Ray Charles - America,The Beautiful (LIVE) HD
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2010
- The Miami Lighthouse for the Blind
James L.Knight Center in Miami,Florida,1999
Composer : Samuel A. Ward , Katharine Lee Bates
Lyrics :
Oh beautiful, for heroes proved,
In liberating strife,
Who more than self, their country loved,
And mercy more than life,
I'm singing about United
This America,sweet America, may God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain devined.
And you know when I was a little boy,
I remember we always sing it like this :
Oh beautiful, for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties,
Above the fruited plain,
America,America,
God done shed his grace on thee,
Oh yes He did,He did
He crowned thy good,oh don't you remember?
In a brotherhood,
From sea to shining sea.
You know, I wish I had somebody
to help me sing this
America, I love you America, you see,
My God he done shed his grace on thee,
And you oughta love him for it,
He, he, he, he, crowned thy good,
He told me he would, with brotherhood,
From sea to shining sea
Oh,yea Jesus, I want to thank you Lord.
RAY CHARLES!!!
RAY CHARLES!!!
RAY CHARLES!!!
America was never more beautiful......then when Ray sang this song ..lets all stop the hate and get along. The country will be more beautiful.
Sir Charles Jones
B b king
Me
Sir Charles jones
Rodney King....cant we all just get along
This is my favorite version of this song. He does it best. RIP Mr. Charles. Legend.
I Love this song, it has a special place in my heart❤. Can I ask you a question please?@jennifer
Today we need to hear these words maybe more than ever before.
yes, yes.
TONITE TOO!! what happened today to that lady ,,,, and the Traitors,,,,,,,,, and GEORGIA!!!! delivering!!
Amen🌸🇺🇸❤️
The voice of America, always.
Oh we do and we will! Even though we are going through a rough time at the moment, we are going to be the nation God wanted us to be. Truth is coming, and there’s nothing our enemies can do to keep us down. “We The People” are on the verge of taking our country back.
I ain't cryin' that there's 100% pure American Freedom Water flowing from my eyes!
There's no stronger force than the power of the soul
Same here brother
That's alright
I have never once been able to finish this song... For some reason my throat closes up, and it starts raining.... Bad luck and allergies I guess... No I ain't crying.... I swear, i got something in my eye... Im catching a cold.... Its just really hot in here, right around my eyes!
The World is lost without America🌖🦋🧡❤️🇸🇪
if a blind man can imagine how beautiful is America.why can't we love what we see and stop hating
It is because we CAN see. We look at colors, height, skinny and fat, rich and poor, ugly and beautiful. He has never seen those differences in people, and must believe that we are all alike, and he is pleased with his receptions and believes that people are good. Blind were his eyes, but not ours. We know exactly what hate, greed and other such shit exists. It is because we CAN SEE and chose to create differences of color, power and beauty. Most people enjoy separating them, making fun and and finding reasons not to look in the mirror... which Ray Charles did not have to do. He just believed that people were good, and all were beautiful. How mistaken he was.to listen to man... the biggest criminals, liars and greedy thibgs that have been known in the universe since the beginning.
Well said!
Jonathan: The story goes deeper that i Explained. I am a seeing pianist, and tried to each m 3 sister older that me. They could NOT LEARN to this day. I tried to teach them Ray Charles songs, but it was of NO USE. The in 1961, one sister married a Detroit talent scout that introduced me to 1,000 open doors to rare and undiscovered talent. At 13 years old, I was helping bands to carry musical equipment into night clubs. I would use my sisters mascara to create fake beards, sideburns and other such fakes to get into clubs. Though I have never me Ray Charles. I have sat with the Temptations, Gladys Knight, BB King, Etta James, The Impressions, Otis Redding, Pattil Laberlle The Funkadelics, Jacki Wilson, George Benson. Lonnie Smith, James Brown. and many more. Some would come to my sisters house and have dinner and stay the night. I was always there to learn. by the age of about 14, a few of us got together as formed a small band or Junior high school. I played the piano, but the major player was Gregory Reeves, who quit school at 15 to be a bass player with the temptations. He was stolen from the Temptations at about !8 by Crosby Stills and Nash. His picture is in my yearbook, but he never received his diploma... he left town for the money. I last heard from hi, in 1972 when he said the drugs had taken him over, and later died.
