Ray Charles - What'd I Say (1959)

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  • @MagictrainsOrg
    @MagictrainsOrg 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    This song was composed in under 15 minutes while he was improvising with his orchestra and backup singers at a live show in Pittsburg in 1958. The audience reacted with such enthusiasm that Charles decided to record it.
    B.t.w. the best song all over the world!!!

  • @JohnMoore-xf5wy
    @JohnMoore-xf5wy 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    I'm here because of Ray Charles!
    I grew up listening to him!❤

  • @ExcitedAnacondaSnake-hg8ec
    @ExcitedAnacondaSnake-hg8ec 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    The most fire song of all-time 🔥 🔥 🔥

  • @jimpickard3850
    @jimpickard3850 3 ปีที่แล้ว +711

    The drum part is extraordinary ! Paul McCartney said one of the reasons they wanted Ringo to join the band is because he could play the drum part to this song !

    • @MrJohnlennon007
      @MrJohnlennon007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      That’s why I Feel Fine uses this pattern :)

    • @jimpickard3850
      @jimpickard3850 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@MrJohnlennon007 Nice observation .. I'll have to check that out.

    • @relef5119
      @relef5119 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MrJohnlennon007 TV a

    • @davidkariu
      @davidkariu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@MrJohnlennon007 hmm never thought about that until now

    • @karaamundson3964
      @karaamundson3964 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Like the Stones, the Beatles were individually and collectively all 100 rooted in early '50s American blues greats...Paul fell in love with Elvis when he was sick in bed, George embraced Fats Domino, John drew upon Chuck Berry and the Everly Bros. And Ringo loved Lightning Hopkins.
      Of course, Ray Charles was a powerful influence too!

  • @Soapandwater6
    @Soapandwater6 3 ปีที่แล้ว +653

    The drummer deserves some serious credit! Wow!

    • @goggleslwk
      @goggleslwk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      What was him

    • @runefoonman4103
      @runefoonman4103 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      You are absolutely right. The drummer created so many amazing textures! It’s because of him that a good song became great.

    • @mariusfumard7014
      @mariusfumard7014 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Drummer is Milt Turner

    • @LITTLE1994
      @LITTLE1994 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I agree. Just as great as Ray himself.

    • @xaenon
      @xaenon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Everybody involved deserves serious credit, partner.....

  • @claytondoan5712
    @claytondoan5712 3 ปีที่แล้ว +115

    My Precious Dad's favorite song.
    I played it at his funeral.
    Vietnam Vet....🇺🇸10/23/21
    Rest Easy my Precious Daddy ❤
    I'll see you again ........

    • @goawayandlearnsomedamnmann1391
      @goawayandlearnsomedamnmann1391 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Clayton, I am so sorry. My boys and I appreciate his service!

    • @claytondoan5712
      @claytondoan5712 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@goawayandlearnsomedamnmann1391 Thank You so much. He was my world.

    • @Marcuswelby-nx2te
      @Marcuswelby-nx2te 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Nice tribute 🇱🇷

    • @escreveprovictor
      @escreveprovictor 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for His precious service.... And thanks for making my day with this statement. May our God confort your family´s hearts.

    • @paulthorne3457
      @paulthorne3457 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      As a Brit I say ’thank you Sir’

  • @classicalmusic1175
    @classicalmusic1175 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1061

    This is one of those songs that blew me away on first listen. Usually it takes me several listens to "get" a song, but not this one. A timeless classic.

  • @rose_7785
    @rose_7785 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I remember my band teacher had us play a small part for this, cause he was hoping he’d “aspire us to compete in the talent show” and we weren’t to bad. And I was on cow bells

  • @ruthdixon7807
    @ruthdixon7807 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    great circular keyboard line and orgiastic call-response vocals.

  • @nightmoose
    @nightmoose 3 ปีที่แล้ว +742

    It's physically impossible to hear this without tapping your toes.

    • @LITTLE1994
      @LITTLE1994 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Or rocking your head in the beat.

