In reality, the death of his mother did give him a nervous breakdown and was thought to be a leading cause of his depression, 8 but the death of george and his blindness did not lead to nervous breakdowns. Jamie foxx plays the role as ray charles and curtis armstrong plays the role as ahmet. Universal pictures oscar edition contains extended cut of the film. Mess around, written by atlantic records president and founder ahmet ertegun under the pseudonym of a. Watch the video for mess around from ray charless ray. The song mess around by ray charles, here in the 2004 movie ray. The album won a grammy award and was nominated for the bafta award for best film music. Mess around written by ahmet ertegun performed by ray charles and curtis armstrong courtesy of atlantic recording corp. Ray charles, mess around scene with images ray charles. Della is not happy about ray mixing gospel and soul music, but realizes hes got undeniable talent.
Ray ends up meeting della bea kerry washington, a preachers daughter. Ray charles mess around from the cd the definitive ray charles 2001 warner strategic marketing, warner music international for the world outside of the us, all. Taylor hackford and jamie foxx in ray 2004 kerry washington as della bea. Ah, you can talk about the pit, barbecue the band was jumping the people too ah, mess around they doing the mess around. Unlike the soundtrack for his jerry lee lewis biopic great balls of fire, director taylor hackford didnt have ray charles rerecord his classic songs for the soundtrack of his charles biopic, ray. The elusive graffiti artist, political activist, and film director banksy was a. The song was played on the piano in the series lucifer season 1 episode 8, by lucifer. Ertegun claims his inspiration for writing mess around was pete johnson. Throughout the film, it is suggested that rays depression and heroin addiction were fueled by nervous breakdowns he had over the deaths of both george and his mother, as well as his blindness.
He falls in love with her, and the two get married. Ray charles mess around from the cd the definitive ray charles 2001 warner strategic marketing, warner music international for the. Its the weekend heres a clip from the academy awardwinning movie ray to get you movin in the right direction. Instead, he selected 17 songs of ray at his 50s and 60s peak, skillfully balancing selections from both atlantic and abc to create a surprisingly successful and thoroughly entertaining overview.