Essential Recordings 1956–62

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Right Now
  2:26
• 2
  Today I Sing the Blues
  2:46
• 3
  Love Is the Only Thing
  2:43
• 4
  Over the Rainbow
  2:41
• 5
  (Blue) By Myself
  2:41
• 6
  Won’t Be Long
  3:12
• 7
  All Night Long
  3:00
  3.0 ★
• 8
  It Ain’t Necessarily So
  2:56
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Sweet Lover
  3:25
• 10
  Who Needs You?
  2:49
• 11
  Are You Sure?
  2:44
• 12
  Maybe I’m a Fool
  3:20
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Kissin’ by the Mistletoe
  2:22
• 14
  When They Ask About You
  3:00
• 15
  I Surrender, Dear
  2:48
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Rock‐A‐Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody
  2:26
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Operation Heartbreak
  3:00
• CD 2
• 1
  I Told You So
  2:45
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Rough Lover
  2:49
  4.0 ★
• 3
  It’s So Heartbreakin’
  2:42
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Hard Times
  3:08
• 5
  You Made Me Love You
  2:20
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Just for You
  2:22
  5.0 ★
• 7
  Blue Holiday
  2:55
  4.5 ★
• 8
  That Lucky Old Sun
  3:21
  3.0 ★
• 9
  AC‐Cent‐Tchu‐Ate the Positive
  2:18
  5.0 ★
• 10
  Exactly Like You
  2:38
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Nobody Like You
  2:24
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Try a Little Tenderness
  3:19
  4.0 ★
• 13
  I Apologize
  2:56
• 14
  Without the One You Love
  2:51
• 15
  Don’t Cry, Baby
  3:25
• 16
  I’m Wandering
  3:30
• 17
  I Don’t Know You Anymore
  2:52
• CD 3
• 1
  Lover Come Back to Me
  2:36
• 2
  How Deep Is the Ocean
  2:51
• 3
  I’m Sitting on Top of the World
  2:45
• 4
  Look for the Silver Lining
  3:07
• 5
  Trouble in Mind
  2:16
• 6
  Just for a Thrill
  2:35
• 7
  God Bless the Child
  3:05
  4.0 ★
• 8
  I Surrender, Dear [Mono]
  2:48
• 9
  There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood
  4:29
• 10
  Precious Lord (Part 1)
  3:23
• 11
  Precious Lord (Part 2)
  2:53
• 12
  You Grow Closer
  2:44
• 13
  Never Grow Old
  2:57
• 14
  The Day Is Past and Gone
  4:58
  2.0 ★
• 15
  He Will Wash You White as Snow
  4:18
• 16
  While the Blood Runs Warm
  3:06
• 17
  Yield Not to Temptation
  2:57

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Respect

Respect 2018

Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics

Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics 2014

Release credits

• Al Grey
  trombone [7, 9-11]
• Al Kasha
  producer [13-17]
• Al Sears
  tenor saxophone [5, 7, 10-12]
• Aretha Franklin
  piano [1.6, 1.10-12, 1.15-17, 2.2-5, 2.7, 2.9-11, 2.14], vocal [8]
• Arnold Eidus
  violin [5-6, 8]
• Belton Evans
  drums (drum set) [6, 8]
• Bernard Eichenbaum
  violin [15-17]
• Bernie Glow
  trumpet [1-4]
• Bernie Privin
  trumpet [1-4]
• Bill Lee
  bass [1.1-8, 2.1-4]
• Bucky Pizzarelli
  guitar [2.1-4, 1.15-17]
• C. Massey
  saxophone [15-17]
• Charles Libove
  violin [15-17]
• Chauncey Westbrook
  guitar [2-5, 7-8, 10-12]
• Curtis Lewis
  arranger [2, 6]
• Don Arnone
  guitar [1-4]
• Ernest Hayes
  piano [15-17]
• Gary Chester
  drums (drum set) [16-17]
• Gene Orloff
  violin [5-6, 8]
• George Koutzen
  cello [5-6, 8]
• George Ockner
  violin [15-17]
• Harold Furmansky
  viola [5-6, 8]
• Harry Katzman
  violin [1.15-17, 2.5-6, 2.8]
• Harry Lookofsky
  violin [15-17]
• Hinda Barnett
  violin [5-6, 8]
• J. Leslie McFarland
  arranger [5, 7-8, 10-12]
• James Osie Johnson
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Jerome Richardson
  saxophone [1-4]
• Jerry Dodgion
  saxophone [7, 9-11]
• Jimmy Cleveland
  trombone [1-4]
• Jimmy Cobb
  drums (drum set) [7, 9-11]
• Jimmy Nottingham
  trumpet [1-4]
• Jimmy Rowser
  bass [5-6, 8]
• Joe Newman
  trumpet [7, 9-11]
• Joe Von Battle
  producer [9-17]
• Joe Wilder
  trumpet [1-6, 8]
• John Hammond
  producer [1.2, 1.5-8, 1.10-12, 2.4, 2.7, 2.9, 2.11]
• Julius Schachter
  violin [5-6, 8]
• Larry Gales
  bass [7, 9-11]
• Leo Sacks
  mix [6]
• Leon Frengut
  viola [5-6, 8]
• Mark Wilder
  mix [6]
• Milt Hinton
  bass [10-12]
• Moe Wechsler
  piano [1-4]
• Morty Bowman
  trombone [1-4]
• Mundell Lowe
  guitar [5-11]
• Oliver Nelson
  saxophone [7, 9-11]
• Osie Johnson
  drums (drum set) [2-4]
• Peter Makas
  cello [5-6, 8]
• Phil Bodner
  saxophone [5-6, 8]
• Quentin Jackson
  trombone [5, 7]
• Ray Bryant
  piano [2-8]
• Richard Wess
  arranger [1.15-17, 2.1-11], conductor [1.15-17, 2.1-11]
• Robert Alexander
  trombone [1-4]
• Robert Ascher
  trombone [15-17]
• Robert Mersey
  arranger [2.12-17, 3.1, 3.3-4, 3.6-7], conductor [2.12-17, 3.1, 3.3-4, 3.6-7], producer [3.1, 3.3-4, 3.6-7, 2.12-17]
• Romeo Penque
  saxophone [1-4]
• Russ Savakus
  bass [15-17]
• Skeeter Best
  guitar [1]
• Stanley Webb
  saxophone [1-4]
• Sticks Evans
  drums (drum set) [5, 7, 10-12]
• Ted Sommer
  drums (drum set) [1-6, 8]
• Tommy Flanagan
  piano [5-6, 8]
• Tony Bambino
  violin [5-6, 8]
• Toots Mondello
  saxophone [1-4]
• Tyree Glenn
  trombone [1-4]
• Urbie Green
  trombone [1-4]
• Warren Luckey
  tenor saxophone [8]
• Wynton Kelly
  piano [7, 9-11]
• [unknown]
  background vocals [15-17]
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Issues

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  Essential Recordings 1956–62

  3x CD
  2017