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  Charles Lee Ray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chucky is a doll that was possessed by means of voodoo magic by serial killer Charles Lee Ray, the notorious Lakeshore Strangler.
On a cold night in Chicago, Illinois, in November 1988, Ray was on the run from Detective Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon).
Using the then-popular Good Guy doll, Ray recited a voodoo chant that resulted in a bolt of lightning striking the toy store and the transfer of his soul into the doll.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Lee_Ray   (1971 words)

  
 Child's Play - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
What she does not know is that the particular doll contains the spirit of Charles Lee Ray, (also known as 'The Lakeshore Strangler'), who died at the hands of police the night before and had transferred his spirit to the doll by voodoo.
That night, Andy's babysitter is pushed from their fifth-floor window to her death, and only young Andy knows that 'Chucky' - the doll - is responsible for that death and a series of murders that follow.
Chucky's full name, Charles Lee Ray, is derived from the names of notorious killers Charles Manson, Lee Harvey Oswald, and James Earl Ray.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Child's_Play   (919 words)

  
 CMT.com : Ray Charles : Biography
Born Ray Charles Robinson on Sept. 23, 1930, in Albany, Ga., Charles was first exposed to country music via broadcasts of the Opry on Nashville radio station WSM-AM.
Charles began recording in 1949, and this early, imitative approach was captured on several sessions.
Charles continued to hit the country chart in the '80s, primarily on the basis of his collaborations with country artists.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/charles_ray/bio.jhtml   (998 words)

  
 Ray Charles Biography
Charles was born during the Great Depression in the Deep South and was raised on blues, country, gospel, jazz and big band music.
Ray Charles Robinson was born Sept. 23, 1930, in Albany, Ga. His father, Bailey Robinson, was a mechanic and a handyman, and his mother, Aretha, stacked boards in a sawmill.
Charles' loss of site and new found love for heroin (a habit he did not kick for nearly 20 years) and one would think the situation to be nearly hopeless.
www.swingmusic.net /Ray_Charles_Biography.html   (4291 words)

  
 Ray Charles
A joyful ode to nighttime pursuits, Ray's powerful vocal is sweetly bolstered by the Raelettes, Fathead Newman, baritone sax-ace Hank Crawford and the illustrious Afro-Cuban percussionist Mongo Santamaria.
A monumental crossover release that showed Ray was as at home with country as he was with R&B, jazz, blues and rock.
Ray memorably turns in a searing performance of the title song for the acclaimed and controversial film.
www.raycharles.com /the_music_key_works.html   (904 words)

  
 Ray Charles
Brother Ray is a phenomenal talent, and it's hard to say what's most outstanding: his rough, expressive, one-of-a-kind voice; his funky swing on piano and organ; or his obliteration of musical and social boundaries.
Ray Charles and Betty Carter (Ray Charles and Betty Carter: 1961)
Charles saved the best for first with a wonderful, wistful performance of Meredith Willson's "Till There Was You," a throwback to his Modern Sounds approach with an arrangement that's slow but strong, and sparely used backup singers.
www.warr.org /charles.html   (4982 words)

  
 Pasco: Teen found guilty of attempted murder
Charles Ray Lee, 15 at the time of the drug-related shooting, faces a minimum of 25 years without parole.
Lee, of Hampton Avenue, Dade City, was 15 when he shot John A. Schneider, 39, on the night of Nov. 21, 1999.
Pointing directly at Lee, wearing baggy jeans and a leather coat, she told jurors all signs pointed to him.
www.sptimes.com /News/030801/news_pf/Pasco/Teen_found_guilty_of_.shtml   (332 words)

  
 AlterNet: A Pillar of Soul
While Ray Charles' music may have begun in the church and moved onto R&B and Soul, he remained rooted in the music that birthed him throughout his career.
Charles understood that fl spirituality had real-world connotations, even as it was being informed by other-worldly desires.
Ray Charles' "America the Beautiful" represents a symbolic moment for African Americans -- a moment when African Americans took control of this nation's spirit, much the same way Charles himself took ownership of our most beautiful patriotic anthem.
www.alternet.org /stories/18948   (1000 words)

  
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Knowing his bullet wounds are fatal, Ray breaks into a department toy store desperately looking for a person to transfer his soul into as his body is dying.
No one is found and he is near death with the cop catching up he grabs a "Good Guy" doll from a fallen display next to him and proceeds to put his hand apon its chest and performs the voodoo ritual transfering his soul into the body of the plastic childs doll.
Charles Lee Ray is beleived to be dead.
www.horrorseek.com /gothic/gothiczombie/chucky/childsplay.html   (423 words)

  
 Ray Charles on the $10 bill - Sign the petition! ten   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Charles' recent passing, we are reminded of the impact this great American had on the development of American culture and music.
Charles overcame personal adversity in the forms of blindness, extreme poverty, racial oppression and drug-addiction to become one of the most innovative and respected musicians of the 20th century.
Charles lost his sight at the age of seven, and was sent as a charity case to the Florida State School for the Blind at St. Augustine where he was taught basket weaving and allowed to pursue music.
www.rayontheten.com   (668 words)

