@Hazman1100 I just get so completely happy when i hear about forever lasting love, i'm so happy for you!! :) I really hope i get to experience it some day..
I make a comment saying how I grew up listening to Ray Charles from my dad having his CDs and how I dislike this shitty music and I get like 40 replies of people whining and bitching about how their opinion is different. I don't care. I like this song, not your opinion.
I like good and timeless music. I have always known about Ray Charles, didnt really understand the big headlines his death generated. I only knew of hit the Road Jack. Well, I have found Georgia On My Mind, and This one and my mind is numb with amazement at the quality of the songs. The instrumentation is exceptional and the voice and lyrical content are simply exceptional.
I always think of my high school football team back in the early to mid-1970s when I hear this tune. The band would play it late in the game when it was certain that the team would lose the game. We couldn't stop loving our team and school.
I always think of my high school football team back in the early to mid-1970s when I hear this tune. The bank would play it late in the game when it was certain that the team would lose the game. We couldn't stop loving our team and school.
There's something so beautifully joyful about Ray Charles' music that makes people feel good and happy even if they're having the worst day. And today what do we have? Ke$ha and Lady Gaga and all those rappers, whose songs are about sex and drugs and money. Makes me sick.
Even though Ray loses the lyrics at one point in the song, making it probably the only mistake the man ever made in his entire life, this is still one of the greatest songs that anybody ever recorded.
The two most soulful words, in the English language are:
ive been listening to ray charles every since i can remember i'm 13 and everyone thinks i'm wierd because he is my favorite singer. How cant you love his music?
Why haven't ten million people watched this? It's a lesson on how to be great. Ray sings this country song like he's got a direct connection to God.
Every pop singer who attempts to sing this song since Ray did it don't sing the song at all, they just try and fail to copy Ray. Why try and copy perfection?
The 14th #1 song on Billboard's newly formed Easy Listening (Adult Contemporary) charts. Ray Charles became the second black artist to have a #1 hit on this chart. The first was Brook Benton, who had the very first AC hit with The Boll Weevil Song.
It was on the road back from Italy to Austria. My girlfriend has just put her head on my shoulder and the Radio played this song. I never can forget this wounderful time, this wounderful moment of love. This song and the circumstances had inspired me until this day.
Im 23yo and Ive grown up listening to genious of blues and soul.. and since I was 6 or 7, Ray was by far my favorite! I thank my dear father for helping me build my musical taste! I do listen to some crap (nothing like justin bieber for christs sake!), but it is guys like Ray, and Freddie Mercury that give me goosebumps and are part of my daily playlist!
No none of us expect an award for being young and appreciating good music when we hear it. We are just trying to defend our generation's taste I suppose. Most of us DO seek out independant and "off the grid" music, a few of us even make it ourselves. It is in these searches that we often run across classics, that due to our age, are new to us. We arent trying to brag because we like old music, rather it is a part of the search to find more.
Creo que antes había tan buena música como ahora, y por supuesto también había música muy mala; poco a poco la música corriente y ordinaria se va olvidando y solo queda lo realmente bueno. Hoy disfrutamos de lo bueno del pasado porque la bazofia ha desaparecido, nos quejamos de la música de ahora porque todavía tenemos que escuchar la basura de ahora; pero paciencia, en unos años quedará lo bueno
why is everyone saying their age? Do you expect to get an award because you're young and listen to this music? Great music lives on forever, the writers deserve the credit, not you
i was born in the wrong damn generation. im 17 and my generation is being overrun by a bunch of Biebers and Gagas. people like Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, B.B King, Buddy Guy, and Stevie Ray Vaughn are the best
@isthisusernameavalib Popular music today is really shitty, I agree with you. Is anyone forcing you to listen to what's on the radio and MTV? no. There are thousands and thousands of artists and bands making genuinely good music today, get on your computer and find them. it's not tough to do. To say that our entire generation makes bad music is just not logical.
@isthisusernameavalib Lol thank you for the laugh? If you're honestly narrow minded enough to believe that the ONLY music being put out by my generation are those artists like bieber, lady gaga, katy perry etc..... I don't know how to help you lol. Popular music today is not an accurate representation on my generation's musical ability, it is a market in which awful music is sold to kids.
@isthisusernameavalib i started listening to Ray when i was able to put a cd in the player... which was real young and im only 15 so about 12 or 13 years ago... The old time music of our parrents time are the good songs and artists.
@isthisusernameavalib Right?! The type of music that my generation listens to SUCKS. Everything sounds the same, even when you get people who try to be "different". Songwriting has to be at an all time low, with everything on the radio being about the same few ridiculous things. I hate it. I feel like pop culture as a whole right now has taken a serious nosedive. Movies, music, etc...There is no creativity left in the industry. No room for originality.
