The Very Best of Aretha Franklin: The ’70s

Tracklist

• 1
  Rock Steady
  3:14
  3.8 ★
• 2
  Spanish Harlem
  3:30
  2.0 ★
• 3
  Don’t Play That Song
  3:02
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Spirit in the Dark
  4:02
  3.5 ★
• 5
  Border Song (Holy Moses)
  3:19
• 6
  You’re All I Need to Get By
  3:36
  3.5 ★
• 7
  Bridge Over Troubled Water
  5:30
• 8
  A Brand New Me
  4:27
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Day Dreaming
  4:03
  4.5 ★
• 10
  All the King’s Horses
  3:55
• 11
  Angel
  4:31
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Master of Eyes (The Deepness of Your Eyes)
  3:29
• 13
  Oh Me Oh My (I’m a Fool for You Baby)
  3:42
• 14
  Until You Come Back to Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do)
  3:28
  4.4 ★
• 15
  I’m in Love
  2:51
• 16
  Something He Can Feel
  6:23
  4.0 ★

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Amazing Grace 1972

This Girl’s in Love With You

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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 Jackson, Jr.
  drums (drum set) [8, 13]
• Almeda Lattimore
  background vocals [3]
• Andrew Love
  tenor saxophone [1]
• Ann S. Clark
  background vocals [1, 9-10, 14]
• Aretha Franklin
  arranger [11-12], celesta [10], lead vocals [1, 5, 8-10, 13-15], piano [1-5, 7-10, 12-14], producer [11-12, 14-15], vocal [2-4, 7, 12]
• Arif Mardin
  arranger [14], background vocals [2], flute [2], horn [2, 5, 8-10, 13], mix [1-3, 5-6, 8-10, 13-15], producer [1-10, 13-15], strings [1-3, 6, 13], woodwind [1, 13]
• Bernard “Pretty” Purdie
  drums (drum set) [1-2, 9-10, 14]
• Billy Preston
  organ [5, 7]
• Brenda Bryant
  background vocals [3]
• Carolyn Franklin
  background vocals [1-2, 9-10]
• Charlie Freeman
  guitar [3-4]
• Chuck Kirkpatrick
  engineer [1-4, 9-10], recording [2-3]
• Chuck Rainey
  bass [1-2, 9-10, 14], bass guitar [5], electric bass guitar [7]
• Cissy Houston
  background vocals [7, 15]
• Cornell Dupree
  guitar [1-2, 5, 7, 9-10, 15]
• Curtis Mayfield
  arranger [16], producer [16]
• David Spinozza
  guitar [15]
• Deidre Tuck
  background vocals [15]
• Don Arnone
  acoustic guitar [9]
• Donny Hathaway
  electric piano [2, 9, 14], organ [1-2, 8, 10, 13], piano [15]
• Dr. John
  percussion [1]
• Eric Gale
  bass [8], bass guitar [13]
• Erma Franklin
  background vocals [1-2, 9-10]
• Gene Paul
  engineer [5-8, 13], recording [5-6, 8, 13]
• Gwen Guthrie
  background vocals [15]
• Howard Albert
  engineer [1, 9-10]
• Hubert Laws
  alto flute [9]
• Hugh McCracken
  guitar [8, 13-14]
• J.R. Bailey
  background vocals [5]
• Jerry Wexler
  producer [1-10, 13-15]
• Jim Dickinson
  keyboard [3-4]
• Joe Farrell
  flute [14], solo [14], tenor saxophone [11]
• Judy Clay
  background vocals [15]
• Ken Bichel
  synthesizer [14]
• King Curtis
  tenor saxophone [7]
• Lew Hahn
  engineer [3-4, 14]
• Margaret Branch
  background vocals [1, 3, 9-10, 14]
• Neil Rosengarden
  vibraphone [10]
• Pat Smith
  background vocals [1, 9-10, 14]
• Phil Ramone
  engineer [15]
• Phil Schier
  engineer [12], mix [11-12], recording [11-12], remixer [11-12]
• Quincy Jones
  arranger [11-12], mix [12], producer [11-12], remixer [11-12]
• Ralph MacDonald
  percussion [15]
• Ray Lucas
  drums (drum set) [5, 7]
• Richard Tee
  organ [14]
• Richard Tufo
  arranger [16], orchestrator [16]
• Rick Marotta
  drums (drum set) [15]
• Robert Popwell
  percussion [1]
• Roger Anfinsen
  engineer [16], recording [16]
• Ron Albert
  engineer [1-4, 9-10], recording [1-3, 9-10]
• Ronnie Bright
  background vocals [5]
• Sammy Creason
  drums (drum set) [3-4]
• Sammy Turner
  background vocals [5]
• Stanley Clarke
  bass [15]
• The Sweet Inspirations
  background vocals [5, 7-8, 13]
• The Sweethearts of Soul
  background vocals [2, 7]
• Tom Dowd
  horn [1, 3], mix [4, 7], producer [1-7, 9-10]
• Tommy McClure
  bass [3-4]
• Wayne Jackson
  trumpet [1]
• William Eaton
  arranger [15]
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Issues

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  The Very Best of Aretha Franklin, Vol. 2

  CD
  22 March 1994
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  The Very Best of Aretha Franklin: The '70s

  CD
  1994
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  The Very Best of Aretha Franklin: The ’70s

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  The Very Best of Aretha Franklin: The ’70s

  Digital Media