Biography:
Ray Charles (Ray Charles Robinson, Albany, Georgia, September 23, 1930 - Beverly Hills, California, June 10, 2004), was an American singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, and band leader.
As a rock and roll, rhythm & blues, soul, blues, jazz, country and pop musician he helped to shape the sound of rhythm & blues.
He brought a soulful sound to everything from country music ("I Can't Stop Loving You") to rock and roll ("Mess Around"), to pop standards to a now-iconic rendition of "America the Beautiful.
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Other songs:
- Baby Its Cold Outside
- Busted
- Crying Time
- Georgia On My Mind
- Hit The Road Jack
- I Can't Stop Loving You
- I Got A Woman
- If You Go Away
- Lonely Avenue
- Mess Around
- Unchain My Heart
- You Don't Know Me
- Aint That Love
- Am I Blue
- America The Beautiful
- Baby Dont You Cry
- Born To Lose
- Bulldog Bite Hunker Down Hairy Dawg
- Careless Love
- Carry Me Back To Old Virginny
- Come Back Baby
- Come Live With Me
- Come Rain Or Come Shine
- Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
- Dont Put All Your Dreams In One Basket
- Drown In My Own Tears
- Ellie My Love
- Funny But I Still Love You
- Good Love Gone Bad
- Hallelujah I Love Her So
- Hard Times No One Knows Better Than I
- Here We Go Again
- I Can See Clearly Now
- I Cant Stop Loving You
- I Dont Need No Doctor
- I Got A Woman Part 1
- If I Could
- If I Were You
- If You Were Mine
- Im Going Down To The River
- Just For A Thrill
- Lets Go Get Stoned
- My First Night Alone Without You
- My Heart Cries For You
- No Letter Today
- Rays Blues
- Shake A Tail Feather
- Sinners Prayer
- So Help Me God
- Sunshine
- Take These Chains
- Take These Chains From My Heart
- Tell All The World About You
- Thanks For Bringing Love Around Again
- That Lucky Old Sun
- That Spirit Of Christmas
- The Brightest Smile In Town
- The Jealous Kind
- Three Quarter Time
- Together Again
- Two Old Cats Like Us
- What Id Say
- What Would I Do Without You
- Without Love There Is Nothing
- You Always Miss The Water
- You Dont Know Me
- Your Cheatin Heart
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My bills are all due and the baby needs shoes and I'm busted
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Cotton is down to a quarter a pound but I'm busted
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I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay
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a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day
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The county's gonna haul my belongings away cause I'm busted
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I went to my brother to ask for a loan cause I was busted
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I hate to beg like a dog without his bone but I'm busted
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My brother said 'There ain't a thing I can do
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my wife and my kids are all down with the flu
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and I was just thinking about calling on you cause I'm busted '
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Well I am no thief but a man can go wrong when he's busted
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The food that we canned last summer is gone and I'm busted
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The fields are all bare and the cotton won't grow
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me and my family got to pack up and go
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but I'll make a living just where I don't know cause I'm busted
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I'm broke no bread I mean like nothing Fade
Ray Parker
Ray Parker Jr.
Ray Stevens
Raybaboon
Rayden
Real Friends
Real Madrid
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Reamonn
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