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Aretha's Best
''Aretha's Best'' is a greatest hits compilation by Aretha Franklin released in 2001. This "best of" album contains 20 tracks which were recorded by Franklin from 1967-1987. Critical reception Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databas ... writes, "Rhino's ''Aretha's Best'' is notable for attempting to squeeze highlights of every era of Aretha's career onto one disc." Chart performance ''Aretha's Best'' peaked at number 49 on the ''Billboard'' 200. Track listing All track information and credits adapted from the album's liner notes. Charts References External links Aretha Franklin Official SiteRhino Records Official Site {{Aretha Franklin 2001 greatest hits albums Aretha Franklin compilation albums Rhino Records compilation albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aretha's Best
''Aretha's Best'' is a greatest hits compilation by Aretha Franklin released in 2001. This "best of" album contains 20 tracks which were recorded by Franklin from 1967-1987. Critical reception Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databas ... writes, "Rhino's ''Aretha's Best'' is notable for attempting to squeeze highlights of every era of Aretha's career onto one disc." Chart performance ''Aretha's Best'' peaked at number 49 on the ''Billboard'' 200. Track listing All track information and credits adapted from the album's liner notes. Charts References External links Aretha Franklin Official SiteRhino Records Official Site {{Aretha Franklin 2001 greatest hits albums Aretha Franklin compilation albums Rhino Records compilation albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aretha's Best (Aretha Franklin Album)
''Aretha's Best'' is a greatest hits compilation by Aretha Franklin released in 2001. This "best of" album contains 20 tracks which were recorded by Franklin from 1967-1987. Critical reception Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databas ... writes, "Rhino's ''Aretha's Best'' is notable for attempting to squeeze highlights of every era of Aretha's career onto one disc." Chart performance ''Aretha's Best'' peaked at number 49 on the ''Billboard'' 200. Track listing All track information and credits adapted from the album's liner notes. Charts References External links Aretha Franklin Official SiteRhino Records Official Site {{Aretha Franklin 2001 greatest hits albums Aretha Franklin compilation albums Rhino Records compilation albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Harlem (song)
"Spanish Harlem" is a song recorded by Ben E. King in 1960 for Atco Records. It was written by Jerry Leiber and Phil Spector and produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. "Spanish Harlem" was King's first hit away from The Drifters, peaking at number 15 on ''Billboard''s rhythm and blues and number 10 in pop music chart. The song has been covered by a number of artists including Aretha Franklin, whose version reached number two on ''Billboard''s pop chart. The song was ranked number 358 on ''Rolling Stone''s list of the " 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Background Leiber credited Stoller with the arrangement in a 1968 interview; similarly, Leiber said in a 2009 radio interview with Leiber and Stoller on the '' Bob Edwards Weekend'' talk show that Stoller had written the key instrumental introduction to the record, although he was not credited. Stoller remarks in the team's autobiography ''Hound Dog'' that he had created this "fill" while doing a piano accompaniment when the son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Soul
''Lady Soul'' is the twelfth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin released in early 1968, by Atlantic Records. Background ''Lady Soul'' was Franklin's third R&B chart-topper and reached number two on the ''Billboard'' 200, tying with ''I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You'' for her highest-charting album on the pop chart. The album also included some of her biggest hit singles: "Chain of Fools" (#2 Pop), and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (#8 Pop), and "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" (#5 Pop). It eventually sold well over a million copies in the United States alone. The album was reissued on Rhino Records in a deluxe edition in 1995. Gospel/R&B singer Cissy Houston (mother of Whitney Houston) and her group the Sweet Inspirations are credited as background vocals on several tracks, along with Aretha's sisters Carolyn and Erma Franklin. Eric Clapton, at the time a member of the band Cream, is credited as the guitarist on the track "Good to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone
"(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" is a song by singer Aretha Franklin. Released from her ''Lady Soul'' album in 1968, the song was successful, debuting at number 31 and peaking at number 5 on the Hot 100 for five weeks, and spending three weeks at number 1 on the Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles chart. The B-side, "Ain't No Way", was also a hit, peaking at number 16 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and number 9 on the Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles chart. ''Cash Box'' called it a "powerhouse of vocal energy and tingling ork backup to build another emotional blockbuster." A live recording was featured on the 1968 album ''Aretha in Paris''. The song was co-written by Franklin and her husband Ted. Personnel *Aretha Franklin - lead vocals * Jimmy Johnson and Bobby Womack - guitars *Spooner Oldham - Fender Rhodes electric piano *Tommy Cogbill - bass guitar * Roger Hawkins - drums *Melvin Lastie, Joe Newman, Bernie Glow - trumpets *Tony Studd - bass trombone *King Curtis, Seldon Powell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The House That Jack Built (Aretha Franklin Song)
"The House That Jack Built" is a song written by Bobby Lance and Fran Robbins. It was originally recorded by Thelma Jones and released on the Barry label earlier in 1968. That version did not make the U.S. charts. Aretha Franklin released her version of the song in 1968, and this song reached No. 7 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Aretha Franklin recording Later in 1968, was recorded and performed by Aretha Franklin. The song reached No. 2 on the U.S. R&B chart and No. 7 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The song's B-side, "I Say a Little Prayer", reached No. 3 on the U.S. R&B chart, No. 10 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and No. 4 in the U.K. in 1968. Retrieved September 20, 2013 Charts
