Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul proved that Ray Charles didnt so much ignore genres, but, by the 60s, had become a genre unto himself. An academic might want to separate this stack of songs into neat little bucketscountry, jazz, standards, blues, popbut those are just the ingredients. Ray Charles sings whatever he likes and whatever he sings comes out as a Ray Charles song, with a flavor all its own.

Two hit singles, Busted and That Lucky Old Sun, made Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul an instant Top Ten when it was released in 1963. Bootlegged across Europe for decades, this is the fi rst and only legitimate reissue of this essential album on vinyl (and its fi rst appearance on CD since the 1990s), now fully restored and remastered with the full cooperation of the Ray Charles Foundation.

Format / LP
Released / 09/19/2025
Catalogue / TGIN-22441
Barcode / 708857224418
Artist /Ray Charles
Label /Tangerine Records
Genre / Funk / Soul