollo Theater, Aretha Franklin, Ashford & Simpson, Atlantic Records, Augusta, Georgia, B. B. King, B. J. Thomas, Baby Grand, Ballad in Blue, Barack Obama, Belmont, Massachusetts, Benedict College, Beverly Hills, California, Big band, Billboard 200, Billboard Hot 100, Billy Joel, Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame, Blue's Big Musical Movie, Blues, Bo Rhambo, Bonnie Raitt, Boogie-woogie, Boston, Braille music, Buck Owens, Busted (Harlan Howard song), Cannabis (drug), Carnegie Hall, Cavalcade of Jazz, Chaka Khan, Charles Brown (musician), Charley Pride, Chet Atkins, Civil rights movement, Classical music, ... Expand index (227 more) »

  2. American country pianists
  3. Blind singers
  4. Jazz musicians from Florida
  5. McLean Hospital patients
  6. Rhythm and blues pianists

A Fool for You

"A Fool for You" is a bluesy, proto-soul single written and released by musician Ray Charles on Atlantic Records in 1955.

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A Message from the People

A Message from the People is a studio album by the American R&B musician Ray Charles, released in 1972.

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ABC Records

ABC Records was an American record label founded in New York City in 1955.

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Academy Award for Best Actor

The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy of Achievement

The American Academy of Achievement, colloquially known as the Academy of Achievement, is a nonprofit educational organization that recognizes some of the highest-achieving people in diverse fields and gives them the opportunity to meet one another.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Ahmet Ertegun

Ahmet Ertegun (Ahmet Ertegün,; July 31, 1923 – December 14, 2006) was a Turkish-American businessman, songwriter, record executive and philanthropist.

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Albany State University

Albany State University is a public historically black university in Albany, Georgia.

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Albany, Georgia

Albany is a city in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Album era

The album era was a period in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century in which the physical album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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America the Beautiful

"America the Beautiful" is a patriotic American song.

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American Federation of Musicians

The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM/AFofM) is a 501(c)(5) labor union representing professional instrumental musicians in the United States and Canada.

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Apartheid

Apartheid (especially South African English) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s.

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Apollo Theater

The Apollo Theater (formerly the Hurtig & Seamon's New Theatre; also Apollo Theatre or 125th Street Apollo Theatre) is a multi-use theater at 253 West 125th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City.

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Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin are African-American pianists, African-American rock singers, American gospel singers, American rhythm and blues singers, American soul singers, Atlantic Records artists, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners, Kennedy Center honorees and rhythm and blues pianists.

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Ashford & Simpson

Ashford & Simpson were an American husband-and-wife songwriting, production, recording duo composed of Nickolas Ashford (May 4, 1942 – August 22, 2011) and Valerie Simpson (born August 26, 1946).

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Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson.

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Augusta, Georgia

Augusta is a consolidated city-county on the central eastern border of the U.S. state of Georgia.

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B. B. King

Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Ray Charles and b. B. King are African-American male singer-songwriters, African-American rock musicians, American soul singers, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners, Kennedy Center honorees and rock and roll musicians.

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B. J. Thomas

Billy Joe Thomas (August 7, 1942 – May 29, 2021) was an American singer widely known for his country, contemporary Christian, and pop hits of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Ray Charles and B. J. Thomas are ABC Records artists and American gospel singers.

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Baby Grand

"Baby Grand" is the fourth and final single released off Billy Joel's album The Bridge.

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Ballad in Blue

Ballad in Blue (also known as Blues for Lovers) is a 1965 British drama music film starring Ray Charles.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

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Belmont, Massachusetts

Belmont is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Benedict College

Benedict College is a private historically black college in Columbia, South Carolina, United States.

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Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Big band

A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Billy Joel

William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Ray Charles and Billy Joel are 20th-century American keyboardists, 20th-century organists, American male organists, American rock keyboardists, American rock pianists, American rock songwriters and Kennedy Center honorees.

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Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame

The Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and was inaugurated in January 2021.

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Blue's Big Musical Movie

Blue's Big Musical Movie (also known as Blue's Big Musical, Blue's Clues: The Movie and The Blue's Clues Movie) is a 2000 American direct-to-video live-action/animated musical film.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.

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Bo Rhambo

Ewell Goldyn Rhambo, known as Bo Rhambo, (September 21, 1923 in Austin, Texas – November 24, 1988 in Los Angeles, California) was an American trumpeter and tenor saxophonist.

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Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Ray Charles and Bonnie Raitt are American blues pianists, American rock songwriters, country musicians from California, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners and singer-songwriters from California.

