Ray Charles covers Eleanor Rigby

Ray Charles covers Eleanor Rigby on the Dick Cavett show 26 January 1973

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Music

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• beatles
• cover
• the beatles
• covers

[RooneyEnterprises]

Totally different song. Awesome.

[wonwithu]

Music is interpretation. Artful perception. Where does the 'need' to criticize arise from?

[LavaSharkDan]

@Sweeteesweet1 Oh jeez! someones always gotta be an ass hat. The Motown sound was very specific so the term has come to mean the style in which their artists performed and the music the labels writers made. if you wanna split hairs on my grammar-go and masturbate a gorilla. I wasnt commenting to argue just making a point. As musicians, we always refer to the sound created by Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight & the Pips and so forth in my circle so get over it. Dillweed.

[Sweeteesweet1]

@LavaSharkDan

Ray's version is great, but it's not Motown. Motown isn't a style, it's a record company. Moreover, it's a record company to which Ray NEVER would've signed - Motown produced tons of great music, but was run very much like a factory with Gordy at the head. Ray had his own very definite visions about his music and liked to be in control. Motown never allowed their artists that sort of creative freedom. Marvin Gaye had to fight like hell just to make "What's going on".

[LavaSharkDan]

This is a perfect cover! It translates well to motown and is still faithful to the beatles. ts quite haunting and im sooo glad I found it!

[Theshamham]

@WNM52 i highly doubt that. lets not bullshit it, john and paul's version was an amazing master piece.

[Uummadaani]

He is Godsend, I really love Ray :-) Honorary respect and much love :-) He rocks my feet!

[KultureJamCollective]

I gotta turn more people onto this version.

[CaptainPillowMusic]

Ray's version of "Ring of Fire" gives me the chills.

[WNM52]

I've always thought that when John Lennon and Paul McCartney heard Ray Charles' interpretation of this song they turned to each other , smiled and nodded saying, "THAT'S what we meant!"