{"id":4705,"date":"2014-04-06T10:46:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T15:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=4705"},"modified":"2014-04-06T10:46:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T15:46:09","slug":"ray-charles-i-dont-need-no-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=4705","title":{"rendered":"Ray Charles – I Don’t Need No Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download Ray Charles – I Don’t Need No Doctor <\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Greetings all<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

The new week is here, and as I am feeling (temporarily) invigorated, I thought it wise to whip something especially heavy on you all to make sure you all are as well.<\/p>\n

Ray Charles<\/strong> needs no introduction, but for those of you that have been asleep at the wheel (or too young to know better), Brother Ray was one of the giants of 20th century music.<\/p>\n

He was one of the (if not THE) most important transitional figures in the birth of soul music, building bridges from jazz, to R&B and on into soul (and beyond).<\/p>\n

Ray Charles’s catalog was the famous Walt Whitman<\/strong> quote \u2018I am large, I contain multitudes<\/em>\u2019 taken musical form.<\/p>\n

While his almost half-century long discography touches on a wide variety of sounds, the effect is less like genre-hopping than it is the history of music being refracted through the prism of Ray Charles.<\/p>\n

The tune I bring you today is what any sane observer would rate a stone classic, and is perhaps the finest, pure soul record that Brother Ray ever laid down.<\/p>\n

This has a lot to do with the song\u2019s authors, Nick Ashford, Valerie Simpson<\/strong> and Jo Armstead<\/strong>, the trio that had penned his #1 R&B hit \u2018Let\u2019s Go Get Stoned\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018I Don\u2019t Need No Doctor\u2019, which grazed the R&B Top 40 in December of 1966 is as hard-hitting a number as he laid down in the 60s.<\/p>\n

Opening with a wild bass note, and then exploding into a thundering piano\/bass\/drums trio, the song builds subtly, adding percussion, horns (dig the competing horn lines later on in the song) and finally the Raelettes<\/strong> until it\u2019s a veritable juggernaut.<\/p>\n

The centerpiece is \u2013 of course \u2013 the voice of Ray Charles, one of the great, elemental sounds ever associated with the making of music.<\/p>\n

That \u2018I Don\u2019t Need No Doctor\u2019 wasn\u2019t a bigger hit kind of boggles the mind (at least my mind) today, but a look back at the charts from the end of 1966 proves once again that the mid-60s was a remarkable time for music. Charles was competing for airtime\/chart space with Wilson Pickett, the Supremes, Bobby Darin, Question Mark and the Mysterians, The Four Tops, the Yardbirds, the Hollies<\/strong> and dozens of others*. Listening to airchecks from 1966 and 1967 is a remarkable experience, making me wish I\u2019d been beyond old enough (I was four years old) to soak it all in.<\/p>\n

That said, you and I can take all the time we want to dig it now.<\/p>\n

See you on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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*Himself included. Charles had no less than eight hits in the R&B Top 40 in 1966 and 1967!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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