Thursday music corner: Soul legend Ray Charles (b. Georgia, 1930 d. Beverly Hills, 2004) had a music career spanning seven decades from the 1940s. He released at least 55 albums during his life, with a particular purple patch in 1962 and 1963, in which three in a row reached number one or two in the US pop charts. Near the end of his life the hugely successful Genius Loves Company (2004) was a triple-platinum US chart-topper, and at the 2005 Grammys after his death it won nine awards including Album of the Year.
The upbeat R&B stormer I Don't Need No Doctor was written and originally released in 1966 by Nick Ashford, Valerie Simpson and Jo Armstead. Charles' version came shortly afterwards, and reached number 72 on the US pop charts. It also appeared on the 1967 compilation double album A Man and His Soul, which sold half a million copies.
Ray Charles - I Don't Need No Doctor (1966)
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