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Boogie-woogie

Boogie-woogie is a genre of blues music that became popular during the late 1920s, developed in African-American communities since the 1870s.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Braille music

Braille music is a braille code that allows music to be notated using braille cells so music can be read by visually impaired musicians.

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Buck Owens

Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens Jr. (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and band leader. Ray Charles and Buck Owens are country musicians from California and singer-songwriters from California.

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Busted (Harlan Howard song)

"Busted" is a song written by Harlan Howard in 1962.

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Cannabis (drug)

Cannabis, also known as marijuana or weed, among other names, is a non-chemically uniform drug from the cannabis plant.

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Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Cavalcade of Jazz

The Cavalcade of Jazz events were large outdoor jazz festivals held annually between 1945 and 1958 in Wrigley Field, Los Angeles, California, U. S...

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Chaka Khan

Yvette Marie Stevens (born March 23, 1953), better known by her stage name Chaka Khan, is an American singer. Ray Charles and Chaka Khan are ABC Records artists, American jazz singers and American soul singers.

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Charles Brown (musician)

Tony Russell "Charles" Brown (September 13, 1922 – January 21, 1999) was an American singer and pianist whose soft-toned, slow-paced nightclub style influenced West Coast blues in the 1940s and 1950s. Ray Charles and Charles Brown (musician) are ABC Records artists, African-American pianists, American blues pianists, American blues singers and Burials at Inglewood Park Cemetery.

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Charley Pride

Charley Frank Pride (March 18, 1934 – December 12, 2020) was an American singer, guitarist, and professional baseball player. Ray Charles and Charley Pride are African-American country musicians, African-American male singer-songwriters, American baritones and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.

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Chet Atkins

Chester Burton Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), also known as "Mister Guitar" and "the Country Gentleman", was an American musician who, along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson, helped create the Nashville sound, the country music style which expanded its appeal to adult pop music fans. Ray Charles and Chet Atkins are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.

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Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country.

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Classical music

Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.

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Cold turkey

"Cold turkey" refers to the abrupt cessation of a substance dependence and the resulting unpleasant experience, as opposed to gradually easing the process through reduction over time or by using replacement medication.

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Cole Porter

Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter.

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Colin Powell

Colin Luther Powell (April 5, 1937 – October 18, 2021) was an American politician, statesman, diplomat, and United States Army officer who was the 65th United States secretary of state from 2001 to 2005.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of multinational conglomerate Sony.

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Concord Records

Concord Records is an American record label owned by Concord and based in Los Angeles, California.

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Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice (born November 14, 1954) is an American diplomat and political scientist who is the current director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

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Confession Blues

"Confession Blues" is a song by The McSon Trio released in 1949 as a single on the Down Beat Records label (later known as "Swing Time Records").

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Country music

Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.

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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, is one of the world's largest museums and research centers dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of American vernacular music.

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Cover band

A cover band (or covers band) is a band that plays songs recorded by someone else, sometimes mimicking the original as accurately as possible, and sometimes re-interpreting or changing the original.

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Crazy Love (Van Morrison song)

"Crazy Love" is a romantic ballad written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and included on his 1970 album, Moondance.

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Creativity

Creativity is the ability to form novel and valuable ideas or works using the imagination.

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Crying Time

"Crying Time" is a song from 1964 written and originally recorded by the American country music artist Buck Owens.

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Crying Time (album)

Crying Time is a studio album by Ray Charles released in February 1966 as the first release on his label Tangerine, which was distributed by ABC Paramount.

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Dee Dee Bridgewater

Dee Dee Bridgewater (née Denise Garrett, May 27, 1950) is an American jazz singer and actress. Ray Charles and Dee Dee Bridgewater are American jazz singers.

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DeFord Bailey

DeFord Bailey (December 14, 1899 – July 2, 1982) was an American country music and blues star from the 1920s until 1941. Ray Charles and DeFord Bailey are African-American country musicians.

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Diana Krall

Diana Jean Krall (born November 16, 1964) is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer known for her contralto vocals. Ray Charles and Diana Krall are rhythm and blues pianists.

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Dillard University

Dillard University is a private, historically black university in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. Ray Charles and Dizzy Gillespie are 20th-century jazz composers, African-American jazz composers, American jazz composers, American male jazz composers, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners and Kennedy Center honorees.

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Don Gibson

Donald Eugene Gibson (April 3, 1928 – November 17, 2003) was an American songwriter and country musician.

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Drown in My Own Tears

"Drown in My Own Tears", originally credited as "I'll Drown in My Tears", is a song written by Henry Glover.

