Fairwell Ray Charles!

You'll be on Georgia's Mind Forever

Published on June 11, 2004 By GeoATL In Current Events

A fond farewell to a man that didn't let his lack of sight prevent him from seeing a beautiful world filled with possibilities. I saw an episode of "Cross Roads" on CMT (Country Music Television) last week. Cross Roads, for those who don't watch, is a CMT show that brings two genres of music together by inviting one person of musical talent and encouraging that person to invite their idol. The episode included Travis Tritt (who I'm not a particular fan of - you can guess why, lol) and Ray Charles. It was a wonderful show all the way around. Farewell Ray, you'll forever be on Georgia's Mind.

Comments

kingbee

on Jun 11, 2004

ray charles was an incredible talent and the world is a much poorer place without him fortunately he leaves a lot of recordings and even film and videotaped performances. my concept of what music is or should be was largely shaped by 3 recordings and a mozart composition. one of those was ray and the raelettes performing 'drown in my own tears' live in 1962. its times like this when i really wish there was a heaven

Mr_Frog

on Jun 11, 2004

Awwwww. When did he die? I never heard anything about this!

-- B

GeoATL

on Jun 11, 2004

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/10/obit.charles/index.html

dharmagrl

on Jun 11, 2004

Awwwww. When did he die? I never heard anything about this!

Yesterday (june 10th). Very sad.

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