RAY CHARLES - UNCHAIN MY HEART

UNCHAIN MY HEART

RAY CHARLES

Composer: BOBBY SHARP

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

Album: 20 super sucessos: ray charles

Label: ATLANTIC RECORDS

Genre: RHYTHM AND BLUES

Year: 1998

Ray Charles (Albany, 23 de setembro de 1930 – Los Angeles, 10 de junho de 2004) foi um pianista norte-americano, pioneiro e cantor de música soul, blues, jazz que ajudou a definir o seu formato ainda no fim dos anos 50, além de um inovador intérprete de R&B. Também cometeu alguns excessos.

Seu nome de batismo, Ray Charles Robinson, foi encurtado para Ray Charles quando entrou na indústria do entretenimento para não ser confundido com o famoso boxeador Sugar Ray Robinson. Considerado um dos maiores gênios da música negra norte-americana, Ray Charles também foi um dos responsáveis pela introdução de ritmo gospel nas músicas de R&B.

Foi eleito pela Rolling Stone o 2º maior cantor de todos os tempos e 10º maior artista da música de todos os tempos.

"Unchain My Heart" is a song written by Bobby Sharp (1924-2013) and recorded first in 1961 by Ray Charles and in 1963 by Trini Lopez and later by many others. Sharp, a drug addict at the time, sold the song to Teddy Powell for $50. Powell demanded half the songwriting credit. Sharp later successfully fought for the rights to his song. In 1987, he was also able to renew the copyright for his publishing company, B. Sharp Music.

Unchain my heart, baby let me be

Unchain my heart 'cause you don't care about me

You've got me sewed up like a pillow case

But you let my love go to waste so

Unchain my heart, oh please, please set me free

Unchain my heart, baby let me go

Unchain my heart, 'cause you don't love me no more

Ev'ry time I call you on the phone

Some fella tells me that you're not at home so

Unchain my heart, oh please, please set me free

I'm under your spell like a man in a trance

But I know darn well, that I don't stand a chance so

Unchain my heart, let me go my way

Unchain my heart, you worry me night and day

Why lead me through a life of misery

When you don't care a bag of beans for me

So unchain my heart, oh please, please set me free

[Sax Solo]

I'm under your spell like a man in a trance

But I know darn well, that I don't stand a chance so

Unchain my heart, let me go my way

Unchain my heart, you worry me night and day

Why lead me through a life of misery

When you don't care a bag of beans for me

So unchain my heart, please, please set me free

(please set me free)

Oh won't you set me free

(please set me free)

Woah, set me free

(please set me free)

Woowow, set me free little darling

(please set me free)

Oh won't you set me free