{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = What Is Soul? | type = studio | artist = Ben E. King | cover = What Is Soul.jpeg | alt = | released = March 8, 1967 | recorded = January 21, 1967<ref>Ruppli, Michel. [https://books.google.com/books?id=pKRHAAAAMAAJ ''Atlantic Records: A Discography'', Volume 2, p. 73.] Greenwood Press, 1979. {{ISBN|0313211728}}, {{ISBNT|9780313211720}}. Google Books. Retrieved 10 June 2020.</ref> | venue = NYC | studio = Talent Masters | genre = Soul | length = | label = Atco | producer = Bert Berns | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = | next_year = }}

'''''What is Soul''''' is the seventh album and sixth studio album by Ben E. King, and his fifth and last studio album on the Atco label.

==Track listing==

#"The Record (Baby I Love You)" (Kenny Young, Arthur Resnick) #"She's Gone Again" (Ben E. King) #"There's No Place To Hide" (Roger Atkins, Helen Miller) #"Cry No More" (Bert Berns, Jerry Ragovoy) #"Goodnight My Love, Pleasant Dreams" (George Motola, John Marascalco) #"Katherine" (Ben E. King, Bob Gallo) #"I Can't Break The News To Myself" (Jimmy Williams, Larry Harrison) #"I Swear By Stars Above" (J.R. Bailey, Johnny Northern) #"Get in a Hurry" (Joe Simon) #"They Don't Give Medals To Yesterday's Heroes" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) #"Teeny Wheeny Little Bit" (Ben E. King) #"What Is Soul?" (Ben E. King, Bob Gallo)

==Personnel== *Ben E. King – vocals *Art Farmer – trumpet *Dave Burns – trumpet *George Jeffers – trombone *Bill Bivens – tenor sax *Haywood Henry – baritone sax *Robert Banks – piano *Billy Butler – guitar *Chuck Rainey – electric bass *Bernard Purdie – drums *Strings *Bob Gallo and Eric Gale (arr., dir.)

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