Behind Closed Doors is a 1973 album by Charlie Rich. The album received the Country Music Association award for Album of the Year; the title track was also named CMA's Single of the Year, and Rich ...

Charlie Rich, ‘Behind Closed Doors’ Known as “the white Ray Charles,” Rich was a fusionist from jump. As a kid he learned blues piano from a black musician, C.J. Allen.

Charlie Rich had success as a songwriter but will be better remembered as a singer of other’s songs. Rich burst onto the scene in Memphis in 1960 with a song he wrote and sang called “Lonely ...