Ray Charles: Over The Rainbow (with Johnny Mathis)

Genius Loves Company is one of music’s most inspirational and historically significant albums. Not only did the album capture the genius of Ray Charles on his final studio album, and paired Ray with legendary company in his guest artists, but it was also the first original release through Starbucks’ Hear Music imprint, and has been certified Gold, Silver and multi-Platinum across North America, Europe and beyond since its September 2004 release. It garnered eight GRAMMY® Awards including Album of the Year and Record of the Year in 2005 (tied with number of GRAMMYs won for Norah Jones’ Come Away With Me and Michael Jackson’s Thriller).

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Both voices were quite past their prime, and yet they BOTH manage an original, unusual, intimate, UNIQUE version of a song that can become parodic in the wrong