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Ray Charles (I) (1930–2004)
A tragic fate may have given this visionary a heightened sensitivity, perception, awareness, even expansion to his obvious musical gifts that he may have never touched upon had he not suffered from his physical affliction. Whatever it was, Ray Charles revolutionized American music and was catapulted to legendary status by the time he died in ...
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Born:in Albany, Georgia, USADied:(age 73) in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA |
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2017
Kevin (Probably) Saves the World
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Brutal Acts of Kindness
(2017)
... (writer: "Cash Machine" - uncredited)
2017
Operación triunfo
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode #9.0
(2017)
... (writer: "Georgia on my Mind")
2017
Beat Shazam
(TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes)
- Episode #1.12
(2017)
... (performer: "Hit the Road Jack")
- Episode #1.9
(2017)
... (performer: "Georgia on My Mind")
Mike and Mike in the Morning
(TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes, 2014 - 2017) (writer - 1 episode, 2017)
- Episode dated 12 June 2017
(2017)
... (performer: "What'd I Say") / (writer: "What'd I Say")
- Episode dated 26 September 2014
(2014)
... (performer: "Shake a Tail Feather")
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2017) (writer - 1 episode, 2017)
- Kimmy Gets Divorced?!
(2017)
... (performer: "I Got a Woman" - uncredited) / (writer: "I Got a Woman" - uncredited)
Who's Doing the Dishes?
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2016) (writer - 1 episode, 2016)
- Jake Quickenden
(2016)
... (performer: "Mess Around" - uncredited)
- Gemma Bissix
(2016)
... (writer: "Gold Digger" - uncredited)
2016
One Hit Wonderland
(TV Series documentary) (writer - 1 episode)
- "Mickey" by Tony Basil
(2016)
... (writer: "What'd I Say")
2016
Morgen hör ich auf
(TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Schöner Schein
(2016)
... (performer: "Unchain My Heart", "Hit The Road Jack" - uncredited)
2015/III
The Audition
(Short) (performer: "What'd I Say Parts I & II") / (writer: "What'd I Say Parts I & II")
2015
Reel Iconic
(TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Double Identity
(2015)
... (performer: "Am I Blue")
2015
Glastonbury 2015
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Day 2: Part 2
(2015)
... (writer: "Gold Digger")
2015
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Anna Faris/Jeff Van Gundy & Mark Jackson/Annie Lennox
(2015)
... (writer: "Georgia On My Mind")
2014
Cilla
(TV Mini-Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.1
(2014)
... (writer: "What'd I Say" - uncredited)
2014
Seal Team Eight: Behind Enemy Lines
(Video) (performer: "What'd I do") / (writer: "What'd I do")
2012-2014
The Voice UK
(TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes)
- Blind Auditions 3
(2014)
... (writer: "Hallelujah I Love Her So")
- Live Show 3
(2012)
... (writer: "I Got a Woman" - uncredited)
Dancing with the Stars
(TV Series) (2 episodes, 2006 - 2013) (performer - 1 episode, 2008) (writer - 1 episode, 2008)
- Week 8: Trio Dance
(2013)
... ("Hit the Road Jack")
- Round 2
(2008)
... (performer: "I Got a Woman" - uncredited) / (writer: "I Got a Woman" - uncredited)
- Round 7
(2006)
... ("Shake a Tail Feather")
2013
Celebrity Splash! Australia
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Heat 2
(2013)
... (performer: "Shake A Tail Feather" - uncredited)
2011-2013
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
(TV Series) (writer - 3 episodes)
- Episode #21.133
(2013)
... (writer: "Hallelujah I Love Her So" - uncredited)
- Episode #21.36
(2012)
... (writer: "Hallelujah I Love Her So" - uncredited)
- Episode #19.169
(2011)
... (writer: "I Believe to My Soul" - uncredited)
2013
The '80s: The Decade That Made Us
(TV Mini-Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
- Tear Down These Walls
(2013)
... (performer: "(Night Time Is) The Right Time" - uncredited)
Bi no tsubo
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2013) (writer - 1 episode, 2013)
- Chikurin
(2013)
... (performer: "Hallelujah I Love Her So") / (writer: "Hallelujah I Love Her So")
2010-2012
The X Factor
(TV Series) (writer - 3 episodes)
- Live Show 2
(2012)
... (writer: "Gold Digger" - uncredited)
- Auditions 4
(2012)
... (writer: "Gold Digger" - uncredited)
- Auditions 5
(2010)
... (writer: "Gold Digger")
2012
Magic City
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- The Year of the Fin
(2012)
... (performer: "Moon Over Miami" - uncredited)
2012
Luck
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Ace Meets with a Colleague
(2012)
... (performer: "Drown in My Own Tears" - uncredited)
2012
Some Jerk with a Camera
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Season One Outtakes Special Hosted by Kill Bosby!
