The Genius Hits the Road is a 1960 album by Ray Charles. The concept album focuses on songs written about various parts of the United States. It peaked...
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Georgia on My Mind (section The Hawks/The Band version)
Charles, who was a native of the U.S. state of Georgia and recorded it for his 1960 album The Genius Hits the Road. In 1979, the State of Georgia designated...
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Ray Charles discography (section The Atlantic years)
Hits, Volume 1/Volume 2 (DCC Compact Classics) 1988: Ray Charles Anthology (Rhino) [1960–1972 ABC material] 1989: Seven Spanish Angels and Other Hits...
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released on The Genius Hits the Road. B2 was previously released on Dedicated to You. A4, A6, and B6 were previously released on Genius + Soul = Jazz. A1,...
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Ray Charles (redirect from The Pages of My Mind)
regarded as one of the most iconic and influential musicians in history, and was often referred to by contemporaries as "The Genius". Among friends and...
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Moonlight in Vermont (song) (category The Coasters songs)
on his 1960 album The Genius Hits the Road Brook Benton recorded it for his 1960 album Songs I Love to Sing Bobby Womack covered the song on his 1969 album...
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Carry Me Back to Old Virginny (category Songs of the American Civil War)
version of the song on his album The Genius Hits the Road; it also served as the B-side of his famed 1960 recording of "Georgia on My Mind." The Marching...
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Moon Over Miami (song) (section Early hits)
included in the album Rockin' the Oldies. 1960 Ray Charles recorded it for his album The Genius Hits the Road. 1963 The Platters for their album The Plattters...
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Cannon on his debut 1960 album The Explosive Freddy Cannon. Ray Charles – included on his album The Genius Hits the Road (1960) Bayanihan Philippine National...
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– Oh Perilous World! (2007) Ray Charles – The Genius Hits the Road (1960) The Receiving End of Sirens – The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi (2007) Renaissance –...
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Brubeck on his 1959 album Gone with the Wind Ray Charles recorded this song for his 1960 record, The Genius Hits the Road. Ace Cannon for his debut 1962 album...
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the song on his debut 1960 album The Explosive Freddy Cannon. Ray Charles recorded a cover, which appears in his 1960 album The Genius Hits the Road....
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1959) The Genius of Ray Charles (Atlantic, 1959) Ray Charles in Person (Atlantic, 1960) The Genius Hits the Road (ABC-Paramount, 1960) The Genius After...
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well his ABC-Paramount debut, The Genius Hits the Road (1960), a collection of place-name songs devoted to parts of the United States, expanded on Charles's...
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1960 in music (section Top hits on record)
Goes!!! – The Four Lads Fiorello! – Oscar Peterson For the Young at Heart – Perry Como For Twisters Only - Chubby Checker The Genius Hits the Road – Ray Charles...
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You is a 1961 album by Ray Charles. Originally released in January 1961 the album collects Charles' musical love notes to twelve very special women,...
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Crosby also recorded the song for the 1975 album A Southern Memoir Ray Charles (1960) - included in the album The Genius Hits the Road (1960) Michael Holliday...
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also released on the 1987 Atlantic compilation CD, Ray Charles Live. The album was recorded by the concert sponsor, radio station WAOK. The station's lead...
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What'd I Say (Atlantic, 1959) The Genius Hits the Road (ABC-Paramount, 1960) With Hank Crawford More Soul (Atlantic, 1960) The Soul Clinic (Atlantic, 1962)...
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Trumbauer recorded the first hit version of the song in 1931. Ray Charles's version on The Genius Hits the Road (1960) was a number one hit, won two Grammy...
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Bud Green (category Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States)
Bing Crosby on New Tricks, 1957; Ray Charles on The Genius Hits the Road, 1960; Van Morrison on The Skiffle Sessions - Live in Belfast 1998, 2000) "That's...
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circumstances. As he says in Volume 2 of The World as Will and Representation: Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see...
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1930s in jazz (redirect from Jazz in the 1930s)
on The Genius Hits the Road (1960) was a number one hit, won two Grammy Awards and is considered to be the definitive version of the song. The song was...
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Oladipo Omishore, known professionally as Dot da Genius, is an American record producer and audio engineer from Brooklyn, New York. He first gained recognition...
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Atlantic Records for ABC-Paramount. Their first album together was The Genius Hits the Road featuring "Georgia on My Mind". He also played a significant role...
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Road Trip is a 2000 American road sex comedy film directed by Todd Phillips and written by Scot Armstrong and Phillips. The film stars Breckin Meyer,...
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(Super) Genius", voiced by Mel Blanc. Wile E. Coyote additionally speaks in the 1965 short Zip Zip Hooray!, where he explains his desire to eat the Road Runner...
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Mia Khalifa (song) (redirect from Hit or Miss (iLoveFriday song))
(March 4, 2019). "Lil Nas X's 'Old Town Road' Is the Latest Viral Country Trap Hit". Genius News. Archived from the original on April 2, 2019. Retrieved...
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The Genius of Ray Charles is a 1959 Ray Charles album, released in October by Atlantic Records, the seventh album since the debut Ray Charles in 1957...
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form a single release. The first volume, containing seven shorts and entitled Genius Party, was released on July 7, 2007. The second volume, containing...
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