{"id":9008,"date":"2026-02-16T11:31:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andreaocello.com\/?p=9008"},"modified":"2026-02-16T11:55:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:55:54","slug":"new-video-cover-drown-in-my-own-tears-by-ray-charles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andreaocello.com\/en\/new-video-cover-drown-in-my-own-tears-by-ray-charles\/","title":{"rendered":"New video cover : &#8220;Drown in my own tears&#8221; by Ray Charles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua, palatino, serif;\">A new song cover is ready!<br \/><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua, palatino, serif;\">It&#8217;s &#8220;Drown in my own tears&#8221;.<br \/>Originally written by Henry Glover, but mostly known for Ray Charles&#8217;s version that became a hit in the 50s.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua, palatino, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua, palatino, serif;\">I always noticed how little appreciation Ray Charles gets today, even from fellow musicians and especially singers.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua, palatino, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua, palatino, serif;\">Maybe it&#8217;s how raw and real his approach to singing was.<br \/>As opposed to a more refined and calculated one, typical of productions of our time.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua, palatino, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua, palatino, serif;\">Or maybe it&#8217;s just how old the recordings are that puts some people off.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua, palatino, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua, palatino, serif;\">I don&#8217;t know exactly&#8230;but my goal is to make at least a few more people aware of how beautiful and relevant those songs still are, by doing my own rendition as if it was released today in my niche.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua, palatino, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua, palatino, serif;\">Listen here :<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Drown In My Own Tears (Ray Charles) - Cover by Andrea Ocello\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vTacqas6M5Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new song cover is ready! It&#8217;s &#8220;Drown in my own tears&#8221;.Originally written by Henry Glover, but mostly known for Ray Charles&#8217;s version that became a hit in the 50s. \u00a0 I always noticed how little appreciation Ray Charles gets today, even from fellow musicians and especially singers. \u00a0 Maybe it&#8217;s how raw and real&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[153,88],"tags":[184,30,177,111,185,181,183,179,101,182,176,180,106,89,178],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andreaocello.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andreaocello.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andreaocello.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andreaocello.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andreaocello.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9008"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/andreaocello.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9021,"href":"http:\/\/andreaocello.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008\/revisions\/9021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andreaocello.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andreaocello.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andreaocello.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andreaocello.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}