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Ray Charles — Night Time is the Right Time
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zepher
Posted: Mar 21, 2013 - 06:59
 


LifeIsMusic
Posted: Jun 11, 2012 - 08:43
 
 Mandible wrote:
 
This is exactly what I think of too! Priceless!

dalemarushy
(In my head)
Posted: Jun 11, 2012 - 08:42
 
 sbegf wrote:

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

 
Ditto

GeneP59
(On the edge of tomorrow looking back at yesterday.)
Posted: May 10, 2012 - 13:43
 
 Mandible wrote:
 
Yup, I just saw this episode the other day. Can't believe how little they were. {#Cool}

elitry
(Lafayette, IN)
Posted: Feb 05, 2012 - 11:30
 

sbegf, Mandible - I rushed to comment as soon as I heard this song, only to see that we are totally on the same page!  the image is priceless.



lshinkawa
(Berkeley, CA)
Posted: Dec 03, 2011 - 22:07
 
The exchange between Ray and Margie Hendricks here is one of the most passionate vocals in recorded history.
 

ThePoose
Posted: Aug 31, 2011 - 08:26
 

Now we know where Ray Stevens got Jane's wail in Gitarzan.





sbegf
(Manchester, Maryland)
Posted: Apr 27, 2011 - 08:09
 
 Mandible wrote:

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


treatment_bound
(Duluth to Madison)
Posted: Apr 04, 2011 - 08:07
 
 Jelani wrote:
Did it have an 8-track tape player?
 

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...




gatorade
(Ocean Park, WA)
Posted: Mar 26, 2011 - 18:07
 
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.

gabrielle7nt
(rock (me) hard place)
Posted: Mar 26, 2011 - 18:07
 
Ooooh so good.

Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague)
Posted: Dec 22, 2010 - 15:56
 
 treatment_bound wrote:
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.

 
Did it have an 8-track tape player?

Dillinquent
(Hertford, UK)
Posted: Oct 20, 2010 - 06:15
 
What's going on RP? This is Yello, not Ray Charles!


treatment_bound
(Duluth to Madison)
Posted: Aug 17, 2010 - 12:26
 
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.




Papernapkin
(Mountain View, CA)
Posted: Jul 16, 2010 - 14:26
 
I love the woman's vocal.

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Jul 16, 2010 - 14:25
 
 Pyro wrote:
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....
 
Huh, huh, huh, huh.....you're old.....huh, huh, huh, huh.{#Wink}



bindi
(North Carolina)
Posted: Jun 14, 2010 - 17:30
 
 crockydile wrote:
Historical importance aside, I find this pretty annoying.
 
yeah.


kurtster
(Area code 216)
Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 04:42
 
Nice, just happened to pick up this very disc from the rack a half an hour ago.

{#Whisper}  It was released in 1994.

ddbz
(The Midwest)
Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 13:49
 
I am going to go with... "Fun"

buzmaggie
(AZ, US)
Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 13:49
 
i feel sorry for anyone who cant get this__ no hope __

buzmaggie
(AZ, US)
Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 13:46
 
love this so sweeeet! night and day!

Pyro
Posted: Jan 07, 2010 - 14:26
 
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....

flatpicker
(Toronto, Canada)
Posted: Jan 07, 2010 - 14:24
 
I think the Cosby Show has forever tainted my appreciation for this song.


sirdroseph
(Outer Mongolia)
Posted: Jan 07, 2010 - 14:24
 
By far my favorite Ray Charles tune!{#Clap}

Frater_Kork
(Uppsala, Sweden)
Posted: Dec 07, 2009 - 05:45
 
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"


WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Nov 08, 2009 - 19:24
 
 peter_james_bond 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 {#Wink} )

 

 crockydile 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.

 
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.


crockydile
(I miss Excelsior!)
Posted: Oct 05, 2009 - 07:20
 
 peter_james_bond 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 {#Wink} )

 
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.


Mandible
Posted: Oct 05, 2009 - 07:08
 


peter_james_bond
(Lunenburg, NS)
Posted: Sep 03, 2009 - 19:16
 
 crockydile wrote:
Historical importance aside, I find this pretty annoying.
 
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 {#Wink} )


WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Sep 03, 2009 - 19:08
 
Why Ray Charles is essential.

Xeric
(Montana)
Posted: Sep 03, 2009 - 19:06
 
 crockydile wrote:
Historical importance aside, I find this pretty annoying.
 
Oh, come on.  If you took away the background vocals, it would be okay.  If you took the lead vocal out too, maybe.  And prolly the instruments.  Okay, it's annoying. 


crockydile
(The swamps of Houston)
Posted: Aug 03, 2009 - 06:25
 
Historical importance aside, I find this pretty annoying.