    • @ibrahimgashash3481
      @ibrahimgashash3481 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Correct 👌👌👌

    • @BusJustice
      @BusJustice 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Damn was laying in bed, read this comment, and realized my toes were tapping the air

    • @Hairarchives
      @Hairarchives 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I was doing that while i scrolled down and seen your comment

    • @judithassiedou8909
      @judithassiedou8909 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      C'est exactement Ça !!!

  • @reidmcbride3979
    @reidmcbride3979 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1649

    Charles created this song on stage to fill lime remaining in his contract. No rehersal...all off the cuff. Brilliant !!!

    • @pratishtha1437
      @pratishtha1437 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Really? Astounding!

    • @Reenielovessunflowers
      @Reenielovessunflowers 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      The young people back then were more cultured! Also, most of their music was GOOD. Hence the appreciation.

    • @Reenielovessunflowers
      @Reenielovessunflowers 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@FederazioneCiclisticaItaliana right back at you.

    • @furioussherman7265
      @furioussherman7265 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      The fact that his band could pull it off really says something about how tight they were.

    • @wassiaseri4191
      @wassiaseri4191 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @the teetto and @ Mustapha Aazim, why don't you go listen to Cheb Mami or Rachid Tahar? Me i don't listen music from people i do not like you see what i mean, Ray Charles is not talking to your people, so stop annoying cursing. You don't even know about english, both of you, you need to learn english first.

  • @benbiggerstaff6106
    @benbiggerstaff6106 2 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    63 years later and still a classic.

  • @DwayneIsK1NG
    @DwayneIsK1NG 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    It just blows my mind that this was released in '59. Waaaaaay ahead of its time

  • @JorgeRobles-f4p
    @JorgeRobles-f4p 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Soy del. 63 -Perú. Mi música extranjera preferida es el rock and rool, rock, salsa, Santana. y otros.

  • @cameron7579
    @cameron7579 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Ray Charles ran out of songs to perform in a concert and in return, created the greatest song in the first year of Billboard 100 history.

  • @RIDGEMATIC
    @RIDGEMATIC 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Easily one of the greatest songs EVER recorded. AWESOME

  • @donaldshaw1242
    @donaldshaw1242 4 ปีที่แล้ว +169

    This is one of the greatest R&B/Rock&Roll tunes ever made.

  • @FireAnt98
    @FireAnt98 4 ปีที่แล้ว +687

    61 years later, this song is still smokin'

    • @pottytheparrot310
      @pottytheparrot310 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Take it to the house kid

    • @drakaea
      @drakaea 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      so ahead of his time

    • @LITTLE1994
      @LITTLE1994 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Indeed. Vintage masterpiece.

    • @albertogilroyblanco6890
      @albertogilroyblanco6890 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      This track is the eseence of Ray Charles.

    • @joe6096
      @joe6096 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      It's just so groovy and sexy. I mean, when you turn it up it makes the hair on your neck stand up!

  • @fernandomaron87
    @fernandomaron87 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Giant, Immortal, A true music force of nature. Thank you for sharing your massive talent with the world.

  • @pyannaguy4361
    @pyannaguy4361 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Till the horns enter at almost 4 minutes? THAT is a 3-piece band centered around a little Wurlitzer electric piano with about 63 keys that sold for a couple/few hundred bucks back in the day! That is also what's called SOUL! Wurlitzer shoulda paid Brother Ray for the only advertisement they'd EVER need for a "Wurly" for more than half a century! ...WOW!

  • @DARKEMERALDFLAME
    @DARKEMERALDFLAME 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +31

    Here because of Paul McCartney... You too?

    • @hugopato.
      @hugopato. 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Yeap!

    • @bahaouiabderrahim1963
      @bahaouiabderrahim1963 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      وقد ربح القيصر الروسي الحرب

    • @ja60123
      @ja60123 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Sometimes it be like that😂

    • @marc_2398
      @marc_2398 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Yes!

    • @StevenWhite-w5j
      @StevenWhite-w5j 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Yep

  • @searchforthelight.3287
    @searchforthelight.3287 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    The original is way better than any cover out there.

