The Very Best of Aretha Franklin

Tracklist

• 1
  Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves

  Eurythmics & Aretha Franklin
  4:32
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Chain of Fools
  2:46
  4.2 ★
• 3
  Respect
  2:27
  3.9 ★
• 4
  I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)
  2:43
• 5
  Save Me
  2:17
  4.5 ★
• 6
  The House That Jack Built
  2:20
• 7
  See Saw
  2:43
  3.5 ★
• 8
  Think
  2:18
  3.6 ★
• 9
  Since You’ve Been Gone
  2:24
  4.4 ★
• 10
  I Say a Little Prayer
  3:33
  4.4 ★
• 11
  Dr. Feelgood
  3:20
• 12
  Baby, I Love You
  2:38
  3.0 ★
• 13
  (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
  2:42
  4.2 ★
• 14
  Don’t Play That Song
  2:59
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Rock Steady
  3:14
  3.8 ★
• 16
  Spanish Harlem
  3:31
  2.0 ★
• 17
  Day Dreaming
  3:59
  4.5 ★
• 18
  I’m in Love
  2:50
• 19
  Until You Come Back to Me
  3:27
  4.4 ★
• 20
  Angel
  4:26
  4.0 ★

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 [14]
• Andrew Love
  tenor saxophone [7-8, 15]
• Ann S. Clark
  background vocals [15, 17, 19]
• Aretha Franklin
  arranger [20], choir vocals [12], lead vocals [7-8, 10, 12, 15, 17-19], piano [2-4, 7-8, 10, 14-17, 19], producer [18-20], vocal [2-5, 9, 11, 13-14, 16]
• Arif Mardin
  arranger [2-3, 7-10, 12-13, 19], background vocals [16], flute [16], horn [9, 16-17], mix [14-19], producer [14-19], recording [4-5, 12], strings [14-16], woodwind [15]
• Bernard “Pretty” Purdie
  drums (drum set) [15-17, 19]
• Bernie Glow
  trumpet [9, 13]
• Bobby Womack
  guitar [9]
• Brenda Bryant
  background vocals [14]
• Carolyn Franklin
  background vocals [3, 15-17], choir vocals [2, 9, 12-13]
• Charles Chalmers
  tenor saxophone [3-5, 7-8, 11-12]
• Charlie Freeman
  guitar [14]
• Chips Moman
  guitar [4-5]
• Chuck Kirkpatrick
  engineer [14-17], recording [14, 16]
• Chuck Rainey
  bass [15-17, 19]
• Cissy Houston
  background vocals [18]
• Cornell Dupree
  guitar [15-18]
• David Spinozza
  guitar [18]
• Deidre Tuck
  background vocals [18]
• Don Arnone
  acoustic guitar [17]
• Donny Hathaway
  electric piano [16-17, 19], organ [15-16], piano [18]
• Dr. John
  percussion [15]
• Ellie Greenwich
  choir vocals [2]
• Erma Franklin
  background vocals [3, 15-17], choir vocals [2, 9, 13]
• Floyd Newman
  baritone saxophone [7-8]
• Frank Wess
  tenor saxophone [9]
• Gene Chrisman
  drums (drum set) [11, 13]
• Gwen Guthrie
  background vocals [18]
• Henry Haywood
  baritone saxophone [9]
• Howard Albert
  engineer [15, 17]
• Hubert Laws
  alto flute [17]
• Hugh McCracken
  guitar [19]
• Irma Franklyn
  choir vocals [12]
• Jerry Jemmott
  bass [10], bass guitar [7-8]
• Jerry Wexler
  producer [2-5, 7-19]
• Jim Dickinson
  keyboard [14]
• Jimmy Johnson
  electric guitar [12], guitar [2-5, 7-9]
• Joe Farrell
  flute [19], solo [19], tenor saxophone [20]
• Joe Newman
  trumpet [9, 13]
• Joe South
  electric guitar [12], guitar [2]
• Judy Clay
  background vocals [18]
• Ken Bichel
  synthesizer [19]
• King Curtis
  tenor saxophone [3-5, 9, 11-12]
• Lew Hahn
  engineer [14, 19]
• Margaret Branch
  background vocals [14-15, 17, 19]
• Melvin Lastie
  cornet [3], trumpet [4-5, 9, 11-13]
• Pat Smith
  background vocals [15, 17, 19]
• Phil Ramone
  engineer [18]
• Phil Schier
  mix [20], recording [20], remixer [20]
• Quincy Jones
  arranger [20], producer [20], remixer [20]
• Ralph MacDonald
  percussion [18]
• Richard Tee
  organ [19]
• Rick Marotta
  drums (drum set) [18]
• Robert Popwell
  percussion [15]
• Roger Hawkins
  drums (drum set) [2-5, 7-10, 12]
• Ron Albert
  engineer [14-17], recording [14-17]
• Sammy Creason
  drums (drum set) [14]
• Seldon Powell
  tenor saxophone [9]
• Spooner Oldham
  electric piano [2, 4, 7, 9, 12], organ [3, 8, 12], piano [11-13]
• Stanley Clarke
  bass [18]
• Ted Somers
  vibraphone [12]
• The Sweet Inspirations
  background vocals [7-8, 10], choir vocals [2, 9, 13]
• The Sweethearts of Soul
  background vocals [16]
• Tom Dowd
  arranger [2-3, 5, 7-10, 12-13], conductor [3, 5], horn [14-15], mix [2], producer [14-17], recording [2-3, 5, 7-13]
• Tommy Cogbill
  bass [4, 11], bass guitar [2-3, 5, 9, 12-13], guitar [7-8, 10]
• Tommy McClure
  bass [14]
• Tony Studd
  bass trombone [9, 12]
• Truman Thomas
  electric piano [12], organ [12], piano [12]
• Wayne Jackson
  trumpet [7-8, 15]
• William Eaton
  arranger [18]
• Willie Bridges
  baritone saxophone [3-5, 7-8, 11-12]
• Show all credits (71)

Issues

• 

  T
  The Very Best of Aretha Franklin

  CD
  1994