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Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is a British singer, songwriter and pianist. Ray Charles and Elton John are Kennedy Center honorees.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Ray Charles and Elvis Presley are American baritones, American blues singers, American gospel singers, American rhythm and blues singers, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners and rock and roll musicians.

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Ernie Freeman

Ernest Aaron Freeman (August 16, 1922 – May 16, 1981) was an American pianist, organist, bandleader, and arranger. Ray Charles and Ernie Freeman are 20th-century American keyboardists, 20th-century organists, African-American pianists, American male organists and Liberty Records artists.

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First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles

The First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles (First A.M.E. or FAME) is a megachurch in Los Angeles, California, United States, part of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church.

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Florida School for the Deaf and Blind

The Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind (FSDB) is a state-supported boarding school for deaf and blind children established in 1885, in St. Augustine, Florida, United States.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra are American baritones, American jazz singers, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners and Kennedy Center honorees.

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Genius & Friends

Genius & Friends is a 2005 studio album by rhythm and blues singer Ray Charles, consisting of previously unreleased duets between Ray and artists recorded between 1997 and 2005.

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Genius + Soul = Jazz

Genius + Soul.

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Genius Loves Company

Genius Loves Company is the final studio album by rhythm and blues and soul musician Ray Charles, posthumously released August 31, 2004, on Concord Records.

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George Jones

George Glenn Jones (September 12, 1931 – April 26, 2013) was an American country musician, singer, and songwriter. Ray Charles and George Jones are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners and Kennedy Center honorees.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Georgia Music Hall of Fame

The Georgia Music Hall of Fame was a hall of fame to recognize music performers and music industry professionals from or connected to the state of Georgia.

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Georgia on My Mind

"Georgia on My Mind" is a 1930 song written by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell and first recorded that same year by Hoagy Carmichael at the RCA Victor Studios at 155 East 24th Street in New York City.

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Gladys Knight

Gladys Maria Knight (born May 28, 1944), known as the "Empress of Soul", is an American singer. Ray Charles and Gladys Knight are American soul singers and Kennedy Center honorees.

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Glaucoma

Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that lead to damage of the optic nerve, which transmits visual information from the eye to the brain.

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Glen Campbell

Glen Travis Campbell (April 22, 1936 – August 8, 2017) was an American country singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actor. Ray Charles and Glen Campbell are Atlantic Records artists, country musicians from California, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners and singer-songwriters from California.

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Gli amori

"Gli amori" ("Loves") is a 1990 song composed by Fabrizio Berlincioni, Toto Cutugno and Depsa and performed by Toto Cutugno.

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Google Doodle

A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google's homepages intended to commemorate holidays, events, achievements, and historical figures.

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Gospel music

Gospel music is a genre of Christian Music that spreads the word of God and a cornerstone of Christian media.

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Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song

The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song was awarded between 1959 and 1971.

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Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance was a Grammy Award recognizing superior vocal performance by a male in the pop category, the first of which was presented in 1959.

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Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.

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Grammy Hall of Fame

The Grammy Hall of Fame is a hall of fame to honor musical recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance.

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Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award is a special Grammy Award that is awarded by The Recording Academy to "performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording." This award is distinct from the Grammy Hall of Fame Award, which honors specific recordings rather than individuals, and the Grammy Trustees Award, which honors non-performers. Ray Charles and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.

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Grandmaster (chess)

Grandmaster (GM) is a title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE.

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Greenville, Florida

Greenville is a town in Madison County, Florida, United States.

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Gregg Allman

Gregory LeNoir Allman (December 8, 1947 – May 27, 2017) was an American musician, singer and songwriter. Ray Charles and Gregg Allman are 20th-century American keyboardists, American baritones, American blues pianists, American blues singers, American male organists, American rock keyboardists, American rock pianists and singer-songwriters from Florida.

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Guitar Slim

Eddie Jones (December 10, 1926 – February 7, 1959), known as Guitar Slim, was an American guitarist in the 1940s and 1950s, best known for the million-selling song "The Things That I Used to Do", for Specialty Records. Ray Charles and guitar Slim are African-American rock musicians, American blues singers and rock and roll musicians.

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Hallelujah I Love Her So

"Hallelujah I Love Her So" is a single by American musician Ray Charles.

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Halloween

Halloween or Hallowe'en (less commonly known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve) is a celebration observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day.

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Hank Snow

Hank Snow (May 9, 1914 – December 20, 1999) born as Clarence Eugene was a Canadian-American country music guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Hank Williams Jr.