So did I, the next door neighbor actually had an outdoor speaker for his pool/patio area. If you snuck over the fence to use his pool as much as I did, you knew the lyrics to every Ray Charles/Nat Cole/Brooke Benton song written. That was 40 something years ago, I grew up in the music generation. Tradeoffs a bitch, hasn't been good for much else. Can't keep from killing each other and where's my f--ing jetpack?
@isthisusernameavalib No you didn't, good musicians are out there, it's just the shitty artists get more promotion. There are good artists out there, you just have to really search for them. For example, Jamie Cullum, who is the Frank Sinatra of today. So few care that he exists even though he's one of the greatest artists of our generation.
A #1 hit for Ray Charles on the Rhythm & Blues charts. It also hit #1 on the Top 40, Adult Contemporary, along with being #1 in the UK and Australia. It was the 93rd R&B hit of the Rock Era. And this blind man from Georgia was becoming a force on the music scene. Would he be the breakout star of the 1960's? Only time would tell.
the use of this song in metropolis was amazing, especially as it was so irrelevant to that climatic scene. it's what made the movie great for me- WOOT! :P
@SMSpores Haha.. Yeah. I watched that movie again yesterday. I'm 13 now, and watched it when I was, like 6? I didn't understand it at all then, but last night I started tearing up. :P
@SMSpores best scene in a movie ever... dramatic, sad and still a testament to the love between two souls destined to never be truly together... the song fits perfectly.
@SMSpores What's the big deal about saying how old are/were you when you started listening to this or that musician and why so many people mark this kind of comment with a "like"? It's like we're talking about a kind of Mozart who at an early age started doing something extraordinary... Is it really something fabulous appreciating good music?? For me this only reveals the total disgrace which music has become in our time. A child/teen who enjoys good music should be something absolutely normal
@SMSpores i know the anime movie that takes place in the 1940's, 50's or early 60's. thats the first time i heard the song. i a fell in love with it. i seen it on teh cable anime channel.
My mom and dad loved this song. What else can you say about love, after admiting that you can't stop loving somebody. How many people in the world carry secret torches for someone they once loved .....LOL
I saw Ray in concert in London at a small venue, I felt so luck to see him live as I grew up to his music. Every time I hear his songs it makes me feel warm as it reminds me of so many happy times.
Heard this in Metropolis a few days ago and thought this was the most beautiful thing ever. Don Gibson was a genius for writing this and Ray Charles is just as great for recording this version.
groot was hij en groter is hij nu.Geweldig was ook die tijd ...waar ik mijn eerste liefde had gevonden en wij op deze muziek eindeloos konden dansen keer op keer...
Waar is die tijd,in mijn hart mijn memories geworden mijn grote liefde ....wat eens was....
This song is so sad, everytime I listen to it I feel my heart is breaking... and yet, I can't stop listening to it. Ray Charles was a genius, not only for the songs he wrote, or the great hability to play, but for the amazing sensibility that he transmited through his gifted voice.
This is an unforgetable song for me in my life because I gave this album to my wife to express my love to her. It has been more than 40 years. It's so touching whenever I hear this song. And remind me of my oath to her.
I heard this at the drugstore and searched and searched for who sang it and who wrote it. wow the great ray charles and such an old song, music does live on :)
@waln492 Ray Charles did NOT write this song nor did he release it first.....the song was written by Don Gibson a country singer songwriter....he was the first to release it
@jmallton i know i know. what i wrote was misleading i searched for who wrote it and realized it wasnt ray charles but still wanted to know whose voice i fell in love with. they both are amazing
@waln492 Ray's version is great.....but I think a lot of times the country singers do not get the credit they deserve.....Ray also cover "You Dont Know Me" which was an old country hit and most people think he wrote it
@waln492 Ray Charles version of this song 'IS' the timeless classic.never to be beaten,or even approached for its genius. Don Gibson (its writer) was s a gift from God,and together it was pure 1960s magic. Music CANNOT get better than this. Brad Savage -- Lifelong Ray Charles fan---I've Been singing this song for 47 years ....
@jmallton , there was a huge increase of demand for Country music because of Ray Charles. Ray released Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music in early '62. As a result, by the end of '62, Nashville was the Silicone Valley of the '80s when it came to songwriters and performers.
And the old school country singers have expressed their gratitude to him for that (Cash, Willie Nelson, Buck Owens, etc.)
Ray Charles was the Tiger Woods of Country music (music, not women).
@swaregirl I think you do a great disservice to Charlie Pride....Ray Charles was a hit and run artist for the most part in country music....Charlie was there a long time and put in his time......
@jmallton , Pride started recording in '58. He was signed to RCA in '68. With all due respect to Pride for all his contributions, he did not do what Ray did for country in terms of creating a market for the genre. Every country musician, singer and songwriter benefitted financially from Ray's touch from '62 onwards. In fact, Pride benefitted from the road Charle paved.
