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Why are Ray Charles' ABC-era recordings not on Spotify?

Newt222 — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 22:20:05 GMT

All of his Atlantic Records work is available and most of his latter-day work can be found here as well. I'd just love to hear "You Don't Know Me," "Unchain My Heart," "Busted," and "Cryin' Time."

Re: Why are Ray Charles' ABC-era recordings not on Spotify?

rogums — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 23:24:50 GMT

I'm no expert, but perhaps I can help you get a start finding out why.

From researching ABC Records on Wikipedia: "The Ray Charles catalog is controlled by the Charles estate and is currently licensed to Concord Records"

From Ray Charles' official site: "The Ray Charles Foundation owns all his post-Atlantic recordings and they are available for licensing on a worldwide basis."

I guess spotify and the owners just haven't negotiated its precense on the platform yet! You might want to try emailing info@theraycharlesfoundation.org or spotify.

Re: Why are Ray Charles' ABC-era recordings not on Spotify?

Newt222 — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 03:28:00 GMT

Thank ya kindly for the advise, good sir. Here's hoping the foundation gets back with me. I figured it'd help if they knew how much some of us love the Genius' ABC tenure.

Re: Why are Ray Charles' ABC-era recordings not on Spotify?

nco — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 06:30:59 GMT

I was looking for these recordings too. Its a shame they are not on spotify.

Really like songs like 'Wish you were here tonight'.

Re: Why are Ray Charles' ABC-era recordings not on Spotify?

Tele-CD — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 09:42:03 GMT

Sadly, here in Europe you can't even listen to his 70s albums. They're not even available as digital albums at Amazon or elsewhere. They were, but only for a very short time. Certainly, those albums cannot compete with his classic ABC-output, but I always liked albums like Love & Peace, Ain't It So and Brother Ray Is At It Again (which I have on old crackling vinyl). There are complications galore, but the trackless hardly differ.