Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul/Have a Smile With Me
[This album] couples two pop-slanted vocal albums ... both boasting typically varied repertoires....Ingredientsranges from the immaculate blues ... to the Tin Pan Alley standards ... [one of which is] introduced by an unbearably whitebread choir. Lighthearted fare was the order of the day for 1964'sSmile. If not for Charles's charismatic vocals and the unquenchable verve of his big band, the weightless [songs] ... could easily float away. --Living Blues