Randall Hank Williams (born May 26, 1949), known professionally as Hank Williams Jr. or Bocephus, is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Ray Charles and Hank Williams Jr. are rock and roll musicians.

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Harlem

Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan in New York City.

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Harold Arlen

Harold Arlen (born Hyman Arluck; February 15, 1905 – April 23, 1986) was an American composer of popular music, who composed over 500 songs, a number of which have become known worldwide.

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Hürriyet

Hürriyet (Liberty) is a major Turkish newspaper, founded in 1948.

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Henry Pleasants (music critic)

Henry Pleasants (May 12, 1910 – January 4, 2000) was an American music critic and intelligence officer.

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Henry Stone

Henry Stone (June 3, 1921 – August 7, 2014), born Henry David Epstein, was an American record company executive and producer whose career spanned the era from R&B in the early 1950s through the disco boom of the 1970s to the 2010s.

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Here We Go Again (Ray Charles song)

"Here We Go Again" is a country music standard written by Don Lanier and Red Steagall that first became notable as a rhythm and blues single by Ray Charles from his 1967 album Ray Charles Invites You to Listen.

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Heroin

Heroin, also known as diacetylmorphine and diamorphine among other names, is a morphinan opioid substance synthesized from the dried latex of the Papaver somniferum plant; it is mainly used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects.

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Hit the Road Jack

"Hit the Road Jack" is a song written by the rhythm and blues singer Percy Mayfield and recorded by Ray Charles.

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Hoagy Carmichael

Hoagland Howard Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) was an American musician, composer, songwriter, actor and lawyer. Ray Charles and Hoagy Carmichael are American jazz pianists, American jazz singers, American male jazz pianists and jazz musicians from California.

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Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a landmark which consists of 2,783 five-pointed terrazzo-and-brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in the Los Angeles, California district of Hollywood.

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Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States.

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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by Billboard.

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I Can't Stop Loving You

"I Can't Stop Loving You" is a popular song written and composed by country singer, songwriter, and musician Don Gibson, who first recorded it on December 3, 1957, for RCA Victor Records.

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I Don't Need No Doctor

"I Don't Need No Doctor" is an R&B song written by Nick Ashford, Valerie Simpson, and Jo Armstead.

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I Got a Woman

"I Got a Woman" (originally titled "I've Got a Woman") is a song co-written and recorded by American R&B and soul musician Ray Charles.

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I'll Be Good to You

"I'll Be Good to You" is a 1976 hit song by R&B duo the Brothers Johnson.

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I'm Moving On (Hank Snow song)

"I'm Moving On" is a 1950 country standard written by Hank Snow.

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Impulse! Records

Impulse! Records (occasionally styled as "¡mpulse! Records" and "¡!") is an American jazz record label established by Creed Taylor in 1960.

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Inglewood Park Cemetery

Inglewood Park Cemetery, in Inglewood, California, was founded in 1905.

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It Should've Been Me (Memphis Curtis song)

"It Should've Been Me" is a 1954 rhythm and blues song written by Memphis Curtis, produced by Ahmet Ertegun and recorded and released as a single by American singer Ray Charles.

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Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville is the most populous city proper in the U.S. state of Florida, located on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida.

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James Booker

James Carroll Booker III (December 17, 1939 – November 8, 1983) was an American New Orleans rhythm and blues keyboardist and singer. Ray Charles and James Booker are 20th-century American keyboardists, 20th-century organists, African-American jazz pianists, African-American pianists, American blues pianists, American blues singers, American jazz pianists, American male jazz pianists, American male organists, American rhythm and blues keyboardists, American rhythm and blues singers and rhythm and blues pianists.

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James Taylor

James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Ray Charles and James Taylor are American rock songwriters, Kennedy Center honorees, McLean Hospital patients and singer-songwriters from California.

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Jamie Foxx

Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer, and comedian. Ray Charles and Jamie Foxx are American contemporary R&B singers.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Jerry Wexler

Gerald Wexler (January 10, 1917 – August 15, 2008) was a music journalist turned music producer, and was a major influence on American popular music from the 1950s through the 1980s.

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Jo Armstead

Josephine Armstead (born October 8, 1944), also known as "Joshie" Jo Armstead, is an American soul singer and songwriter. Ray Charles and Jo Armstead are American soul singers.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.

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Johnny Mathis

John Royce Mathis (born September 30, 1935) is an American singer of popular music. Ray Charles and Johnny Mathis are American jazz singers and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.

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Kennedy Center Honors

The Kennedy Center Honors are annual honors given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture.

