# Top 6@6 Poll Week #43: Post 6 Faves By Ray Charles PLUS All Of Week #42's Results **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 29, 2004, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-poll-week-43-post-6-faves-by-ray-charles-plus-all-of-week-42s-results/266582 "2004-09-29T00:09:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-poll-week-43-post-6-faves-by-ray-charles-plus-all-of-week-42s-results/266582/1 "2004-09-29T00:09:48Z")
Subtitled: Fish Week Part One. Fire up the iPod, get your CD’s off the shelf or start up your computer’s jukebox program and let’s get to voting. **1st: Last Week (#41’s) Poll Quick Tallies** **The Cure** Featured Poll: **26** Voters / _156_ Selections. **The Cult** Headliner Poll: **9** Voters / _54_ Selections. **The Chemical Brothers** Supplemental Poll: **8** Voters / _48_ Selections & **The Church** Additional Poll: **5** Voters / _30_ Selections. **1** Doper Voted In All 4 polls: _marky33_… **2** DopersVoted In 3 of 4 polls: _BurnMeUp § Tit Whistle_ **2nd: The Mailbag** : Questions, Comments, Requests & Asides 1. From **Mojo** : _“That version of The Walk done with a kazoo (anyone know where this is from?)”_ From what I can see, it might be Track #4 / Disc #2 of The Cure-Greatest Hits (With Bonus CD) subtitled: [The Live Unplugged Version)](http://hurl.content.loudeye.com/scripts/hurl.exe?clipid=033998202040006900&cid=600005). 2. From: **elfkin477** : _“Hey Girl Hey Boy - Any idea why the “here we go” part never fails to make me think of Super Mario Brothers?”_ Perhaps even a little more so than Jane Addiction’s ‘Stop’ does from Ritual De Lo Habitual. But then again, I shouldn’t comment, because my knowledge of video games is as close to nil as it can get. 3. From: **elfkin477** : _“I know more songs by the Catherine Wheel that many of the bands that have been up the last couple of weeks…Commander Cody? Camper Van Beethoven? Blue Ridge Rangers? Alex Chilton? I’ve never even heard of them”_ For the record: Three out of four of those bands we polled were other Doper’s requests. The only one that wasn’t: The John Fogerty / Blue Ridge Rangers poll from a couple of weeks ago. We had room and I squeezed it in alongside CCR so that people wouldn’t complain about having to choose between Fogerty’s solo work and stuff from Creedence. If you have MMJB or another Internet radio service, it wouldn’t hurt to do an artist match on either Camper Van Beethoven or Chilton’s band; Big Star – you just might like what you hear. 4. From **moggyAU** : _“6 – Butterfly”_ I can’t find a track by The Cure entitled ‘Butterfly’ anywhere on the net – even on rarity and bootleg sites. For tabulation purposes, I’m gonna assume you meant ‘The Caterpillar’. 5. From **spiralscratch** : _“Oh, and seeing as we are currently in “C”, how about a poll for Catherine Wheel?”_ Technically, neither paulberserker, Ludovic nor stpauler seconded your request – but elfkin477 did. Truth is; I have most of their stuff in my collection and would have seconded it myself. I had Catherine Wheel penciled in – but it’s now officially your poll request. 6. From **Tit Whistle** : _“And we’re doing a Dead Kennedys poll but no Dead Milkmen? BOGUS!”