    • @lewisluckenbach2440
      @lewisluckenbach2440 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      You are right. Bobby Darin's version is a distant second best. The rest ( Covers) t do not come anywhere close to the original

    • @Shrubbery
      @Shrubbery 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Jerry Lee plays the hell out of this one too I think. Especially at his concert in 83' at Hammersmith Odeon London

  • @igsigsolutions5248
    @igsigsolutions5248 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Why can't pop/rock music nowadays sound anywhere near this level?

  • @tedc3895
    @tedc3895 4 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    His brain was about 5 seconds ahead of his fingers. Never ever will be another.
    Love him.
    Sock hops in high school.
    Class of 61...
    Him and Jerry Lee Lewis.

    • @NI000NoIdentity
      @NI000NoIdentity 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you love music, try "1959-1958 Top 10 Countdown" Every year of the rock era is here and there is also the just being released "Pop Music Artists Rock Era" which is alphabetical complete music histories of each artist Look them up and listen to thousands of hours of Pure music memories and fun. Pure entertainment just hit PLAY ALL and be transported back in time. NO need to reply, guaranteed to have lost treasures you have forgotten.

  • @Skynyrdforever
    @Skynyrdforever 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    For those who never experienced Mr. Ray Charles, check out more of the master's music. He was a true musical blessing.

  • @PositiveCrunch
    @PositiveCrunch 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Milt Turner absolutely killed it on this one. A great Drummer that needs to be known by all. One of my favorite Ray Jams!

    • @GeoCoppens
      @GeoCoppens 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Listen to "Luck Be A Lady" by vibraphonist (and pianist) Eddie Costa, with Bill Evans, p. Wendell Marshall, bass, and PAUL MOTIAN, drums!!! He does on this song what MiltTurner did on What'd I Say!
      th-cam.com/video/LMjgYcACmgE/w-d-xo.html

    • @devonmoors
      @devonmoors ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agree! A few great drummers on Blues recordings during fifties and sixties who never received the recognition they deserved

  • @Bruno-pp1ew
    @Bruno-pp1ew ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Il est la pour toujours
    Pr moi il represented la vie

  • @amandawolfe1054
    @amandawolfe1054 4 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    Ray Charles had more talent in his left pinky finger than most artists have in their entire being; he was an innovator and musical genius. I always liked Ray Charles when I was a little kid (I was born in ‘79, so I grew up listening to Ray. Georgia being the first song of his that I remember hearing) and now that I’m 40 years old, I love Ray Charles and I have a huge appreciation for his musical contributions and talents.

    • @PLUSULTRA3520
      @PLUSULTRA3520 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was born in the 2000s but I still love anything by ray Charles

    • @mikelair9144
      @mikelair9144 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And Jamie Foxx did a helluva representation in Ray. JF actually perform the songs

  • @CaptainCalculus
    @CaptainCalculus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2155

    Proof that you don't need eyesight to be a visionary

    • @rOy48MtL
      @rOy48MtL 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Nunca hubo un comentario tan acertado!!!

    • @tonyzhou4592
      @tonyzhou4592 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Or ears to hear some of the most profound music ever

    • @paulturnet4572
      @paulturnet4572 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      🎯

    • @LITTLE1994
      @LITTLE1994 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      That's for sure.

    • @rajveerrathore6758
      @rajveerrathore6758 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      We all have our sorrows ............ ♥🤞

  • @zeronetster
    @zeronetster 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Beatles " i feel fine" , now i know where the inspiration came from

  • @deadleyspawn1567
    @deadleyspawn1567 4 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    Thank you Blues Brothers for getting me into Ray Charles. He is truly the definition of a legend.

    • @Lexilove2016
      @Lexilove2016 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      He manages to not only notice someone trying to steal, but shoot at them, and nearly miss them.

    • @macduece2112
      @macduece2112 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Deadley Spawn: I would kindly add: thanks Mom for playing bigg Ray Ray on the phonograph, still listening at 59..

  • @gailmarien4626
    @gailmarien4626 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The most awesome man. The night I met my husband at a party, we danced to this song most of the evening. Ray rules! 😊

  • @LITTLE1994
    @LITTLE1994 4 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    When music was music. An old masterpiece. And this was done from someone who was BLIND. Ray know 100% where the notes are in the piano. Faith always prevails. He is one of those few guys who had MAD talent.