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Larry Evans (chess player)

Larry Melvyn Evans (March 22, 1932 – November 15, 2010) was an American chess player, author, and journalist who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1957.

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Laura Bush

Laura Lane Bush (née Welch; born November 4, 1946) is an American educator who was the first lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009 as the wife of George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States.

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LaVilla

LaVilla is a historic African American neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida and a was formerly an independent city.

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Leon Hefflin Sr.

Leon Norman Hefflin Sr. (August 17, 1898 – November 20, 1975) was a pioneering African-American producer, director, business owner, furniture manufacturer, and entrepreneur.

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Let's Go Get Stoned

"Let's Go Get Stoned" is a song originally recorded by The Coasters in May 1965.

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Limit Up

Limit Up is a 1989 comedy film starring Nancy Allen as Chicago commodities trader Casey Falls.

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List of U.S. state songs

Forty-eight of the fifty states in the United States have one or more state songs, a type of regional anthem, which are selected by each state legislature as a symbol (or emblem) of that particular state.

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Little Willie John

William Edward "Little Willie" John (November 15, 1937 – May 26, 1968) was an American R&B singer who performed in the 1950s and early 1960s. Ray Charles and Little Willie John are American soul singers.

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Liver failure

Liver failure is the inability of the liver to perform its normal synthetic and metabolic functions as part of normal physiology.

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Living for the City

"Living for the City" is a 1973 single by Stevie Wonder from his Innervisions album.

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Local union

A local union (often shortened to local), in North America, or union branch (known as a lodge in some unions), in the United Kingdom and other countries, is a local branch (or chapter) of a usually national trade union.

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Logan International Airport

General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport, also known as Boston Logan International Airport, is an international airport that is located mostly in East Boston and partially in Winthrop, Massachusetts.

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Louis Jordan

Louis Thomas Jordan (July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975) was an American saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and bandleader who was popular from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Ray Charles and Louis Jordan are American blues singers, American jazz singers and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.

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Love Affair (1994 film)

Love Affair is a 1994 American romantic drama film and a remake of the 1939 film of the same name.

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Lowell Fulson

Lowell Fulson (March 31, 1921March 7, 1999) was an American blues guitarist and songwriter, in the West Coast blues tradition. Ray Charles and Lowell Fulson are Burials at Inglewood Park Cemetery.

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Lucky Millinder

Lucius Venable "Lucky" Millinder (August 8, 1910 – September 28, 1966) was an American swing and rhythm-and-blues bandleader. Ray Charles and Lucky Millinder are American jazz singers and American rhythm and blues singers.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.

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Lynwood, California

Lynwood is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Margie Hendrix

Marjorie Hendrix (sometimes Hendricks) (March 13, 1935 – July 14, 1973) was an American rhythm and blues singer and founding member of the Raelettes, who were the backing singers for Ray Charles, the father of her child, Charles Wayne Hendrix.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.

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Master recordings

Master recordings are the original recordings of audio performances.

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Mastering (audio)

Mastering, a form of audio post production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master), the source from which all copies will be produced (via methods such as pressing, duplication or replication).

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McLean Hospital

McLean Hospital (formerly known as Somerville Asylum and Charlestown Asylum) is a psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts.

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Mess Around

The "Mess Around" is a song written by Ahmet Ertegun, co-founder and then-vice-president of Atlantic Records, under the pseudonym of A. Nugetre, or "Nuggy".

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Michael McDonald (musician)

Michael H. McDonald (born February 12, 1952) is an American singer, keyboardist and songwriter known for his distinctive, soulful voice and as a member of Steely Dan (1973–1974), and the Doobie Brothers (1975–1982, 1987, 2019–present). Ray Charles and Michael McDonald (musician) are 20th-century American keyboardists, American baritones, American rock keyboardists, American soul keyboardists and American soul singers.

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Mickey Gilley

Mickey Leroy Gilley (March 9, 1936 – May 7, 2022) was an American country music singer and musician. Ray Charles and Mickey Gilley are American country pianists.

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Milt Jackson

Milton Jackson (January 1, 1923 – October 9, 1999), nicknamed "Bags", was an American jazz vibraphonist. Ray Charles and Milt Jackson are Atlantic Records artists.

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Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music is a studio album by American singer and pianist Ray Charles.

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Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Volume Two

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Volume Two is a 1962 album by Ray Charles.

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Moonlighting (TV series)

Moonlighting is an American comedy drama television series that aired on ABC from March 3, 1985, to May 14, 1989.

