While Ray Charles made Georgia on My Mind world-famous, the song was originally written by Hoagy Carmichael (music) and Stuart Gorrell (lyrics) in 1930. Carmichael was a celebrated composer and ...

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) ...