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at song hit the top spot in the R&B charts and hit #6 in the Pop charts. Looking to continue exploring musical options it is here when Ray Charles decides to leave Atlantic Records for ABC-Paramount. ABC-Paramount gives Ray Charles an extremely generous contract including owning the masters of his recordings, which at the time just did not happen.

Taking advantage of better equipment and resources at ABC-Paramount, Ray Charles records one of his most famous songs called 'Georgia On My Mind'. This hit the top in the Pop charts, #3 in the R&B charts and even scored on the charts in the UK. Even with all the songs already doing so well, Ray Charles, over the next few years will continue releasing hit songs that do well on multiple charts. It was at the end of 1960 when Ray Charles records an album that stays in the top ten called 'The Genius Hits the Road'. He would outperform this in just a few years.

In between the albums he has a number of Top 10 and Top 40 releases, 'Ruby', 'One Mint Julep' and two absolutely amazing performances in 'Hit the Road Jack' which hit #1 in both the Pop and R&B charts and 'I Can't Stop Loving You' which not only hit #1 in the Pop and R&B charts it also topped the UK charts.

Meanwhile, Ray Charles was also working on something utterly groundbreaking. The album was called 'Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music' (two volumes). This was the first album where he explores in depth the country and western genre. For almost four months, the album stays at the top spot. This type of success, the people really loved his work, inspired him to make the second volume under the same title 'Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Volume Two' which stayed at the second spot in the charts.

Over the next four years, Ray Charles creates hit after hit after hit. Unfortunately his heroin addiction is starting to take over. Even though he recorded songs like 'You Don't Know Me', 'You Are My Sunshine', 'Take These Chains From My Heart', and 'Busted' and all of them doing extremely well, the creativity and power behind the extremely large library of hits is about to take a turn for the worse and slow down. In 1966, Ray Charles' heroin and marijuana addiction land him in trouble. Sentenced to a five year suspended sentence, Ray Charles finally gets help for his addiction.

From this point forward, most of his songs do not sell well. Many of them top out at the 100 or lower on the charts. While he does slow down and he stops creating the amazing hits that he once did, he does spend quite a bit of time on the nightclub circuit touring with other bands. While he may have stopped creating new classics at this point, it can not be underestimated the impact of all of his previous works. It is over the next twenty years that the public starts to officially recognize Ray Charles for the impact he had on not only the music industry, but on society as a whole with the passion of his music.

In 1979 Ray Charles was honored by the State of Georgia when they announced that his version of 'Georgia On My Mind' would be the official state song. In 1982 he was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame and then in 1986 he was one of the first to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by his long time friend Quincy Jones. Two years later in 1988 he receives a Lifetime Achievement Award. 1993 Billy Joel presents him with the So