Hit the Road

Or
He Don’t Need No Doctor

Or
Busted

Or
Never Saw it Coming
(Props to John)
Musical legend Ray Charles may have Georgia on his mind, but next week he’ll have about 78 cubic feet of California on his body, as the Diet Pepsi shill turned Spy Hard bus driver succumbed to liver disease yesterday at the age of 73. Born into abject poverty, blind by the age of 7, orphaned by 15, 2 wives, countless female acquaintances and 12 kids, this was a man born for the blues, but the classic image of Charles is an ebullient smile. A 12-time Grammy winner, he also hit #1 on the Billboard for “I Can’t Stop Loving You” and produced arguably the definitive American patriotic song with his version of "America the Beautiful," Other songs included “Busted,” "What'd I Say," and "I Don't Need No Doctor" and "Let's Go Get Stoned,” about his overcoming a 20-year addiction to heroin.

As a postscript for those proclaiming our pathetic progress in these proceedings, President Reagan's posthumousness puts the pool parlay at 7, which actually puts us 20 days ahead of the previous pool's pace.