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Morehouse College

Morehouse College is a private historically Black, men's, liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Narcotic

The term narcotic (from ancient Greek ναρκῶ narkō, "I make numb") originally referred medically to any psychoactive compound with numbing or paralyzing properties.

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Nat King Cole

Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally by his stage name Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor. Ray Charles and nat King Cole are African-American jazz pianists, American baritones, American gospel singers, American jazz pianists, American jazz singers, American male jazz pianists, American male organists, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners, jazz musicians from California and singers from Los Angeles.

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Natalie Cole

Natalie Maria Cole (February 6, 1950 – December 31, 2015) was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Ray Charles and Natalie Cole are African-American pianists, American soul singers, singer-songwriters from California and singers from Los Angeles.

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National Medal of Arts

The National Medal of Arts is an award and title created by the United States Congress in 1984, for the purpose of honoring artists and patrons of the arts.

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National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame

The National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame is an independent organization whose mission is to educate and to celebrate, preserve, promote, and present rhythm and blues music globally.

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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, politician, and statesman who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

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New Jersey Lottery

The New Jersey Lottery is run by the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Newport Jazz Festival

The Newport Jazz Festival is an annual American multi-day jazz music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island.

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Norah Jones

Norah Jones (born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar; March 30, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. Ray Charles and Norah Jones are American jazz pianists and American jazz singers.

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Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City, officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often shortened to OKC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Oricon

, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music.

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Orlando, Florida

Orlando is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, Florida, United States.

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Oro Incenso & Birra

Oro Incenso & Birra (Gold, Frankincense & Beer) is the fifth studio album released by the Italian singer-songwriter Zucchero Fornaciari on 13 June 1989.

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Over the Rainbow

"Over the Rainbow", also known as "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", is a ballad by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Yip Harburg.

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Overtown (Miami)

Overtown is a neighborhood of Miami, Florida, United States, just northwest of Downtown Miami.

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Paine College

Paine College is a private, historically black Methodist college in Augusta, Georgia.

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Percy Mayfield

Percy Mayfield (August 12, 1920August 11, 1984) was an American rhythm and blues singer with a smooth vocal style. Ray Charles and Percy Mayfield are Burials at Inglewood Park Cemetery.

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Piano

The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd are an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

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Polar Music Prize

The Polar Music Prize is a Swedish international award founded in 1989 by Stig Anderson, best known as the manager of the Swedish band ABBA, with a donation to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Progressive soul

Progressive soul (often shortened to prog-soul; also called black prog, black rock, and progressive R&B) is a type of African-American music that uses a progressive approach, particularly in the context of the soul and funk genres.

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Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a rock music genre that is inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centered on perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.

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Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. Ray Charles and Quincy Jones are 20th-century jazz composers, ABC Records artists, African-American jazz composers, American jazz composers, American male jazz composers, Kennedy Center honorees and rock and roll musicians.

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Racial segregation in the United States

Facilities and services such as housing, healthcare, education, employment, and transportation have been systematically separated in the United States based on racial categorizations.

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Random House

Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.

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Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar (born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer. Ray Charles and Ravi Shankar are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.

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Ray (film)

Ray is a 2004 American biographical musical drama film focusing on 30 years in the life of soul musician Ray Charles.

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Ray Charles discography

This is a discography of American musician Ray Charles.

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Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment Company (formerly Rhino Records Inc.) is an American specialty record label and production company founded in 1978.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.

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Rhythm and Blues Foundation

The Rhythm and Blues Foundation is an independent American nonprofit organization dedicated to the historical and cultural preservation of rhythm and blues music.

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Richard Manuel

Richard George Manuel (April 3, 1943 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as a pianist and one of three lead singers in the Band, for which he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.

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Ritz Theatre (Jacksonville)

The Ritz Theatre is an African-American oriented theatre in the LaVilla neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida.

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Robert Blackwell

Robert Alexander "Bumps" Blackwell (May 23, 1918 – March 9, 1985) was an American bandleader, songwriter, arranger, and record producer, best known for his work overseeing the early hits of Little Richard, as well as grooming Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, Lloyd Price, Sam Cooke, Herb Alpert, Larry Williams, and Sly and the Family Stone at the start of their music careers.

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (RRHOF), also simply referred to as the Rock Hall, is a museum and hall of fame located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on the shore of Lake Erie.

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Rockin' in Time

Rockin' In Time: A Social History of Rock-and-Roll is a rock history book written by David Szatmary.

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Roger Waters

George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician and singer-songwriter.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time

"The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time" is a special issue published by Rolling Stone in two parts in 2004 and 2005, and later updated in 2011.

