Ray Charles "I Can't Stop Loving You" reaches #1 1962

Ray Charles's cover of Don Gibson's I Can't Stop Loving You reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and remained there for five weeks, making it one of the biggest hits of 1962.  It also went to #1 on the Billboard R&B Singles, Adult Contemporary, and the UK Singles Chart.

Billboard ranked it the #2 song for 1962.  Rolling Stone ranked it as #164 of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. CMT ranked it as #49 on the 100 Greatest Songs in Country Music. 

Ray Charles won the Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Recording in 1963.

Celebrating Black History Month: Stevie Wonder, youngest artist with a #1 hit

Stevie Wonder, born May 13, 1950 in Saginaw, Michigan, landed a #1 single, Fingertips, on the Billboard Hot 100 when he was only 13, making him the youngest solo artist ever to top the charts. Fingertips simultaneously reached #1 on the R&B charts, the first time for that to occur. 

He is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, influencing musicians across all genres of music from R&B, pop, gospel, and jazz.  He has won 25 Grammy Awards, and is only one of four artists and groups to have won the Grammy for Album of the Year three times.  He is the only one to have one that award with three consecutive  album releases: Innervisions, Fulfillingness' First Finale, and Songs in the Key of Life.