Queen of Soul: The Best of Aretha Franklin

Tracklist

• 1
  Respect
• 2
  Think
  3.6 ★
• 3
  Spanish Harlem
  2.0 ★
• 4
  A Natural Woman
  4.2 ★
• 5
  I Say a Little Prayer
  4.4 ★
• 6
  I Never Loved a Man
• 7
  Save Me
• 8
  Chain of Fools
  4.2 ★
• 9
  See Saw
  3.5 ★
• 10
  Rock Steady
  3.8 ★
• 11
  Don’t Play That Song
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Angel
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing
• 14
  Baby I Love You
• 15
  Until You Come Back to Me
  4.4 ★
• 16
  Oh No Not My Baby
  4.0 ★
• 17
  The House That Jack Built
• 18
  Since You’ve Been Gone
  5.0 ★
• 19
  You’re All I Need to Get By
  3.5 ★
• 20
  Call Me
  4.5 ★
• 21
  Son of a Preacher Man
  4.5 ★
• 22
  Eleanor Rigby
• 23
  Do Right Woman Do Right Man
• 24
  Bridge Over Troubled Water

More by Aretha Franklin

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

• Almeda Lattimore
  background vocals [11]
• Andrew Love
  tenor saxophone [2, 9-10]
• Ann S. Clark
  background vocals [10, 15]
• Aretha Franklin
  arranger [12], lead vocals [2, 5, 9-10, 13, 15], piano [2-3, 5-6, 8-11, 15-16, 20-24], producer [12-13, 15], vocal [1, 3-4, 6-8, 11, 16, 20-24]
• Arif Mardin
  arranger [2, 4-5, 8-9, 15], background vocals [3], flute [3], horn [3], mix [3, 10-11, 13, 15, 19], producer [3, 10-11, 13, 15-16, 19-22, 24], recording [6, 23], strings [3, 10-11, 19], woodwind [10]
• Barry Beckett
  electric piano [16], keyboard [20-22], organ [16]
• Bernard “Pretty” Purdie
  drums (drum set) [3, 10, 15]
• Bernie Glow
  trumpet [4]
• Billy Preston
  organ [24]
• Bob James
  keyboard [13]
• Brenda Bryant
  background vocals [11, 20]
• Carolyn Franklin
  background vocals [3, 10, 23], choir vocals [4, 8]
• Charles Chalmers
  tenor saxophone [1-2, 6, 9]
• Charlie Freeman
  guitar [11]
• Chips Moman
  guitar [6]
• Chuck Kirkpatrick
  engineer [3, 10-11], recording [3, 11]
• Chuck Rainey
  bass [3, 10, 15], electric bass guitar [24]
• Cissy Houston
  background vocals [13, 20, 24]
• Cornell Dupree
  guitar [3, 10, 16, 24]
• David Hood
  bass [20-22], electric bass guitar [16]
• David Spinozza
  guitar [13]
• Donny Hathaway
  electric piano [3, 15], keyboard [13], organ [3, 10]
• Dr. John
  percussion [10]
• Duane Allman
  guitar [16]
• Eddie Hinton
  guitar [16, 20-22]
• Ellie Greenwich
  choir vocals [8]
• Erma Franklin
  background vocals [3, 10], choir vocals [4, 8]
• Floyd Newman
  baritone saxophone [2, 9]
• Gene Chrisman
  drums (drum set) [4]
• Gene Paul
  engineer [19, 24], recording [19]
• Howard Albert
  engineer [10]
• Hugh McCracken
  guitar [15]
• Jerome Gasper
  engineer [21]
• Jerry Jemmott
  bass [5], bass guitar [2, 9]
• Jerry Wexler
  producer [1-11, 13, 15-16, 19-24]
• Jim Dickinson
  keyboard [11]
• Jimmy Johnson
  guitar [1-2, 6, 8-9, 16, 20-22]
• Joe Farrell
  flute [15], solo [15], tenor saxophone [12]
• Joe Newman
  trumpet [4]
• Joe South
  guitar [8]
• Judy Clay
  background vocals [13]
• Ken Bichel
  synthesizer [15]
• King Curtis
  tenor saxophone [1, 6, 24]
• Lew Hahn
  engineer [11, 15]
• Margaret Branch
  background vocals [10-11, 15]
• Melvin Lastie
  trumpet [1, 4, 6]
• Myrna Smith
  background vocals [13]
• Pat Lewis
  background vocals [20]
• Pat Smith
  background vocals [10, 15]
• Phil Ramone
  engineer [13]
• Phil Schier
  mix [12], recording [12], remixer [12]
• Quincy Jones
  arranger [12], producer [12], remixer [12]
• Ralph MacDonald
  percussion [13]
• Ray Lucas
  drums (drum set) [24]
• Richard Tee
  organ [15]
• Rick Marotta
  drums (drum set) [13]
• Robert Popwell
  percussion [10]
• Roger Hawkins
  drums (drum set) [1-2, 5-6, 8-9, 16, 20-23]
• Ron Albert
  engineer [3, 10-11], recording [3, 10-11]
• Sammy Creason
  drums (drum set) [11]
• Spooner Oldham
  electric piano [6, 8-9], organ [2], piano [1, 4]
• Stanley Clarke
  bass [13]
• Sylvia Shemwell
  background vocals [13]
• The Sweet Inspirations
  background vocals [2, 5, 9, 21, 24], choir vocals [4, 8]
• The Sweethearts of Soul
  background vocals [3, 24]
• Tom Dowd
  arranger [2, 4-5, 8-9], engineer [21], horn [10-11], mix [8, 21, 24], producer [3, 10-11, 16, 19-22, 24], recording [1-2, 4-5, 7-9]
• Tommy Cogbill
  bass [1, 6, 23], bass guitar [4, 8], guitar [2, 5, 9]
• Tommy McClure
  bass [11]
• Wayne Jackson
  trumpet [2, 9-10]
• William Eaton
  arranger [13]
• Willie Bridges
  baritone saxophone [1-2, 6, 9]
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Issues

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  Q
  Queen of Soul

  CD
  1 January 2007
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  Q
  Queen of Soul: The Best of Aretha Franklin

  Digital Media
  10 March 2009