(2012)
... (performer: "(Night Time Is) The Right Time")
2012
Pan Am
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Diplomatic Relations
(2012)
... (performer: "You Are My Sunshine" - uncredited)
2006-2011
So You Think You Can Dance
(TV Series) (performer - 3 episodes)
- Top 16 Perform
(2011)
... (performer: "Hit the Road, Jack")
- Top 18 Perform
(2009)
... (performer: "Shake a Tail Feather")
- Top 4: The Finale
(2006)
... (performer: "Georgia on My Mind")
2011
Nurse Jackie
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- ...Deaf Blind Tumor Pee-Test
(2011)
... (performer: "Hit the Road Jack" - uncredited)
2011
Treme
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky
(2011)
... (writer: "I Got a Woman", "Mary Ann" - uncredited)
2011
Late Show with David Letterman
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode #18.111
(2011)
... (writer: "Hallelujah I Love Her So" - uncredited)
2011
Harry's Law
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Pilot
(2011)
... (performer: "Hit the Road Jack")
Rock & Chips
(TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes, 2010) (writer - 1 episode, 2010)
- Five Gold Rings
(2010)
... (performer: "Georgia On My Mind", "You Won't Let Me Go" (uncredited), "What'd I Say" (uncredited)) / (writer: "What'd I Say" - uncredited)
- Pilot
(2010)
... (performer: "You Won't Let Me Go", "If I Give You My Love" - uncredited)
2010
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
(TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes)
- Episode #2.147
(2010)
... (writer: "Gold Digger" - uncredited)
- Episode #2.48
(2010)
... (writer: "What'd I Say" - uncredited)
2010
Bones
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- The Rocker in the Rinse Cycle
(2010)
... (performer: "I Don't Need No Doctor")
2010
Country's Greatest Stars Live: Vol. 1
(Video) (performer: "Take These Chains From My Heart", "Bye Bye Love")
2009
Cold Case
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- The Crossing
(2009)
... (performer: "I Got A Woman", "We Don't See Eye To Eye", "Hide Nor Hair", "Careless Love", "Drown In My Own Tears", "What Would I Do Without You")
2009
Glee
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Showmance
(2009)
... (writer: "Gold Digger" - uncredited)
2009
Dancing with the Stars
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- 2009 Semi-Final
(2009)
... (writer: "Hallelujah (I Love Her So)")
Damages
(TV Series) (performer - 5 episodes, 2009) (writer - 1 episode, 2009)
- Trust Me
(2009)
... (performer: "Just For A Thrill" - uncredited)
- They Had to Tweeze That Out of My Kidney
(2009)
... (performer: "Just For A Thrill" - uncredited)
- A Pretty Girl in a Leotard
(2009)
... (writer: "Just for a Thrill" - uncredited)
- Hey! Mr. Pibb!
(2009)
... (performer: "Just For A Thrill")
- Burn It, Shred It, I Don't Care.
