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Mural on the wall of the former site of Shelly’s Loan & Jewelry Company, 300 E. 47th St., 1898. The current owner’s great-grandfather obtained the first pawnbroker's license granted by the City of Chicago in 1918, although his shop had been in business since the 1890s. The pawnshop opened in 1946 at its E. 47th Street location. It’s site of Ray’s Music Store in the "Shake a Tale Feather" scene featuring Ray Charles in “The Blues Brothers.” It has since moved to 224 E. 51st St. NOTE: Sadly, the mural is gone; the building was recently demolished after it had been severely damaged by fire last month.
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
'Til all success be nobleness
And every gain devined...
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Aermotor Windmills – The only windmill made in America…
~~~~~~~~ Since 1888 ~~~~~~~~~~
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY...
"Ray Charles featured on limited-edition Pepsi cans as part of the the Pepsi Generations Summer Music campaign." 2018
Ci sono musiche
che fan levitare
e, nel contempo,
ti fanno abissare.
E allora ti scordi
chi sei veramente:
se il tempo d’attesa
s’è fatto carnale
oppure per sempre
s’è fatto ideale.
(gm)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr-XlnZalWQ&feature=related
Joe Cocker - Unchain my heart
Un_Chain my heart
Baby let me go ...
Cuz baby ...
You don't love me any more
Lilac bloom
Unchained ...
My home
Stulely Sud 2009
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It should've been me
With that real fine chick
It should've been me
With that real fine chick
Hey hey hey, hey, driving that, DynaFlow...
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One of the many classic cars propped up in front of the Blue Swallow Motel, Tucumcari, New Mexico...
The Music Hall Center for Performing Arts is a 1,731-seat theatre located in the city's theatre district at 350 Madison Street in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. It was built in 1928 as the Wilson Theatre, designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1976, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. *info from wiki Also a shout out to my best friend, who I haven't dedicated anything to in awhile.
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Ray Charles in oils. Just put this on a hd frame app, just to see what a large version would look like. I might do a large oil painting like this.. Thanks for following & looking !! #art #artwork #charcoaldrawings #charcoal #piano #pianos #raycharles #drawings #drawing #jazz #blues #artistsoninstagram #toptags #winsorandnewton #derwent #fabercastell #artist #oils #dalerrowney #newartist #newartviral #cambridgeshire #cambridgeart #arts #arte #artworks #artoftheday
days may be cloudy or sunny...
we're in or we are out of the money, yeah...
but I'm with you always...
i'm with you rain or shine...
It rained everyday we were there but it was nothing short of FANTASTIC...especially swimming in the rain and patronizing the swim up bar...nyuk, nyuk, nyuk...
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-anno di produzione
-quante volte l'ho visto (facoltativa)
Joining in with Throwback Thursday..again.
Going back to 2016 & going to Catford, South London for work by Woskerski.
This photograph is probably one of my personal favorite. The reflection in the glasses was really captured well..My skills are increasing.
In total 3,497 people died in the attacks on September 11, 2001.
* 2,735 civilians in the World Trade Center died
* 87 passengers and crew members aboard American Airlines Flight 11 that hit the North Tower
* 60 passengers and crew aboard United Flight 175 that hit the South Tower
* 343 New York City firefighters and rescue workers and 23 New York City law enforcement officers, 47 Port Authority workers and 37 Port Authority Police Officers, lost their lives when they rushed in to save the victims in the World Trade Center
* 36 passengers and crew aboard United Flight 93, who gave their lives stopping four hijackers over Pennsylvania
* 64 passengers and crew aboard American Airlines Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon, killing them and 125 people in the building.
Best viewed large to see the detail of the web and the droplets of water on the Spiders legs! Very cool! She was a beauty!
Please no flash or picture comments :) I value your opinion so please leave your honest opinion and leave the flash comments out! Thanks! :)
-I dreamed about Ray Charles last night and he could see just fine...
I dreamed about Ray Charles last night.
And he could see just fine, you know.
