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UPC: 708857224418 Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul proved that Ray Charles didn't 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 buckets--country, jazz, standards, blues, pop--but 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 first and only legitimate reissue of this essential album on vinyl (and its first appearance on CD since the 1990s), now fully restored and remastered with the full cooperation of the Ray Charles Foundation.