(2009)
... (performer: "Just For a Thrill" - uncredited)
2008
Private Practice
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Nothing to Talk About
(2008)
... (writer: "What'd I Say" - uncredited)
2008
So You Think You Can Dance Australia
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Top 18 Perform
(2008)
... (performer: "Yesterday")
2007
Banda sonora
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.12
(2007)
... (performer: "Yes Indeed")
2007
A la diestra del cielo: Silvio, un cantaor rockero
(Documentary) (writer: "Unchain Break My Heart")
2004-2007
Las Vegas
(TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes)
- The Glass Is Always Cleaner
(2007)
... (performer: "Crying Time" - uncredited)
- Two of a Kind
(2004)
... (performer: "Over the Rainbow" - uncredited)
2000-2007
American Masters
(TV Series documentary) (performer - 2 episodes)
- Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
(2007)
... (performer: "Everybody Has the Blues")
- Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
(2000)
... (performer: "In the Heat of the Night")
2007
Memòries de la tele
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.10
(2007)
... (performer: "Yesterday")
2007
Canadian Idol
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Top 18 Performance: Guys
(2007)
... (writer: "I Got a Woman")
2006
American Idol: The Search for a Superstar
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Top 3 Performance Show: Clive Davis', Judges' & Idol's Choice
(2006)
... (writer: "I Believe to My Soul")
The Sopranos
(TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes, 2001 - 2006) (writer - 1 episode, 2001)
- Johnny Cakes
(2006)
... (performer: "I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town")
- Another Toothpick
(2001)
... (performer: "The Genius After Hours" - uncredited) / (writer: "The Genius After Hours" - uncredited)
2005
Smallville
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Lexmas
(2005)
... (performer: "That Spirit of Christmas" - uncredited)
2005
The Boondocks
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Guess Hoe's Coming to Dinner
(2005)
... (writer: "Gold Digger")
2005
Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live
(TV Special documentary) (performer: "I Can See Clearly Now")
2005
Saturday Night Live: The Best of John Belushi
(TV Special) (writer: "What'd I Say" - uncredited)
2004/I
Ray
("Route 66", "Straighten Up and Fly Right", "I Got a Woman") / (performer: "What'd I Say", "Anytime", "Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand", "Roll with My Baby", "The Midnight Hour", "The Key of G", "Pete Johnson's Stride", "Mess Around", "I Got a Woman", "Hallelujah I Love Her So", "Drown in My Own Tears", "Leave My Woman Alone", "Mary Ann", "What Kind of Man Are You?", "Night Time Is the Right Time", "I Believe to My Soul", "Georgia on My Mind", "Hit the Road Jack", "Unchain My Heart", "You Don't Know Me", "Rockhouse", "I Can't Stop Loving You", "Bye Bye Love", "Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)", "Born to Lose") / (writer: "What'd I Say", "Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand", "The Key of G", "Pete Johnson's Stride", "I Got a Woman", "Hallelujah I Love Her So", "Mary Ann", "What Kind of Man Are You?", "Rockhouse", "Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)")
2004
Senhora do Destino
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.1
(2004)
... (performer: "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word")
Celebridade
(TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes, 2003) (writer - 1 episode, 2003)
- Episode #1.25
(2003)
... (performer: "Ruby") / (writer: "Ruby")
- Episode dated 13 October 2003
(2003)
... (performer: "Ruby" - uncredited)
The Practice
(TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode, 2003) (performer - 1 episode, 2003)
- The Lonely People
(2003)
... (lyrics: "Cry") / (performer: "Cry")
The Blues
(TV Series documentary) (performer - 2 episodes, 2003) (writer - 2 episodes, 2003) (arranger - 1 episode, 2003)
- Piano Blues
(2003)
