Mandible wrote: 
This is exactly what I think of too! Priceless!

 sbegf wrote: 
Ditto

 Mandible wrote: 
Yup, I just saw this episode the other day. Can't believe how little they were.

The exchange between Ray and Margie Hendricks here is one of the most passionate vocals in recorded history.
 

 Mandible wrote: 
As soon as I hear this song, that is exactly what I picture...ha

 Jelani wrote: 

Nope.  I don't think I was exposed to the "wonderment" of an 8-track until approx. 1972-73.  My friend had just got this bitchin' new stereo, and he had a few cartridges to play.  I somehow recall him inserting this Three Dog Night GH collection,


 

and we were off and running.  After a few cuts, the song playing was literally stopped in the middle (it may have been during "Celebrate"), and then started up again on another track on the playmode.  What a stupid music format, and I was "shocked" when they were gone within a few years...

I can't hear this without thinking of the Bill Cosby Show episode where the family lip synched this for Bill's birthday. Makes me laugh thinking of Rudy singing this.

Ooooh so good.

 treatment_bound wrote: 
Did it have an 8-track tape player?

What's going on RP? This is Yello, not Ray Charles!

Sorry Cosby kids (and Ray C.)—being a "semi-privileged" middle-class white boy from the plains, this is where I first heard this cut, and it was on my older brother's crappy late-60's Zenith "Hi-Fi"...

J. Fogerty's yelps still work for me.

I love the woman's vocal.

 Pyro wrote: 
Huh, huh, huh, huh.....you're old.....huh, huh, huh, huh.

 crockydile wrote: 
yeah.

Nice, just happened to pick up this very disc from the rack a half an hour ago.

  It was released in 1994.

I am going to go with... "Fun"

i feel sorry for anyone who cant get this__ no hope __

love this so sweeeet! night and day!

This is a good version of a classic.  First time I heard it (ever), Big Joe Turner was singing it at the New Orleans Jazz Festival.  I fell in love with the song AND Big Joe that day....

I think the Cosby Show has forever tainted my appreciation for this song.

By far my favorite Ray Charles tune!

Who Is that woman doing the belting!?

/Ed
Figured it out myself from wikipedia.
"Charles was helped in the song by lead Raelette Margie Hendricks, who sang a raspy and demanding vocal to Charles' own raspy baritone and wails"

 peter_james_bond wrote: 

 crockydile wrote: 
Oh, dear lord. There is so much wrong with this, I almost don't know where to begin. To compare artists like Ray Charles and Andy Warhol to a genocidal tyrant is mind boggling. Son, I know you miss Excelsior, but you've surpassed him for mindless bad taste. No, really, I mean this as a compliment. You're in your own league. Congratulations. Peace.

 peter_james_bond wrote: 
It's also like saying that although I recognize the significance of Pol Pot, I don't care for his politics. There is a lot of art that has been influential, groundbreaking, etc that I don't particularly care for...Andy Warhol comes to mind. Peace.

 crockydile wrote: 
That's like saying, historical importance aside, I find the Mona Lisa quite irritating.
Very few people care that you're a philistine. (I took the time to respond to your post, and that means that I care )

Why Ray Charles is essential.