Artist	Song
B.B. King	Everyday (I Have the Blues)
from Singin' the Blues / The Blues (1993)
Etta James	At Last
from At Last! (Remastered) (1999)
Frank Sinatra	When Your Lover Has Gone
from In The Wee Small Hours (1998)
Nina Simone	I Put a Spell On You
from I Put a Spell On You (2006)
Nat "King" Cole	Welcome to the Club
from Welcome to the Club (2009)
Sam Cooke	A Change Is Gonna Come
from 30 Greatest Hits - Sam Cooke Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964 (2005)
T-Bone Walker	Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad)
from The Very Best Of (2008)
Solomon Burke	Just Out of Reach (Of My Two Empty Arms)
from Rock 'N' Soul (2005)
Ruth Brown	I'm Just a Lucky So and So
from Late Date With Ruth Brown (2007)
Lou Rawls	I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water
from Black and Blue / Tobacco Road (2006)
Johnny Hartman	Stella By Starlight
from All of Me: The Debonair Mr. Hartman (2011)
Jerry Butler	Aware of Love
from Aware of Love (2007)
James Brown	Hold My Baby's Hand
from Please Please Please (1996)
Dinah Washington	You're Crying
from The Swingin' Miss "D" (1998)
David Newman	Hard Times
from Fathead Ray Charles Presents David Newman (2005)
Guitar Slim	The Things That I Used to Do
from Sufferin' Mind (2006)
Chris Connor	Witchcraft
from Witchcraft (2005)
Bobby "Blue" Bland	Don't Cry No More
from Bobby Bland: The Anthology (2001)
Cannonball Adderley	You'd Be so Nice to Come Home To
from Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (2003)
Big Joe Turner	Chains of Love
from Big Joe Turner: The Rhythm & Blues Years (2005)

Comment:

Brilliant though he was, Ray was just one among a galaxy of stars. Call him what you will, the leader of the Rat Pack or the Chairman of the Board; Frank Sinatra was the undisputed heavyweight king of 20th-century pop, and his platinum-plated pipes purr like a Ferrari engine at idle in the bittersweet splendor of "When Your Lover Has Gone." If anyone could challenge Ray's claim to soul's paternity, it's Sam Cooke, and the haunting optimism of "A Change Is Gonna Come" (released just days after Cooke's untimely death), spoke so strongly to a generation of civil rights struggle that it was featured at the Obama inauguration concert. Bold and brassy as the band backing her up, Ray's smoky-voiced labelmate Ruth Brown makes not just lemonade, but a five-course gourmet [i]feast[/i] out of the lemons life's handed her in the sassy, Duke Ellington-penned showstopper "I'm Just a Lucky So and So." From B.B. King and Nat "King" Cole to Etta James and James Carr, we've got the artists who shared the spotlight, and the airwaves, with the soul-defining superstar.

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