Yes I still have a polished black piano in the living room... I do no play it. I am now almost 63 years old. Gregory started at about age 9 with a wind up Mattel plastic guitar. He took out the wind up gear and played it by hand. The next year his mother bought him a used electric Fender guitar, The Next year he wanted a Fender Bass guitar and that was it. I miss my friend and his family that are all gone now.
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+SUKABAZ thanks
Isaac Cliff WELL SAID
NO ONE CAN SING AMERICA LIKE RAY CHARLES.I WAS AT THIS CONCERT AND I CRIED MY EYES OUT.LOVE YOU RAY CHARLES.NOW YOU CAN SING AMERICA IN HEVEN.R.I.P.
True🌸🧡❤️
No one!!!!❤️💯🙏🏽
The vibe is incredible- and yes tears
@@larsgsanger3105 🌸🧡❤️ Amen
True ,I Love this song, it has a special place in my heart❤. Can I ask you a question please?@Marianna
I tear up every time I hear this great man sing this song.
Well said,beautiful patriotic song and person,like Elvis singing a very patriotic song called American trilogy
This song is America. Love Ray Charles. An American treasure.
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They broke the mold with him
He did a country record in the early 60's. Everyone in the business tried to talk him out of it
One of the biggest selling albums of all time. It's still selling
The Master
You could never appreciate nothing until you're deprived of it. 😘💕
No one will ever sing this song any better than Ray Charles !!
This is what a LEGEND looks like! One of the greatest of all time. ❤
This man was born with rythem and soul. A true legend!
It was an absolute privelidge listening to the Great Ray Charles' version of America the Beautiful!! God bless him and the USA. Semper Fi
Where is our America now?????
Do not let them separate us. United we stand and UNITED WE WILL FALL!!!!!
God bless you ! God bless America 🇺🇲
(divided we fall)
I play this song everyday America the beutiful Ray charles
BORN IN EL SALVADOR
BRED IN THE U.S
I'D DIE FOR THIS COUNTRY
GOD BLESS AMERICA
And the rest of Us along side you if it come to that.
thank you..
Thank you patriot brother
I’m with you. Proud Navy vet and I fought for ALL Americans.
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2020 midst of COVID 19 this song is needed to remind us how great our country is. No weapon formed against us shall prosper 🙏🏾
Amen. God bless you. 🙏🏾💫
Really no words for this.
When Ray Charles sings it, you realize it's a love song.
Thank you, Mr. Charles... Stan
Mr Robinson
Yes, a luv of America....
Yes, it is a love song, and America can be and should be our first love.
Nobody has ever sang a more beautiful love song
Damn we need this now!
Only Ray could sing this song with grace and real feeling. Miss this man with the beautiful voice. Thank u Ray. The world has changed so much. And not for the best.
America the Beautiful infused with the purity of Gospel Music. Ray could take any song and make it his own. Pure musicality.
Amen, my friend. Ray is one of the GOATs just being himself! His passion is unrivaled and his love for this great nation was pure. Ray reminds of of all that was good once, and can be again!
Ray Charles was a true legend whose music will never be copied...or forgotten.
Makes me cry when hear this. So lucky to be born in the USA. So proud to be an American. Makes me sick to see people call our country racist and disrespect our national anthem. No country has accumulated more power and used it to do good and spread freedom more than the USA.
Well said,but it's falling apart month by month way it's going,so sad
This is the most beautiful, soulful rendition I have ever heard. God bless America!
she is being destroyed... a trillion spent on illegal immigrants but no money for the wall; interest rates, crime, wokeness, ungodlessness..... America will break is this doesn't stop soon
Agreed
The best rendition of America I've ever heard!
How can anyone not love this?
i actually do and it's not even my type of music in the slightest.
Edward Mynmning
"Ptesident" Trump Doesn't...Racist P.O.S....
This is the absolutely best version that exists of this beautiful song
Geez, Ray is a National Treasure as sure as can be and he totally owns this piece. He is so gracious and thankful for his life and just a real genuine human being.
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God thank you for giving us ray Charles for a little while great Lovings songs made beautiful touching heartiness rip ray Charles I know heaven blasting all the music from the latest
This is a man thats a credit to his race, HUMAN!
