Did Ray Charles ever meet Stevie Wonder?

DaveRaver · February 10, 2006, 4:29am

If so, on what occasion, and did they ever play music together?

What_Exit · February 10, 2006, 4:30am

I think so, I’m trying to remember where and when but I would think the Grammies at least. Try IMDB search for both actors.

What_Exit · February 10, 2006, 4:34am

From http://www.swingmusic.net/Ray_Charles_Biography.html

Jim

_Ava · February 10, 2006, 4:46am

Probably not what you’re looking for, but they both participated in We Are The World.

What_Exit · February 10, 2006, 4:49am

That was the one I was trying to remember. They both sang on the Christmas song from this.

Hail_Ants · February 10, 2006, 11:11am

Did Ray Charles ever meet Stevie Wonder?

There’s a really tasteless joke in there somewhere, but I haven’t quite figured it out…

What_Exit · February 10, 2006, 1:13pm

Assuming that the question was answered. I want to add this link.
WWWF GRUDGE MATCH: Stevie Wonder vs. Ray Charles

Enjoy,
Jim

Annie-Xmas · February 10, 2006, 1:26pm

A really tasteless sightless joke in there.

Straight to Hell for that one.

RealityChuck · February 10, 2006, 1:40pm

Obviously: No. They just couldn’t see eye-to-eye about it.

Max_Carnage · February 10, 2006, 2:34pm

Crap! Exactly the “Go To Hell Free” card I was going to play!

Fear_Itself · February 10, 2006, 2:42pm

Throw in Jose Feliciano, and it practically writes itself.

Zeldar · February 10, 2006, 2:51pm

Ronnie Milsap would make it a quartet.

Annie-Xmas · February 10, 2006, 2:53pm

Andre Botticelli for a quintet

Fear_Itself · February 10, 2006, 2:55pm

I don’t think there is room in this joke for a whole choir

Amadou and Mariam
Frankie Armstrong, English folk singer and voice teacher, sight degraded in late teens onwards from glaucoma
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), became blind in later life.
Blind Blake
Andrea Bocelli, (born 1958), barely sighted at birth became completely blind at 12.
Archie Brownlee (of The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi)
Henry Butler
Jessica Callahan (1986– ), singer, blind from retinopathy of prematurity
Clarence Carter
Ray Charles, (1930–2004), blind from glaucoma after age 7.
Arizona Dranes
Blind Gary Davis
Blind John Davis
Blind Willie Davis
Jose Feliciano (1945– ), blind from birth due to congenital glaucoma
Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996), jazz singer, went blind as a result of diabetes in her old age.
Blind Mamie Forehand
Clarence Fountain (of The Blind Boys of Alabama)
Blind Boy Fuller
G.B. Grayson, old timey fiddler from Ashe County, North Carolina, recorded in 1920s
W.C. Handy, (1873–1958), Blues composer, went blind in middle age
Jeff Healey
Heather Hutchison (1988– ), teenage pop-singer
Blind Lemon Jefferson (1893–1929), Blues musician & singer
Blind Willie Johnson
Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1935–1977), blind jazz saxophonist, perhaps best known for his ability to play more than one saxophone at once.
Kuzuhara Koto
Stalebread Lacombe, Jazz musician, went blind in middle age
Francesco Landini, 14th century Italian composer; blind from childhood, from smallpox
Corinna May (1970– ), German jazz singer, blind from childhood
Blind Willie McTell (1901–1959)
Ronnie Milsap
Moondog (1916–1999), musician and composer, blinded as a young adult
Ginny Owens, Gospel singer, totally blind from age 2
Paderevski
Maria Theresia Paradis
Conrad Paumann
Marcus Roberts
Joaquin Rodrigo, composer, blind from meningitis at age three
Gerlinde Sämann (1969– ), German soprano, blind from childhood
Diane Schurr
George Shearing (1919– ), jazz pianist.
John Stanley, composer, became partially blind as the result of a domestic accident at age 2
Surdas, a Hindu poet, saint and musician of India
Blind Joe Taggart
Alec Templeton (1909–1963), jazz musician
Lennie Tristano
Kelvin Tan Wei Lian Singaporean singer, became almost totally blind after late-teens
Art Tatum
Sonny Terry
Doc Watson, folk guitarist, blinded by a childhood eye infection at the age of one.
Stevie Wonder, blindness from retrolental fibroplasia caused by high oxygen concentrations in the incubator in which he was placed because of his premature birth.
Joana Zimmer (German singer and marathon runner, blind from birth)

Zeldar · February 10, 2006, 2:58pm

What has four legs, a tail, eats oats, and sees equally well out of either end?

Chefguy · February 10, 2006, 4:14pm

They wrote the song “Endless Love”, after a three-hour tennis match.

Meeko · February 10, 2006, 4:21pm

I thought the obvious “Go to hell free” response was

“how would they know?”

But I can SEE the humor in the other jokes

Ludovic · February 10, 2006, 4:28pm

Don’t forget Blind Lemon Lipschitz, who gouged out his eyeballs with a spoon just so he could be called Blind Lemon…it’s true, don’t laugh!

okay, so it’s not

Sean_Factotum · February 10, 2006, 4:35pm

How about yes, but they didn’t recognize each other.

Dr.Rieux · February 10, 2006, 11:31pm

Dammit, you beat me to it.

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