Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul

by Ray Charles

Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: August 1963
  • Label: ABC-Paramount
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 49:45
  • Community rating: 3.81/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Demonstrating his unparalleled stylistic versatility, this record finds the artist navigating sweeping strings, big band brass, and intimate vocal jazz settings. The arrangements meticulously frame his dynamic, gospel-inflected phrasing within a highly polished studio aesthetic. 'Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul' reinforced his position as a unifying figure capable of dissolving the boundaries between roots music and sophisticated pop.

Genres

Descriptors: soulful, vocal, orchestral, ballad, bluesy

Tracklist

  1. Busted (2:11)
  2. Where Can I Go (3:34)
  3. Born To Be Blue (3:00)
  4. That Lucky Old Sun (4:25)
  5. Ol' Man River (5:33)
  6. In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down) (5:55)
  7. A Stranger In Town (2:29)
  8. Ol' Man TIme (2:31)
  9. Over The Rainbow (4:11)
  10. You'll Never Walk Alone (4:01)
  11. Something's Wrong (2:51)
  12. The Brightest Smile In Town (2:50)
  13. Worried Life Blues (3:07)
  14. My Baby (I Love Her, Yes I Do) (3:02)

Credits

  • Ray Charles - primary artist
  • Benny Carter - arranged by
  • Johnny Parker - arranged by
  • Marty Paich - arranged by
  • Sam Feldman - lacquer cut by
  • Harlan Howard - written-by
  • Leo Fuld - written-by
  • Sigmunt Berland - written-by

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