Ward. The combination of Ward's melody and Bates's poem was first entitled "America the Beautiful" in 1910. One of the most notable modern-day performances of the song was by Ray Charles ...

Duran won that first meeting, but a rematch followed only six months later inside New Orleans’ Superdome. Before the main event, “America the Beautiful” was performed – by Ray Charles.

With America The Beautiful, it was iconic. First of all, there’s the song itself ... In my opinion, he’s one of the only white guys who can really sing like Ray Charles, so to have him right there, ...

Benmont Tench was a founding member of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers and has spent decades as a session musician and ...

As pop idol, hit-making solo artist, and with the most star-studded CV of any sideman, the affable Welshman offers up his ...

At least Buckmaster, who hadn’t worked with John since the ‘70s, adorns “Belfast” with beautiful Celtic pipes and fiddles.

There’s no 5,000% tariff on vinyl — yet — so it may be a good time to score some only moderately high-priced LPs this weekend ...

“Those pictures, without any explanation, were such a beautiful testimony of how the ... as jazz as it is funk as it is blues and rock. Ray Charles had it. James Brown had it.” ...

The concluding song from jazz/pop fusionist Norah Jones’ multi-million-selling 2002 debut Come Away With Me, this Hoagy Carmichael standard was first recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra in 1940.

Ever since I was a young boy (many, many years ago, about 60) I would get a proud tear in my eye whenever we sang “America, the Beautiful” in school, church or wherever. The words hold power ...

EVANGLINE PARISH, La. (KLFY) — After meeting for one day on March 26, the Grand Jury returned indictments on the case of Ray Charles Fontenot Jr. Ray was indicted on the charge of second-degree ...