“I Can’t Stop Loving You,” by Ray Charles
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They say success comes when you zig when others zag. Maybe that's why Ray Charles released this song from his first country album in 1962. Uploaded by wallpaper-music.com.
Even now, I have a hard time considering Ray Charles as a country singer. But he released two albums in the early sixties (Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music, and Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Volume Two
) that were definitely received by both mainstream and country markets as genuine country records. On the first album, Charles covered a song that had been a hit for Don Gibson in 1957: “I Can’t Stop Loving You.”
It provided Charles his third number one single, following “Georgia on My Mind”
and “Hit the Road, Jack.” It wasn’t just a country hit, but also reached number one on the Hot 100, R&B, and Adult Contemporary charts. The AM-radio market being what it was at the time, the 4:13 “album version” had to be edited down to 2:37 for the single. Because everyone knows that people can’t possibly listen to one song for over four minutes!
“I Can’t Stop Loving You” may have come from a country album, but at the 1962 Grammy Awards it won as Best Rhythm & Blues Recording. Rolling Stone ranked the song at number 161 in its 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and #49 on CMT’s 100 Greatest Songs in Country Music.
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