Ray Charles' groundbreaking 1962 album, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, spawned four hit singles. The album was Charles' reworking of country and western songs into a new vocabulary. In an interview years later Ray remarked about the album, "You take country music, you take black music, you got the same goddamn thing exactly."
The album went to the top of the charts, while I Can't Stop Loving You topped the singles chart. You Don't Know Me, composed by country artists Eddy Arnold and Cindy Walker in 1955, hit number two. Beautiful arrangement by Ray and his vocal perfectly conveys the pathos of the lyrics.
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