Though Howlin’ Wolf had a huge hit with his 1956 song “Smokestack Lightnin’”, he said he’d been playing it since the 1930s, when he and Charley Patton (father of the blues) performed in small Mississippi Delta towns.

No major studio would finance the movie about Ray Charles’ life, and $40 million had to be independently raised to make it. “Ray” went on to gross over $124,000,000.

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