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Sam Cooke

Samuel Cooke (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964), known professionally as Sam Cooke, was an American singer and songwriter. Ray Charles and Sam Cooke are African-American male singer-songwriters, African-American rock musicians, African-American rock singers, American gospel singers, American rhythm and blues singers, American soul singers and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.

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Sammy Davis Jr.

Samuel George Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American singer, actor, comedian and dancer. Ray Charles and Sammy Davis Jr. are African-American jazz pianists, American jazz singers, American male jazz pianists, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners, jazz musicians from California and Kennedy Center honorees.

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Sanremo Music Festival

The Sanremo Music Festival, officially the Italian Song Festival, is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the city of Sanremo, Liguria, organized and broadcast by Italian public broadcaster RAI.

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Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live sketch comedy variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC and streams on Peacock.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.

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Seven Spanish Angels

"Seven Spanish Angels" is a song written by Troy Seals and Eddie Setser, and recorded by Ray Charles as a duet with Willie Nelson.

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Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall

The Shrine Auditorium is a landmark large-event venue in Los Angeles, California.

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Sid Feller

Sidney Feller (December 24, 1916 – February 16, 2006) was an American conductor and arranger, best known for his work with Ray Charles. Ray Charles and Sid Feller are ABC Records artists.

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Songwriters Hall of Fame

The Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF) is an American institution founded in 1969 by songwriter Johnny Mercer, music publisher/songwriter Abe Olman, and publisher/executive Howie Richmond to honor those whose work, represent, and maintain, the heritage and legacy of a spectrum of the most beloved English language songs from the world's popular music songbook.

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Soul Brothers

Soul Brothers is the third album recorded by Ray Charles and the eleventh album by Milt Jackson and released by Atlantic Records in 1958.

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Soul Meeting

Soul Meeting is a 1961 Atlantic Records album of recordings made by Ray Charles and Milt Jackson in 1957.

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Soul music

Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African-American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Southern All Stars

, also known by the abbreviations and SAS, are a Japanese rock band that first formed in 1974.

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Spy Hard

Spy Hard is a 1996 American spy parody film starring Leslie Nielsen (who also executive produced) and Nicollette Sheridan, parodying James Bond and other action films.

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St. Augustine, Florida

St.

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St. Elsewhere

St.

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St. Petersburg, Florida

St.

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Steve Winwood

Stephen Lawrence Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English musician and songwriter whose genres include blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock and pop rock.

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Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris (Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder are 20th-century American keyboardists, 20th-century organists, African-American male singer-songwriters, African-American pianists, American blind people, American male organists, American musicians with disabilities, American rhythm and blues keyboardists, American rhythm and blues singers, American soul keyboardists, American soul singers, blind musicians, blind singers, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners, Kennedy Center honorees and rhythm and blues pianists.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.

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Stuart Gorrell

Stuart Graham Steven Gorrell (September 17, 1901 – August 10, 1963) was best known for writing the lyrics for the song "Georgia on My Mind".

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Sun City (South Africa)

Sun City is a luxury resort and casino, situated in the North West Province of South Africa.

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Suntory

(commonly referred to as simply Suntory) is a Japanese multinational brewing and distilling company group.

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Super Dave (TV series)

Super Dave (also known as The Super Dave Osborne Show) is a variety show starring and hosted by the fictional character Super Dave Osborne (played by Bob Einstein).

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Suspended sentence

A suspended sentence is a sentence on conviction for a criminal offence, the serving of which the court orders to be deferred in order to allow the defendant to perform a period of probation.

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Swing Time Records

Swing Time Records was a United States-based record label active in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Swingin' Along

Swingin' Along is a 1961 American comedy film directed by Charles Barton.

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Take These Chains from My Heart

"Take These Chains from My Heart" is a song by Hank Williams.

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Tampa, Florida

Tampa is a city on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Tangerine Records (1962)

Tangerine Records was an American record label founded by musician Ray Charles in 1962.

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The Best of Van Morrison Volume 3

The Best of Van Morrison Volume 3 is a compilation album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison released on 11 June 2007 in the UK with a digital version released in the U.S. on iTunes Store on 12 June 2007.

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The Big T.N.T. Show

The Big T.N.T. Show is a 1965 concert film featuring performances by numerous popular rock and roll and R&B musicians from the United States and the United Kingdom.

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The Blues Brothers (film)

The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical action comedy film directed by John Landis.