We would all be so lucky to record in every genre we love.
@swaregirl Im having a hard time swallowing your pill here....I guess Hank Williams had no effect on country music or Bob Wills or Eddy Arnold....Rays album in country was his biggest selling album of all time....not because he was so great...but because there were already a ton of country fans waiting......none of the songs on this album were Rays songs...they were traditional country songs.....so Im not sure why all the praise for creating a new genre.....little overboard I think
@jmallton , I never said that Ray created Country Music. Tiger did not invent golf. Jack Nickalaus and Arnold Palmer were great and way before Tiger was born, so was Hank Williams. But it was both Charles and Woods in their prospective field who created a huge demand that was all things Country/Golf that was unprecedented & EVERYONE in that field directly benefitted. I'm sorry if that offends you, but it is true.
@swaregirl No offense taken.....but golf and country music was around a long time before the two of them got there......we just disagree.....that is all
@jmallton Pride started recording in '58. He was signed to RCA in '68. With all due respect to Pride for all his contributions, he did not do what Ray did for country in terms of creating a market for the genre. Every country musician, singer and songwriter benefitted financially from Ray's touch from '62 onwards. In fact, Pride benefitted from the road Charle paved.
@jmallton , if you want to better understand Charles' enormous artistic and financial contribution to Country, and American Folk and Western music, Google "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music" and read the Wikipedia page very carefully.
You might then began understand why the old school country musicians, songwriters, and music critics respect RC's contributions immensely.
@jmallton , so what, Tiger Woods never studied engineering or Physics in order to enable him to build a Golf club from scratch. His people do that for him. Does that take away his contributions to Golf?
And just how many baseball bats did Babe Ruth ever build? None, but he was still a great baseball player.
@swaregirl There is no doubt Tiger raised the viewership of golf......but golf was already popular to an extent....Tiger will go and someone else will take his spot.....Im not sure I follow your train of thought on Babe Ruth
@jmallton , you made my point, I am speaking of raising popularity and generating jobs for people in that industry.
Also, I don't know much about Pride's song writing capabilities, but a quick look at Allmusic yielded no discernable song writing credits by Pride unless he wrote under another name.
Lastly, Luciano Pavarotti, and his wonder ilk never wrote the music they performed. Does that lessen their impact on Classical music?
@jmallton , When Tiger is playing, the EXTRA dollars taken in by fellow golfers, cities who sponser tournaments & everyone else involved have been calculated. And TV viewership for golf drops by 50% when Tiger is not playing, & ads cost less because of it. Tigerless tournaments get 10-25% less specators ($3-$7 million economic impact for that city). It has all been calculated.
The ecomomic impact Charles had on Country music in '62 and beyond has also been written and duly noted.
that was one of those songs along with the platters ,that we use to dance to back in the 60s,how time fly.
teymani 1 hour ago
18 people stoped to love this song.
shapped 5 days ago
kalau sudah dengar lagu ini, selalu teringat sama Alm. PAPA gue.....
dzikriification 1 week ago
30 years of love
SVYATOSLAV23 3 weeks ago
es ist wie im wahren leben...
COUNTRYMAN3099 1 month ago
First dance I had with my wife. 50 years ago. I still love her.
Hazman1100 1 month ago 10
@Hazman1100 You were lucky, man! I wanted to live in that time!
joss8069 2 weeks ago
@Hazman1100 I just get so completely happy when i hear about forever lasting love, i'm so happy for you!! :) I really hope i get to experience it some day..
ForeverLovingMusic1 4 days ago
Hes awsome..ive sung this before:)
GraceHoneyme 1 month ago
Simplesmente perfeitoo!!
filhotube1 1 month ago
Was #1 the week I was born. :))
Dariohectorio 1 month ago
I make a comment saying how I grew up listening to Ray Charles from my dad having his CDs and how I dislike this shitty music and I get like 40 replies of people whining and bitching about how their opinion is different. I don't care. I like this song, not your opinion.
isthisusernameavalib 2 months ago
I like good and timeless music. I have always known about Ray Charles, didnt really understand the big headlines his death generated. I only knew of hit the Road Jack. Well, I have found Georgia On My Mind, and This one and my mind is numb with amazement at the quality of the songs. The instrumentation is exceptional and the voice and lyrical content are simply exceptional.
This Man is a Genius.
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hyenalittle 3 months ago
if there was ever a cover of a song to send out over the air-waives into outter space to give an alien race a sample of our music, this might be it!
GrizzlTooth 3 months ago in playlist RAY CHARLES
It's just lovely. Very lovely.
ringthebellamy 4 months ago
C'mon guys, stop comparing Ray Charles, I mean .. he's really good.. but he's no Ray Charles.
