Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul – RAY CHARLES****

Busted/Where Can I Go/ Born To Be Blue/That Lucky Old Sun/Ol’ Man River/In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down)/A Stranger In Town/Ol’ Man Time/Over The Rainbow/You’ll Never Walk Alone

Legendary R & B singer and pianist Ray Charles was at the peak of his popularity in the early 1960s. Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul includes the US No. 4 Busted and No. 20 That Lucky Old Sun. (US:2)

"Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul is full of bluesy, lonesome laments."

"He digs deep into a seemingly bottomless inner well of sorrow for the quietly despairing Born To Be Blue and brings out the inherent melancholy in Over The Rainbow."

"This record would typify the erratic nature of much of Charles' '60s output. Its too eclectic for its own good, encompassing pop standards, lowdown blues, Mel Tormé songs and after-hours ballads."

"Busted, the hit reworking of a composition by country songwriter Harlan Howard, is jazzy and tough, and one of his best early-'60s singles."

"Ray Charles stamped his unique approach on standards such as That Lucky Old Sun."

"Ray Charles covered so many genres that it's unfair just to label him as an R & B artist. Certainly this was where his roots originated, but he had the innate ability to take a wide range of material and put his own unmistakeable stamp on it."

"It is vintage Ray, when he had expanded the vision of his music with big band, chorus, string section, and as always, his beautiful soulful singing."

“Of all the versions of That Lucky Old Sun I have heard, this one has the most soul for me. This one really gets in there. The chords he chooses are perfect."