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Hal David
Harold Lane David (May 25, 1921 – September 1, 2012) was an American lyricist. He grew up in New York City. He was best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach and his association with Dionne Warwick. Early life David was born in New York City, a son of Austrian Jewish immigrants Lina (née Goldberg) and Gedalier David, who owned a delicatessen in New York. He is the younger brother of American lyricist and songwriter Mack David. Career David is credited with popular music lyrics, beginning in the 1940s with material written for bandleader Sammy Kaye and for Guy Lombardo. He worked with Morty Nevins of The Three Suns on four songs for the feature film ''Two Gals and a Guy'' (1951), starring Janis Paige and Robert Alda. In 1957, David met composer Burt Bacharach at Famous Music in the Brill Building in New York. The two teamed up and wrote their first hit " The Story of My Life", recorded by Marty Robbins in 1957. Subsequently, in the 1960s and early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burt Bacharach
Burt Freeman Bacharach ( ; born May 12, 1928) is an American composer, songwriter, record producer and pianist who composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. A six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Academy Award winner, Bacharach's songs have been recorded by more than 1,000 different artists. , he had written 73 US and 52 UK Top 40 hits. He is considered one of the most important composers of 20th-century popular music. His music is characterized by unusual chord progressions, influenced by his background in jazz harmony, and uncommon selections of instruments for small orchestras. Most of Bacharach and David's hits were written specifically for and performed by Dionne Warwick but earlier associations (from 1957 to 1963) saw the composing duo work with Marty Robbins, Perry Como, Gene McDaniels and Jerry Butler. Following the initial success of these collaborations, Bacharach went on to write hits for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Say A Little Prayer
"I Say a Little Prayer" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for Dionne Warwick, originally peaking at number four on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100 pop singles chart in December 1967. On the R&B Singles chart it peaked at number eight. Dionne Warwick original Intended by lyricist Hal David to convey a woman's concern for her man who's serving in the Vietnam War, "I Say a Little Prayer" was recorded by Dionne Warwick in a 9 April 1966 session. Although Bacharach's recordings with Warwick typically took no more than three takes (often only taking one), Bacharach did ten takes on "I Say a Little Prayer" and still disliked the completed track, feeling it rushed. The track went unreleased until September 1967, when it was introduced on the album '' The Windows of the World'' and it was Scepter Records owner Florence Greenberg rather than Bacharach who wanted "I Say a Little Prayer" added to that album. When disc jockeys from the United States began playing the album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young, Gifted And Black
''Young, Gifted and Black'' is the eighteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Aretha Franklin, released in early 1972, by Atlantic Records. The album climbed to #2 on ''Billboard'''s R&B albums survey and peaked at #11 on the main album chart. It was quickly certified Gold by the RIAA. Its title was cut from "To Be Young, Gifted and Black", recorded and released by Nina Simone in 1969. Franklin won a 1972 Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. In 2003, the television network VH1 named it the 76th greatest album of all time. In 2020, it was ranked number 388 by ''Rolling Stone'' in their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Songs ''Young, Gifted and Black'' contains original songs written and performed by Franklin, such as " Day Dreaming" and "Rock Steady". It also features cover versions of songs by other artists, including "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" by Nina Simone, as well as "I've Been Loving You Too Long" by Otis Redding, "The Long and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Day Dreaming (Aretha Franklin Song)
"Day Dreaming" is a soul single by American singer Aretha Franklin. Released from her album ''Young, Gifted and Black'', it spent two weeks at the top of the Hot Soul Singles chart in April 1972 and peaked at number five on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and number 11 on the Easy Listening singles chart. ''Billboard'' ranked it as the No. 61 song for 1972. Donny Hathaway plays electric piano on the song and Hubert Laws plays the flute. The single version omits the jazzy daydream-like music heard at the beginning and the ending of the track on the album, because the vocals sounded too psychedelic for most radio airplay. It had been rumored the song was about Temptations' singer Dennis Edwards, which was confirmed by Franklin in 1999 on ''The Oprah Winfrey Show''. It would be her twelfth number-one soul single while at Atlantic Records and sold more than one million copies. Cover versions The song has been covered by Mary J. Blige, Will Downing, Penny Ford, Michel'le, Corinne Bailey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aretha In Paris
''Aretha In Paris'' is a live album by American singer Aretha Franklin, released in 1968, by Atlantic Records. The album was recorded in Paris on May 7, 1968. It reached the Top 20 of ''Billboards album chart. It was reissued on compact disc through Rhino Records in the 1990s. Track listing #"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) #"Don't Let Me Lose This Dream" (Franklin, Teddy White) #"Soul Serenade" (Luther Dixon, Curtis Ousley) #"Night Life" (Willie Nelson, Walt Breeland, Paul Buskirk) #"Baby, I Love You" ( Jimmy Holiday, Ronnie Shannon) #"Groovin'" (Eddie Brigati, Felix Cavaliere) #" (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Jerry Wexler) #" Come Back Baby" (Ray Charles) #"Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business)" (Franklin, Teddy White) #" (Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" (Franklin, Teddy White) #"I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" (Ronnie Shannon) #"Chain of Fools" (Don Covay) #"Respect" (Otis Redding) Per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