Petergriffin195 4 months ago 20
SUCH SOUL!!!!
moejoe1953 4 months ago
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I always think of my high school football team back in the early to mid-1970s when I hear this tune. The band would play it late in the game when it was certain that the team would lose the game. We couldn't stop loving our team and school.
luvupokes 4 months ago
I always think of my high school football team back in the early to mid-1970s when I hear this tune. The bank would play it late in the game when it was certain that the team would lose the game. We couldn't stop loving our team and school.
luvupokes 4 months ago
My first memory of RAY was hearing this tune on Wgsm AM on longisland ny in the 60's . I would sing along... I was just a boy.
dielauwen 4 months ago
@dielauwen do you miss those times?.. i feel like those years were way better then today
vlocity3 4 months ago
Virginia Maestro I cant stop loving you (06) Clamores 26 de Junio
enbuscadelamusica 5 months ago
There's something so beautifully joyful about Ray Charles' music that makes people feel good and happy even if they're having the worst day. And today what do we have? Ke$ha and Lady Gaga and all those rappers, whose songs are about sex and drugs and money. Makes me sick.
numbuh53 5 months ago 4
Ray Charles is in my life for the last 4 years... :)
i am 16 and i regret every single day that he wasnt a part of me expressing my soul...
ty Ray...
ScaredScrew 5 months ago
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k3nzh1n082 5 months ago
ouy nivol pots t ' nac I , asopse teews ym
leon38588 5 months ago
732 divided by 11 = 66 so for every 66 likes some one who doesnt know what true music is dislikes this song thats saying something
MrBannana123456 5 months ago
Even though Ray loses the lyrics at one point in the song, making it probably the only mistake the man ever made in his entire life, this is still one of the greatest songs that anybody ever recorded.
The two most soulful words, in the English language are:
RAY CHARLES.
theoriginalbadbob 5 months ago
IRaypleacable
GhibliOriginals 5 months ago
and I can't stop loving YOU
TheMiss18tee 6 months ago
Wow, I'm just a fetus and love all Ray Charles music!
JKmusic15 6 months ago 48
@JKmusic15 you are a sensible foetus
sajidwaikhom 5 months ago
@JKmusic15 must agree... as a sperm.... this is great stuff..
gar1558 2 months ago 3
better than Porn :)
MsRooni 6 months ago
ive been listening to ray charles every since i can remember i'm 13 and everyone thinks i'm wierd because he is my favorite singer. How cant you love his music?
lilsdogg76 6 months ago
@lilsdogg76 I' 76 years old and I loved his musicin the fifties,and I still do..And there is nothing wierd
about loving real music instead of just noise.
delbamar 6 months ago
Started listening to this when i was 12 now all of my friends (or so called friends) think im a freak for listening to real music.
Xadanar 6 months ago
Metropolis
galloway62042009 6 months ago
First heard this song on Metropolis and loved it... Too bad there are a trillion terrible remakes of it. -.-
diapersFTMFW27 6 months ago
Heard this song on BVS and fell in love with it
Xadanar 6 months ago
70's, Pop, R&B, Child Star Singer-Songwriter stopped by.
MrCHILDSTAR 6 months ago
If you look it up, Ray recorded this half a century ago. Amazing.
milliondollartruth 7 months ago
Why haven't ten million people watched this? It's a lesson on how to be great. Ray sings this country song like he's got a direct connection to God.
Every pop singer who attempts to sing this song since Ray did it don't sing the song at all, they just try and fail to copy Ray. Why try and copy perfection?
You're the greatest Ray.
milliondollartruth 7 months ago
The 14th #1 song on Billboard's newly formed Easy Listening (Adult Contemporary) charts. Ray Charles became the second black artist to have a #1 hit on this chart. The first was Brook Benton, who had the very first AC hit with The Boll Weevil Song.
mkl62 7 months ago
It was on the road back from Italy to Austria. My girlfriend has just put her head on my shoulder and the Radio played this song. I never can forget this wounderful time, this wounderful moment of love. This song and the circumstances had inspired me until this day.
TheGerwey 7 months ago
grandma was his nurse when she drew his blood he'd sing this luckiest person alive a personal ray Charles performance
devildogsrule101st 7 months ago
I love this song and Im 18, so fucking what?
Dirty9FIL 7 months ago
Oh! Such sweet memories
wallysorchard 7 months ago
Im 23yo and Ive grown up listening to genious of blues and soul.. and since I was 6 or 7, Ray was by far my favorite! I thank my dear father for helping me build my musical taste! I do listen to some crap (nothing like justin bieber for christs sake!), but it is guys like Ray, and Freddie Mercury that give me goosebumps and are part of my daily playlist!
parpm 7 months ago
most definitely should be put up there with top love songs!!
klamathshoshone 7 months ago
No none of us expect an award for being young and appreciating good music when we hear it. We are just trying to defend our generation's taste I suppose. Most of us DO seek out independant and "off the grid" music, a few of us even make it ourselves. It is in these searches that we often run across classics, that due to our age, are new to us. We arent trying to brag because we like old music, rather it is a part of the search to find more.
