The Ray Charles Singers - MacArthur Park

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1969
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 33:11
Size: 77,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:44)  1. Macarthur Park
(2:35)  2. Gregory's Chant
(3:07)  3. Love Is Blue (L'amour Est Bleu)
(3:59)  4. Honey
(2:32)  5. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
(2:34)  6. Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
(3:08)  7. Theme from "Valley of the Dolls"
(2:09)  8. Don't Just Stand There
(2:32)  9. Sometimes I Remember (E la Chiamono Estate)
(3:20) 10. Little Green Apples
(2:25) 11. Let Go! (Canto de Ossanha)

Ray Charles (born Charles Raymond Offenberg; September 13, 1918 – April 6, 2015), was an American musician, singer, songwriter, vocal arranger and conductor who was best known as organizer and leader of the Ray Charles Singers. The Ray Charles Singers were featured on Perry Como's records and television shows for 35 years. The Ray Charles Singers were also known for a series of 30 choral record albums produced in the 1950s and 1960s for the Essex, MGM, Decca and Command labels. As a vocalist, Charles, along with Julia Rinker Miller, was known for singing the theme song to the television series Three's Company ("Come and Knock on Our Door"). 

As a songwriter, Charles was best known for the choral anthem "Fifty Nifty United States," in which he set the names of the states to music in alphabetical order. It was originally written for The Perry Como Show.[5] He is also known for "Letters, We Get Letters," also originally written for The Perry Como Show and later used on Late Show with David Letterman.  In his later years, he continued to serve as a musical consultant to television programs, most notably for 31 years on the Kennedy Center Honors. Charles was acknowledged as an authority on American popular music. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Charles_%28musician,_born_1918%29

MacArthur Park

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The Ray Charles Singers - Love And Marriage

Styles: Vocal, Soul

Year: 2010

File: MP3@320K/s

Time: 34:46

Size: 80,8 MB

Art: Front

(2:44)  1. Love And Marriage

(3:07)  2. Love Is The Sweetest Thing

(2:34)  3. I Wanna Get Married

(2:51)  4. The Girl That I Marry

(2:54)  5. Love Is A Simple Thing

(3:00)  6. Let's Fall In Love

(3:04)  7. Waltz Down The Aisle

(3:07)  8. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing

(2:57)  9. Love Is The Reason

(3:09) 10. Love Is Here To Stay

(2:52) 11. I Married An Angel

(2:20) 12. To Have And To Hold

Love And Marriage

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The Ray Charles Singers - Young Lovers In Far Away Places

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 29:16
Size: 67.0 MB
Styles: Easy Listening
Year: 1964/2011
Art: Front

[3:29] 1. Fsr Away Places
[2:51] 2. It Happened In Monterrey
[6:42] 3. Sunday In Genoa
[2:47] 4. A Foggy Day
[3:12] 5. April In Paris
[3:12] 6. Moon Over Miami
[4:13] 7. Shipboard Romance
[2:46] 8. On A Slow Boat To China

Reaching number three on the pop charts in 1964 with one of the most successful easy listening singles of the '60s, "Love Me with All Your Heart (Cuando Caliente el Sol)," the Ray Charles Singers made numerous genteel albums of choral mood music throughout the '50s and '60s. Although they were led by a man named Ray Charles, this group had no connection whatsoever to Ray Charles the famous soul singer, and certainly no connection whatsoever to soul music. The coincidence of two such different artists sharing the same name led the Ray Charles of the Ray Charles Singers, in fact, to bill himself as "The Other Ray Charles" when he was given a TV credit.

This Ray Charles was born Charles Raymond Offenberg on September 13, 1918 in Chicago. Working in radio, Broadway, and in local bands, he got his major break when he landed a job as an arranger for Perry Como's radio backing group in the late '40s, remaining in that position when Como got a TV program. By the mid-'50s, the group called the Ray Charles Singers replaced the Fontaine Sisters as Como's TV backing ensemble. The Ray Charles Singers recorded on their own for Essex, MGM, and Decca before hitting their commercial stride on Enoch Light's Command label in the '60s, with arrangements emphasizing lush instrumentation and soft, breathy singing.

Young Lovers In Far Away Places

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