Another American legend that we greatly miss!
So very important that we all appreciate the country that is OURS and who could express that simple concept better than a blind black man!!! ✌️❤️✊🏾🇺🇸
Ray Charles is a real legacy! No other can do justice to this song! Chills and tears are inevitable!!!
The MODERN DUKE OF YORK
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This should be the new national anthem! Not one one of war!!!!
Def tears.
Yeah you right!
NO ONE WILL SING THAT SONG LIKE RAY CHARLES.THANK YOU MR CHARLES. JOSEPH JOHN KENNEDY.I GROW UP WITH YOUR SONGS.THANKYOU SO MUCH.YOU HAD TO BE HERE TO SEE IT.THANKYOU AGAIN.
I remember watching this man as a kid child and I was fascinated how he could sing and play that piano. Mr. Ray Charles, Rest in Peace Brother! 🕯️✝️
Should be our National Anthem with a recorded Ray Charles playing it around every event.
Nobody sings this like Ray Charles only could... He's one artist I sincerely wished I had the opportunity to see live before he left us. RIP Mr. Charles
Only Ray can sing it with such love . Goose bumps and tears took over. I love you my sweet America. Like no other on earth!!!!! May God shed his grace on thee.
This is so beautiful and the orchestra behind him is solid gold. What a performance Bravo Bravo
Semper Fidelis America God Bless you, Brother Ray
Semper Fidelis brother! GUNSMOKE!
When he sings this,,, My eyes fill with uncontrollable tears, and it takes me time to pull myself back from crying. It is the most powerful vocal statement to America to have ever been sung. And I am a man.
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thank you sir
I remember when television used to cut off around 1am and they would play this and show corn fields, mountains and various landmarks..........
fiddle tune Arkansas travelers
William Payton you're old
Storm Williams lol
William Payton That was a sweet memory...one that I had forgotten about. 🦋
Mary Emio
(I'm a Canadian and wish we had a song like that)...and no one does it more justice than Ray and especially this particular live performance.. I play this every July 4th to honour my friends to the south and to honour Ray. This is a bucket list recording, in my opinion. Thank you for sharing your wondrous ability with the rest of the world. I wish I saw things that clearly (and Ray did not always have a smooth ride in life). Maybe today's world needs to take a page from Ray's life and watch the movie Ray and then play this song again. Sooooooooo worthwhile! To me, America means the whole world in this song, not just the USA.
True🧡🌸🇺🇸❤️
You got O Canada"
Can't hear this without shedding tears
I may be a heavy metal headbanger, but I love this song. God bless America.
Godamn that still brings a tear to my eye.
Thereallyuglytruth I'M IN TO ROCK,POISON,LYNYRD SKYNYRD ETC BUT I LOVE RAY CHARLES.I WAS AT THIS CONCERT.RAY SINGS AMERICA WITH A LOT OF SOUL.
This always brings a tear to my eye.
@@Thereallyuglytruth I'm not even American but this song is so deep. I could picture your country through his music. I just wish right now that Americans can be United once again for its beauty instead of political correctness. 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇵🇭. 😡🖕🏽🇨🇳
there was only one ray charles and no one will ever sing this song as great as ray
I Agree
My favorite version
Beautiful amazing America 🇺🇸 ❤️ may the lord bless you all the times 🙏 😊
An iconic rendition by an AMERICAN ICON!
GOD BLESS AMERICA !!!🇺🇸🎆
I now listen to this record as the last thing I hear at night before I say my prayers, cause I thank God for being born here in the USA
Amen -
Ray Harvey, I never heard Ray's rendition until just a few minutes ago, and it moved me to prayer, too. Dearest God! Thank You for this nation, and allowing me to be born here. In Jesus Name. Amen.
Oh beautiful for heroes proved,
In liberating strife,
Who more than self, our country loved,
And mercy more than life,
America, America may God thy gold refine,
Til all success be nobleness
And every gain devined.
Ray Harve
Ray Harvey God bless you too
Ray Harvey Thank you, brother. Very inspirational.
To all who serve in the military past and present THANK YOU
I sure miss this talented man. After September 11th a local radio station played this song every day for weeks. It was so comforting
yes, it was being played everywhere after 9/11.