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The Brothers Johnson

The Brothers Johnson were an American funk and R&B band consisting of the American brothers George ("Lightnin' Licks") and Louis E. Johnson ("Thunder Thumbs").

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The Cookies

The Cookies were an American R&B girl group active in two distinct lineups, the first from 1954 to 1958 which later became The Raelettes, and the second from 1961 to 1967. Ray Charles and the Cookies are Atlantic Records artists.

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The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave

The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave is a 2000 American comedy film starring the comedian Bob Einstein as Super Dave Osborne.

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The Great Ray Charles

The Great Ray Charles is the second studio album by American musician Ray Charles, released in 1957 by Atlantic Records.

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The Nanny

The Nanny is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from November 3, 1993, to June 23, 1999, starring Fran Drescher as Fran Fine, a Jewish fashionista from Flushing, Queens who becomes the nanny of three children from an Anglo-American upper-class family in New York.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Raelettes

The Raelettes (or occasionally The Raelets or The Raeletts) were an American girl group formed in 1958 to provide backing vocals for Ray Charles.

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The Things That I Used to Do

"The Things That I Used to Do" is a blues standard written by Guitar Slim.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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This Little Girl of Mine

"This Little Girl of Mine" is a rhythm and blues single written and released as a single by Ray Charles in 1955 on the Atlantic label.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Top 40

In the music industry, the Top 40 is a list of the 40 currently most popular songs in a particular genre.

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Toto Cutugno

Salvatore "Toto" Cutugno (7 July 1943 – 22 August 2023) was an Italian pop singer-songwriter, musician, and television presenter.

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True to Life (Ray Charles album)

True to Life is a 1977 studio album by American musician Ray Charles.

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UCLA Spring Sing

Spring Sing is an annual music competition held in May at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion.

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, its insular areas, and its associated states.

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University of North Texas

The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public research university in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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University of South Florida

The University of South Florida (USF) is a public research university with its main campus located in Tampa, Florida, and other campuses in St. Petersburg and Sarasota.

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Van Morrison

Sir George Ivan Morrison (born 31 August 1945) is a singer-songwriter and musician from Northern Ireland whose recording career spans seven decades.

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Verona Arena

The Verona Arena (Arena di Verona) is a Roman amphitheatre in Piazza Bra in Verona, Italy, built in 30 AD.

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View Park–Windsor Hills, California

View Park−Windsor Hills is an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California.

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Warner Records

Warner Records Inc. (formerly known as Warner Bros. Records Inc. until 2019) is an American record label.

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Warrant (law)

A warrant is generally an order that serves as a specific type of authorization, that is, a writ issued by a competent officer, usually a judge or magistrate, that permits an otherwise illegal act that would violate individual rights and affords the person executing the writ protection from damages if the act is performed.

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We Are the World

"We Are the World" is a charity single originally recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa in 1985.

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Who's the Boss?

Who's the Boss? is an American sitcom television series created by Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter, that aired on ABC from September 20, 1984, to April 25, 1992, with a total of 196 half-hour episodes spanning eight seasons.

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Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 29, 1933) is an American country singer, guitarist and songwriter. Ray Charles and Willie Nelson are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners, Kennedy Center honorees and Liberty Records artists.

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Wings (1990 TV series)

Wings is an American sitcom television series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from April 19, 1990, to May 21, 1997, for a total of 172 episodes.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, and music instructor, who is currently the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Ray Charles and Wynton Marsalis are 20th-century jazz composers, African-American jazz composers, American jazz composers and American male jazz composers.

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Yip Harburg

Edgar Yipsel Harburg (born Isidore Hochberg; April 8, 1896 – March 5, 1981) was an American popular song lyricist and librettist who worked with many well-known composers.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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Zucchero Fornaciari

Adelmo Fornaciari (born 25 September 1955), more commonly known by his stage name Zucchero Fornaciari or simply Zucchero, is an Italian singer, musician and songwriter.

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47th Annual Grammy Awards

The 47th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 13, 2005, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles honoring the best in music for the recording of the year beginning from October 1, 2003, through September 30, 2004.

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60 Minutes

60 Minutes is an American television news magazine broadcast on the CBS television network.

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77th Academy Awards

The 77th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on February 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST.

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See also

American country pianists

Blind singers

Jazz musicians from Florida

McLean Hospital patients

Rhythm and blues pianists

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Charles

Also known as Charles, Ray, I Believe to My Soul (song), Ray C. Robinson, Ray Charles (musician, born 1930), Ray Charles Band, Ray Charles Robinson, Raymond Charles Robinson, The Pages Of My Mind.

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