Tribute to Uncle Ray

{{Short description|1962 studio album by Little Stevie Wonder}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}}

{{Infobox album

| name = Tribute to Uncle Ray

| type = studio

| artist = Little Stevie Wonder

| cover = TributeToUncleRay.jpg

| alt =

| released = October 1962

| recorded = 1962

| venue =

| studio = Hitsville U.S.A. Studio A, Detroit, Michigan

| genre =

• Jazz
• soul{{cite book|last= Breihan|first= Tom|chapter= The Supremes - "Where Did Our Love Go|date= November 15, 2022|title= The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music|publisher=Hachette Book Group|location= New York|page= 56}}

| length = 31:13

| label = Tamla

| producer = Henry Cosby, Clarence Paul

| chronology = Little Stevie Wonder

| prev_title = The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie

| prev_year = 1962

| next_title = Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius

| next_year = 1963

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|2|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r22202|pure_url=yes}} Tribute to Uncle Ray review by William Ruhlmann], AllMusic.

| rev2 = Tom Hull

| rev2Score = B{{cite web|last=Hull|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Hull (critic)|date=November 2013|url=http://www.tomhull.com/ocston/arch/cg/cg13-11.php|title=Recycled Goods (#114)|work=A Consumer Guide to the Trailing Edge|publisher=Tom Hull|access-date=June 20, 2020}}

| rev3 = New Record Mirror

| rev3Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{Cite magazine |last= Watson|first= Jimmy |date=14 September 1963 |title=Little Stevie Wonder: Tribute To Uncle Ray |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/63/Record-Mirror-1963-09-14-S-OCR.pdf |magazine=New Record Mirror |issue=131 |page=10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408000553/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/63/Record-Mirror-1963-09-14-S-OCR.pdf|archive-date=8 April 2022|access-date=6 August 2022}}

}}

Tribute to Uncle Ray is the second studio album by Little Stevie Wonder, released by Motown in October 1962, shortly after The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie. Even though it was released second, it had been recorded first, when Wonder was 11 years old.{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=YNae0zmGow4C&pg=PA314|page=314|title=Icons of R&B and Soul|author=Bob Gulla|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|date= 2008|isbn=9780313340468}} The album was an attempt by Berry Gordy and Motown to associate the young "Little Stevie Wonder" with the successful and popular Ray Charles, who was also a blind African-American musician.Ribowsky, Mark. Signed, Sealed and Delivered: The Soulful Journey of Stevie Wonder. Like Wonder's debut, this album failed to generate hit singles, as Motown struggled to find a sound to fit Wonder, who was just 12 when this album was released.