R.I.P. Ray Charles

[Dave Monroe]

FINALLY catching up here, so ... so not quite hot off
the ModChicago Weekender, but ...

http://modchicago.com/id226.htm

... well, of course, this certainly registered amongst
the faces, tickets, numbers, birds, rude boys, what
have you, assembled for the weekend.  And, of course,
I stupidly not only DIDN'T bring along Sylvie Vartan's
"Est-ce Que Tu Le Sais" ("What'd I Say"), but I also
leaned over to the biggest record dealer in the place
and asked what a record was that I couldn't quite
place when it just happened to be RC's "I Don't Need
No Doctor" (which of course he had a copy of for sale,
so ...).  So, okay, he probably voted for last week's
more televised casualty, but ...

--- joeallonby <vze422fs at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> A truly great American. The last time I heard Mr
> Charles perform (one of many times), he played and
> sang "America the Beautiful" on opening day 2003
> in a downpour in Fenway Park. Simply moving. He had
> made that song his own. Every time I heard him sing
> it it was remarkable. A handicapped African-
> American born in poverty sang that song as a love
> song to his home country.
> 
> Oh, and one of the first songs I ever played
> professionally was "What'd I Say" in a bar called
> Doc's Cafe in Roxbury MA in 1977. I always loved
> Ray. So did my Mom.


		
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