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Aretha Franklin: Lady Soul

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Label: Atlantic Records
Released: 1968.01.22
Time:
 28:41
Category: R&B, Soul
Producer(s): Jerry Wexler
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.arethafranklin.net
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Chain Of Fools (D.Covay) - 2:46
[2] Money Won't Change You (J.Brown/N.Jones) - 2:09
[3] People Get Ready (C.Mayfield) - 3:42
[4] Niki Hoeky (J.Ford/L.Vegas/P.Vegas) - 2:31
[5] (You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman (G.Goffin/C.King/J.Wexler) - 2:44
[6] (Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone (A.Franklin/T.White) - 2:25
[7] Good to Me As I Am to You (A.Franklin/T.White) - 3:56
[8] Come Back Baby (W.Davis) - 2:25
[9] Groovin' (F.Cavaliere/E.Brigati) - 2:57
[10] Ain't No Way (C.Franklin) - 4:17
        Bonus Selections:
[11] Chain Of Fools [Unedited Version] (D.Covey) - 4:22
[12] (You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman [Mono Single Version] (G.Goffin/C.King/J.Wexler) - 2:49
[13] Since You've Been Gone (Sweet Sweet Baby) [Mono Single Version] (A.Franklin/T.White) - 2:28
[14] Ain't No Way [Mono Single Version] (A.Franklin/C.Franklin) - 4:12

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Aretha Franklin - Vocals, Piano

Jimmy Johnson - Guitars
Joe South - Guitars
Spooner Oldham - Electric Piano, Organ
Tommy Cogbill - Bass
Roger Hawkins - Drums
The Sweet Inspirations - Background Vocals
Carolyn Franklin - Background Vocals
Erma Franklin - Background Vocals
Ellie Greenwich - Background Vocals
Bobby Womack - Guitar
Melvin Lastie - Trumpets
Joe Newman - Trumpets
Bernie Glow - Trumpets
Tony Studd - Bass Trombone
King Curtis - Tenor Saxophones
Seldon Powell - Tenor Saxophones
Frank Wess - Tenor Saxophone, Flute
Haywood Henry - Baritone Saxophone
Gene Chrisman - Drums
Eric Clapton - Guitar on [7]
Warren Smith - Vibraharp
Cissy Houston - Vocal

Ralph Burns - Strings Conductor
Arif Mardin - Sring & Horn Arrangement

Jerry Wexler - Producer
Tom Dowd - Recording Engineer, Arrangements
Vincent Nanfra - Photography
Jon Landau - Liner Notes

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1968 LP Atlantic - SD 8176
1988 CD Atlantic - 7567-81818-2

Recorded in February 16 - December 20, 1967 at Atlantic Studios, (New York City, New York)



Aretha Franklin's third Atlantic album in less than two years is another classic, with "(You Make Me Feel) Like a Natural Woman," "Ain't No Way" and a slinky version of the Rascals' "Groovin'." It was released in a year of triumph and turbulence for Franklin: Although she made the cover of Time, the magazine reported details of her rocky marriage to Ted White, then her manager. But Franklin channeled that frenzy into performances of funky pride and magisterial hurt. Among the best: the grand-prayer treatment of Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready," the revved-up longing of "Since You've Been Gone (Sweet Sweet Baby)" and her explosive anguish on the hit cover of Don Covay's "Chain of Fools."

500 Greatest Albums of All Time
RollingStone.com



Released in January 1968, Lady Soul completed a remarkable 12 months of achievement for Aretha Franklin. Having been signed to Atlantic in 1966 after years in the doldrums at Columbia, her Jerry Wexler-produced albums, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You and Aretha Arrives had finally made her the critical and commercial toast of America. Pieced together from material recorded since the start of 1967 - with the bulk captured at a December session in New York - Lady Soul won a set of remarkable statistical achievements that testify to how widely it cast its net. For example, the album peaked at numbers 1, 2 and 3 on Billboard's Black Album, Pop Album and Jazz Album charts respectively. It is one of those rare records that truly captures a moment; not just of Franklin’s singing, playing and writing, but of the electrifying support of the FAME studios session players. Guests included Bobby Womack and Eric Clapton, then in his imperial phase with Cream, and the album featured the vocal majesty of Franklin’s sisters, Carolyn and Erma.

