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Ray Charles

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R&B;/Soul master Ray Charles caught a lot of people by surprise when he made a landmark country album in 1962 with Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music which featured classics like "You Don't Know Me" and "I Can't Stop Loving You."  It was so successful that he made a sequel that same year: Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Volume Two.

 

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