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Slipry Bob
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 Posted - 06/12/2004 : 01:26:30 AM
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 The Great Ray Charles Has Left Us. The Man Was By far The Best Blues Singer That Stepped Up To A Microphone!!!
GEORGIA!!!
Don't Even Think About Arguing,DDDDC Because I Ain't Listening!!!
I only say that because whatever a member of the BFG has to say,you have to put in your negative opinion.
Opinions are fine,but yours always seem to rub alot of folks the wrong way.
So just keep it to yourself!!
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SpeedBump
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Posted - 06/12/2004 : 05:09:52 AM
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Kens Racers
USA
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Posted - 06/12/2004 : 05:21:11 AM
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Dragon99
USA
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Posted - 06/12/2004 : 05:23:02 AM
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remmey
USA
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Posted - 06/12/2004 : 08:18:27 AM
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Amen Brother Bob!
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Originally posted by Slipry Bob
The Great Ray Charles Has Left Us. The Man Was By far The Best Blues Singer That Stepped Up To A Microphone!!!
GEORGIA!!!
Don't Even Think About Arguing,DDDDC Because I Ain't Listening!!!
I only say that because whatever a member of the BFG has to say,you have to put in your negative opinion.
Opinions are fine,but yours always seem to rub alot of folks the wrong way.
So just keep it to yourself!!
BFG SO CAL ROCKS JOHNSONS
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Sooner Sis
USA
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Posted - 06/12/2004 : 08:54:17 AM
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 BEAVERS DO IT DAM GOOD!
BFG RULES
NASCARSOUTH
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Pushy Loose Racing
USA
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Posted - 06/12/2004 : 09:14:47 AM
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Truley a sad time indeed. That man was a gift.  Of all the verions of AMERICA Ray gave that song a soul and a passion. He was a true countryman and will be missed by many.
Oh beautiful, for heroes proved,
In liberating strife,
Who more than self, our country loved,
And mercy more than life,
America, America, may God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain devined.
And you know when I was in school,
We used to sing it something like this, listen here:
Oh beautiful, for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties,
Above the fruited plain.
But now wait a minute, I'm talking about
America, sweet America,
You know, God done shed his grace on thee,
He crowned thy good, yes he did, in a brotherhood,
From sea to shining sea.
NASCARSOUTH
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D.D.D.D.C.
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Posted - 06/12/2004 : 6:25:12 PM
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 I happen to be a great blues fan. Really to bad to here about ol ray. Matter of fact a buddy of mine here in Omaha is a blues player every now and then we take him down to a coffe shop downtown where he can play. Pretty cool. Where you gettin this negativity stuff. Never from me. I just battle the BFG egomaniacs. Can't help it he's your leader. Nothin against you Bob. Good luck this week at pocono. lol
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Slipry Bob
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Posted - 06/12/2004 : 7:00:11 PM
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Good luck to you too this weekend,DDDDC.But I don't have a leader.I am my own man,thank you very much.
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D.D.D.D.C.
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Posted - 06/12/2004 : 7:04:23 PM
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 cool bob have a good one  |
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Grey Ghost
USA
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Posted - 06/12/2004 : 7:32:03 PM
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I for one will miss Ray....
Back in 1978, I was going through a divorce and me and Ray would get drunk together every night. He sang "I Can't Stop Loving You" all night long. Ray would sing and I'd take another drink and cry. Night after night Ray was there for me. I guess, if it had'nt been for Ray, I might not have made the trip through the pain...
Thanks Ray.............
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Paul&Val
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Posted - 06/12/2004 : 8:03:54 PM
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Kens Racers
USA
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Posted - 06/12/2004 : 8:57:11 PM
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hey bob ,i aint got no leader either,rekon we need one????
naaaaa
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D.D.D.D.C.
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Posted - 06/12/2004 : 9:09:34 PM
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Littlemacracing
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Posted - 06/12/2004 : 10:08:00 PM
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Hey Conrad ya wuss.What don't ya git ya kissing ass to Dave wuss?This thread was about the great RAY cHARLES..Not the fing BFG ya @#@#$$%%$%%$#..Sorry ya'll.But really. What ya and TB got going is ok with the Bfg to an extent. Tb is not the BFG leader ya ( got to git a beer and composer)Thunder reg.He is the person that lead us to this great land of Thunder.But as fer as a BFG leader this is none.. WE all stood up fer are rights and defendend them to the best of our abialitlies till they took our rights away.This BS between ya and TB is BS that needs its own thread. Dont either of ya drag it into any other threads.Me as a true BFG am tired of hearing this BS from ya 2....Dennis and Conrad better grow up.....Cause all of us about tied of hearing ya petty BS.Ya two want to fight???? make ya own thread to do so.. Don't drag this BS into good fer fun threads with ya BS about the BFG.Ya want my # Conrad ??
I give it to ya in a heart beat..I would luv to talk to ya. Cause TB is not the leader of BFG.If ya looking fer the leader of said BFG I can only think of one name .. And Its of the NASCAR SOUTH.. But now that we are here in the land of Thunder and NASCAR SOUTH has been split up it might be in RCR..
NASCARSOUTH
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D.D.D.D.C.
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Posted - 06/13/2004 : 05:30:52 AM
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Heavy Chevy
USA
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Posted - 06/13/2004 : 9:11:26 PM
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" A great reminder, whatever the situation, or obstacles we face in life, We can be at our best at what we do, And make millions or even one person smile, make others lifes easier, releive pain, sorrow and give us the courage to carry on, And realize just how good we got it,
These among other thigs and from other musicians, is how, I wish to follow in the same footsteps...God Bless you Ray........as always,Peace., Heavy
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Ray Charles Remembered as Musical Treasure
Grammy-Winning Singer Died Thursday at 73
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (June 11) - As Ray Charles played and sang, his stiffly swaying shoulders suggested some invisible tug of war between a devil and an angel. Charles, who died Thursday at age 73, was a musical innovator who combined the rollicking ''bad boy'' free-spiritedness of rock 'n' roll with the pious aching of gospel and soul to create a new style in such hits as ''What'd I Say,'' ''Hit the Road Jack,'' ''Georgia on My Mind'' and ''I Can't Stop Loving You.''
