stevie wonder sang hit the road jack with ray charles.
stevie wonder sang hit the road jack with ray charles.
who sang hit the road jack with ray charles?
stevie wonder
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"hit the road jack" is a song written by the rhythm and blues artist percy mayfield and first recorded in 1960 as an "a cappella" demo sent to art rupe. it became famous after it was recorded by the singer-songwriter-pianist ray charles with the raelettes vocalist margie hendrix.
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soon after the album's release, abrams commented that he already had ideas for "several" new albums "brewing". at least one of these he hoped would be more in line with traditional jazz and would include jazz covers. one ray charles standard did make it onto this album - "hit the road jack", which abrams performed as a duet with fellow "american idol" season ten finalist haley reinhart. abrams and reinhart had previously recorded a cover of "baby, it's cold outside" together. the two are close friends, and when asked, abrams said that he "wouldn't be opposed" to recording an entire album with her. the track's producer steve jordan suggested that they do a "funky" version of "hit the road jack", after abrams mentioned his desire to cover a ray charles song. they sought to give the song an "urban twist" - something which abrams described as "a big risk". initially, abrams was going to record the song without reinhart. however, he and jordan decided to try recording the song as a duet, so as to better evoke the ray charles original. abrams remarked that he "pulled [reinhart] into the recording session to see what would happen, and it was magic."
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