The Hollywood Reporter

How a Legal Fight Over Ray Charles’ Song Rights Might Impact the Music Industry

Music producers watch closely as the Ray Charles Foundation tries to save its lawsuit against the singer's children by reversing itself. The litigation explores key issues in song terminations. By ...

How a 1962 Country Hit Broke Barriers and Became an All-Time Great Love Song

"I Can't Stop Loving You" hit the top of the Billboard music charts on June 2, 1962. The song remained on the charts for an ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Ray Charles’ Children Win Lawsuit Over Song Rights Termination

In a year when record labels and song publishers are receiving termination notices, Ray Charles' children have prevailed in the first step in winning back song rights. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal ...
AOL

The Songs That Made Ray Charles a Streaming Star

Long before playlists, streaming algorithms, and AI-generated tunes, Ray Charles was already tearing up genre maps and putting his own spin on the American songbook in ways few artists dared. Country, ...
American Songwriter

Ray Charles’ ‘True Genius’ Box Set: 90 of the Greatest Songs From One of the Century’s Most Influential Artists

In celebration of what would have been Ray Charles’ 90th birthday, the label he founded in 1962, Tangerine Records will release True Genius. This newly remastered, limited edition set includes 90 of ...
The Cheat Sheet

‘Georgia on My Mind’: What Ray Charles Was Thinking When He Recorded His Timeless Ballad

While Ray Charles started building a national following in the early 1950s, his reach became global with the ’59 hit “What’d I Say.” John Lennon recalled how many songs (including two by The Beatles) ...
NPR

Ray Charles Will Be Inducted Into The Country Music Hall Of Fame

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.
American Songwriter

Ray Charles, “Busted”

We all experience money problems, but maybe not as severe as the narrator in “Busted,” recorded in 1963 by Ray Charles and written by one of Nashville’s early professional full-time songwriters, ...
The Cheat Sheet

Ringo Starr’s Favorite Song Is a Lesser-Known Ray Charles Track

Ringo continues to tour with different iterations of his All Starr Band as a way to promote his new solo work. Yet he will always be linked to his work with The Beatles. And when it comes to the Fab ...
Newsweek

Lincoln Project Uses Ray Charles’ ‘America the Beautiful,’ First Time His Music Has Featured in Political Ad

Ray Charles' music has been used in a political ad for the first time, appearing in a video by the Lincoln Project with permission from the Ray Charles Foundation. The campaign group shared the video ...
Rolling Stone

Ray Charles’ ‘Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music’ Gets Multi-Format Reissue

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.