Renald Joseph Richard was born in Thibodaux, Louisiana, on May 3, 1925, and began his career in New Orleans. I told him I had already done something with it." "After that Ray asked me if I wanted to write something with that. I sang 'I got a woman,' then Ray sang 'way across town.' Then I went 'she's good to me.' And he added the 'Oh, yeah.' "We just started singing our own words to it. We heard this song that had the same type of beat to it. He was Charles' musical director at the time. "We were riding in his car (see, at that time we didn't have a bus or planes, we drove everywhere)," Richard told the Naples Daily News in 2009 about how the song originated. Friday at San Marco Catholic Church, 851 San Marco Road, with burial to follow at Marco Island Cemetery. He was 96.Ī funeral mass is set for 10:30 a.m. Renald Richard penned the hit with Charles in 1954, when the Florida-born Charles recorded it in Atlanta. Musical history: Southern rock to Miami sound: A look at Florida's most influential musiciansĪND: 50 years of sweet sounds: Naples Concert Band marks half century with own music, Artis-Naples date
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