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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)
2. Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
3. Save Me
4. Respect
5. Baby, Baby, Baby
6. Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business)
7. Natural Woman, (You Make Me Feel Like) A
8. Soul Serenade
9. Drown in My Own Tears
10. Chain of Fools
11. Baby, I Love You
12. Ain't Nobody (Gonna Turn Me Around)
13. Since You've Been Gone (Sweet Sweet Baby)
14. You Are My Sunshine
15. Going Down Slow
16. Never Let Me Go
17. I Wonder
18. Prove It
19. Good Times
20. Come Back Baby
21. Change, A
22. You're a Sweet Sweet Man
23. Good to Me as I Am to You
24. People Get Ready
25. Ain't No Way
DISC 2:
1. Think
2. See Saw
3. House That Jack Built, The
4. Night Time Is the Right Time
5. I Say a Little Prayer
6. You Send Me
7. My Song
8. I Take What I Want
9. I Can't See Myself Leaving You
10. Night Life - (live)
11. Today I Sing the Blues
12. Pitiful
13. Tracks of My Tears
14. River's Invitation
15. Share Your Love With Me
16. It Ain't Fair
17. Sit Down and Cry
18. Honest I Do
19. Weight, The
20. When the Battle Is Over
21. Eleanor Rigby
22. One Way Ticket
23. Call Me
24. Pullin'
DISC 3:
1. Son of a Preacher Man
2. Try Matty's
3. Thrill Is Gone, The (From Yesterday's Kiss)
4. Dark End of the Street
5. You and Me
6. Let It Be
7. Spirit in the Dark
8. Why I Sing the Blues
9. Don't Play That Song
10. Young, Gifted and Black
11. Border Song (Holy Moses)
12. Brand New Me, A
13. You're All I Need to Get By
14. Spanish Harlem
15. Rock Steady
16. Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool For You Baby)
17. Day Dreaming
18. All the King's Horses
19. Bridge Over Troubled Water
20. Angel
DISC 4:
1. Spirit in the Dark - (live, with Ray Charles)
2. How I Got Over
3. So Swell When You're Well
4. Master of Eyes (The Deepness of Your Eyes)
5. Somewhere
6. I'm in Love
7. Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing
8. Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)
9. Every Natural Thing
10. Without Love
11. With Everything I Feel in Me
12. Mr. D.J. (5 For the D.J.)
13. Look Into Your Heart
14. Sparkle
15. Rock With Me
16. Break It to Me Gently
17. Something He Can Feel
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.
Industry 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)
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