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"Hit the Road Jack" is a song written by the rhythm and blues singer Percy Mayfield and recorded by Ray Charles. The song was a US number 1 hit in 1961, [ 4 ] and won a Grammy Award for Best Rhythm and Blues Recording , becoming one of Charles' signature songs .
Percy Mayfield (August 12, 1920 – August 11, 1984) [1] was an American rhythm and blues singer with a smooth vocal style. He was also a songwriter, known for the songs "Please Send Me Someone to Love" and "Hit the Road Jack", the latter being a song first recorded by Ray Charles.
"Sticks and Stones" is an R&B song, written by Titus Turner.. The song is best known in a 1960 version by Ray Charles, who added the Latin drum part. [1] It was his first R&B hit with ABC-Paramount, followed in 1961 with "Hit the Road Jack".
Hit the Road Jack" is a 1960 song popularized by Ray Charles. Hit the Road Jack may also refer to: Hit the Road Jack, by Big Youth, 1976; Hit the Road Jack, a 2012 British comedy series "Hit the Road, Jack" , a 1993 television episode "Hit the Road Jack" , a 2012 television episode
This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards, lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.
"Lonely Avenue" is a popular song written by Doc Pomus that was a No. 6 rhythm and blues hit for Ray Charles in 1956 who featured it on his 1958 album Yes Indeed!. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Background
Robert Christgau wrote that "Buster's no better at bigtime schmaltz than David was." [8] The Los Angeles Times determined that "this ice-breaking-if scarcely ground-breaking-disc is still a purr-fect poolside party platter for too-hepcats 'n' snake-hipped kittens as well as fine, fine, superfine grist for the live show's gin mill."
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Hit the Road Jack is a 1976 album [1] by the reggae artist Manley Buchanan from Kingston, ...