Tangledintothemystic 7 months ago
elvis' better
DORIOR 7 months ago
This is one of his best. For you youngsters out there who like this also check out anything by Sam Cooke.
bentbrent123 7 months ago
Creo que antes había tan buena música como ahora, y por supuesto también había música muy mala; poco a poco la música corriente y ordinaria se va olvidando y solo queda lo realmente bueno. Hoy disfrutamos de lo bueno del pasado porque la bazofia ha desaparecido, nos quejamos de la música de ahora porque todavía tenemos que escuchar la basura de ahora; pero paciencia, en unos años quedará lo bueno
Weimar76 7 months ago
why is everyone saying their age? Do you expect to get an award because you're young and listen to this music? Great music lives on forever, the writers deserve the credit, not you
Jake29112 8 months ago
I like it much. 9 people are propably pubertal fans of Gaga, Bieber or shit ... (i am 19 and this is music´s bad time)
Jerrysis 8 months ago
my mom introduced me to Ray's music when i was 7 in '67 and i have been hooked ever since.......
Theleozayas4 8 months ago
i 9 che hanno messo non mi piace su questo pezzo possono anche impiccarsi questo e il classico esempio della perfezione
erproto 8 months ago
HOW I WISH.......THATS MY PRAYERS....LOL'''
yhollie1 8 months ago
i miss you mike
salnorlie 8 months ago
I started listening to Ray Charles at age 11... that was 7 years ago. I grew up in the generation of shitty music
isthisusernameavalib 9 months ago 88
i was born in the wrong damn generation. im 17 and my generation is being overrun by a bunch of Biebers and Gagas. people like Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, B.B King, Buddy Guy, and Stevie Ray Vaughn are the best
keithie7 8 months ago 3
@keithie7 you know whats up!my channel is nothing but music
leolion1993 7 months ago
@isthisusernameavalib I know the feeling, being 19 now.
roketjack 8 months ago
@isthisusernameavalib Im 14,but I still know the feeling :(
coolhellu 8 months ago
@isthisusernameavalib Popular music today is really shitty, I agree with you. Is anyone forcing you to listen to what's on the radio and MTV? no. There are thousands and thousands of artists and bands making genuinely good music today, get on your computer and find them. it's not tough to do. To say that our entire generation makes bad music is just not logical.
ClorophyllFilms 7 months ago
@ClorophyllFilms Thank you for the laugh.
isthisusernameavalib 7 months ago
@isthisusernameavalib Lol thank you for the laugh? If you're honestly narrow minded enough to believe that the ONLY music being put out by my generation are those artists like bieber, lady gaga, katy perry etc..... I don't know how to help you lol. Popular music today is not an accurate representation on my generation's musical ability, it is a market in which awful music is sold to kids.
ClorophyllFilms 7 months ago
@ClorophyllFilms Please tell me more sir.
isthisusernameavalib 7 months ago
@isthisusernameavalib i started listening to Ray when i was able to put a cd in the player... which was real young and im only 15 so about 12 or 13 years ago... The old time music of our parrents time are the good songs and artists.
95phatkat 6 months ago
@isthisusernameavalib Right?! The type of music that my generation listens to SUCKS. Everything sounds the same, even when you get people who try to be "different". Songwriting has to be at an all time low, with everything on the radio being about the same few ridiculous things. I hate it. I feel like pop culture as a whole right now has taken a serious nosedive. Movies, music, etc...There is no creativity left in the industry. No room for originality.
chandloski 6 months ago
@isthisusernameavalib Same here man. Luckily I grew up with a mom who listened to the Oldies Station <(~_^)b
Frday101 6 months ago
@isthisusernameavalib
So did I, the next door neighbor actually had an outdoor speaker for his pool/patio area. If you snuck over the fence to use his pool as much as I did, you knew the lyrics to every Ray Charles/Nat Cole/Brooke Benton song written. That was 40 something years ago, I grew up in the music generation. Tradeoffs a bitch, hasn't been good for much else. Can't keep from killing each other and where's my f--ing jetpack?
rd1550 6 months ago
@isthisusernameavalib thats the exact same situation for me except i was 11 and im 17, i too, hate pop culture bullshit.
convictPKlol 5 months ago
@isthisusernameavalib Well you are cool as they get then. Music lives forever, you can jump in anytime.
jc6749 4 months ago
@isthisusernameavalib No you didn't, good musicians are out there, it's just the shitty artists get more promotion. There are good artists out there, you just have to really search for them. For example, Jamie Cullum, who is the Frank Sinatra of today. So few care that he exists even though he's one of the greatest artists of our generation.
schase10353 3 months ago
@isthisusernameavalib firm nipples
avend666 3 months ago
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i cant stop watching you.. dear Charles, you are the one.
ezequielsan 9 months ago
Ray Charles' recording was a much bigger sales success than Don Gibson's. See info at wikipedia.