I asked him for a lullaby. He said,
'Honey, I don't sing no more.'
No more, no more, no more, Ray don't sing no more.
He said, 'Since I got my eyesight back, my voice has just deserted me.
No 'Georgia On My Mind' no more. I stay in bed with M.T.V.'
Then Ray took his glasses off and I could look inside his head.
Flashing like a thunderstorm, I saw a shining spider web.
Spider web, spider web, spider web in Ray Charles' head.
I dreamed about Ray Charles last night.
He took me flying in the air. Showed me my own spider web; Said,
'Honey, you had best take care. The world is made of spider webs.
the threads are stuck to me and you. Careful what you're wishing for,
'cause when you gain, you just might lose.'
You just might lose your spider web, spider web, spider web Ray Charles said.
When you're feeling lonely, when you're hiding in your bed,
don't forget your string of pearls, don't forget your spider web.
When I go to sleep tonight, don't let me dream of brother Ray.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he sees.
Just like him best the other way.
Spider web, spider web, spider web Ray Charles said.
Spider web, spider web, spider web Ray Charles' head.
All I got's my spider web, keepin' me alive.
All I got's my spider web, keepin' me alive.
- come on Ray...
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Governor Nichols street wharf, New Orleans LA
French Quarter
I'll tell ya how to get there if ya ask!
Mural regrettably defaced, commemorating Ray Charles’ early performing career in Tampa during the Jim Crow era.
"I'll throw in the black keys for free"
Ray's Music Exchange in Calumet City, Illinois has the best electric piano in the city of Chicago. It can be yours for the low price of $2000 bucks and you could take it home with you and Ray will throw in the black keys for free.
The Blues Brothers has stood the test of time as it is one of the most entertaining movies filled with great music including the late great Ray Charles.
Ray's includes a fully stocked showroom with guitars, amps, mics, tv's, and toasters. Don't mind the bullet holes next to the guitar hanging on the wall - it breaks everyone's hearts when a boy that young goes bad. Although some say the best piano in the city of Chicago has no action left in the keyboard; Ray disagreed and the patrons break out into a spirited rendition of the classic Shake A Tail Feather.
When I set out to build Ray's Music Exchange it had to have the mural of the great blue's legends but with a LEGO flair. One artist that I knew possessed the skills and quality required is the incredibly talented Greg Hyland ( www.lethargiclad.com/). I knew Greg from attending Brickworld in Chicago over the years and when I emailed him with my vision - he was instantly on board and he didn't disappoint. The mural was spot on and was everything that I had hoped.
The next step was printing Greg's art onto the brick. I didn't want to use a sticker or decal - it needed to be printed so the colors would shine. I had long been a fan of Terry Akuna's printing on LEGO and he was also excited for the project and took extra time to get it perfect printed onto the bricks. (www.bricklink.com/store/home.page?p=terryakuna#/shop?o={"showHomeItems":1})
The build was powered up with lights from www.lifelites.com
Finally my 14 year old daughter had become a pro at cutting vinyl and was able to reproduce Ray's signs with her expert font and lettering skills. She has been able to reproduce my LUG's logo for car window decals, coffee cups, shirts, and new lettering on my steam engines. macismonograms.blogspot.com/
If you are unfamiliar with The Blues Brothers - stop reading this and go watch Jake and Elwood try and get the band back together!
Now on LEGO Ideas! ideas.lego.com/projects/167206
Another companion upload, ambitiously doing an interpretation of the Ray Charles classic :-)
Hit The Road Jack The dark and hateful atmosphere when she tells him to leave...
...And Don't You Come Back No More The warm feeling after delivering the message and clearing the air.
Ray Charles in oils 24" X 18". The colours were chosen to match the interior décor of where he will be living!! I'll try and get a photo of him in the room.. Thanks for following & looking !! #art #artwork #charcoaldrawings #charcoal #piano #pianos #raycharles #drawings #drawing #jazz #artistsoninstagram #toptags #winsorandnewton #derwent #fabercastell #artist #oils #dalerrowney #newartist #newartviral #cambridgeshire #cambridgeart #arts #arte #artworks #artoftheday
Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true
Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me
Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?
Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me
Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?
If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can't I?
" Somewhere over the rainbow" from " The Wizard of Oz" 1939
For listening ... www.goear.com/listen.php?v=67c2c66 in the Ray Charles version.
Dutch postcard by Gebr. Spanjersberg N.V., Rotterdam, no. 1162.
Blind American singer, songwriter, musician, and composer Ray Charles (1930-2004) was called "The Genius of Soul". His 1950s hits like 'Mess Around', 'Things I Used to Do', and 'What'd I Say', put Atlantic Records on the map. The man with the trademark jet dark sunglasses was the first artist to combine blues, rhythm and blues, and gospel styles into soul music. Under ABC-Paramount, he scored big hits with 'I Can't Stop Loving You', 'Hit the Road Jack', and 'Georgia On My Mind', in which he integrated country music, rhythm and blues, and pop music. Charles also showed up sporadically in films like Ballad in Blue (1965) and The Blues Brothers (1980) with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi.
Ray Charles was born Raymond Charles Robinson in 1930 in Albany, Georgia. His parents were Bailey Robinson, a laborer, and Aretha (or Reatha) Williams, a teenage orphan making a living as a sharecropper. His impoverished family moved to Greenville, Florida while he was still an infant. His father soon abandoned the family and his baby brother, George Robinson, drowned in a freak washtub accident at the age of four. Ray himself developed glaucoma at the age of five and within two years had lost his sight completely. He was deeply devoted to his mother and later recalled her perseverance, self-sufficiency, and pride as guiding lights in his life. A singer in a Baptist choir, he developed a love and feel for rhythms and from 1937 to 1945, he studied music at the State School for Deaf and Blind Children. His teacher, Mrs. Lawrence, taught him how to use braille music, and he was taught to play the classical piano music of J.S. Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. It also brought out his talent and ear for playing other instruments, such as the clarinet. Gary Brumburgh at IMDb: "A tragic fate may have given this visionary a heightened sensitivity, perception, awareness, even expansion to his obvious musical gifts that he may have never touched upon had he not suffered from his physical affliction. Whatever it was, Ray Charles revolutionized American music and was catapulted to legendary status by the time he died in Beverly Hills at age 73." In 1944, his mother died. Her death came as a shock to the 14-year-old Ray. He later said the deaths of his brother and mother were "the two great tragedies" of his life. Charles returned to school after the funeral but was expelled for playing a prank on his teacher. At age 16, Ray joined a country band called The Florida Playboys. He dropped the 'Robinson' from his name to avoid confusion with boxer Sugar Ray Robinson. In 1948, he moved to Seattle where he and Southern guitarist Gossady McGee formed the McSon Trio. With an emphasis on easy-styled jazz, Ray also played in bebop sessions on the sly. He departed from the McSon Trio and signed with Los Angeles-based Swing Time Records, becoming the pianist for rhythm and blues great Lowell Fulson and his band. Atlantic Records eventually picked him up. Along the road he would add composer, writer and arranger to his formidable list of talents.
Ray Charles's first R&B hit was 'Confession Blues' in Los Angeles in 1949. For Swing Time Records, he had his first solo chart busters with 'Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand' (1951), which reached number five, and 'Kissa Me Baby' (1952), which reached number eight. Swing Time folded the following year, and Ahmet Ertegün signed him to Atlantic. His amazing versatility and raw, soulful delivery quickly caught on with audiences and helped put Atlantic Records on the map. Hits like 'Mess Around' (1953), 'Things I Used to Do', 'A Fool for You', 'I've Got a Woman' (1954), 'Drown in My Own Tears', and especially 'What'd I Say' (1959), pushed gospel and R&B to a wider crossover audience. He also recorded jazz, such as The Great Ray Charles (1957) and worked with vibraphonist Milt Jackson, releasing Soul Brothers in 1958 and Soul Meeting in 1961. By 1958, he was not only headlining black venues such as the Apollo Theater in New York, but also bigger venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Newport Jazz Festival where his first live album was recorded in 1958. He made a move into the country music arena - unheard of for a black singer - in the 1960s, doing soulful spins on Hank Williams and Eddy Arnold tunes. In 1960, he left Atlantic and signed with ABC-Paramount. It was his peak time with the # 1 pop hits 'Georgia On My Mind' (1960), 'Hit the Road Jack' (1961), and 'I Can't Stop Loving You' (1962). His landmark 1962 album 'Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music' brought a new swinging style to country music. While he was with ABC, Charles became one of the first black musicians to be granted artistic control by a mainstream record company.