    • @themusicaljunkie37
      @themusicaljunkie37 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Good music still exists just have to find it..

  • @tounoni
    @tounoni 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I am searching for and listening to all my mum's favourite songs online. I am crying as I listen to each of them. Mum RIP, I love and miss you so much

    • @cammzz
      @cammzz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Sorry for your loss.XX

  • @vivianchetty7477
    @vivianchetty7477 5 ปีที่แล้ว +822

    This song never ages. This is a master piece.

    • @patriciahaley3367
      @patriciahaley3367 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Vivian Chetty Ray Charles is a Masterpiece...He is a ROCK, a gift from God!

    • @ms.glorimar
      @ms.glorimar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I believe it gets better with age.

    • @josephroache3176
      @josephroache3176 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Vivian Chetty - Amen to that.

    • @LITTLE1994
      @LITTLE1994 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Definitely.

    • @mariahewitt1841
      @mariahewitt1841 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Modern day composer, same as Mozart, Beethoven in their day.

  • @Asorour1988
    @Asorour1988 2 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    My friend and I danced our asses off driving through town today on this song, and everyone around us was cheering for us just having a good time. I have not had such a good time listening to a song in a long time :D

    • @DJK-cq2uy
      @DJK-cq2uy ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks..needed to know that

    • @tgro13
      @tgro13 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      U only live once. And Ray Charles is a musical genius, midaswellll.

  • @johnasher4663
    @johnasher4663 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Man and the jams ..play em ..play em .whoooo

  • @miropribanic5581
    @miropribanic5581 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Ringo Starr loved this beat....in fact, he used it in one of the songs played by the Liverpool quartett

  • @martins8761
    @martins8761 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    very long for a popular song 1959

  • @McKinleyGuillory
    @McKinleyGuillory ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ray was the man, his music inspired many people during his tenure, thr drummer made the music come alive

    • @JohnnyArtPavlou
      @JohnnyArtPavlou 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I really listen to the track in the car today and all I could think of that drumming on this track is complete genius I had to find out who the drummer was such a straight… The use of the times do use of the ride symbol… Lol Glenn

  • @jenniferwong1765
    @jenniferwong1765 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    I love this. Ray Charles Robinson is proof that having a disability shouldn't stop a person from achieving his or her dream.

    • @LITTLE1994
      @LITTLE1994 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      100% facts. He conquered his obstacle. I can relate, because I am mildly autistic (Asperger's Syndrome) but I still won't let that "curse" stop me.

    • @coderamen666
      @coderamen666 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@LITTLE1994autism isn't a curse. It's a mixed blessing imo.

    • @coderamen666
      @coderamen666 ปีที่แล้ว

      *their

  • @zz5aa
    @zz5aa 4 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    This is amazing. It's so sad there's not one station on the air dedicated to preserving such genius!

    • @stringbean9521
      @stringbean9521 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Radio is dying anyway. Its here on youtube, and apple music and spotify, forever.

    • @dschoenewald7320
      @dschoenewald7320 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank God for YT

    • @KitC916
      @KitC916 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Also KPLU Seattle

    • @raydonato4884
      @raydonato4884 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I can make you r radio station rattle the rafters. It's me again sjcool 😎 baby spinning them up

  • @blueguitar411
    @blueguitar411 6 ปีที่แล้ว +202

    this song is like the nucleus of soul music

    • @timmy841212
      @timmy841212 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      This song truly gave birth to soul music as we would later know it. And dozens of labels and artists have spent years trying to match it.

    • @kp-eh4ir
      @kp-eh4ir 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Old music soul music

    • @elias_xp95
      @elias_xp95 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      We still have soul music, only now its sell your soul music.

    • @ayndowney9401
      @ayndowney9401 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I like to add that it is an intricate part of DNA and brings forth more wonder full character traits😅

  • @fade2blk289
    @fade2blk289 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    I can remember my mom dad playing this on their "high-fi" and dancing in the living room. THOSE were really the good ol' days! Dats what I say!

    • @johnp8625
      @johnp8625 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Shake dem bones!