_ Blow it out your hairdo, cause you work Hardees! I figured it would have taken about 2 hours after the tentative schedule was announced to see a Dead Milkmen request. By my calculations you were 14 hours late. It’s done. See the revisions below. 7. From **Treviathan** : _“Since the Ds are approaching, could we do something on Death Cab for Cutie / The Postal Service?”_ Great idea. I second it. See the tentative schedule revisions below for more details. 8. From **Treviathan** : _“And can we add Whiskeytown to the poll on Ryan Adams?”_ Makes sense to me. I’m expecting to see both you and **Only Mostly Dead** in a month or so. 9. From **elfkin477** : _“When we get to D can we have a Dishwalla poll?”_ Yet another great idea. I’ll second it. See the tentative schedule revisions below for more details. 10. From **elfkin477** : _“And (polls for) Cyndi Lauper and Cowboy Mouth to round out the Cs first?”_ Yea to the latter. Nay to the former. You’ll have to remind me about Cyndi when we lurch toward the L’s – because she won’t come to mind voluntarily. 11. From **42fish** : _Since we’re going back & doing all those jazz artists in week 46, any possibility for slipping in Chet Baker?_ I have no concrete idea what the turnout will be during Jazz Week, but am gonna operate under the assumption turnout will be dismal, at best. The mention of Jazz on these boards occurs about as regularly as discussions about Naticve American architecture - so I guess there’s no harm in polling 5 artists as opposed to 4. Whether it’s just you and I voting remains to be seen. 12. This Week #42’s Poll Requests: All 3 polls this week were requested by **42fish** – a.k.a. Fish42. Let’s hope this isn’t vacation week for the Fish, because if that’s the case, turnout will be lower than I’m already expecting. 13. A Few Asides: If you have any suggestions on making any of the 6@6 threads more readable, please let me know. I discovered a long time ago the posters to these threads have better musical taste than any FM or satellite radio Program Director on this planet. Hopefully, after the ZZ Top poll, sometime next decade, I plan to compile all the votes from the SDMB & post them on the web and in a thread. Then I’ll burn a several volume CD set & send ‘em out to the top voters who helped keep these threads going. **3rd: Newcomers To The 6 At 6** Your name in lights. Thanks for Voting and Welcome all. The past week’s polls had **6** new respondents to the 6@6. **§ clawman § colour wolf § CreaseMunky § devilsknew § look!ninjas § marky33 § moggyAU § Mojo § SolGrundy § spiralscratch § Sunshine and Smiles § Ultraviolet §** **4th: Increase the Hit Count** For Those Voters Who Do Vanity Searches. Voting in the Past 78 _Past & Present_ Polls:33 Polls: **¤ Labdad ¤** 30 Polls: **¤ astorian ¤** 29 Polls: **¤ 42fish (a k a Fish42) ¤ Spit ¤** 27 Polls: **¤ Hugh Jass ¤** 23 Polls: **¤ Tit Whistle ¤** 22 Polls: **¤ elfkin477 ¤** 21 Polls: \*\* ¤ Kevja ¤ thermalribbon ¤ WSLer ¤\*\* 20 Polls: **¤ RealityChuck ¤** 19 Polls: **¤ Ol’Gaffer ¤** 17 Polls: **¤ Dragon Phoenix ¤ gex gex ¤ Skijumper ¤** 15 Polls: **¤ grendel72 ¤** 