Aretha

Tracklist

• 1
  Won’t Be Long
  3:14
• 2
  Over the Rainbow
  2:43
• 3
  Love Is the Only Thing
  2:46
• 4
  Sweet Lover
  3:27
• 5
  All Night Long
  3:03
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Who Needs You?
  2:52
• 7
  Right Now
  2:28
• 8
  Are You Sure?
  2:46
• 9
  Maybe I’m a Fool
  3:22
  3.0 ★
• 10
  It Ain’t Necessarily So
  2:59
  4.0 ★
• 11
  (Blue) By Myself
  2:44
• 12
  Today I Sing the Blues
  2:49
• 13
  Who Needs You? (alternate take)
  3:09
• 14
  Precious Lord – Part 1
  3:29
• 15
  Precious Lord – Part 2
  2:56
• 16
  Never Grow Old
  2:59
• 17
  You Grow Closer
  2:46
• 18
  Rock‐a‐Bye Your Baby
  2:28
• 19
  Operation Heartbreak
  3:02
• 20
  It’s So Heartbreakin’
  2:44
• 21
  Hard Times
  3:09

More by Aretha Franklin, The Ray Bryant Combo

Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace 1972

This Girl’s in Love With You

This Girl’s in Love With You 1970

Lady Soul

Lady Soul 1968

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You 1967

Respect

Respect 2018

Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics

Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics 2014

Release credits

• Al Sears
  tenor saxophone [5-6, 8-9, 11]
• Aretha Franklin
  piano [1, 6, 8-9], vocal [10]
• Belton Evans
  drums (drum set) [1, 4, 10]
• Bill Lee
  bass [1-5, 7, 10-12]
• Chauncey Westbrook
  guitar [2-3, 5-6, 8-12]
• Curtis Lewis
  arranger [1, 12]
• J. Leslie McFarland
  arranger [5-6, 8-11]
• James Osie Johnson
  drums (drum set) [7]
• John Hammond
  producer [1, 5-6, 8-12]
• Leo Sacks
  mix [1]
• Mark Wilder
  mix [1]
• Milt Hinton
  bass [6, 8-9]
• Osie Johnson
  drums (drum set) [2-3, 12]
• Quentin Jackson
  trombone [5, 11]
• Ray Bryant
  piano [1-5, 10-12]
• Skeeter Best
  guitar [7]
• Sticks Evans
  drums (drum set) [5-6, 8-9, 11]
• Tyree Glenn
  trombone [2-3, 7, 12]
• Warren Luckey
  tenor saxophone [10]
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Issues

• 

  A
  (Combined release view)
• 

  A
  Aretha

  12" Vinyl
  27 February 1961
• 

  T
  The First 12 Sides

  CD
  1989
• 

  T
  The First 12 Sides

  CD
  1989
• 

  A
  Aretha

  CD
  2008
• 

  I
  It Aint Necessarily So

  Digital Media
  28 January 2011
• 

  A
  Aretha

  CD (European import with bonus tracks)
  2018
• 

  A
  Aretha in Person With The Ray Bryant Combo

  Digital Media (expanded edition)