Thursday, June 10, 2004

NO MORE, NO MORE, NO MORE, NO MORE: CNN is reporting that Ray Charles, a man who defines American music, has passed away at the age of 73.

It's hard to even conceive of popular music without him. He sang the definitive versions of such classics as "Georgia On My Mind", "America The Beautiful", "Hit The Road Jack" and "What'd I Say," smashing the boundaries between soul, gospel, r&b and jazz.

When you talk about people who are the living embodiment of the American dream, and who represent the best that 20th-Century America had to offer, you're talking about Ray Charles.

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