13 Polls: **¤ ArchiveGuy ¤ hawthorne ¤** 12 Polls: **¤ chief ¤ Treviathan ¤** 11 Polls: **¤ dead0man ¤** 10 Polls: **¤ BurnMeUp ¤ Ludovic ¤** 9 Polls: **¤ kawliga ¤** 8 Polls: **¤ capybara ¤ craiger ¤ Dryga\_Yes ¤ gallows fodder ¤ HenrySpencer ¤ Mr. Blue Sky ¤** 7 Polls: **¤ 5 time champ ¤ cmkeller ¤ dbygawdcapn ¤ Mudshark ¤ scout1222 ¤** 6 Polls: **¤ don’t ask ¤ Interrobang!? ¤ Narrad ¤ panamajack ¤ Sassy ¤** 5 Polls: **¤ Annie-Xmas ¤ bibliophile ¤ fizgig ¤ John Carter of Mars ¤ Leifsmama ¤ LunaSea ¤ Newton meter ¤ plnnr ¤ WavyDavy ¤** 4 Polls: **¤ angelicate ¤ Corbomite ¤ da\_pope ¤ hazel-rah ¤ HoldenCaufield ¤ jsgoddess ¤ K364 ¤ Legomancer ¤ marky33 ¤ Nightime ¤ Nocturne ¤ Only Mostly Dead ¤ pldennison ¤ RexDart ¤ The Clawman ¤ tourbot ¤** 3 Polls: **¤ Ataraxy ¤ chiefhardcrab ¤ easy e ¤ Enginerd ¤ essvee ¤ G.B.H. Hornswoggler ¤ galt ¤ Kepi ¤ Manduck ¤ marinwood ¤ Minor Irritant ¤ Rufus Xavier ¤ SisterCoyote ¤ Sunshine ¤ threeorange ¤ Wartime Consigliori ¤ widdershins ¤ Young Mr. Grace ¤** 2 Polls: **¤ Adam P. ¤ An Arky ¤ Ass For A Hat ¤ brianjedi ¤ Chastain86 ¤ chique ¤ CreaseMunky ¤ Eonwe ¤ epeepunk ¤ Fenris ¤ fishbicycle ¤ ftg ¤ gonzoron ¤ gossamer ¤ Gravity ¤ Happy Lendervedder ¤ Hastur ¤ Homebrew ¤ jolemale ¤ JonScribe ¤ Kat ¤ Kyla ¤ lawoot ¤ Leechbabe ¤ Leechboy ¤ Lilacs ¤ Living Dead Girl ¤ Lockz ¤ Mr. Wrong ¤ Mystery Dog ¤ nitroglycerine ¤ NoPretentiousCodename ¤ parmachene ¤ paulberserker ¤ pepperlandgirl ¤ percypercy ¤ rackensack ¤ Roberta Plant ¤ Second Echo ¤ Skeezix ¤ Snooooopy ¤ spooje ¤ stpauler ¤ stylize ¤ The Big Cheese ¤ todd33rpm ¤ Ultraviolet ¤ White Lightning ¤** 1 Poll: ¤ 11811 ¤ 5-HT ¤ adam yax ¤ agroof ¤ Airbeck ¤ AlbertRose ¤ andrew Dupont ¤ andros ¤ arachnidlove ¤ Auction Barn Messiah ¤ auntie em ¤ Ave Minerva ¤ Bad Hat ¤ Badtz Maru ¤ benlormat ¤ BlackKnight ¤ bouv ¤ brachyrhynchos ¤ bristlesage ¤ bugg ¤ cainxinth ¤ cantara ¤ Caprese ¤ Capt B. Phart ¤ Carine ¤ Cat Fight ¤ Ceejaytee ¤ Cherry\_Blossom\_ ¤ ChristmasEve ¤ Chrome Spot ¤ clairobscur ¤ clawman ¤ Coil ¤ colour wolf ¤ corvidae ¤ devilsknew ¤ dinahmoe ¤ Dragonblink ¤ Dr. Rieux ¤ Duke ¤ Eutychus ¤ even sven ¤ Exapno Mapcase ¤ Fibonacci ¤ fiddlesticks ¤ Fionn ¤ FriarTed ¤ Futile Gesture ¤ gatopescado ¤ hajario ¤ hardygrrl ¤ hegel ¤ Helena ¤ Hello Again ¤ horhay\_achoa ¤ Hunsecker ¤ IcicleFuzz ¤ IJ Grieve ¤ Jeremy’s Evil Twin ¤ Jervoise ¤ Jonathan Chance ¤ KarlGauss ¤ kunilou ¤ Kyomara ¤ li’l Dickie Dirtz ¤ LindyHopper ¤ lno ¤ look!ninjas ¤ longjohn ¤ lothos2002 ¤ Maeglin ¤ matt\_mcl ¤ mattymillhouse ¤ metroshane ¤ minty green ¤ Mirror Image egamI rorriM ¤ mishaa ¤ moggyAU ¤ Mojo ¤ Monkey Chews ¤ MoodIndigo1 ¤ Moon-Watcher ¤ Motorgirl ¤ Mr. Green Fool ¤ MsWhatsit ¤ NE Texan ¤ Neidhart ¤ Nightwatch Trailer ¤ Nonsuch ¤ NYR407 ¤ PatrickM ¤ percussion ¤ Peter Doubt ¤ Politzania ¤ Reeder ¤ sandalwood ¤ saoirse ¤ Sattua ¤ scott evil ¤shimmery ¤ Siemsi ¤ Sigmundex ¤ singular1 ¤ sirtonyh ¤ Skip on ¤ SolGrundy ¤ spiralscratch ¤ stankow ¤ Supernate ¤ Sunshine and Smiles ¤ Swinger ¤ Tangent ¤ tavalla ¤ tclouie ¤ The Wrong Girl ¤ ThePyroWeasel ¤ Thunder ¤ Tikster ¤ TripleAnt ¤ typhoon ¤ Ukulele Ike ¤ Usram ¤ vibrotronica ¤ vinryk ¤ waits ¤ waterj2 ¤ WordMan ¤ Zelmph(!) ¤ ZeroGyro ¤ Zoggie ¤ -zorch ¤ **5th: Week #41’s Featured Poll Artist Results:** Here are your **Cure** Selections (26 Respondents / 156 Votes): **1ST PLACE: 12 Votes Just Like Heaven 2ND PLACE: 11 Votes Boy’s Don’t Cry 3RD PLACE: 9 Votes Killing An Arab § The Love Cats 4TH PLACE: 8 Votes Close To Me § In Between Days 5TH PLACE: 6 Votes 10:15 Saturday Night § Never Enough § Why Can’t I Be You 6TH PLACE: 5 Votes A Forest § A Letter To Elise § Fascination Street § Let’s Go To Bed 8TH PLACE: 4 Votes The Walk (1 Vote: 2001 Acoustic Version) 9TH PLACE: 3 Votes Lullaby § One Hundred Years 10TH PLACE: 2 Votes Catch § The Caterpillar § Disintegration § Doing the Unstuck § Friday, I’m in Love § From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea § Hot!!! Hot!! Hot! § Maybe Someday § Plainsong § Play For Today § Shake Dog Shake § The Kiss § Three Imaginary Boys RUNNERS UP: (Also known as: The Meat & Potatoes) 1 Vote Each A Night Like This § Burn § Charlotte Sometimes § Closedown § Fear of Ghosts § Fire In Cairo § Grinding Halt § High § Homesick § Jumping Someone Else’s Train § Jupiter Crash § Last Dance § Like Cockatoos § Love Song § Man Inside My Mouth § Mint Car (Acoustic) § More Than This § Other Voices § Primary § Six Different Ways § Strange Attraction § The Figurehead § The Forest § The Hanging Garden § Wrong Number §** **6th: Week #41’s Headliner Poll Artist Results** Here are your **Cult** Selections (9 Respondents / 54 Votes): **1ST PLACE: 6 Votes She Sells Sanctuary 2ND PLACE: 5 Votes Rain § Wild Flower 3RD PLACE: 4 Votes Fire Woman § Love § Love Removal Machine 4TH PLACE: 3 Votes Peace Dog 5TH PLACE: 2 Votes Aphrodisiac Jacket § Edie (Ciao Baby) (1 Vote Sonic Acoustic Version) § Electric Ocean § Lil’ Devil RUNNERS UP: (Also known as: The Meat & Potatoes) 1 Vote Each Black Angel § Bone Bag § Brother Wolf, Sister Moon § Fatman _(Southern Death Cult)_ § Go West § Little Face § Painted On My Heart § Phoenix § Revolution § Shape The Sky § Spiritwalker § Star § Sweet Soul Sister § The Witch § Wild Hearted Son** **7th: Week #41’s Supplemental Poll Results** Here are your **Chemical Brothers** Selections (8 Respondents / 48 Votes): **1ST PLACE: 7 Votes Setting Sun 2ND PLACE: 6 Votes Block Rockin’ Beats § Let Forever Be 3RD PLACE: 4 Votes Hey Boy Hey Girl 4TH PLACE: 3 Votes Elektrobank 5TH PLACE: 2 Votes Come With Us § Loops Of Fury § Star Guitar § The Golden Path § Under The Influence RUNNERS UP: (Also known as: The Meat & Potatoes) 1 Vote Each Get Up On It Like This § Get Yourself High § It Doesn’t Matter § Leave Home § Life Is Sweet § Music: Response § My Elastic Eye § Song To The Siren § The Duke § The Private Psychedelic Reel § The Test § Where Do I Begin** **8th: Week #41’s Additional Poll Results** Here are your **Church** Selections (5 Respondents / 30 Votes): **1ST PLACE: 5 Votes Under The Milky Way 2ND PLACE: 3 Votes Metropolis § Tantalized § The Unguarded Moment 3RD PLACE: 2 Votes Reptile § Ripple § You’re Still Beautiful RUNNERS UP: (Also known as: The Meat & Potatoes) 1 Vote Each Almost With You § Already Yesterday § Columbus § Destination § Numbers § Shadow