What'd I Say [Import]

Ray Charles, Ray Charles And the Count Basie Orchestra | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 15, 2004)
• Original Release Date: 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Warner Music France
• ASIN: B000024JJ3
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #118,824 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Genius at work!!, October 19, 2004

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JEREMY SAXON (San Francisco/Lafayette) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: What'd I Say (Audio CD)

When my brother was an infant, in 1961 or so, there were two ways to get him to sleep. One, let him cry himself to sleep. Two, put on this album, and he'd stop the crying, lie back, end of story.

Further, I know of NO album that has lasted as well as this one, including anything the Beatles ever recorded.

You know the title song, of course, and it's the lead song on the album. But once that's done, fasten your seatbelt for "Jumpin in the Morning", "You Be My Baby", "What Kind of Man Are You", "Tell Me How Do You Feel", all the way on through to "That's Enough". It's a fine, fine ride, one I've taken myself hundreds of times already.

Charles had a thing about applying himself to different styles of music. On the liner notes of this one, as I remember, he mentions he'd played in some "hillbilly" bands in Florida when he was younger, liked that music fine, and wouldn't mind recording some of it some time. Yes, he was predicting the "Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music" albums he did, from which we know "I Can't Stop Loving You" and others.
Well, this album was his fling at doing "Rock & Roll" music. It doesn't sound like it to me, it just sounds like Ray, that voice, that piano, those arrangements, and a WONDERFUL set of songs by himself, Doc Pomus, Percy Mayfield and others, and a whole lot of competence going on in the studio.

If there were one album about which I could say "Don't think, just buy it," this would be the one.

7 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great collection, October 17, 2004

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This review is from: What'd I Say (Audio CD)

Ray Charles is Truly one of the mount Rushmore's of Music as we know it. He was One of the FOunding Fathers of R&B Music. he Bridged so many Musical Gaps&styles&Combined a Stew that stuck together as one.He does a Smooth take on "It had to Be You".Ray Charles's Voice,Piano Playing&overall Arrangements are a trademark that you know anywhere.He has His Own Musical Vocabulary all the Great Ones do.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FANTABULOUS!, May 29, 2011

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David Leach (N.H. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: What'd I Say (Audio CD)

If you like Ray....and you want some of his best work,well recorded and ready to go,get this CD.
There are many compilations out there.I have found that this original album to be one of the best works of his available.