... (arranger: "America the Beautiful") / (performer: "What'd I Say", "Duke's Place", "Baby Let Me Hold Your hand", "America the Beautiful") / (writer: "What'd I Say", "Baby Let Me Hold Your hand")
- Red, White and Blues
(2003)
... (performer: "What'd I Say", "A Fool For You", "Hard Times") / (writer: "Hard Times", "What'd I Say", "A Fool For You")
2003
Soundstage
(TV Series documentary) (writer - 1 episode)
- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Part 2
(2003)
... (writer: "I Got A Woman" - uncredited)
2002
Later... With Jools Holland
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode #19.6
(2002)
... (writer: "Careless Love")
1999
The Hurricane
(performer: "Hard Times No One Knows", "A Fool for You") / (writer: "Hard Times No One Knows", "A Fool for You")
1997
Bat Yam - New York
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Bat Yamim Bi-New York
(1997)
... (performer: "Hit the Road Jack" - uncredited)
Northern Exposure
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 1995) (writer - 1 episode, 1995)
- The Graduate
(1995)
... (performer: "What'd I Say") / (writer: "What'd I Say")
1994
Diagnosis Murder
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Georgia on My Mind
(1994)
... (performer: "Georgia on My Mind" - uncredited)
Baseball
(TV Mini-Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode, 1994) (writer - 1 episode, 1994)
- The Capital of Baseball
(1994)
... (performer: "What'd I Say") / (writer: "What'd I Say")
1994
Tohuwabohu
(TV Series) (performer - 3 episodes)
- Episode #4.4
(1994)
... (performer: "Hit The Road Jack" - uncredited)
- Seite 17
(1994)
... (performer: "Hit The Road Jack" - uncredited)
- Episode #4.2
(1994)
... (performer: "Hit The Road Jack" - uncredited)
1990-1993
Quantum Leap
(TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes)
- Mirror Image - August 8, 1953
(1993)
... (performer: "Georgia On My Mind" - uncredited)
- M.I.A. - April 1, 1969
(1990)
... (performer: "Georgia On My Mind")
1993
Melrose Place
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Pas de Trois
(1993)
... (performer: "It Had to Be You")
1993
Beavis and Butt-Head
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Balloon
(1993)
... (writer: "Supermodel")
1991
Thirtysomething
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- The Wedding
(1991)
... (performer: "Come Rain Or Come Shine")
1990
In Living Color
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Conspiracy
(1990)
... (writer: "What'd I Say")
1988
Frank's Place
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Shorty's Belle
(1988)
... (performer: "I Can't Stop Loving You" - uncredited)
Moonlighting
(TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 1987) (writer - 1 episode, 1987)
- A Trip to the Moon
(1987)
... (performer: "Hit the Road Jack (Dave)", "It's All Right") / (writer: "It's All Right")
1982
The King of Comedy
(performer: "Come Rain or Come Shine", "Sweet Sixteen Bars") / (writer: "Sweet Sixteen Bars")
WKRP in Cincinnati
(TV Series) (performer - 5 episodes, 1978 - 1982) (writer - 2 episodes, 1981 - 1982)
- Pills
(1982)
... (performer: "What'd I Say") / (writer: "What'd I Say")
- I Am Woman
(1981)
... (performer: "What'd I Say") / (writer: "What'd I Say")
- Baby, It's Cold Inside
(1981)
... (performer: "Tell the Truth")
- Venus Rising
(1980)
... (performer: "Tell the Truth")
- Love Returns
(1978)
... (performer: "You 20th Century Fox")
1978
Spécial Ray Charles
(TV Movie) (performer: "La mamma", "Il est mort le soleil", "Ne me Quitte pas", "I feel so bad")
1978
Big Wednesday
(performer: "What'd I Say" (1959) - uncredited) / (writer: "What'd I Say" (1959) - uncredited)
Saturday Night Live
(TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes, 1977) (writer - 1 episode, 1977)
- Ray Charles
(1977)
... ("What'd I Say") / (performer: "I Can See Clearly Now", "Georgia on My Mind", "What'd I Say", "Oh What A Beautiful Morning", "I Can't Stop loving You", "On Saturday Night") / (writer: "What'd I Say", "On Saturday Night")
- Elliott Gould/Kate & Anna McGarrigle/Roslyn Kind
(1977)