Cabinet § Spark § Terra Nova Cain § Tristesse § When You Were Mine** **9th: Tentative Schedule & Disclaimers – A Little Something For Everyone** (I Hope) Featured / Headliner / Supplemental / Additional Poll. Based on requests and the like: **09/28/2004 - This Week #42 – Polls 79-81 (Fish Week):** Ray Charles ¦ Sam Cooke ¦ Marshall Crenshaw (All For _42fish_) **10/05/2004 - Next Week #43 – Polls 82-84 (Retro Punk Week)**: The Damned ¦ The Buzzcocks ¦ Butthole Surfers **10/12/2004 - Week #44 – Polls 85-87 (Blue Week)**: Bo Diddley ¦ Paul Butterfield Blues Band ¦ Willie Dixon **10/19/2004 - Week #45 – Polls 88-91 (A O R Week)**: The Doors ¦ Deep Purple ¦ Def Leppard ¦ The Doobie Brothers **10/26/2004 - Week #46 – Polls 92-95 (Alternate Week)**: **D** ead **K** ennedys / Jello Biafra ¦ Dead Milkmen (For _Tit Whistle_) ¦ Black Flag / Henry Rollins / The Circle Jerks ¦ D.O.A. **11/02/2004 - Week #47 – Polls 96-98 (New Orleans Week)**: Dr. John / Mac Rebennack ¦ Professor Longhair / Roy Byrd ¦ Fats ‘Antoine’ Domino **11/09/2004 - Week #48 – Polls 99-103 (Jazz Week)**: Miles Davis ¦ John Coltrane ¦ Dave Brubeck ¦ Chet Baker (For _42fish_) & Louis Armstrong **11/16/2004 - Week #49 – Polls 104-106 (Newport Week)**: Bob Dylan ¦ Donovan ¦ Joan Baez **11/23/2004 - Week #50 – Polls 107-109 (Trans-Atlantic Indie Week)**: Echo & The Bunnymen ¦ Death Cab for Cutie / The Postal Service (For _Treviathan_) ¦ Catherine Wheel (For _spiralscratch & elfkin477_) **11/30/2004 - Week #51 – Polls 110-113 (Southern Heartland Week)**: C D B ¦ Cowboy Mouth (For _elfkin477_) ¦ Ryan Adams/Whiskeytown (For _Only Mostly Dead_ & _Treviathan_) ¦ **A** tlanta **R** hythm **S** ection (For _5 time champ_) **12/07/2004 - Week #52 – Polls 114-116 (The Impossible To Name Week)**: Depeche Mode ¦ Everclear ¦ Dishwalla (For _elfkin477_) **12/14/2004 - Week #53 – Polls 117-119 (Follow The Money Week)**: The Eagles ¦ Don Henley/Glen Frey Solo ¦ Joe Walsh **12/21/2004 - Week #54 – Polls 120-123 (AOR Revisited Week)** **E** merson **L** ake & **P** almer ¦ **E** lectric **L** ight **O** rchestra ¦ Dire Straits / Mark & David Knoplfer ¦ [color=green]Dave Edmunds **10th: This Week #42’s Headliner Poll** I can’t provide a link to it because the featured poll and results get posted first. Access it one of 3 ways: (1)Click the link on my signature. (2)Access it through the Café Society page. (3)Bog down the server and do a search on: The 6@6 Headliner Poll…42fish’s **Ray Charles**. _The Headliner Poll also includes **Links to the Past 78 Polls with the Top 6 tracks for each artist we’ve covered** _. **11th: Week #42’s Supplemental Poll** Find it the same way you find the Featured & Headliner Polls. The 6@6 Supplemental 6@6 Poll…42fish’s **Marshall Crenshaw** poll. As a regular feature, The Supplemental Poll also includes The “ **Straight Dope Message** (Bill) **Board" Top Vote Getters** List (So Far). Check it out and see if “Watching the Detectives” will be knocked out of the coveted top position. (I have a feeling it’ll take a while. It will either be Dylan, Van Morrison or Steely Dan if I had to fathom a guess) \*\*Lastly: Week #42’s Featured Artist Poll \*\* All you have to do is list your six favorite tracks from this week’s featured artist. If you’d like to add your own liner notes or opinions, please go right ahead – I, for one, love reading them. If you specify a live version, it will be noted, but tallied with the studio version. Cover versions (performed by the artist we’re polling) **are** acceptable, as are duets and off-shoot projects. Please _try_ to be as accurate as possible when naming your favorite tracks. Without further ado…The late, great **Ray Charles** ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-poll-week-43-post-6-faves-by-ray-charles-plus-all-of-week-42s-results/266582/2 "2004-09-29T00:13:26Z")
Here Are My 6 Favorite Tracks By Ray Charles 6. Drown In My Own Tears 5. I Got A Woman 4. Don’t You Know 3. Unchain My Heart 2. Hit The Road Jack 1. What I’d Say (Parts 1&2) ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-poll-week-43-post-6-faves-by-ray-charles-plus-all-of-week-42s-results/266582/3 "2004-09-29T01:22:18Z")
1. What’d I Say 2. I Can’t Stop Loving You 3. Your Cheating Heart 4. Crying Time 5. Hit the Road Jack 6. Unchain My Heart ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-poll-week-43-post-6-faves-by-ray-charles-plus-all-of-week-42s-results/266582/4 "2004-09-29T01:53:26Z")
Oooh! Here’s another artist I like! 1. The Right Time 2. What’d I Say 3. Georgia On My Mind 4. Hit the Road, Jack 5. Busted 6. One Mint Julep Thanks for resuming this effort. It’s always fun. ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-poll-week-43-post-6-faves-by-ray-charles-plus-all-of-week-42s-results/266582/5 "2004-09-29T03:20:04Z")
1. Baby, Its Cold Outside - w/ Betty Carter 2. Unchain My Heart 3. Mess Around 4. I Got a Woman 5. Hit the Road Jack 6. You Don’t Know Me ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-poll-week-43-post-6-faves-by-ray-charles-plus-all-of-week-42s-results/266582/6 "2004-09-29T12:31:30Z")
1. Hallelujah I Love Her So 2. Hit the Road Jack 3. Georgia on my Mind 4. America the Beautiful 5. What’d I Say 6. Busted ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-poll-week-43-post-6-faves-by-ray-charles-plus-all-of-week-42s-results/266582/7 "2004-09-29T13:09:11Z")
Yay for Ray! This is the hardest one yet because I love adore Ray Charles. 1. Ruby (one of my favorite songs ever) 2. Baby it’s Cold Outside 3. Them That Got 4. No One 5. Sticks and Stones 6. Busted ---
**Author:** ![todd33rpm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@todd33rpm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/todd33rpm)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-poll-week-43-post-6-faves-by-ray-charles-plus-all-of-week-42s-results/266582/8 "2004-09-29T13:26:36Z")
1. It Was A Very Good Year (duet with Willie Nelson, from _Genius Loves Company_) - Although I love this performance, I put it in at number six because it’s just a little _too_ heartbreaking for me to spin very much. In terms of vocal performance if not instrumental arrangement, this might actually put away the Sinatra version, in my book. 2. Please (You Got That…) (with INXS, from _Full Moon, Dirty Hearts_, worth it just to hear