James Bland a African American from Flushing NY. graduated from Howard University in Washington, DC at age 19. His main ambition was to become a stage performer. He applied for positions with some Minstrel groups but was turned down, because they preferred white men playing in blackface. Known professionally as Jimmy Bland, he wrote over 700 songs. He died from tuberculosis on May 5, 1911, in Philadelphia, PA and was buried in an unmarked grave in a part of the negro cemetery in Merion, PA. In 1939. ASCAP found his gravesite, landscaped it and erected a monument. In 1940, the Virginia State Legislature made "Carry Me Back To Old Virginny" the official state song. James Bland was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. A housing development in his hometown of Flushing, Queens, is named after him, and housing development in Alexandria, Virginia, is also named for Bland. The composer of the great minstrel show tunes, “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny”, “In the Evening By the Moonlight”, “De Golden Wedding” and “Oh Dem Golden Slippers.”
@u4ealistic
7 жыл бұрын
Amazing rendition. It brought me to tears and touched my heart and soul. No one will ever be able to sing like Ray Charles.
@gsdsteve
12 жыл бұрын
Is there another singer that could reach as deep into his soul and express such raw emotion that just grabs you and won't let go. This is the genius of Ray Charles. There will never be another.
@Mrpachuko13
6 жыл бұрын
Steven Weinstein Phillip Wynn from the spinners, to answer your question. Check out any live person of the song Sadie
@gsdsteve
6 жыл бұрын
I know who Phillip Wynne is but one's a good singer and the other is one of the most influential singers of the twentieth century!
@jodi183
10 жыл бұрын
It was written by James Bland, who was a black minstrel star. The song was published postbellum (1878), so Bland definitely was not a slave. He was 24 at the time. Also, it seems that he was born in the north as he went to high school in DC. He was born in 1854. It's possible his folks were servants, but 'slavery' was abolished in the north by the time Bland was born. My source for Bland comes from Eileen Southern's book Music of Black Americans, p 238.
@BobPapadopoulos
7 жыл бұрын
No it wasn't. Slavery wasn't formally banned in the north until the 13th amendment, and Kentucky, Maryland, and some others had slaves pretty much throughout the Civil War. Delaware, Kentucky, and a couple others, if memory serves, didn't even want to ratify the 13th Amendment.
@wtallen3935
3 жыл бұрын
He was born to free parents, had a college educated father and went to Howard University.
@jalander8817
3 жыл бұрын
@@BobPapadopoulos uncomfortable truths. Thank you sir.
@maXoumaXou
2 жыл бұрын
and became "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver
@naeemjohnson4339
7 ай бұрын
@@BobPapadopoulosNew Jersey as well. That’s my home state they had slavery after the civil war as well
@Cruisingthrulife
6 жыл бұрын
So Soulful. I want this song played at my funeral. .
@dipster14
5 ай бұрын
Me too
@connorselby8260
4 жыл бұрын
America's greatest achievement.
@flyingfisherman97
11 жыл бұрын
This is amazing. I almost come to tears every time I watch it. From the wonderful DVD Ray Charles Live In Brazil 1963. On Amazon for cheap - check it out!
@MrYZFR1000
13 жыл бұрын
thanks for posting this. god i miss home. there is no place like old Virginia.
@sylla2
5 жыл бұрын
Surely you mean Old Virginny!
@alexzet5543
11 жыл бұрын
much better than the recording...so emotional, unbelievable!!
@adgw1423
13 жыл бұрын
Always will be MY state song
@j955
14 жыл бұрын
I have this on dvd, it's from a Brazillian TV show in 1963. I think he was still on that dope. That guy to the right of the girls looks like he's about to nod. I LOVE the way Ray plays the Blues. Like he invented it.
@stevelipshin
13 жыл бұрын
This song is absolutely amazing
@mad1n6
12 жыл бұрын
Actually written by an African American named James A. Bland (1854-1911).
@whitson71
11 жыл бұрын
Nobody like Ray, God blessed him with a remarkable voice. Moves the soul.
@williamshrader272
2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful
@edmondscott7444
2 жыл бұрын
Marvellous.
@RudyVanGee
14 жыл бұрын
@DESheffield2nd sax player wipes away a tear. can't blame him.
@pepito163728
13 жыл бұрын
Great interpretation by Ray Charles.
@chrisjesse420
14 жыл бұрын
Heres a lil Ray for ya! Classic...
@maurodessy6323
Жыл бұрын
gospel-soul...da brividi
@todavianomuertos
12 жыл бұрын
Simplicidad. Autenticidad. Belleza.