  
 Ray Charles
Often cited as “the genius of soul music,” Ray Charles used his prodigious talents as singer, pianist, and bandleader to marry elements of blues and gospel into an exciting new genre.
Ray Charles Robinson was born on September 23, 1930 in Albany, Georgia.
Ray performed with various bands, including a country band, in Florida before getting the urge to move to Seattle in 1947.
www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=18565   (803 words)

  
 A Pillar of Soul: Ray Charles
What Charles did was not unprecedented—a fellow named Georgia Tom worked the reverse route, bringing those melodies that he so lovingly played behind Ma Rainey to church with him, in the process becoming, Thomas A. Dorsey, the father of Gospel music.
Charles understood that Black spirituality had real-worldly connotations, even as it was being informed by other-worldly desires.
By the time Charles records his version of the Southern favorite "You Are My Sunshine" (for volume two of Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music) it is clear that this is a Black musical artist who had crossed-over in a way that was unprecedented.
www.seeingblack.com /2004/x100804/raycharles.shtml   (800 words)

  
 CHARLIE RICH & ROY ORBISON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Influences: Jerry Lee Lewis, Hank Williams, Ray Charles, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Eddie Vinson.
Like the rest of the guys at Sun (Jerry Lee, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, etc.), Rich was born into a farming family (in 1932, in Arkansas).
The bluesy ballad "Who will the next fool be" reaked of Ray Charles, was a No. 67 hit for Rich & went on to become a blues standard covered by Jerry Lee, Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland & Charles Brown.
www.webspawner.com /users/charlieroy   (754 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Child's Play at Epinions.com
Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif from The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers) is Chicago's most infamous serial killer, a man skilled with voodoo magic.
Ray's accomplice, Eddie Caputo, chickens out and drives away in the getaway car, leaving Ray stranded on the street.
After Karen and the detective who originally killed Charles Lee Ray discover the doll's secret and mission to possess Andy, it becomes a life or death race to save the boy.
www.epinions.com /content_167424528004   (807 words)

  
 MTV News - Justin, Alicia, Wyclef And Others Remember Ray Charles
Ray Charles' seven-decade career will forever be seen as one that touched people individually while having an incalculable impact on the face of contemporary soul, R&B, gospel and rock.
Indeed, Charles' blindness, caused by glaucoma when he was 7, seldom seemed an obstacle in most of his pursuits — musical, recreational or social (he was a renowned ladies' man in his younger days).
Charles broke many stylistic conventions with his music, and his early forays into mainstream rock and roll and even country music helped dissolve racial barriers as well.
www.mtv.com /news/articles/1488353/20040611/story.jhtml   (1392 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Tributes pour in for Ray Charles
Lyricist Hal David, of Bacharach and David, called Charles one of the "great interpreters", saying "you are going to hear his records play when we are all old and grey".
We were just with Ray at the Image Awards a couple of months ago and he was sickly then.
Charles was "one of the great entertainers and songwriters of our time, just a really spirited individual", he said.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/3797569.stm   (753 words)

  
 The LEE Line
Charles Grandison Lee b: 1813 MD d: 1881 IA m.
In 1850, Charles G. Lee, age 68, born Maryland, and wife, Violet, age 66, born Maryland, are found on the Greencastle, Putnam County, Indiana census.
In 1856, Charles G. Lee, age 73, born Maryland, and wife Violeta P. (Philethe?), age 72, born Maryland, are found on the 1856 State Census of Iowa in Medicine Township (later named Clinton Township), Wayne County, Iowa, living next door to Thomas and Lydia Lee.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/7590/Lee.htm   (2091 words)

  
 RAY CHARLES IS GOD - HE SEES ALL, HE KNOWS ALL
On SNL during the Carter administration, Ray waxed sentimental about their mutual Georgia roots, claiming to feel a special closeness to the president on the grounds that "his grandad used to own my grandad."
Perhaps the top thing I'd be looking for in a God- more even than the ability to fix things- would be understanding the things that go on deep down in the heart and soul, those things that even your family or your woman don't get.
Ray, he got it more than just about anyone ever.
www.morethings.com /music/brother-ray   (396 words)

  
 Biography for Ray Charles (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Whatever it was, Ray Charles revolutionized American music and was catapulted to legendary status by the time he died in Beverly Hills at age 73.
Ray himself developed glaucoma at the age of five and within two years had lost his sight completely.
In the mid-'60s he was arrested for possession of heroin and marijuana and revealed that he'd been addicted for nearly two decades.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0153124/bio   (1333 words)

