Track Listing
1. Eleanor Rigby
2. Thrill Is Gone
3. I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)
4. Tracks Of My Tears
5. Dark End Of The Street
6. Dr Feelgood
7. You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman
8. Since You've Been Gone (Sweet Sweet Baby)
9. Think
10. Ain't No Way
11. You're All I Need To Get By
12. Spirit In The Dark
13. Spirit In The Dark
14. Don't Play That Song
15. Bridge Over Troubled Water
16. See Saw
17. I Say A Little Prayer
18. House That Jack Built
19. Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing
20. Every Natural Thing
21. Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Going To Do)
22. Rock Steady
23. Today I Sing The Blues
24. You Are My Sunshine
25. Call Me
26. Let It Be
27. Drown In My Own Tears
28. Somewhere
29. I Wonder
30. Oh Me Oh My
31. Angel
32. With Everything I Feel In Me
33. Without Love
34. I'm In Love
35. I Can't See Myself Leaving You
36. My Song
37. You're A Sweet Sweet Man
38. Change
39. Going Down Slow
40. Son Of A Preacher Man
41. Honest I Do
42. Come Back Baby
43. Mr DJ (5 For The DJ)
44. Master Of Eyes (The Deepness Of Your Eyes)
45. How I Got Over
46. Brand New Me
47. Border Song (Holy Moses)
48. Young Gifted And Black
49. You And Me
50. Try Matty's
51. Pullin'
52. One Way Ticket
53. Weight
54. Sit Down And Cry
55. It Ain't Fair
56. Pitiful
57. Good To Me As I Am To You
58. Why I Sing The Blues
59. River's Invitation
60. All The King's Horses
61. Share Your Love With Me
62. So Swell When You're Well
63. Take What I Want
64. Rock With Me
65. Break It To Me Gently
66. Look Into Your Heart
67. Sparkle
68. Daydreaming
69. When The Battle Is Over
70. Something He Can Feel
71. People Get Ready
72. Ain't Nobody (Gonna Turn Me Around)
73. Night Life
74. Prove It
75. Never Let Me Go
76. Save Me
77. Good Times
78. Try It Baby
79. Soul Serenade
80. Night Time Is The Right Time
81. You Send Me
82. Chain Of Fools
83. Baby I Love You
84. Do Right Woman Do Right Man
85. Respect
86. Spanish Harlem
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 4 | | Recording Type: | Mixed | | Distributor: | Cinram Logistics | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Aretha Franklin (vocals, piano); Chips Moman, Phil Upchurch (guitar); Charlie Chalmers, Seldon Powell (tenor saxophone); Frank Wess (tenor saxophone, flute); Willie Bridges, Haywood Henry (baritone saxophone); Joe Newman (trumpet); Melvin Lastie (trumpet, cornet); Spooner Oldham (electric piano); Richard Tee (organ); Sylvester Rivers (keyboards); Ted Somers (vibraphone); Tommy Cogbill, Chuck Rainey (bass); Roger Hawkins, Harold Mason (drums); Ralph MacDonald, Poncho Morales (percussion); Erma Franklin, Pam Vincent, Margaret Branch, Brenda Bryant, Carolyn Franklin, Ann S. Clark, Sylvia Shemwell, The Kitty Haywood Singers, Deidre Tuck, Myrna Smith, Sammy Turner, Ronald Bright, J.R. Bailey, Almeida Lattimore, Evelyn Green, Wylene Ivy, Ellie Greenwich (background vocals).Additional guest artists: Cornell DuPree (guitar); Joe Farrell (tenor saxophone); Donny Hathaway (piano); Billy Preston (organ); The Sweet Inspirations, Judy Clay, Dee Dee Warwick, Gwen Guthrie (background vocals).Producers: Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin, Quincy Jones, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Hamlisch, Carole Bayer Sager.Compilation producer: Yves Beauvais.Engineers: Rick Hall, Tom Dowd, Jerome Gasper, Ron Albert, Chuck Kirkpatrick, Lewis Hahn, Jean-Michel Poudubois, Gene Paul, Howard Albert, Chuck Kirkpatrick, Phil Schier, Ray Thompson, Phil Ramone, Lew Hahn, Frank Kejmar, Roger Anfinsen.Recorded from 1967-1976. Digitally remastered by Ted Jensen (July 1992, Sterling Sound, New York).This four-disc box represents the cream of Aretha Franklin's canon. Initially signed to Columbia by the legendary John Hammond, Franklin spent her time floundering about as the label struggled to find a stylistic fit for her. When her contract was up, she signed with Atlantic and was immediately teamed up with producer Jerry Wexler. He promptly enlisted the musical magicians down in Alabama's Muscle Shoals studio as her back-up band. It was as if her bottled-up creativity had been let loose on an unsuspecting world. Like Ray Charles before her, Lady Soul uses her vibrant vocals and powerful piano playing to create a crossroads where musical genres met. Starting with the Gospel she cut her teeth on as a child, Franklin throws ingredients of soul, country, jazz and pop into a delicious musical gumbo.Aretha Franklin's amazing range allowed her to not only write much of her own material, but travel along and pick songs off a wide variety of musical trees. In addition to covering songs by Otis Redding and Don Covay, Franklin also dips into the catalogs of Nina Simone, Willie Nelson, The Beatles and Elton John. During her 12 years with Atlantic, the Queen Of Soul also took turns dabbling in material associated with Motown, Philly soul and Stax. QUEEN OF SOUL is essential listening.
Editorial Reviews
Ranked #2 in the Village Voice's list of the 10 Best Reissues Of 1992.
Village Voice (03/02/1993)
...the entire set is a riveting testament...certainly QUEEN OF SOUL meets the minimum requirement the consumer has a right to ask of these collections: that they, in some unarguable way, be essential...
Musician (01/01/1993)
9 - Excellent Plus - ...The kind by which all other soul records are judged...catchfire, passionate, chart-gracers that took all that was great about gospel and packaged it for the streets...
NME (10/22/1994)
...majestic...There are literally scores of transcendent Aretha performances here... - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (10/09/1992)
Ranked #2 in the Village Voice's list of the 10 Best Reissues Of 1992.Musician (1/93, p.87) - ...the entire set is a riveting testament...certainly QUEEN OF SOUL meets the minimum requirement the consumer has a right to ask of these collections: that they, in some unarguable way, be essential...NME (10/22/94, p.47) - 9 - Excellent Plus - ...The kind by which all other soul records are judged...catchfire, passionate, chart-gracers that took all that was great about gospel and packaged it for the streets...Entertainment Weekly (10/9/92, p.58) - ...majestic...There are literally scores of transcendent Aretha performances here... - Rating: A
Village Voice (03/02/1993)
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