  • @diegos.loayza3706
    @diegos.loayza3706 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The 50s wouldnt be the 50s without the music realesed in the end of the decade: Johnny B Goode; Whatd i say; Put Your Head on My Shoulder ans many more. I know some people consider this song as 60s but for me this was the last revolutionary sound of the decade. I fcking love the 50s!!!! Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Fat Dominos, Buddy Hollie, Everly Brothers, Hank Williams, Etc. Sometimes id like to be american. You have a lot of great music.

    • @paulthorne3457
      @paulthorne3457 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@diegos.loayza3706 Susie Q,eg!

  • @brutalerik87
    @brutalerik87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    I love that album art. It's like Ray is so chill even his piano smokes a fat one. Lol

  • @PathfinderHistoryTravel
    @PathfinderHistoryTravel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Paul McCarney said when they heard Ringo playing this drum part, they knew he was real good. Not many drummers could do it.

  • @Seacheroftruth
    @Seacheroftruth 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The man had music created IN him. It was his gift... music his muse. We didn't deserve a musician of his caliber...

  • @FreshRose-z3s
    @FreshRose-z3s 4 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    I can't believe this was made in 59' sounds more like mid 60's.

    • @Frankya92
      @Frankya92 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Set the standard

    • @3r7h130undx
      @3r7h130undx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Cause it was ripped off and made one of the biggest hits in the 60s by the Doors lol

    • @EricCole69
      @EricCole69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was getting towards the start, all decades are like that. Gets a lot different towards the end than when it started

    • @nilanjangupta763
      @nilanjangupta763 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@3r7h130undx 'Break on through' i guess, there is a video where another "Ray" Manzarek (Pianist) used this same baseline. Well they steal from anybody.

    • @Taijhrobnson
      @Taijhrobnson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This was early rock onset. Mixing the fast pace blues with blue grass.

  • @sorenthomas4776
    @sorenthomas4776 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My favorite song of all time.
    Bar none.
    Since the year I was born.
    Still makes me want to do The Birdland all night long...

  • @johnt118
    @johnt118 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Quite simply one of the greatest songs sung by one of the greatest singer/songwriters ever.

  • @grayday8089
    @grayday8089 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    He was ahead of his time.

  • @bobbymonteforte3705
    @bobbymonteforte3705 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Tell your Mama Tell your Pa I'm gonna sing you Back to Arkansas. Love that line in the Song. God Speed Ray Charles

    • @musiclover-cn7tb
      @musiclover-cn7tb 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I love it too 😂😂😂 .

  • @tattyshoesshigure5731
    @tattyshoesshigure5731 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    One of the greatest intros ever… an all time classic that will be forever ‘in the groove’!

  • @fancypotatomine8899
    @fancypotatomine8899 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    i feel⭐fancy⭐

  • @flyinggordonproductions4875
    @flyinggordonproductions4875 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I ain’t never playing along to this with my guitar ever again my hands hurt

  • @beltonite2243
    @beltonite2243 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Tickling them ivories. Legend.

  • @crotalusatrox7931
    @crotalusatrox7931 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The definitive Ray Charles song. I remember back in 1972 when I was 15 working at a skating rink and the owner, (the infamous Carl Clark, Idabel, Oklahoma, former B17 pilot) was always playing Ray Charles. Such a good skate two-stepping song. Ray, you was always rocking the rink!

  • @UrbanOutlawsSk8Co
    @UrbanOutlawsSk8Co 4 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    Some people are so beyond their years, that for generations after them, their work never ages.

  • @mthzb
    @mthzb ปีที่แล้ว +8

    When those drums kick on is one of the most monumental and important moments in the history of music

  • @leekosmin8788
    @leekosmin8788 4 ปีที่แล้ว +243

    Ray's fabulous and the drummer's the real deal!

    • @michaelbarnett7691
      @michaelbarnett7691 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      You got that right! Ray goes unsaid as one of the best ever, but the way that drummer is ringing that cymbal is unreal!!

    • @leekosmin8788
      @leekosmin8788 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@michaelbarnett7691 Ringo got the gig with The Beatles, partly because he could play a version of this. Their previous drummers couldn't. Brother Ray's drummer is the business. Stay healthy.