YouTube has some Don Gibson recordings of this song. I'd never heard them before; they're nice.
HankJMH 9 months ago
@palmer8112 Don Gibson wrote this song and sung it.
jamjar
burnbrae41 10 months ago
@palmer8112 do the research ....you'll be surprised! Yet, Don Williams? who?
supremes1964 10 months ago
@palmer8112 COPY? he sure did....and made history! I bet Don Williams didnt mind the royalites from worldwide sale!
supremes1964 10 months ago
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He was simply a great musician.
ud1966 10 months ago
A #1 hit for Ray Charles on the Rhythm & Blues charts. It also hit #1 on the Top 40, Adult Contemporary, along with being #1 in the UK and Australia. It was the 93rd R&B hit of the Rock Era. And this blind man from Georgia was becoming a force on the music scene. Would he be the breakout star of the 1960's? Only time would tell.
mkl62 10 months ago
FANTASTIC
TalmaLennon 11 months ago
tis the shit
wowthatssoawesome 11 months ago
@wowthatssoawesome Yeah, Britney and Taylor Swift rock. Thank God therr is not that many of you.
miso1170 11 months ago 2
@wowthatssoawesome u are (:
Ciircee 10 months ago
the use of this song in metropolis was amazing, especially as it was so irrelevant to that climatic scene. it's what made the movie great for me- WOOT! :P
kapalaran98210 11 months ago 3
Very nice brings back memories of Dad.
dap123b 11 months ago
TIME PASSES QUICKLY AND CHANCES ARE FEW
nazgjunk 11 months ago
"Dicen que el tiempo cura un corazon roto, pero el tiempo se ha detenido desde que nos separamos" bonita cancion
marvamex 11 months ago 2
@XNowhereMan
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Mr1962KDSelvis 1 year ago
unforgettable
felixabenhaim 1 year ago
a guy coppied thias song, hes name is freddy fender
MRDCDAMAN 1 year ago
Love this song, I'm 22, fell in love with it at the end of the movie Metropolis, just great!
SMSpores 1 year ago 103
@SMSpores
+1 for Metropolis. Thats how I found out Ray Charles as well.
MihiraTheAce 11 months ago 3
@SMSpores Me too!!! *w*
Pe3dr0 9 months ago
@SMSpores and so jazz is for all ages and never gets old
bangjiwoo 9 months ago
@SMSpores Haha, how very similar. I am 23 and also fell in love with it at the end of Metropolis.
danglinguvula 9 months ago
@SMSpores Thank you for reminding me I could not remember
zealous894 8 months ago
@SMSpores Haha.. Yeah. I watched that movie again yesterday. I'm 13 now, and watched it when I was, like 6? I didn't understand it at all then, but last night I started tearing up. :P
xPersona4 8 months ago
@SMSpores best scene in a movie ever... dramatic, sad and still a testament to the love between two souls destined to never be truly together... the song fits perfectly.
ScarecrowCruz 7 months ago
@SMSpores I fellin love with this song and the end Metropolis too!
thumbs up for good endings?
MarioBros3099 7 months ago
@SMSpores about the same as me then cheers :3
Wesker1077 7 months ago
@SMSpores What's the big deal about saying how old are/were you when you started listening to this or that musician and why so many people mark this kind of comment with a "like"? It's like we're talking about a kind of Mozart who at an early age started doing something extraordinary... Is it really something fabulous appreciating good music?? For me this only reveals the total disgrace which music has become in our time. A child/teen who enjoys good music should be something absolutely normal
fiofodiveia 5 months ago 2
@SMSpores Wow, exact same. Metropolis was a beautiful movie.
ghostalin 5 months ago
@SMSpores i know the anime movie that takes place in the 1940's, 50's or early 60's. thats the first time i heard the song. i a fell in love with it. i seen it on teh cable anime channel.
skindy1 4 months ago
@SMSpores AAAHH, you too!? That scene was just... haha, so amazing
MisterAviate 4 months ago
: -)
romymahendra 1 year ago
Nice harmonies
SandrineSoprano 1 year ago
Whenever I hear this on the radio it gives me the shivers and I am not even a child of those days...
rosenkopf 1 year ago
Billboard's 111th #1 hit of the rock era. God bless! RIP, Brother Ray!
DaveWollenberg 1 year ago
does anyone know who this song larry
don gibson a country singer wrote it
larryvandevander 1 year ago
Am I dreamin' or 7 people don't like this master piece!
