Ray Charles - A Message From The People

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In April of 1972, Ray Charles released "A Message From The People," which features his stirring rendition of "America the Beautiful," and Mike Post's arrangement of "Heaven Help Us All." From the video podcast series, "Ray Charles, Genius"

In April, 1972, Ray Charles released a recording featuring songs that had great personal meaning to him, including Quincy Jones' arrangement of "America the Beautiful," and "Heaven Help Us All," arranged by Mike Post.

In this episode of the Bret Primack film, "Ray Charles, Genius," the video podcast series, produced by Concord Records, composer, arranger and monster studio musician Mike Post talks about working with Ray.

Concord re-issued "A Message From the People" in May of 2009, and it is now available on CD, and on iTunes.