Bleyfusz
Posted: Jul 02, 2009 - 12:43
 
Not that it was of any importance. But I wonder who sang first the verse that makes this song's title: him, or John Lee, or who else....?

audiophelia
(Pennsylvania)
Posted: Jul 02, 2009 - 12:41
 
I can't hear this without thinking of Rudy Huxtable now! LOL!

ptooey
Posted: Jul 02, 2009 - 12:41
 
Yeah, 10.

Rick_V
(New Orleans)
Posted: Jul 02, 2009 - 12:40
 
It was the Cosby Show and it was hilarious.

cochlear
(Kauai, Hawaii)
Posted: May 31, 2009 - 16:58
 
What about Sharon Jones (and the Dap-Kings) when we're lookin' for soul?

TanteJensen
(one step ahead from my shoe shine, two steps away from the county line)
Posted: Apr 30, 2009 - 00:40
 
davedog wrote:
Can anyone tell me what the backup singers are repeating? Every time I hear this song I wonder but I've never figured it out.

Jacksonstat wrote
I believe they are saying "Night and day".

 
I keep hearing "Marvin Gaye", though admittedly that doesn't make any sense.


cosmiclint
(Vancouver BC)
Posted: Jan 25, 2009 - 09:34
 
 RockinBlueVoodoo wrote:
That's what you get for watching the Cosby show! Serves you right. Now you're scarred for life and can never enjoy the awesomeness of this tune again...
 
Why not? Everyone has an irrelevant, non sequitur-like personal association with any given piece of art, generally what they were doing the first time they experienced it, or at least the first time it made an impression on them. I will always associate ELO's Telephone Lines with sleeping in the back seat of my dad's Mercury Montego (with my sister!) as we drove (probably straight through) from Vancouver to Los Angelos for a family vacation. The song was a hit, and we must have heard it a dozen times on various local stations as my dad pointed our car down the I5.

So this guy thinks of the Cosby show when he hears this song. So do I. Doesn't mean we can't enjoy it.



islander
(Seattle)
Posted: Dec 24, 2008 - 18:48
 
sooooooooooo cooooooool

joeychick
(San Diego)
Posted: Oct 22, 2008 - 15:32
 
Came here to say that I can't hear this song without thinking of the Cosby Show, but it looks like everyone beat me to it already!  Love it!

jagdriver
(Auburn, CA)
Posted: Aug 20, 2008 - 11:18
 
Is that little Rudy Huxtable belting out those vocals? Guess you all thought so, too. Sorry you didn't like it; I thought it was a riot.


bugleboy624
(Bluefield, WV)
Posted: Aug 20, 2008 - 11:18
 
 rickhoran wrote:


thats all i think of everytime i hear this song.
 

Me too.

queenjill
(banana stand)
Posted: Aug 20, 2008 - 11:18
 
RockinBlueVoodoo wrote:
That's what you get for watching the Cosby show! Serves you right. Now you're scarred for life and can never enjoy the awesomeness of this tune again...

I was a kid!  I didn't have a choice!  I also cannot hear this song without seeing those sweater-clad Cosbys dancing in their living room.


hippiechick
(Weekendland)
Posted: Aug 20, 2008 - 11:17
 
All I can think of is The Muppets singing this!

Misterfixit
(Nashville)
Posted: Jun 18, 2008 - 06:41
 
Oh goodness!

They be Significating! Shout it Out Sistahs! Yes, Indeed, Oh Praise His Name! Do thet Lining, sweat that sweet Funk'o'love! Oh yas, yas yas ... here it comes now ... wait for it to come around!

Wow! Oh Yes!
RockinBlueVoodoo
(Deep in the Blues)
Posted: Apr 29, 2008 - 08:59
 
Zep wrote:
I didn't want to live it the first time.... :puke:


That's what you get for watching the Cosby show! Serves you right. Now you're scarred for life and can never enjoy the awesomeness of this tune again...
Jacksonstat
(Columbus OH)
Posted: Apr 16, 2008 - 08:30
 
davedog wrote:
Can anyone tell me what the backup singers are repeating? Every time I hear this song I wonder but I've never figured it out.



I believe they are saying "Night and day".

ohaganclan
(Newland NC)
Posted: Apr 16, 2008 - 08:25
 
God is Love.
Love is Blind.
Therefore God must be Ray Charles!
hippiechick
(Weekendland)
Posted: Apr 16, 2008 - 08:25
 
superflyLD wrote:
remember when they Cosby Show did a lip sync to this song with the whole family? Classic TV! little Rudy did the female vocal- it was hilarious! (oops! just read the comments- looks like you guys DO remember! GO RUDY!)

I was thinking it was The Muppets!