  
 Child's Play
Of all the movie maniacs that have graced the golden screens of horror, Jason Vorhees, Michael Myers, Freddy Kruger etc perhaps the most notorious screen killer of all has to be the infamous devil-doll "Chucky" from the Childs Play series.
Serial killer Charles "Chucky" Lee Ray, otherwise known as the Lakeshore Strangler (Brad Douriff), is on the run from the police when he is gunned down inside a toy shop.
Chucky's voice was provided by Brad Douriff, who also played the part of the Charles Lee Ray.
www.angelfire.com /darkside/realmofhorror/chucky1.htm   (611 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Ray Charles: Books: Sharon Bell Mathis,George Ford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ford's illustrations capture every emotional nuance, from Ray's disappointment at being tricked by classmates as a child, to his strength as a man, refusing to perform to segregated audiences.
Ray Charles and his soulful, passionate rhythms and melodies have been embraced around the world for decades.
WHEN this book was first published in 1973, Ray Charles was already a famous musician, respected by people all around the world and from all walks of life.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1584300183?v=glance   (713 words)

  
 SUN RECORDS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jerry Lee had the biggest hits at Sun with more great titles like "Great balls of fire" & "Whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on" & was well on the way to becoming King of rock ‘n’ roll with further unstoppable rockers like "Breathless" & "Highschool confidential".
Also, he released the bare minimum on Jerry Lee & the body of work contained on box sets like "Classic Jerry Lee Lewis" show us that this extremely consistent material should have been released while Lewis was at Sun.
His style incorporated Jerry Lee’s, Ray Charles’ & the jazz of his youth & he wrote hits like "I’ll make it all up to you", "Break up" & "It hurt me so" for Jerry Lee.
www.webspawner.com /users/SRJLL   (1124 words)

  
 BRIDE OF CHUCKY/ ***
Loyal viewers will remember that Chucky is a killer doll, possessed by the soul of killer Charles Lee Ray.
As "Bride of Chucky" opens, he's been in a police evidence locker for years, and is brought back to the world -- and to life -- by seriously deranged metal chick Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly).
Tiffany was Charles Lee Ray's girlfriend, and has been anxiously waiting to get her hands on the Chucky doll.
www.ukcritic.com /brideofchucky.html   (542 words)

  
 DVD REVIEW - Vault Title
When serial killer Charles Lee Ray is mortally wounded in a police shoot-out, he uses a voodoo spell to transfer his soul into Chucky, a "Good Guys" doll.
However, Charles doesn't want to be trapped in the body of a doll forever.
His only escape would be to transfer into the first human he revealed his true identity to...
www.dvdreview.com /movies/VaultTitle.asp?movie_id=5671   (74 words)

  
 Inglewood Park Cemetery: Stars' Graves   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ray Charles overcame about as many bad breaks in life as fate can throw at a man. He was born into dire poverty in Georgia.
Ray Charles' crypt is just inside this corridor, on the right (south) side.
Ella's crypt is 2 spaces up from the floor and 2 spaces in (west) from the doorway.
www.seeing-stars.com /Buried2/InglewoodPark.shtml   (1434 words)

  
 Creepshow 1977 (US) - Band page with free MP3 music downloads on SoundClick
It stated that serial killer Charles Lee Ray had escaped the local asylum, and was suspected to be in the area.
Ray immediately picked up a guitar he acquired from his last kill, and learned how to play rhythm guitar.
Charles Lee Ray came along on a killing spree a few months later, and Jacob and Creeper knew they needed an attitude like hie!
www.soundclick.com /bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=401834   (932 words)

  
 BMN Review: Bride of Chucky (1998)
By now I think we are all familiar with this series of horror flicks about serial killer Charles Lee Ray and his adventures as an evil soul trapped in the body of a grotesque little doll.
You see there is a teenage couple named Jesse and Jade who are tricked into driving the dolls to the gravesite of Charles Lee Ray.
I was hoping for quick grisly deaths for the both of them, but no. The only semi-intelligent, likable character is a gay friend of theirs, but of course he is hit by a Mack truck late in the film and explodes into tasty chunks.
www.hit-n-run.com /cgi/read_review.cgi?review=53458_wyldfyr   (524 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Catherine Hicks (as Karen Barclay), Chris Sarandon (as Detective Mike Norris), Alex Vincent (as Andy Barclay), Brad Dourif (as Charles Lee Ray/Chucky's Voice), Dinah Manoff (as Maggie Peterson), Tommy Swerdlow (as Jack Santos), Jack Colvin (as Dr. Ardmore), Neil Giuntoli (as Eddie Caputo), Juan Ramírez (as Peddler), Alan Wilder (as Mr.
What she doesn't know is that the particular doll contains the spirit of Charles Lee Ray, aka 'The Lakeshore Strangler', who died at the hands of police the night before and had transferred his spirit to the doll by voodoo.
That night, Andy's babysitter is pushed from their 5th-floor window to her death, and only young Andy knows that 'Chucky' - the doll - is responsible for that a death and a series of murders that follow.
home.nycap.rr.com /bugande/index_302.html   (220 words)

  
 I-Mockery.com | Movie Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ray transfers his soul from his dying body into the good guy doll, bringing the doll to life.
The doll his soul is in gets bought by a mother whos son wants a good guy doll for his birthday.
He explains to Chucky that he can escape the doll body, but he can only go into the human body of the person he first revealed his true indenity to.
www.i-mockery.com /moviereviews/detailed.php?id=1148   (632 words)

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