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song: Feel So Bad
artist: Ray Charles & The Count Basie Orchestra
album: Ray Sings, Basie Swings
released: 2006length: 4:06
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I feel so bad, yeah
Like a ball game on a rainy day, yeah
I feel so bad, yeah, yeah
Like a ball game on a rainy day, yes, Lord
Since I lost my woman I have to
Shake my head and then I walk away, I gotta walk away

I just wanna tell you people
I wanna tell you just how I feel, happy
I wanna tell you people out there
I wanna tell you just how I feel, yeah, happy
I feel so bad, I feel so bad 'cause
My woman, she gave me a dirty deal, it just messed up my mind, alright

Oh, alright
I like that, good

Sometimes I want to leave here
Lord, then again I want to stay, I want to stay
Lord, sometimes I want to leave London Town
But then again I want to stay, oh, I want to stay here
The trouble is, I already got my suitcase packed up
I guess I'll have to just be , then I'll fly away, I gotta fly away

Said I'll move, I'll move, yeah, yeah
Know I'll move, I'll move
Since my woman been gone I had no lovin'
That's what I want, what I need
[Your dad will do me], Lord, sock it to me
Oh, baby, help me find my way

Sometimes every once in a while
Every night and day, in the midnight hour
My woman got me talking and never known time
She got me saying words, words I never said before
What I mean is, is, is she got me, she got me just
She got, she got me confused
And I don't know what I'm saying, I gotta do a, something

Yeah, yeah, Lord, I feel, I feel bad
Get all in my bones, get all over me
Make me shout 'Hallelujah' and help myself
Oh, baby, oh, Lord, bad Lord, I like it myself
Yes, I do, well, well

Hello, that's it!
Ray Charles & The Count Basie Orchestra

Ray Sings, Basie Swings is an album that mixes previously unreleased Ray Charles vocal performances from 1973 with newly recorded instrumental tracks by the contemporary Count Basie Orchestra.

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Comments ( 33 )
Posted 11 years ago by unclehud:
Bill, you're right; this came out pretty well.  In fact, I was thinking, "I'm a big Ray fan.  Why haven't I heard this before?"  Answer: Because it isn't real.
 
While I consider myself far from a Luddite, it's getting kind of scary that electronic contrivances mimic reality so well.  Video games, movie special effects, and 'new' music from dead people.  My grandchildren will be living in a fantasy world.
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Posted 7 years ago by gmichaelt:
"She got me saying words, words I never said before"
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Posted 8 years ago by GTT:
Very fine.  And I'll take this opportunity to say something about the method:  As a Jimi Hendrix fanatic in the mid to late 70s, there just wasn't a lot of material available, so I was very happy to get my hands on Crash Landing and Midnight Lighting, and the former in particular was excellent in my opinion.  I also had an Elvis album, with the backing tracks redone by (I think) the original musicians, and it was excellent.  If it sounds great, I have no objections.
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Posted 8 years ago by DrLex:
unclehud wrote:
Bill, you're right; this came out pretty well.  In fact, I was thinking, "I'm a big Ray fan.  Why haven't I heard this before?"  Answer: Because it isn't real.
 
While I consider myself far from a Luddite, it's getting kind of scary that electronic contrivances mimic reality so well.  Video games, movie special effects, and 'new' music from dead people.  My grandchildren will be living in a fantasy world.
 
Yes, it is ironic how all this cutting-edge technology is used to meticulously simulate things from the past, instead of moving forward. Just look at the latest Star Wars: no attempt to bring anything new, merely a linear combination of all that is known already. Creative stagnation.

The song is nice though, and it isn't as cutting-edge as it may seem, they merely recorded a band playing to pre-recorded vocals and mixed the result together like any other record. At least they didn't generate totally new lyrics from a computer model of Ray's voice. Yet.
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Posted 9 years ago by wyrd:
Janis Joplin and then Ray Charles, that was what I needed Bill, thanks! :—)
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Posted 16 years ago by Chi_Guy:
{#Cool} Oh YESSSS!
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Posted 16 years ago by calypsus_1:

 

Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee      ==>     Ray Charles & The Count Basie Orchestra - Feel So Bad

!Wow!  !Oh boy!    ** 10 **



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Posted 16 years ago by That_SOB:

 I don't believe there was any music Ray didn't love, and I don't believe there was any music that didn't love Ray !
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Posted 16 years ago by TonyBear:
Great upload - this one has perked me right up on a grey autumn afternoon.
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Posted 16 years ago by birdland:
This takes the Chicago swing thing and breaks it's neck.

Sublime. Ray and the Count (and band).

Yikes.


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Posted 1 year ago by lizardking:
 unclehud wrote:

Bill, you're right; this came out pretty well.  In fact, I was thinking, "I'm a big Ray fan.  Why haven't I heard this before?"  Answer: Because it isn't real.
 
While I consider myself far from a Luddite, it's getting kind of scary that electronic contrivances mimic reality so well.  Video games, movie special effects, and 'new' music from dead people.  My grandchildren will be living in a fantasy world.


Just wait for 2023, brother!!
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Posted 8 years ago by OHMish:
goo-goo-gooo-goooo?
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Posted 9 years ago by PopKombo:
RAY CHARLES!!!
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Posted 10 years ago by RockinBlueVoodoo:
prophetzarquon wrote:


great voice - dull  and predictable tune

 
Great tune - dull and predictable comment...
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Posted 11 years ago by WonderLizard:
Did he ever record a bad song? Definition of soul.
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Posted 13 years ago by mrtuba9:
Great story, Bill.
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Posted 13 years ago by shellbella:
Love it!!  I have a version of BB and Bobby Bland doing this one live... That is my favorite version but I love this too!!  Nice way to kick off my Friday workday.... Thanks for playing {#Cheers}
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Posted 13 years ago by prophetzarquon:
jools wrote:
Great stuff

So far no negatives - but why would there be?!!!!!!! 
 

great voice - dull  and predictable tune
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Posted 13 years ago by Cynaera:
Well, ain't technology a wunnerful thing? This song was manufactured.  I thought I'd heard it all when Natalie Cole did a duet with her long-deceased father (who had more talent in his pinky than she has in her whole body.)  I have to wonder what's next:  Kurt Cobain collaborating with John Bonham on drums and Dee Murray on bass? Maybe throw in a little Nicky Hopkins on piano.

I like this song, but I don't like the methods used to make it happen.
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Posted 14 years ago by bam23:
Certainly one benefit of RP is that my appreciation of Ray Charles (not even especially on this piece) has increased immeasurably. In his latter days, he had become a sort of parody of himself, but it is clear that early in his career, he deserved all the praise he received, and more. 
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