May America be blessed to one day live up to its highest ideals. 🙏
take em to church RAY!!!!!!1
..AMEN... The Spirit should be with us all.... Feels good, don't it ?!
I believe he thanked Jesus... Lord God at the end.... God bless him and us...
@@sjs928 He sure did, big time.
And this my friends is how it's done.. Pure PERFECTION! I miss him and I'm thankful the Lord BLESSED us with this gift. He is gracious to us and this song is a perfect reminder of how Blessed this nation is. Sweet America.. yes stand to to the greatness that is Mr. Ray Charles. You are missed Sir!✌️
I Love this song, it has a special place in my heart❤. Can I ask you a question please?@Missy
Sends chills down my spine
No one do it like Ray the best America the beautiful has and will ever sing. This man is the beat I love him.
nobody ever did this better
IAM FROM UAE DUBAI ARABIC AND I LOVE ALL RAY CHARLES SONGS
MY SON TOOK ME TO SEE RAY CHARLES IN CONCERT.I LOVE HIM.SOME PEOPLE DON'T NO GOOD MUSIC AND THE SINGERS OF MY TIME.
Sing it my brother, U S Marine here. God bless America and God bless your memory Mr. Charles! Oohrah
No one has ever sang this song with that much feeling, God Bless America.
Rest In Heaven Mr. Ray Charles♡
Awesome Version, thanks for Sharing Phylliss.
Only Ray could have don this song Justice
I agree
Yes!
Chuck Roden Jr This song make me proud to be american.
The greatest country .....remembered by the greatest singer ...... Our country has been challenged .....as has Ray....but both persevered to greatness.
Since some have asked -- THIS is a moment America was GREAT
this should be our national anthem
I can see three different anthems - Star Spangled Banner, America the Beautiful as sung by Ray Charles, and God Bless the USA by Lee Greenwood.
One week after 9/11 all of Americas Radio Stations wanted to do something to remember the moment of the attack. The choose this song. They know music.
I believe a lot of people think as you do. I like the one we have.
I agree because the current one, welllllllll my point made. This country's his has ALWAYS been about race. All of the smart people, innovations, trials and tribulations and we can't overcome racism and division. It's sooo hurtful and sad. God will judge is for this. Something so simple. We know how division is so has anyone ever thought how unity would be??????
The true story behind the star spangled banner cannot be compared to anything else men literally used their bodies to keep the flag up as over 100 British navel ships shelled the fort all night long. And told the Americans if they would just take down the flag the shelling would stop immediately. George Washington said what separates the American Christian apart from any other is they would die on their feet before they would live on their knees.
Still the greatest America, The Beautiful ever sung. NO body can touch it!!!!!
This gives me chills. This may not be my birth country but God I love this place. America, I will forever love you 🇺🇸
Same here, my beloved adopted land. ❤
Evertime Mr Charles sings and plays, it just hits that single note so deep in my heart!
My favorite! Can't get much more American than this!! Love Ray Charles, and the way he sings this beautiful song!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
I got to see Ray in a small setting during a convention once... One of the best ever all time artists that will ever exist. Outstanding talent... and his music will live forever! This video is classic Ray! I love it!
Love this song America for I love my country& countrymen ! God bless us all
Everytime I watch this I get chills! Makes me proud to be an American! God bless Ray Charles and God Bless America!!😊
hello Philip, how are you doing today
God Bless America, R.I.P Ray Charles. Great performance !!!!!!
the only man that could sing this and bring me tears he was the greatest
I love Ray Charles. He says thank you Jesus. I say thank you Jesus for bringing us Ray Chsrls. He is playing piano in Heaven now
Soul Stirring. Heavenly. Beautiful. 2020.
When I was 10 years old I stood on a stage in school and tried to play this by myself in front of the crowd of parents and other students. My first time to play on stage. I was so nervous. Shaking. I had just started to learn to play flute. I still have that flute. That was in 1964 I played my first solo. A 53 year old flute still sits. Lots of miles on it. Thank you Ray.
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He died exactly two months before I was born. To think that I was so close to walking the earth at the same time as him makes me really sad 🙏
@@linus3662 You might not have "walked" with him, but you were sharing the same planet. Close enough!
