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In early 1963, when incoming Alabama governor George Wallace delivered his infamous “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever” speech, the Number One record on the nation’s R&B chart ...

Ray Charles Robinson, known the world over as multi-award-winning icon Ray Charles, may have departed this world, but his music endures thanks in part to the Ray Charles Foundation. Recently, the ...

The final recording of Ray Charles, Genius Loves Company, enjoys its tenth anniversary. It is striking to consider that it has been over ten years since the death of Ray Charles, one of the most ...

Ray Charles is best known for recording hit soul and R&B songs. His album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, recorded in the 60s, spent 14 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard pop albums chart.

Of the dozens of pop hits Ray Charles had during his remarkable career, his biggest was a soulful take on Don Gibson’s country classic “I Can’t Stop Loving You,” which logged five weeks at Number One.

LOS ANGELES -- Soul music legend Ray Charles returned to the U.S. pop charts Wednesday three months after his death as his final studio album, a collection of duets with fellow recording stars, opened ...

Two wonderful albums from Ray Charles and El Michels Affair that belong in your record collection in 2021. 2021 is just flying by and I will have a lot more to say about my Record Store Day 2021 ...

In 1960, Charles released “Georgia On My Mind”. Written by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell, Charles’s delivery of the pensive tune remains among the best musical performances of all time. Although ...

Editor's note: This story originally published in The Tennessean's print edition on March 5, 2006. The art featured in this digital replica did not necessarily run in the original print edition. One ...