@hatehildog
11 жыл бұрын
Carry Me Back is a traditional song with no known author. The modern lyrics which are dubbed "racist" were written by James A. Bland and published in 1878. Mr. Bland was a free-man of color from New York state and was a very popular musician who toured all over the country and Europe. The lyrics represented the difficulty finding work following the emancipation of slaves, and an inability to support oneself "off the plantation." The subject matter of this song is only racist if you make it so.
@uraqtpie2
11 жыл бұрын
My god does this man could sing a label and it would be so good!
@yowzephyr
11 жыл бұрын
At say 2:56 you get a pretty good look at Ray Charles's eyes. I don't think I've seen them exposed that much before. It just verifies all the more that Jamie Foxx was perfect for the part.
@dmattosbr
12 жыл бұрын
Genius! You're The Number One for the eternity!!!!
@BROOKLYNBOUNDTRA1916
12 жыл бұрын
I guess you don't understand at all what the song is about."Massa and Missis have long since gone before me, Soon we will meet on that bright and golden shore. There we'll be happy and free from all sorrow, There's where we'll meet and we'll never part no more." Doesn't sound like racial anything
@ofwhatmatterisit
12 жыл бұрын
This song ain't racist. You do know that life was not sunshine and rainbows for blacks after slavery was over, and they moved to the north.
@onanthony
13 жыл бұрын
this is awesome nice ray
@iam01
10 жыл бұрын
This song was written by a slave named John Bland...
@busterthehedgehog
10 жыл бұрын
Actually, his name was James Bland, and he was never a slave. He was born in NY to a free family.
@williamm.hustle1920
10 жыл бұрын
I don't remember writing this or even posting it but you're correct
@rssc24lover
13 жыл бұрын
sing it ray :)
@mtrzcins
12 жыл бұрын
I love my state song
@profoundexperiences3646
6 жыл бұрын
Best YT upload ever
@LaRotonda123
10 жыл бұрын
oh zo mooi
@Kami-fd8bk
9 жыл бұрын
this is virgina`s state song I wish Nevada's song was like this I just wish are song is home means Nevada it is so uhhh dumb I like this one wayyyyyyyyyyyy better that home means Nevada.
@Liberty-or-Death-1776
9 жыл бұрын
+moses cooper It was our state song until the PC crowd demoted it to "unofficial" status while they search for some lame replacement. What's wrong with this song? It's about an old dying man wishing he could be back home to die in peace. I think the song is fine how it is. People just need to drink a beer and lighten up.
@Kami-fd8bk
9 жыл бұрын
didn't ask for your opinion
@GClephMusique
8 жыл бұрын
Sadly, thanks to PC this is no longer their state song.... The song is actually about a slave who's master and misses died, and he has no one to take care of him anymore. It's a protest song, but it has the word "negro" in it, so the PC crowd dismissed it.... sad really
@evalou6510
8 жыл бұрын
It actually isn't a different song now it's just a different name and it's Virginia instead of virginny
@lemonscented7703
4 жыл бұрын
To all the folks saying this song isn't racist, you're right: *this* song, or rather, specifically Ray Charles's reimagining of the original minstrel tune, is both a declaration of the beauty of the southeast US and a heartfelt lament of how something so beautiful could be cultivated in decades of such disgraceful suffering and inhuman abuse against our fellow man. The original song, despite being written by James A. Bland in 1878, a black man (albeit one born to free parents towards the tail end of slavery), was written for minstrel shows, and as such contains lyrics like "There's where this old darkey's heart am long'd to go," and "There's where I labored so hard for old Massa." It's meant to portray black people as not only simple-minded and uncivilized, but also as having no higher purpose as humans than to pick cotton in a field all day for "massa." This is the context in which Charles orchestrated his rendition, 70-some-odd years later. He didn't just change the lyrics solely because they were "offensive," he changed them because he had something to say, and he chose this weary edifice, an odious mark of how things used to be, as his foundation.
@davidezanini3662
4 жыл бұрын
Can you write the full lyrics of THIS LIVE version, please ? I miss many words.
@DESheffield2nd
14 жыл бұрын
what happened?
@tony265982
12 жыл бұрын
@RudyVanGee im more certain that he wiped off some sweat or something. i cant imagine him shedding a tear over this song giving the racial tensions behind it. then again, with that being said, he might have wiped away a tear from it....
@furmanjones5114
12 жыл бұрын
he could make anything sound gospel even this racist song written by a racist for a minstrel show in the 1850s
@fordgtguy
6 жыл бұрын
furman jones It's not a racist song, do some research before making accusations.
@ceplio
4 жыл бұрын
this was literally written by a black guy how is it a racist song
@shotty2164
Жыл бұрын
This song was written by a black man….. and Ray is black, along with his entire band… stop playing the victim.
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