    • @odie1123
      @odie1123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      That’s some gone drummer.

    • @tlaw8992
      @tlaw8992 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      His Brass wasn't NO JOKE

    • @tlaw8992
      @tlaw8992 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@michaelbarnett7691 He in THE ZONE Mike !

  • @hmackie6823
    @hmackie6823 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    tttthis song was a HUGE influence on whether to even get into music...who am I kidding,I was born with this in my soul...love Ray

  • @BlackyLee88
    @BlackyLee88 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I remember when I heard the song for the first time, almost twenty years ago when the movie "Ray" with Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles came out. And since then I've loved Ray's music and the film starts right with that song. Simply legendary.

    • @musiclover-cn7tb
      @musiclover-cn7tb 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My mom loved Ray charles too may she rip ❤ and Stevie Wonder both artists were visionaries ...

  • @williamfulgham2010
    @williamfulgham2010 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I remember when 'Whad I Say' was played in clubs and it could go on for 45 minutes rolling into, "see the girl dressed in red" and then black, and every other color possible.
    I always loved the perfect blend with the Rayletts chorus in the background.

  • @matthewnewton8812
    @matthewnewton8812 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This was 1959 (NINETEEN FIFTY FRIGGING NINE). Shit grooves sooo hard maaan.

    • @paulthorne3457
      @paulthorne3457 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@matthewnewton8812 There is so much great music even from before 1959!

  • @browoyo
    @browoyo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Holy fuck, a king

  • @jmrodas9
    @jmrodas9 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Timeless, this one is still good to hear 62years later.

  • @francoishuglo
    @francoishuglo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Un événement historique : le passage de Nat King Cole (que j'adore) à autre chose, qui était encore du jazz (Ray Charles ne l'a jamais quitté) et en même temps autre chose : rock ? rythm and blues ? What'd I say en 1959, c'est un gand virage. Les sixties lui doivent tout.

  • @jarretheller2244
    @jarretheller2244 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This is arguably the first “freestyle” to reach mass success.

  • @baldilocks1914
    @baldilocks1914 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    61 years later and this still rocks!!!

  • @timmy841212
    @timmy841212 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    4:19 was probably the first interlude recorded. This song was so innovative!

  • @brianhines1452
    @brianhines1452 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Listening to this makes me want to see Ray again! - (The Ray Charles Biopic) - one of the best Black Music biopics ever made!

  • @joe6096
    @joe6096 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Man, I'm a white 43 year old guy and the first time I hear this song I was about 7 on the jukebox at a restaurant and I kept playing it over and over!! When I got older I started getting what this jam is all about, and there may not be a sexier song ever made lol! It's addictive! I mean, you feel like a million bucks when you hear it. I can imagine ol Ray and his band playing this in nightclubs for hours and the crowd begging him to keep it going!

  • @DanielBODIN-jp1bj
    @DanielBODIN-jp1bj หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Beaucoup de commentaires en anglais, mais n'allez pas croire qu'il ne fut une Star en France

  • @TheReddg71
    @TheReddg71 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    One of the Greatest to ever do it in Music! I sure do miss him, along with my family members that listened to him! Glad I was brought up on music like this!

  • @jamarlchambliss9779
    @jamarlchambliss9779 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    How can people dislike a masterpiece by a certified KING of Rock n Roll.

  • @freddieg4470
    @freddieg4470 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Jamie fox did a good job being Ray Charles

  • @alswing117
    @alswing117 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Une chanson que je réécoute avec un plaisir sans fin. Un ARTISTE D'UNE LIGNÉE INÉGALABLE ET INIMITABLE. (18/06/2023)Merci pour ce moment de bonheur teinté de nostalgie

  • @amandaarnold1409
    @amandaarnold1409 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Nothing left to say…..GENIUS!

  • @lawrencefernandez6372
    @lawrencefernandez6372 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    MY DAD WAS A BIG RAY CHARLES FAN, HAD ALL THE ALBUMS, MY 2 SISTERS AND I COULDN'T WAIT FOR MY DAD TO PLAY THE MUSIC, WE HAD SUCH A GOOD TIME, & MY MOM AND DAD WOULD DANCE LIKE CRAZY.... SOME OF THE BEST MEMORIES.

