500 Greatest Songs of All Time
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Ray Charles, 'Hit the Road Jack'
Writer: Percy Mayfield
Producer: Sid Feller
Released: Sept. '61, ABC-Paramount
11 weeks; No. 1
Charles asked Mayfield, a one-time R&B hitmaker whose performing career was curtailed by a car accident in 1952, if he had any songs for Charles to record. Mayfield offered up "Hit the Road Jack." The snarling female vocal was provided by Margie Hendricks of the Raelettes. Hendricks' affair with Charles produced a son in 1959; Charles fired her from the Raelettes in 1964.
Appears on: Ultimate Hits Collection (Rhino)
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