AneleATropLu 1 year ago
There will never be another Ray. R.I.P.
theblacksheep1000 1 year ago
Just think if Ray had sung Gospel Music, what could have been
JesusNonEnviromental 1 year ago
My mom and dad loved this song. What else can you say about love, after admiting that you can't stop loving somebody. How many people in the world carry secret torches for someone they once loved .....LOL
denisethornton919 1 year ago
I can't stop loving her, I watied and waited for her long after she told me she'll give me a chance. And all I got from her was - I am sorry.
TheSpanjaMan 1 year ago
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whittallcraig 1 year ago
Nowhere close to the original version performed in a studio. Awful.
izgil82 1 year ago
@izgil82 agree,i have a single at home and studio version is my favorite.... :((
sickpoola 1 year ago
dam
deeCreative 1 year ago
Big Ray...
MrAvihecht 1 year ago
Un dia como hoy nació Ray Charles! me pongo de pie y les pongo este video.
felicidades!!! donde quiera que estes!!!
fedecbr18 1 year ago
I saw Ray in concert in London at a small venue, I felt so luck to see him live as I grew up to his music. Every time I hear his songs it makes me feel warm as it reminds me of so many happy times.
caccec 1 year ago
one of my big favs :-)
Pferdekopfnebel 1 year ago
Heard this in Metropolis a few days ago and thought this was the most beautiful thing ever. Don Gibson was a genius for writing this and Ray Charles is just as great for recording this version.
Metroidman175 1 year ago
groot was hij en groter is hij nu.Geweldig was ook die tijd ...waar ik mijn eerste liefde had gevonden en wij op deze muziek eindeloos konden dansen keer op keer...
Waar is die tijd,in mijn hart mijn memories geworden mijn grote liefde ....wat eens was....
jongedeg 1 year ago
언제들어도 아름다운 곡. 음악이 사람들의 감성에 양분을 대니 스피릿마저 변화를 주다.
LEEkangkuk 1 year ago
this song is pure epicness.
ican feel it and im only 14.
sigh. my life is... weird...
tomtom3000vids 1 year ago
This song is so sad, everytime I listen to it I feel my heart is breaking... and yet, I can't stop listening to it. Ray Charles was a genius, not only for the songs he wrote, or the great hability to play, but for the amazing sensibility that he transmited through his gifted voice.
rivkahb7 1 year ago
this was my mom's song
xChAoSxJjLx 1 year ago
i was born in95' ans i can apreseate this man for the a wonderful artist
tagggat 1 year ago
I hope the three people who gave this a thumb down did so by accident. Otherwise, talk about not being able to appreciate genius!
DavidfromBA 1 year ago 2
Hou doorgaans niet zo van jazz. Maar Ray Charles is wel een uitzondering... !!! Zijn muziek is echt wel heel goed !!!!
love of jazz usually not so. But ray Charles is an exception ... !!! His music is really very good!!!!
sunwoef 1 year ago
Fascinant, magnifique...
MI13L09AN 1 year ago
great song....
cabrofromhell2 1 year ago
Una de las canciones de amor mas hermosas de todos los tiempos.
medicoenamorado 1 year ago
I just heard this in Metropolis it's awesome ^^
sephoir 1 year ago
This is an unforgetable song for me in my life because I gave this album to my wife to express my love to her. It has been more than 40 years. It's so touching whenever I hear this song. And remind me of my oath to her.
johnnylee00007 1 year ago
@johnnylee00007 May The Lord richly bless you and your wife.
gocal777 1 year ago
@johnnylee00007 , Awwwwwwwww!!!
swaregirl 1 year ago
I heard this at the drugstore and searched and searched for who sang it and who wrote it. wow the great ray charles and such an old song, music does live on :)
waln492 1 year ago
@waln492 Ray Charles did NOT write this song nor did he release it first.....the song was written by Don Gibson a country singer songwriter....he was the first to release it
jmallton 1 year ago
@jmallton i know i know. what i wrote was misleading i searched for who wrote it and realized it wasnt ray charles but still wanted to know whose voice i fell in love with. they both are amazing
waln492 1 year ago
@waln492 Ray's version is great.....but I think a lot of times the country singers do not get the credit they deserve.....Ray also cover "You Dont Know Me" which was an old country hit and most people think he wrote it
jmallton 1 year ago
@jmallton very true.
waln492 1 year ago
@jmallton actually i just like ray's voice, don sure was special.
waln492 1 year ago
@waln492 Ray Charles version of this song 'IS' the timeless classic.never to be beaten,or even approached for its genius. Don Gibson (its writer) was s a gift from God,and together it was pure 1960s magic. Music CANNOT get better than this. Brad Savage -- Lifelong Ray Charles fan---I've Been singing this song for 47 years ....
alzahad 1 year ago 2
@jmallton , there was a huge increase of demand for Country music because of Ray Charles. Ray released Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music in early '62. As a result, by the end of '62, Nashville was the Silicone Valley of the '80s when it came to songwriters and performers.
