"Hit the Road Jack" is a song written by Percy Mayfield and recorded by Ray Charles, with The Raelettes (backing & counterpoint vocals). It hit number one for two weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, beginning on Monday, October 9, 1961. This song is a tribute to Jack Kerouac's novel "On the road"
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"Hit the Road Jack" is a song written by Percy Mayfield and recorded by Ray Charles, with The Raelettes (backing & counterpoint vocals)… read more
"Hit the Road Jack" is a song written by Percy Mayfield and recorded by Ray Charles, with The Raelettes (backing & counterpoint vocals). It hit number one for two weeks on … read more
Ray Charles (Ray Charles Robinson, Albany, Georgia, September 23, 1930 - Beverly Hills, California, June 10, 2004), was an American singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, and band leader. As a rock and roll, rhythm & blues, soul, blues, jazz, country and pop musician he helped to shape the sound of rhythm & blues. He brought a soulful sound to everything from country music ("I Can't Stop Loving You") to rock and roll ("Mess Around"), to pop standards to a now-iconic rendition of "America the Beautiful." Frank Sinatra called him "the … read more
Ray Charles (Ray Charles Robinson, Albany, Georgia, September 23, 1930 - Beverly Hills, California, June 10, 2004), was an American singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, and band leader. … read more
Ray Charles (Ray Charles Robinson, Albany, Georgia, September 23, 1930 - Beverly Hills, California, June 10, 2004), was an American singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, and band leader. As a rock and roll, rhythm & blues, soul,… read more