  • @nadamikenono4911
    @nadamikenono4911 4 ปีที่แล้ว +214

    When music was music....
    R.I.P. Mr Charles.

    • @aprettybadartist7917
      @aprettybadartist7917 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      So you are saying that music nowardays is shit?

    • @vendigovadimevtimovschi1816
      @vendigovadimevtimovschi1816 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@aprettybadartist7917yes

    • @jenafil2352
      @jenafil2352 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      RogAlexDrag just look at the billboard charts most of the song on there are complete trash, these no talent just auto tune and the same tired hip hop beat🥱🤦🏾‍♀️

    • @danielaa.santos4180
      @danielaa.santos4180 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Agree 😔👌💯

    • @aprettybadartist7917
      @aprettybadartist7917 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@jenafil2352 the fact that you call the modern music shit shows how much of a lazy piece of shit you are. If you look for good music, you'll find it. There is good music out there. Sure, mainstream is shot, but not all modern music is

  • @wisdomoverfear2685
    @wisdomoverfear2685 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    If you thumb downed this....your what's wrong with this world ! This is real music damnit !

  • @johngreenblatt4811
    @johngreenblatt4811 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I am an old sort of hippie from the 60's...I love this song and damn near all the other music we enjoyed back in the dqay.

  • @dw-fe2ww
    @dw-fe2ww 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love this discussion. No negativity, just respect and enjoyment. Maybe one day the whole reason for mankind's existence in this universe will be revealed as what just happened in these comments.....

  • @dinotraverso8967
    @dinotraverso8967 8 ปีที่แล้ว +187

    Una leyenda, un Genio de la Música, su estilo único y particular. El estar privado de la vista no fue obstáculo para lograr lo que llegó a ser...Uno de los Mejores. Sus Conciertos hoy se llevan a cabo en el Cielo.

    • @samray3297
      @samray3297 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      E su voz!

    • @guadalupefloyd6657
      @guadalupefloyd6657 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Charles vive en cada corazón del q amo y disfruto su música !!!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌

    • @guadalupefloyd6657
      @guadalupefloyd6657 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      El sublime ray charles !!!!

    • @giovanniiorio2170
      @giovanniiorio2170 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      BrAvo Dino ....un ottimo commento

    • @ddoeser5830
      @ddoeser5830 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fantastische zanger " RESPECT " ONVERGETELIJK 🇳🇱👍🎹👋🙏

  • @daveelzacky9987
    @daveelzacky9987 3 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    He wrote this entire song in less than 10 minutes lads.....
    *LESS. THAN. 10. MINUTES!!*
    That is beyond outstanding..

    • @DeliriousSquid
      @DeliriousSquid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Man was insanely talented.

  • @marcbryanjacob
    @marcbryanjacob 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    The intro riffing is a jazz groove called the bossanova. It developed from the Latin influence on jazz circa late 50’s to early 60’s. “Blame it on the Bossa Nova”!

  • @sergeloth6685
    @sergeloth6685 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Un morceau d'anthologie..........extraordinaire... RIP RAY

  • @k.wrennn
    @k.wrennn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    this was the first song beatles played when ringo first joined .. paul said that not many drummers can nail this beat but ringo did

  • @joeyhandeland983
    @joeyhandeland983 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wow, I came here because, I wanted to hear where the inspiration for the Beatles "I feel fine" drum part that Ringo played came from. This is amazing. This is pure soul and feel.

  • @JuanRodriguez-mk3yk
    @JuanRodriguez-mk3yk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Ray Charles, was the boss.. My only regret, I never got to see him in person...

  • @compartmentofdirections
    @compartmentofdirections 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is some of the greatest drumming in history 🥁 0:53

  • @josephgomes6829
    @josephgomes6829 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    A head shaking, full body mover if there ever was one! Incredible and timeless...

  • @AndrewBISHOP-ii7hs
    @AndrewBISHOP-ii7hs 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    An all time classic 😊

  • @myronmcclevae5948
    @myronmcclevae5948 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Who still kicking this in 2022

  • @jaydedollyy9730
    @jaydedollyy9730 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I grew up listening to Ray charles and his music just touches your soul and makes you feel good. He's the reason I got really big into jazz, soul and r&b. I'm 25. Thanks mom for introducing me to some great music!

