Love in 3/4 Time

Ray Charles performing "Love in 3/4 Time".

Ode to Billie Joe

I wish there was video here, but the audio will have to do. This is Ray Charles with Clydie King singing "Ode to Billie Joe".

Heaven Help Us All

Since today would have been Ray Charles' 85th birthday, here he is performing "Heaven Help Us All".

Sail Away

Ray Charles covering the Randy Newman song "Sail Away".

A Song For You

From Willie's 70th birthday celebration, Willie Nelson, Ray Charles and Leon Russell preforming "A Song For You".

Oh. Happy Day

Ray Charles and the Voices of Jubilation Singers performing.

Moondance

I posted a song off my second favorite album of all time a couple weeks back. Here are some songs off my all time favorite album, Van Morrison's Moondance.

The title Track with some amazing horn performances.



Morrison and Ray Charles perform "Crazy Love".




My Favorite song from my favorite album, "And It Stoned Me".

Hank WIlliams - Covers

Here are a couple covers of Hank Williams songs.

Lucinda Williams - "Jambalaya"



Norah Jones - "Cold, Cold Heart"



Ray Charles - "Your Cheatin' Heart"

Ray Charles

Another Pianist to wind up the week, Ray Charles.

"Hit the Road Jack" was released in 1961, and went to #1 on both the Pop and R & B chart. So this video must be from some time in the early 60's.



"Seven Spanish Angels"—a duet with Willie Nelson—went to #1 on the country charts in the mid 80's.



His rendition of "America the Beautiful" might be the most popular version of that song. Here is a video of it from 1972.

The words to this song were written by Katharine Lee Bates, and first published in 1895. The music that the song is performed with today was written by Samuel A. Ward, and first published with the text as "America the Beautiful" in 1910. So the song we currently know is about to turn 100. All the more reason to include it in this post.