Ray Charles - What I Say
Even ahead of “Hit The Road, Jack”, this song has made it onto my regular hard rock / heavy metal rotation, just because of… well, listen to it. It was his first Top 10 song ever, and is generally regarded as the very originating track of the entire soul genre, conceived as an impromptu blues tune in concert, and refined with some friends during their downtime. For the next five decades, this song closed every one of his concerts, and was recently declared by Rolling Stone to be the 10th greatest song of all time.
