Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music is a studio album by American rhythm and blues and soul musician Ray Charles, released April 1962 on ABC-Paramount Records, in both mono and stereo format. Recording sessions for the album took place in early to mid-February 1962 at Capitol Studios in New York City and at United Recording Studios in Hollywood, California.

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  • Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music is a studio album by American rhythm and blues and soul musician Ray Charles, released April 1962 on ABC-Paramount Records, in both mono and stereo format. Recording sessions for the album took place in early to mid-February 1962 at Capitol Studios in New York City and at United Recording Studios in Hollywood, California. His eighteenth LP overall, the album features country, folk and western standards covered and redone by Charles in popular song forms of the time, such as jazz and R&B, as well as production by himself and renown conductor Sid Feller. As his fifth LP release for ABC-Paramount, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music became a rapid critical and commercial success as it brought Ray Charles further mainstream notice, following his tenure for Atlantic Records. With the help of the album's four charting singles, Charles earned recognition in the pop market, as well as airplay on both R&B and country radio stations. Modern Sounds and its lead single, "I Can't Stop Loving You", were both certified gold in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America on July 19, 1962, as each record had sold half a million copies in the United States. Regarded by many music writers and critics as Charles's greatest studio effort, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music has been included on several publications' "best album" lists in disparate genres, as well as R&B and country music lists, respectively. Modern Sounds has also been considered as a landmark album in American music, as Charles's integration of soul and country bended racial barriers in music, amid the height of the civil rights struggle. In the process of recording the album, Charles became one of the first black musicians to exercise complete artistic control over his own recording career. In October 1988, Modern Sounds was reissued on compact disc by Rhino Entertainment. In 2003, the album was ranked number 104 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
  • Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music est un album de Ray Charles. Enregistré à l'époque où l'artiste accomplit un périlleux virage de genre, il fera vite office de chef d'oeuvre de réconciliation entre le R&B, la country et la Pop. Hormis Careless Love, les morceaux sont des reprises. Un deuxième volume sera commercialisé 6 mois plus tard.
  • Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music - album amerykańskiego muzyka Raya Charlesa, wydany w 1962 roku. Został wybrany jako jeden z najlepszych albumów wszech czasów przez VH1 (#97), Rolling Stone (#104), TIME (#96) oraz CMT (#2). Album zawiera standardy muzyki country, western oraz folku, a także oryginalne utwory zmienione na tyle, by reprezentowały popularne w tamtym okresie gatunki, m. in. jazz, rock i rhythm and blues. Charles stworzył covery piosenek artystów takich jak The Everly Brothers, Hank Williams czy The Mills Brothers. Kiedy Charles potwierdził, iż ma zamiar nagrać album z muzyką country spotkał się z komentarzami typu "jesteś dziwakiem" oraz "to się nigdy nie uda". Kreatywny, pełen energii Ray nie przejął się jednak tymi opiniami i nagrał płytę, która zatytułowana została Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, za której arażację odpowiedzialny był Gerald Wilson, jazzowy kompozytor. Album stał się hitem, gdy został wydany w 1962 roku, plasując się na szczycie notowania Billboard, na którym utrzymał się aż przez 12 tygodni. Trzy piosenki z płyty uplasowały się w pierwszych dziesiątkach zestawień z muzyką popularną, rhythm and bluesową, a także adult contemporary. Utwór "I Can't Stop Loving You" poza tym, że zajął pozycję #1 na listach przebojów, wygrał również nagrodę Grammy. Tego samego roku, co Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, ukazał się sequel tegoż albumu, który osiągnął równie duży sukces. W latach 80. , kiedy Charles podpisał kontrakt z wytwórnią Warner Bros. Records, skupił się niemal wyłącznie na muzyce country. Mimo iż wydał kilka albumów z muzyką tego gatunku, najpopularniejszym z nich pozostał Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music.
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  • Sid Feller
  • [H]e listened to all of them to see which one he could make a Ray Charles record with. A Ray Charles version. Not copy a country & western singer's version. So in other words, by hearing the original, he knew what he didn't want to do. So consequently, he made up his own things, and some of the things he made up, you know, the melodies themselves are interpretations. Some of the ballads, that were so beautiful, he just made it sound like Ray Charles made it up, even though he was singing the exact melody of the original. And yet when Ray Charles sings it, it sounds like a brand new song.
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    February 15, 1962
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  • Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music est un album de Ray Charles. Enregistré à l'époque où l'artiste accomplit un périlleux virage de genre, il fera vite office de chef d'oeuvre de réconciliation entre le R&B, la country et la Pop. Hormis Careless Love, les morceaux sont des reprises. Un deuxième volume sera commercialisé 6 mois plus tard.
  • Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music - album amerykańskiego muzyka Raya Charlesa, wydany w 1962 roku. Został wybrany jako jeden z najlepszych albumów wszech czasów przez VH1 (#97), Rolling Stone (#104), TIME (#96) oraz CMT (#2). Album zawiera standardy muzyki country, western oraz folku, a także oryginalne utwory zmienione na tyle, by reprezentowały popularne w tamtym okresie gatunki, m. in. jazz, rock i rhythm and blues.
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