'There will never be another musician who did as much to break down the perceived walls of musical genres as much as Ray Charles did,'' said music producer Quincy Jones, who described Charles as a ''brother in every sense of the word.''
Charles died of acute liver disease at his Beverly Hills home at 11:35 a.m., surrounded by family and friends, said spokesman Jerry Digney.
Blind by age 7 and an orphan at 15, the gifted pianist and saxophonist spent his life shattering any notion of musical categories and defying easy definition.
One of the first artists to record the ''blasphemous idea of taking gospel songs and putting the devil's words to them,'' as legendary producer Jerry Wexler once said, Charles' music spanned soul, rock 'n' roll, R&B, country, jazz, big band and blues.
Over the course of a 58-year career, he put his stamp on it all with a deep, warm voice roughened by heartbreak from a hardscrabble childhood in the segregated South. Smiling and swaying behind the piano, grunts and moans peppering his songs, Charles' appeal spanned generations.
Aretha Franklin called Charles ''the voice of a lifetime.''
''He was a fabulous man, full of humor and wit,'' she said in a statement. ''A giant of an artist, and of course, he introduced the world to secular soul singing.''
James Brown recalled, ''He was just a sweet and gorgeous and wonderful person ... He was a role model for all people that got to know him and his music. I respected the genius ... What set him apart? He was Ray Charles - just that!''
Billy Joel, a fellow piano man, said he and others started out by imitating Charles. ''Ray Charles was a true American original ... Ray Charles defined rhythm & blues, soul, and authentic rock 'n' roll,'' Joel said Thursday.
Charles' health deteriorated rapidly over the past year, after he had hip replacement surgery and was diagnosed with a failing liver. But he kept on working on what would be his last CD, ''Genius Loves Company.''
''There were a couple of times where he would say, 'I'm not feeling well today but I'll take a stab at it ... I can come back to it later.' And he never had to come back to it later,'' said John Burk, who worked with Charles as producer of the upcoming duets album.
The Grammy winner's last public appearance was alongside Clint Eastwood on April 30, when the city of Los Angeles designated the singer's studios, built 40 years ago, as a historic landmark.
Charles won nine of his 12 Grammy Awards between 1960 and 1966, including the best R&B recording three consecutive years (''Hit the Road Jack,'' ''I Can't Stop Loving You'' and ''Busted'').
His versions of other songs are also well known, including ''Makin' Whoopee'' and a stirring ''America the Beautiful,'' which he sang for the late President Reagan at his 1985 inaugural ball.
''I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of,'' Charles said in his 1978 autobiography, ''Brother Ray.'' ''Music was one of my parts ... Like my blood. It was a force already with me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me, like food or water.''
Charles considered Martin Luther King Jr. a friend and once refused to play to segregated audiences in South Africa. He was one of the legends receiving Kennedy Center Honors in 1986, cited as ''one of the most respected singers of his generation ... the pioneer who broke down barriers between secular and sacred styles, between black and white pop.''
Charles was no angel. His womanizing was legendary, and he struggled with a heroin addiction for nearly 20 years before quitting cold turkey in 1965 after an arrest at the Boston airport. Yet there was a sense of humor about even that - he released both ''I Don't Need No Doctor'' and ''Let's Go Get Stoned'' in 1966.
His ups and downs are chronicled in an upcoming biographical movie set for release in October, titled simply ''Ray'' and starring Jamie Foxx.
Charles, who was divorced twice and single since 1952, was survived by 12 children, 20 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. A memorial service was planned for next week at Los Angeles' First AME Church, with burial afterward at Inglewood Cemetery.
Ray Charles Robinson was born Sept. 23, 1930, in Albany, Ga. (He later dropped his last name for the stage, in deference to boxer Sugar Ray Robinson.)
He lost his sight and was sent away from his impoverished family, heartbroken, to the state-supported St. Augustine School for the Deaf and the Blind. Glaucoma is often mentioned as a cause, though Charles said nothing was ever diagnosed.
Before that, he began dabbling in music at 3, encouraged by a cafe owner who played the piano. The knowledge was basic, but his early influences and inspirations included the classics of Chopin, country and western stars he heard on the Grand Ole Opry, the powerhouse big bands of Duke Ellington and Count Basie, jazz greats Art Tatum and Artie Shaw.
By the time he was 15 his parents were dead and Charles had graduated from St. Augustine. He wound up playing gigs in black dance halls - the so-called chitlin' circuit - and exposed himself to a variety of music, including hillbilly (he learned to yodel) before moving to Seattle.
His first big hit was 1959's ''What'd I Say,'' a song built off a simple piano riff with suggestive moaning from the Raeletts. Some U.S. radio stations banned the song, but Charles was on his way to stardom. He was called ''The Genius'' and was playing at Carnegie Hall and the Newport Jazz Festival.
"Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind."
-Ray Charles in a Washing- ton Post interview, 1983
His last Grammy came in 1993 for ''A Song for You,'' but he never dropped out of the music scene until illness sidetracked him last summer.
''The way I see it, we're actors, but musical ones,'' he once told The Associated Press. ''We're doing it with notes, and lyrics with notes, telling a story. I can take an audience and get 'em into a frenzy so they'll almost riot, and yet I can sit there so you can almost hear a pin drop.''
B.F G. A L W A Y S ! ! ! !
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