Absolutely beautiful
America, The Beautiful !!!
In the mid-60s, our B-52 bomber crew was stationed at Turner AFB, GA during the height of the cold war. Each evening, as WALB-TV went off the air in Albany, GA, they played a video of one of our B-52s turning into the setting sun as Ray Charles sang America the Beautiful. There were almost no dry eyes amongst the aircrew members in the alert facility. It was OUR song, sung by our very own Ray Charles! I've never forgotten those many evenings with Ray.
Only the great Ray Charles could bring me to tears singing that song
gives me chills,,what a great rendition,,,,
How could anyone dislike this???
I miss this American ICON !
The absolute best, no one else could sing this song like Ray Charles, REST IN PEACE RAY. Thank God that his performances were recorded so that millions can enjoy them for years to come.
He still brought it so hard to the audience even at this point in his career.
Cannot wait to meet this wonderful man in heaven!
Until then he’s playing with heavens angels
This man can sing about roaches in mud and we'd stand and clap. I am no acoustical engineer, but many of us fail to appreciate what singers like him can do. Listening anyone live would delight anyone cause there are no real distortion between our ear and the music. But to listen to a recorded music from a man who left us more than 10 years ago, and to be still overwhelmed by his voice....well....do I really need to say more? He may be gone, but we never let him die. We never did.
First time I heard this voice in the 60s growing up in Samoa when he sung "CRYING TIME AGAIN" made me tear up as I've never heard anyone sing with such emotion speaking to my soul. Been a fan ever since and read his biography incredible story and a legendary spirit of courage and hard work to become and icon of the music world. He has influenced Elvis Presley and so many others and his name shall live forever in mankind's folklore. Faafetai Sir Ray Charles. Manuia lau malaga. God Bless you champ.
hello John, how are you doing today
I just found this. If this does not move you, nothing will.
Any country that has created the environment that stimulated the creativity of amazing composers like Samuel A Ward, remarkable lyricist/poets like Katharine Lee Bates and incomparable singers/piano players like Ray Charles is truly great, it is more than great, it is unique in the history of mankind. Hundreds of years from now, history manuals will dedicate whole chapters to the study of this extraordinary human experiment that is the United States of America, the land of the free, where all men are created equal, and where it is recognized that they are all endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, and that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. This immensely beautiful song and Ray Charles's stirring rendition are clear expressions of the boundless love that the composer, the lyricist and the singer had for America the Beautiful. My eyes are filled with tears....
I was born in Mexico,but was brought to the U.S when I was 1 year old.I love this country and I belong here.
this makes you stop, listen, reflect and wonder what the heck has happened to us.
Bless you all Americans🌖🐆🧡❤️
communism...that's what happened. Slightly repackaged, but that's what happened.
"Nobody did it better."
God I miss that man and his music
GOD BLESS EVERYBODY LOVE Y'ALL
Crying . What a wonderful, heartfelt version of the most beautiful song on earth. God bless the USA
God Bless !!!
Happy President Day America !!!
HAPPY PRESIDENT DAY AMERICA !!!!
Happy Easter America 2015 !!!
Ray Charles singing this song just gives me chills. Its just so beautiful and legendary. As far as im concerned, it’s in the same class as Whitney Houston singing the Star Spangled Banner. Renditions that just cant be topped no matter who try.
EXACTLY!!!
You got that right
Well said,like the song Elvis sings called American trilogy, and Lord you gave me a mountain, all these songs so patriotic and beautiful and touching
Nobody sings AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL like RAY CHARLES gives me goosebumps whoa
few things warm my heart like ray giving it all hes got on america the beautiful. and he clearly enjoys the music and performing so much. so great to see. god bless america!
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SONG MR RAY CHARLES SIR WOOOO HE DIDNT HAVE SIGHT TO SEE BUT GOD BLESSED HIM WITH A VOICE A VOICE OUT OF THIS WORLD AND HE COULD PLAY THAT PIANO, HE WAS GREAT YOU NO I LOVED HIS MUSIC. MAY HIS MUSIC LIVES ON IN US ALL, MAY MR RAY CHARLES REST IN PEACE AMEN AMEN
well said
Amen🌖🌸🦋