It Ain't Necessarily So By Ray Charles & Cleo Laine

Cleo Laine, like Ella Fitzgerald, has arguably one of the purest voices ever recorded. There is little that can be said here about Ray Charles that would not be redundant. The third genius at work here was the producer who brought these two magnificent talents together. This cut is from the album set "Porgy & Bess" released in 1976.

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• Gershwin
• Porgy
• Bess
• Stereo
• Forgotten
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• pop
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• jazz
• folk

[jsbach15]

I miss jazz interpretation of songs like this one. A lost art ,and I'm sad to think...rarely remembered by our society. Thanks for the memories texpaco! WONDERFUL! 10+ stars.

[EmpirePersian]

Quite nice. Although the Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong version is far greater than this. That combination was magical.

[lilmerali]

@Littlewhitelephant so what Jesus says is not necessarily true... Fine be that way! if I were you I'd escape from hell...

[Littlewhitelephant]

@lilmerali Yes, you are right and i was wrong about the author. But who is the author of the NT then ? many UNKNOWN authors ! And in Luke 16.23 ff JESUS surprisingly expressed the idea of Hell as consequence. But IT AIN'T NECESSARILY SO !:-) And THAT'S the GOOD NEWS !

[lilmerali]

@Littlewhitelephant You're talking about purgatory, which is not hell, research it. The Catholic Church invented it to sell indulgences and they threatened that their dead will eventually slip from purgatory to hell.Hell has always been inthe Bible on places such as Matthew 5:29-30; Luke 16:23-24 and many more. Those verses were written a lot of years before purgatory was invented by the Rooman Catholic church.

[Littlewhitelephant]

@EmpirePersian Don't forget the Cab Calloway version.

[Littlewhitelephant]

Ray ! Ray ! Ray !

Ram ! Ram ! Ram ! :-)

[Littlewhitelephant]

@Littlewhitelephant (2) Theologicians still doubt, whether jesus's counsel to people to throw away the eye when noticing the want of a woman was really the word of jesus.

Because frankly, that doesn't really comply with jesus's generally tolerant treatment of sinners.

Jesus was a friendly eschatologist who died as we will die, but believed that the end of the world was near (and it wasn't).

Paul reinvented the church preaching original sin being wiped out when baptized believing in christ.

[Littlewhitelephant]

@lilmerali Well, tell me, Who was the first telling us that there is hell ? Whosoever that is - should claim a copyright for that idea.

According to archeologists and historians the Bible has many unknown authors and was written mostly in the time of king josia 700 bc.

Eternal (!) hell is an invention of the catholic church, correct me if i'm wrong, earning the church a lot of funds due to widows wanting to get a front seat in heaven.

[lilmerali]

@Littlewhitelephant Jesus did say that but you're taking it in the wrong concept. This is real life not cartoons, so if even I say "I don't believe in gravity" and I throw myself of a cliff I'll fall and crash. So even if you say "I don't believe in hell" if hell is real, And I know it is, you will still end up there even if you don't believe in it. It's just reality.