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Story Arc: "The Murder Mystery"

This episode of Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies! Tentacles, interrogations, autopsies!

Charles improvised this onstage at a club in Brownsville, Pennsylvania in December 1958 after he played every song he knew and still had 12 minutes to fill. He simply asked his band to follow his lead... which they did. He told his backing singers (The Raeletts) to simply repeat whatever he said. The singer remembered: "I had sung everything I could think of. So I said to the guys, 'Look, I'm going to start this thing off, I don't know where I'm going, so y'all just follow me.' And I said to the girls, 'Whatever I say, just repeat after me.'"

Songfacts. “What'd I Say by Ray Charles - Songfacts.” Song Meanings at Songfacts, www.songfacts.com/facts/ray-charles/whatd-i-say.

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