And the old school country singers have expressed their gratitude to him for that (Cash, Willie Nelson, Buck Owens, etc.)
Ray Charles was the Tiger Woods of Country music (music, not women).
swaregirl 1 year ago
@swaregirl I think you do a great disservice to Charlie Pride....Ray Charles was a hit and run artist for the most part in country music....Charlie was there a long time and put in his time......
jmallton 1 year ago
@jmallton , Pride started recording in '58. He was signed to RCA in '68. With all due respect to Pride for all his contributions, he did not do what Ray did for country in terms of creating a market for the genre. Every country musician, singer and songwriter benefitted financially from Ray's touch from '62 onwards. In fact, Pride benefitted from the road Charle paved.
We would all be so lucky to record in every genre we love.
swaregirl 1 year ago
@swaregirl Im having a hard time swallowing your pill here....I guess Hank Williams had no effect on country music or Bob Wills or Eddy Arnold....Rays album in country was his biggest selling album of all time....not because he was so great...but because there were already a ton of country fans waiting......none of the songs on this album were Rays songs...they were traditional country songs.....so Im not sure why all the praise for creating a new genre.....little overboard I think
jmallton 1 year ago
@jmallton , I never said that Ray created Country Music. Tiger did not invent golf. Jack Nickalaus and Arnold Palmer were great and way before Tiger was born, so was Hank Williams. But it was both Charles and Woods in their prospective field who created a huge demand that was all things Country/Golf that was unprecedented & EVERYONE in that field directly benefitted. I'm sorry if that offends you, but it is true.
swaregirl 1 year ago
@swaregirl No offense taken.....but golf and country music was around a long time before the two of them got there......we just disagree.....that is all
jmallton 1 year ago
@jmallton Pride started recording in '58. He was signed to RCA in '68. With all due respect to Pride for all his contributions, he did not do what Ray did for country in terms of creating a market for the genre. Every country musician, singer and songwriter benefitted financially from Ray's touch from '62 onwards. In fact, Pride benefitted from the road Charle paved.
swaregirl 1 year ago
@jmallton , if you want to better understand Charles' enormous artistic and financial contribution to Country, and American Folk and Western music, Google "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music" and read the Wikipedia page very carefully.
You might then began understand why the old school country musicians, songwriters, and music critics respect RC's contributions immensely.
swaregirl 1 year ago
@swaregirl To my knowledge he never wrote a country song........he is a phenomenal blues man
jmallton 1 year ago
@jmallton , so what, Tiger Woods never studied engineering or Physics in order to enable him to build a Golf club from scratch. His people do that for him. Does that take away his contributions to Golf?
And just how many baseball bats did Babe Ruth ever build? None, but he was still a great baseball player.
And your point is?
swaregirl 1 year ago
@swaregirl There is no doubt Tiger raised the viewership of golf......but golf was already popular to an extent....Tiger will go and someone else will take his spot.....Im not sure I follow your train of thought on Babe Ruth
jmallton 1 year ago
@jmallton , you made my point, I am speaking of raising popularity and generating jobs for people in that industry.
Also, I don't know much about Pride's song writing capabilities, but a quick look at Allmusic yielded no discernable song writing credits by Pride unless he wrote under another name.
Lastly, Luciano Pavarotti, and his wonder ilk never wrote the music they performed. Does that lessen their impact on Classical music?
swaregirl 1 year ago
@jmallton , When Tiger is playing, the EXTRA dollars taken in by fellow golfers, cities who sponser tournaments & everyone else involved have been calculated. And TV viewership for golf drops by 50% when Tiger is not playing, & ads cost less because of it. Tigerless tournaments get 10-25% less specators ($3-$7 million economic impact for that city). It has all been calculated.
The ecomomic impact Charles had on Country music in '62 and beyond has also been written and duly noted.
swaregirl 1 year ago
I heard this in Metropolis and I was like, "SAD MOVIE!! and BRILLIANT SONG!!!" and I had to look it up. ^^ new favorite
IntheWeepingRain 1 year ago 3
@IntheWeepingRain metropolis is what showed my the greatness of this song, i love metropolis.
tedyesca 1 year ago
wonderful song for a wonderful emotion ******
Prettyflowerchild 1 year ago
I made up my mind...
Whuteyewantdontwant 1 year ago
I made up my mind... no one compares what can I do.. that is my gut
Whuteyewantdontwant 1 year ago
I sing this song every day....I love my so much
mockman1963 1 year ago
aa vamo ray !!!
matheusdasneves 1 year ago