From there, Ray Charles traveled a mainstream route - from interpreting songs from The Beatles ('Eleanor Rigby') to appearing in Diet Pepsi ads ('You Got the Right One, Baby, Uh-huh!'). He also showed up sporadically in films, playing himself in Ballad in Blue (1965) and guest-starring in The Blues Brothers (1980) with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. A television musical variety favorite with his trademark dark sunglasses and dry humor, he worked alongside such musical legends as Ella Fitzgerald and Barbra Streisand on their very special evenings of song. Gary Brumburgh: "It is hard to believe that with everything he accomplished, Ray also had to deal with a longstanding heroin problem. In the mid-1960s, he was arrested for possession of heroin and marijuana and revealed that he had been addicted for nearly two decades. By 1965, he had completely recovered." Charles appeared in such films as the British film Ballad in Blue (Paul Henreid, 1965) with Tom Bell and Mary Peach, and the blockbuster The Blues Brothers (John Landis, 1980) with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. In 1985, Charles participated in the famous musical recording and video 'We Are the World', a charity single recorded by the supergroup United Support of Artists (USA) for Africa. Charles is a 17-time Grammy Award winner. He was honoured with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987. At the time of his death, he was working on a recording project of duets with such performers as Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, B.B. King, Elton John and Norah Jones. This collaboration entitled 'Genius Loves Company' led to an incisive win at the Grammy Awards - eight posthumous trophies including 'Album of the Year' and 'Record of the Year'. Ray Charles died in 2004 in Beverly Hills of liver failure. he was married twice: to Eileen Williams from 1951 till 1952, and to Della Beatrice Howard from 1955 till their divorce in 1977. They had three children. The man who lived life on the edge had many girlfriends. Charles stated in his 1978 autobiography, Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story, that he became hooked on women after losing his virginity at 12 years old to a woman about 20. He had 12 children, 20 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. His long-term girlfriend and partner at the time of his death was Norma Pinella. At the time of his death, the feature film Ray (Taylor Hackford, 2004), starring Jamie Foxx, was released.
Sources: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Quoted from the clear plaque in the middle of this photo...
Johnny Cash's influence on other musicians ranges far and wide and spans many generations.
His songs have been covered by artists ranging from Miley Cirus to Snoop Dogg and Dean Martin to the Who.
Cash's signature tune, "I Walk the Line", has been recorded by over 150 acts.
Seen on the wall are the likes of Leonard Nemoy, Loretta Lynn, Charlie Daniels, Elvis, Ray Charles, Little Richard, Jerry Garcia, Emmy Lou Harris, Ringo Starr, Chris Stapleton, Willie Nelson, Nancy Sinatra, Brooks & Dunn, Dolly Parton, U2, Martina McBride, and Waylon Jennings among the many to cover the Man in Black.
Image taken at the Johnny Cash Museum in Downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Definitely a must visit if you're ever in town...
Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles, side by side and full of joy on a wall at the East Side Gallery in Berlin, Germany.
In remembrance of, and deepest gratitude to, those heroes everywhere who sacrificed all for the greater good....
and for the valiant ones of my own country who served so well:
O beautiful
for heroes prov'd
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life.
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev'ry gain divine.
O beautiful
for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!