- Bye Bye Love
- You Don't Know Me
- Half as Much
- I Love You So Much It Hurts
- Just a Little Lovin'
- Born to Lose
- Worried Mind
- It Makes No Difference Now
- You Win Again
- Careless Love
- I Can't Stop Loving You
- Hey, Good Lookin'
- You Are My Sunshine
- No Letter Today
- Someday
- Don't Tell Me Your Troubles
- Midnight
- Oh, Lonesome Me
- Take These Chains From My Heart
- Your Cheatin' Heart
- I'll Never Stand in Your Way
- Making Believe
- Teardrops in My Heart
- Hang Your Head in Shame
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When Ray Charles made Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music in 1962, he was operating from a position of power. Two years into his contract with ABC-Paramount, he had already become a fixture in the Top Ten with both his singles and his albums, winning a Grammy for his 1960 single "Georgia on My Mind." Charles had freedom to do whatever he wanted, and he chose to record interpretations of 12 country songs, drawing almost equally from recent hits and older standards. The sly virtuosity within Charles' approach was to treat these tunes as a a songbook to be reinvented, not as songs that were tied to their rural roots. Later, Charles explained that he saw little difference between a country tune and a blues song -- they draw from the same emotions and musical traditions -- but the striking thing about his interpretations on Modern Sounds in Country and Western is that he's not concentrating on the earthier elements of either genre. He's fully focused on playing these songs as he'd play any other, grounding them in jazz and soul, then dressing them in arrangements designed to snag a crossover audience. To latter-day generations, those arrangements -- thick with strings and backing vocals -- may sound slightly schlocky, yet even in 1962 they were a sign of how Charles was as intent on appealing to a mainstream easy listening demographic as he was to his soul and jazz audience. That's the brilliance of the project: it is thoroughly American pop music, blending seemingly disparate elements in a fashion that seems simultaneously universal and idiosyncratic.
Audiences quickly embraced Modern Sounds in Country Music, which lead Charles and producer Sid Feller to record a sequel immediately, rushing it onto the marketplace of October 1962, just six months after the first hit the stars. Time has eroded the differences between the two LPs, and perhaps inevitably so: the two share the same sensibility and arrangers, with the difference being the second volume separates the big band tunes on one side, with the strings and choirs on the other. It's a notable distinction, but the main difference between the two albums is that the first volume retains a sense of discovery, whereas the second is made with the confidence that this particular formula works. In either case, the two albums -- whether heard individually or as a pair, as they so often are -- aren't so much complements but of a piece, music that changed the course of popular music and remains a testament to the genius of Ray Charles.
Product Details
Release Date: | 02/22/2019 |
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Label: | Concord Records |
UPC: | 0888072080195 |
catalogNumber: | 00860 |
Rank: | 8388 |
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Album Credits
Performance Credits
Ray Charles Primary Artist,Piano,VocalsGerald Wilson Conductor
Marty Paich Conductor
Jack Halloran Singers Strings
Technical Credits
Eddy Arnold ComposerChet Atkins Composer
Jimmie Davis Composer
Don Gibson Composer
Floyd Tillman Composer
Ray Charles Composer
Gil Fuller Arranger
Gerald Wilson Arranger
Frankie Brown Composer
Cindy Walker Composer
Frank Abbey Engineer
Felice Bryant Composer
Boudleaux Bryant Composer
John Burk Executive Producer
Sid Feller Liner Notes
Hy Heath Composer
Marty Paich Arranger,String Arrangements
Charles Mitchell Composer
Bill Putnam Engineer
Fred Rose Composer
Schmitt Engineer
Hank Williams Composer
Curley Williams Composer
Ted Daffan Composer
Bill Dahl Liner Notes
Vaughn Horton Composer
Jimmy Work Composer
James Hodges Composer
Steve Nelson Composer
Clements Composer
Gene Thompson Engineer
Ed Nelson Composer
Johnny Cue Engineer
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