This song is 12 years ahead of its time. Like James Brown singlehandedly invented funk with Cold Sweat then this song singlehandedly invented the genre of soul, which would dominate the late sixties to the early eighties.
The notion that any johnny-come-lately has superseded this, the original recording of one of the handful of songs specifically responsible for inventing an entire musical genre (soul), by the original artist himself--Ray--personally responsible for inventing that genre (Sam Cooke deserves a little credit here, too) is an idea worthy of drooling, uneducated 12 year-olds.