the Number One record on the nation’s R&B chart, as well as a recent Top Ten hit on pop radio, was “You Are My Sunshine” by Ray Charles. That country standard was already well-known to ...

Although he's considered to have virtually invented soul, many of his great recordings were country songs. When I spoke with him, Rhino Records had just released a box set collecting Ray Charles ...

DCAD records show it has changed hands no less ... This city has turned a deaf ear to its rich musical heritage. "Ray Charles's stay in Dallas was seminal to his early career," said Ritz, the ...

Ervin's main roles are ... has a licensing arm, the Ray Charles Marketing Group, which handles Charles' post-1960 recordings. Through its joint venture with Concord Records, it will release ...

Ray Charles, the musical innovator whose bold ... s million-selling single “Things I Used to Do,” and that record’s rough style stayed with Charles, surfacing in his sensuous recording ...

"Here's Ray Charles doing country songs ... "Some of the biggest records that I've ever had is during the time when I was using drugs," said Charles. "You see, but that ain't to say that it ...

NMAH/SI Ray Charles enjoyed reading the articles in Braille editions of Reader’s Digest. NMAH/SI A sequined ... and in 1952 signed with Atlantic Records. In 1959 he switched to ABC Records ...

Dean Kay co-wrote “That’s Life.” According to his website, he tried to pitch the tune to Ray Charles at first. Instead, an unknown singer named Marion Montgomery recorded it first.

And both songs appeared on his 1957 self-titled record ... it’s what she’s willing to put up with (for at least a little while) for some attention from the great Ray Charles.