Lady Soul hooks the listener in from the first very note of Joe South’s detuned guitar on Chain of Fools. Written by Don Covay, it became one of Franklin’s biggest hits and was to take on an incredible resonance as the Vietnam War destructively limped on for America. And (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman is one of the greatest performances of one of the most sublime songs ever written. At a little over two minutes into Good to Me as I Am to You, there is possibly the answer to the vexed and ongoing question, “What is soul?” It’s when Franklin sings the phrase “listen to this” over swelling horns, led by King Curtis, and the bass of Tommy Cogbill, sounding like he has several pairs of hands. It is simply perfect.

Nobody does it quite like Franklin (or, as Wexler called her, “the lady of mysterious sorrows”) – that irresistible marriage of the spiritual and the secular, the warm passion of her vocal. Often copied, yet never equalled, these 10 tracks represent Aretha Franklin’s coronation as the Queen of Soul.

Daryl Easlea - 2013
BBC Review



Despite the presence of the sweetened (and great) single "A Natural Woman," Aretha Franklin's third Atlantic album is even more elegantly gritty than its two predecessors. She finds liberation in James Brown's "Money Won't Change You" and a revved-up take on Ray Charles's "Come Back Baby" much as she had in "Respect" and "Think" earlier, while Eric Clapton's guitar on "Good to Me As I Am to You" stings as much as her rueful, resigned delivery.

Rickey Wright - Amazon.com



Appearing after a blockbuster debut and a sophomore set that was rather disappointing (in comparison), 1968's Lady Soul proved Aretha Franklin, the pop sensation, was no fluke. Her performances were more impassioned than on her debut, and the material just as strong, an inspired blend of covers and originals from the best songwriters in soul and pop music. The opener, "Chain of Fools," became the biggest hit, driven by a chorus of cascading echoes by Franklin and her bedrock backing vocalists, the Sweet Impressions, plus the unforgettable, earthy guitar work of guest Joe South. The album's showpiece, though, was "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," a song written expressly for her by Brill Building pop stalwarts Gerry Goffin and Carole King, based on a title coined by producer Jerry Wexler. One of the landmark performances in pop music, the song floats serenely through the verses until, swept up by Ralph Burns' stirring string arrangement again and again, Franklin opens up on the choruses with one of the most transcendent vocals of her career. And just as she'd previously transformed a soul classic (Otis Redding's "Respect") into a signature piece of her own, Franklin courageously reimagined songs by heavyweights James Brown, Ray Charles, and the Impressions. Brown's "Money Won't Change You" is smooth and kinetic, her testifying constantly reinforced by interjections from the Sweet Inspirations. Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready," a 1965 civil-rights anthem and a hit for the Impressions, is taken at a slower pace than the original; after a quiet verse, Franklin lets loose amidst a magisterial brass arrangement by Arif Mardin. Powered by three hit singles (each nested in the upper reaches of the pop Top Ten), Lady Soul became Aretha Franklin's second gold LP and remained on the charts for over a year.

John Bush - AllMusic.com



Lady Soul is the fourteenth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, Released on January 22, 1968 by Atlantic Records. The album was her second R&B chart-topper, the follow-up to Aretha Arrives and 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 over a million copies in the United States alone. The album was reissued on Rhino Records in a deluxe edition in 1995. Lady Soul peaked at #1, #2 and #3 on Billboard's Black Albums, Pop Albums and Jazz Albums charts respectively. The single "Ain't No Way" - B-Side of "Since You've Been Gone (Sweet, Sweet, Baby)" - peaked at #9 on the Black Singles chart, and #16 on the Pop Singles chart. 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. In 2003 the TV network VH1 named Lady Soul the 41st greatest album of all time. It is number 84 on Rolling Stone′s list "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

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