... (performer: "America the Beautiful")
1973
Barbra Streisand and Other Musical Instruments
(TV Special) (performer: "Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma", "Cryin' Time", "Sweet Inspiration")
1971
Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte
(performer: "Let's Go Get Stoned") / (writer: "Let's Go Get Stoned")
1971
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
(performer: "Don't Tell Me Your Troubles")
1970
The Johnny Cash Show
(TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes)
- Episode #2.1
(1970)
... (performer: "Ring of Fire", "I Walk the Line", "Peace in the Valley")
- Episode #1.19
(1970)
... (performer: "I Can't Stop Loving You", "Them That Got")
1969-1970
The Porter Wagoner Show
(TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes)
- Jerry Reed
(1970)
... (writer: "Hallelujah I Love Her So")
- Jerry Reed
(1969)
... (writer: "Halleluiah, I Love Her So")
1968
The Rosey Grier Show
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.24
(1968)
... (writer: "What'd I Say")
1968
Andy Williams' Kaleidoscope Company
(TV Movie) (performer: "I'm Moving On", "What'd I Say") / (writer: "What'd I Say")
1967
BBC Show of the Week
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Bobby Darin in London
(1967)
... (writer: "What'd I Say")
1967
The Monkees
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- The Monkees on Tour
(1967)
... (writer: "I Got a Woman")
1965-1966
Hollywood a Go Go
(TV Series) (writer - 3 episodes)
- Episode #1.56
(1966)
... (writer: "What'd I Say")
- Episode #1.35
(1965)
... (writer: "What'd I Say?")
- Episode #1.33
(1965)
... (writer: "What'd I Say?")
1966
The Big T.N.T. Show
(Documentary) (performer: "It's All Right", "Georgia On My Mind", "Let the Good Times Roll") / (writer: "It's All Right")
Shindig!
(TV Series) (writer - 14 episodes, 1964 - 1965) (performer - 1 episode, 1965)
- Episode #2.11
(1965)
... (writer: "I Got a Woman")
- Episode #1.51
(1965)
... (writer: "I Got a Woman")
- Episode #1.50
(1965)
... (writer: "Hallelujah I Love Her So")
- Episode #1.44
(1965)
... (writer: "Talkin' 'Bout You")
- Episode #1.40
(1965)
... (writer: "What'd I Say?")
1965
The Patty Duke Show
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Will the Real Sammy Davis Please Hang Up?
(1965)
... (writer: "I've Got A Woman" - uncredited)
1965
Ballad in Blue
(arranger: "Careless Love" - uncredited) / (performer: "What'd I Say?", "Don't Tell Me Your Troubles" (uncredited), "I Got A Woman", "Light Out Of Darkness", "That Lucky Old Sun" (uncredited), "Careless Love" (uncredited), "Talkin' 'Bout You", "Busted" (uncredited), "Let The Good Times Roll" (uncredited), "Hit The Road Jack" (uncredited), "Unchain My Heart" (uncredited), "Hallelujah I Love Her So") / (writer: "What'd I Say?", "I Got A Woman", "Light Out Of Darkness", "Talkin' 'Bout You", "Hallelujah I Love Her So")
1963
Age tendre et tête de bois
(TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes)
- Episode dated 23 October 1963
(1963)
... (writer: "What'd I say")
- Episode dated 8 June 1963
(1963)
... (writer: "What'd I say")
1963
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
(TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes)
- June Music Festival
(1963)
... (writer: "I Got a Woman")
- Publicity for the Fraternity
(1963)
... (writer: "I Got A Woman" - uncredited)
1956
Stage Show
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode dated 28 January 1956
(1956)
... (writer: "I Got A Woman")
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I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat 'King' Cole, which I had done for a while - when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had this spiritual and churchly, this religious or gospel sound. It had this holiness and preachy tone to it. It was very controversial. I got a lot of criticism for it. See more »Trivia:
Had three #1 pop hits with "Georgia on My Mind" (1960), "Hit the Road Jack" (1961) and "I Can't Stop Loving You" (1962). See more »Trademark:
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