Soul is a 1966 studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by Lena Horne

Lena Horne

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer.Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the...

, arranged by Ray Ellis

Ray Ellis

Ray Ellis was an American record producer, arranger and conductor. The orchestration for Billie Holiday's Lady in Satin is probably his best known work in the jazz vein.-Biography:...

. Soul was the third of four albums Lena Horne recorded for United Artists Records

United Artists Records

United Artists Records was a record label founded by Max E. Youngstein of United Artists in 1957 initially to distribute records of its movie soundtracks, though it soon branched out into recording music of a number of different genres.-History:...

. Recorded between September 9th 1965 and March 11th 1966, and released in June 1966. The album was re-issued on CD in 1996 by EMI

EMI

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 and re-released by DRG in 2007 with six bonus tracks.

Track listing

1. "I Got a Worried Man" (Ray Ellis
   Ray Ellis
   Ray Ellis was an American record producer, arranger and conductor. The orchestration for Billie Holiday's Lady in Satin is probably his best known work in the jazz vein.-Biography:...
   
   , Al Stillman
   Al Stillman
   Al Stillman was an American lyricist.-Biography:Stillman was born in New York City. His name was originally Albert Silverman, but changed it to that of a well-known New York banking family. He was Jewish. He attended New York University. After graduation, he contributed to Franklin P...
   
   ) – 3:06
2. "Wonder What I'm Gonna Do" (Jimmy Briggs, Larry Harrison) – 2:54
3. "I'd Like to Hear It Sometime" (F. Johnson, L. Kirkland, P. Woods) – 2:25
4. "What the World Needs Now Is Love
   What the World Needs Now Is Love
   "What the World Needs Now Is Love" is a 1965 popular song with lyrics by Hal David and music composed by Burt Bacharach. First recorded and made popular by Jackie DeShannon, it was released on April 15, 1965, on the Imperial label after a release on sister label Liberty records the previous month...
   
   " (Burt Bacharach
   Burt Bacharach
   Burt F. Bacharach is an American pianist, composer and music producer. He is known for his popular hit songs and compositions from the mid-1950s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David. Many of their hits were produced specifically for, and performed by, Dionne Warwick...
   
   , Hal David
   Hal David
   Harold Lane "Hal" David is an American lyricist. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York. David is best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach.-Career:...
   
   ) – 2:25
5. "Unchained Melody
   Unchained Melody
   "Unchained Melody" is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. It has become one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, by some counts having spawned over 500 versions in hundreds of different languages....
   
   " (Alex North
   Alex North
   Alex North was an American composer who wrote the first jazz-based film score and one of the first modernist scores written in Hollywood ....
   
   , Hy Zaret
   Hy Zaret
   Hy Zaret was an American Tin Pan Alley lyricist and composer best known as the co-author of the 1955 hit "Unchained Melody", one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century.-Biography:...
   
   ) – 2:59
6. "Let the Little People Talk" (B. Kaye, P. Springer) – 2:53
7. "Love Bug" (Don Covay
   Don Covay
   Don Covay is an American R&B/rock and roll/soul music singer and songwriter most active in the 1950s and 1960s, who received a Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation in 1994...
   
   ) – 2:14
8. "A Taste of Honey
   A Taste of Honey (song)
   "A Taste of Honey" is a pop standard written by Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow. It was originally an instrumental track written for the 1960 Broadway version of the 1958 British play A Taste of Honey . Both the original and a cover by Herb Alpert in 1965 earned the song Grammy Awards...
   
   " (Bobby Scott
   Bobby Scott (musician)
   Bobby Scott was an American musician, record producer, and songwriter.-Biography:He was born Robert William Scott in Mount Pleasant, New York, and became a pianist, vibraphonist, and singer, and could also play the accordion, cello, clarinet, and double bass...
   
   , Ric Marlow
   Ric Marlow
   Ric Marlow is an American songwriter and actor, best known for co-writing with Bobby Scott the song "A Taste of Honey" which won a Grammy in 1962. The song has been recorded by many artists including Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, Herb Alpert, and The Beatles...
   
   ) – 3:13
9. "The Old Mill Stream" (M. Ellis, R. Harris) – 2:50
10. "Like a Child" (J. Briggs, L. Harrison) – 2:44
11. "The Music of the World a Turnin'" (Estelle Levitt, Don Thomas) – 2:44
12. "You Know What to Do" (Herbie Hancock
    Herbie Hancock
    Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
    
    , B. Townes) – 2:48

CD bonus tracks

13. "The Sand and the Sea" (Charles Blackwell) – 2:34 Previously only available on United Artists Records 45rpm single UA 911

14. "I Get Along Without You Very Well

I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)

"I Get Along Without You Very Well" is a popular song composed by Hoagy Carmichael in 1939, with lyrics based on a poem written by Jane Brown Thompson...

" (Hoagy Carmichael

Hoagy Carmichael

Howard Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust", "Georgia On My Mind", "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul", four of the most-recorded American songs of all time.Alec Wilder, in his study of the...

) – 3:29 Previously only available on the United Artist Records album UAD 60091/2, "The Lena Horne Collection"

15. "On Green Dolphin Street

On Green Dolphin Street (song)

"On Green Dolphin Street" is a 1947 popular song composed by Bronislau Kaper with lyrics by Ned Washington. The song, composed for the film Green Dolphin Street, went on to become a jazz standard after being recorded by Miles Davis...

" (Bronislaw Kaper

Bronislaw Kaper

Bronisław Kaper was a Polish film composer who scored films and musical theater in Germany, France, and the USA. The American immigration authorities misspelled his name as Bronislau Kaper...

, Ned Washington

Ned Washington

Ned Washington was an American lyricist.-Biography:Washington was nominated for eleven Academy Awards from 1940 to 1962...

) – 2:40 Previously only available on the United Artist Records album UAD 60091/2, "The Lena Horne Collection"

16. "I Keep Forgetting You" (Matt Dubey, Dean Fuller) – 2:32 Previously unreleased

17. "Unforeseen Hands" (Feagen) Previously unreleased

18. "Dream Child" (Peter Rafelson, David Williams) Previously unreleased