I've been listening to that slightly eerie "collaboration" between Ray Charles and the Basie band. So has John L. Waters:
And yet... it sounds pretty good. Despite knowing it's the result of long hours hunched over a computer, it actually sounds like Ray Charles ad libbing and emoting with a powerful jazz band at his elbows. In Busted you hear him yelp encouragement to the guys (some of them not yet conceived)...
Technology shows us that once something is possible, someone does it. So what delights and horrors are in store? Jim Morrison and Love? Nick Drake and the Wurzels?
Sinatra's Duets II album was another example. Not bad at all, really, although his voice was in less than ideal shape. Best track: that beautiful intro by Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme (yes, them) on Where Or When?