  • @Papi.Pharaoh
    @Papi.Pharaoh ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It’s physically impossible to hear this song without tapping your toes. This song is like the nucleus of soul music. It has a fantastic rhythm that makes you want to dance to it. This song was absolute perfection all the way down from the intro to the actual lyrics of the song.

  • @eis904
    @eis904 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I saw Ray Charles perform with Stan Getz at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion when I was 12 years old. We were in the front row and I remember this guy almost falling off his piano bench he had so much energy!

  • @Romano_Ochoa
    @Romano_Ochoa 4 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    Hey mama, don't you treat me wrong
    Come and love your daddy all night long
    All right now, hey hey, all right
    .
    See the girl with the diamond ring
    She knows how to shake that thing
    All right now now now, hey hey, hey hey
    .
    Tell your mama, tell your pa
    I'm gonna send you back to Arkansas
    Oh yes, ma'm, you don't do right, don't do right
    Aw, play it boy
    .
    When you see me in misery
    Come on baby, see about me
    Now yeah, all right, all right, aw play it, boy
    .
    When you see me in misery
    Come on baby, see about me
    Now yeah, hey hey, all right
    .
    See the girl with the red dress on
    She can do the Birdland all night long
    Yeah yeah, what'd I say, all right
    .
    Well, tell me what'd I say, yeah
    Tell me what'd I say right now
    Tell me what'd I say
    Tell me what'd I say right now
    Tell me what'd I say
    Tell me what'd I say yeah
    .
    And I wanna know
    Baby I wanna know right now
    And-a I wanna know
    And I wanna know right now yeah
    And-a I wanna know
    Said I wanna know yeah
    .
    Spoken: Hey, don't quit now! (c'mon honey)
    Naw, I got, I uh-uh-uh, I'm changing (stop! stop! we'll do it again)
    Wait a minute, wait a minute, oh hold it! Hold it! Hold it!
    .
    Hey (hey) ho (ho) hey (hey) ho (ho) hey (hey) ho (ho) hey
    .
    Oh one more time (just one more time)
    Say it one more time right now (just one more time)
    Say it one more time now (just one more time)
    Say it one more time yeah (just one more time)
    Say it one more time (just one more time)
    Say it one more time yeah (just one more time)
    .
    Hey (hey) ho (ho) hey (hey) ho (ho) hey (hey) ho (ho) hey
    .
    Ah! Make me feel so good (make me feel so good)
    Make me feel so good now yeah (make me feel so good)
    Woah! Baby (make me feel so good)
    Make me feel so good yeah (make me feel so good)
    Make me feel so good (make me feel so good)
    Make me feel so good yeah (make me feel so good)
    .
    Huh (huh) ho (ho) huh (huh) ho (ho) huh (huh) ho (ho) huh
    .
    Awh it's all right (baby it's all right)
    Said that it's all right right now (baby it's all right)
    Said that it's all right (baby it's all right)
    Said that it's all right yeah (baby it's all right)
    Said that it's all right (baby it's all right)
    Said that it's all right (baby it's all right)
    .
    Woah! Shake that thing now (baby shake that thing)
    Baby shake that thing now now (baby shake that thing)
    Baby shake that thing (baby shake that thing)
    Baby shake that thing right now (baby shake that thing)
    Baby shake that thing (baby shake that thing)
    Baby shake that thing (baby shake that thing)
    .
    Woah! I feel all right now yeah (make me feel all right)
    Said I feel all right now (make me feel all right)
    Woooah! (make me feel all right)
    Tell you I feel all right (make me feel all right)
    Said I feel all right (make me feel all right)
    Baby I feel all right (make me feel all right)

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      @countryboy6767 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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    • @harrysummers734
      @harrysummers734 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thanks for the lyrics 👏👏

  • @appleyardgardenwoodencraft8736
    @appleyardgardenwoodencraft8736 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Whoes feet are moving whoes head swaying whoes hands are taping yours are 😊❤