Charles say “_What_?!?” in response to Michael Hutchence’s vocal “like a junkie/a junkie when the heat is on”) 3. America The Beautiful (critic Dave Marsh says that he sounds like he’s trying to seduce the nation on this one) 4. Mess Around 5. Night Time Is The Right Time (especially the female vocal) 6. I Got A Woman (the first hit, and still the best of all…if this were the only thing he ever recorded, he’d be a legend on this alone) Note for the interested: there’s a great documentary about the engineer Tom Dowd, and some of the best footage is of Tom and Ray chatting (Tom having engineered Charles’ Atlanic sessions, and also having built Ray’s first eight-track console, both per the documentary). It’s worth checking out. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-poll-week-43-post-6-faves-by-ray-charles-plus-all-of-week-42s-results/266582/9 "2004-09-29T14:37:17Z")
I Don’t Need No Doctor Makin’ Whoopie (live, great audience interplay about alimony) Baby, Don’t You Cry Georgia on my Mind Baby, Its Cold Outside Your Cheatin’ Heart ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-poll-week-43-post-6-faves-by-ray-charles-plus-all-of-week-42s-results/266582/10 "2004-09-29T14:41:43Z")
1. Drown in My Own Tears 2. Busted 3. Hit the Road, Jack 4. I Can’t Stop Loving You 5. What’d I Say and as a Georgian, #1 _has_ to be Georgia on My Mind. ---
**Author:** ![thermalribbon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@thermalribbon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thermalribbon)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-poll-week-43-post-6-faves-by-ray-charles-plus-all-of-week-42s-results/266582/11 "2004-09-29T15:09:42Z")
1. I Got a Woman 2. That Lucky Old Sun 3. What’d I Say 4. I Can’t Stop Lovin’ You 5. Night Time is the Right Time 6. Let’s Go Get Stoned. …I guess it’s time to go pull out some old Brother Ray on vinyl. You know, the ones that were on the old ABC Label. Absolute treasures… ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-poll-week-43-post-6-faves-by-ray-charles-plus-all-of-week-42s-results/266582/12 "2004-09-29T15:34:32Z")
I loves me some Ray Charles: 1. Unchain My Heart 2. Night Time is the Right Time 3. Hit the Road Jack 4. Peace of Mind 5. What’d I Say pts 1 & 2 6. Let’s Go Get Stoned ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-poll-week-43-post-6-faves-by-ray-charles-plus-all-of-week-42s-results/266582/13 "2004-09-29T16:45:16Z")
1. American the Beautiful 2. Georgia On My Mind 3. What’d I Say 4. Shake A Tail Feather 5. Unchain My Heart 6. Hit The Road Jack ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-poll-week-43-post-6-faves-by-ray-charles-plus-all-of-week-42s-results/266582/14 "2004-09-30T01:06:49Z")
1. Busted 2. Crying Time 3. Seven Spanish Angels (with Willie Nelson) 4. Bye Bye, Love 5. The Right Time 6. Georgia on my Mind ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-6-6-poll-week-43-post-6-faves-by-ray-charles-plus-all-of-week-42s-results/266582/15 "2004-09-30T01:23:28Z")
1. What’d I Say 2. Drown in My Own Tears 3. Lonely Avenue 4. Georgia on My Mind 5. America the Beautiful 6. (Night Time Is) The Right Time