September 8, 1952: Ray Charles does his first session for Atlantic, cutting four songs…

September 8, 1952:  Ray Charles does his first session for Atlantic, cutting four songs…

 Over the next seven years, he will record such classics as "Mess Around," 

         "I Got a Woman," 
   "Hallelujah, I Love Her So"  
 and "What'd I Say”

Ten years later, on September 8, 1962: Ray Charles hits #2 with "You Don't Know Me"…

AND THE REST IS HISTORY… (R.I.P. Ray)

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JUNE 2 in The Evolution of Rock 'n Roll: Charlie Watts, Ray Charles, Patti LaBelle, Joe Tex, Rare Earth, Alice Cooper and Wild Cherry...

June 2: Happy Birthday Charlie Watts!

Charlie Watts

Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts is an English drummer, best known as a member of the Rolling Stones. He is also the leader of a jazz band, a record producer, commercial artist, and horse breeder. (According to Wikipedia)

  Born: June 2, 1941 (age 73),

 Kingsbury, London, United Kingdom

Music groups: The Rolling Stones,
 Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated  

Albums: Jamming With Edward!,

 Charlie Watts Jim Keltner Project 

June 2, 1962: 

 Ray Charles hits #1 with

 "I Can't Stop Loving You”…

A Blue-Belles cover of The Starlets’

“I Sold My Heart To the Junkman"

goes to #15...  

June 2, 1971: Detroit’s Rare Earth hits #7 with "I Just Want to Celebrate”… 

June 2, 1972: - Joe Tex hits #2 with

"I Gotcha"…

 

June 2, 1973: Detroit’s Alice Cooper hits #25 with

"No More Mr. Nice Guy"….

June 2, 1976: Wild Cherry hits #1 with

 "Play That Funky Music"…

June 2, 1993: A LifetimeAchievement Award is awarded to Ray Charles by the Songwriters Hall of Fame, with Billy Joel as his presenter…   

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SEPTEMBER SEVEN: A Few Rock ‘n Roll Related Events from this date in The EVOLUTION of ROCK ‘n ROLL…

November 7, 1961: 

"I'm Black, I'm blind, I once fooled around with drugs, but all of it was like going to school - and I've tried to be a good student. I don't regret a damn thing"

 

Ray Charles is arrested in Indianapolis after police discover marijuana and heroin in his hotel room…

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November 7, 1964: 

 The Marvelettes' "Too Many Fish in the Sea" enters the Billboard Hot 100 where it will reach #25. The song will be the fifth of the group's ten US Top 40 hits…

November 7, 1942

Johnny Rivers the planet…

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