Aretha Franklin

• LIMITED EDITION CLASSIC LPs

• HIGH-DEFINITION PREMIUM 180 gram VINYL

• inCLUDES 4 BONUS TRACKS

This essential release includes Aretha’s third album, "The Tender, the Moving, the Swinging Aretha Franklin", originally released by Columbia in 1962. Producer Robert Mersey dipped into a jazz bag on the opening cut. Franklin still didn’t have all of the skills in her arsenal to turn a song like “Just for a Thrill” upside down, as she would “I Say a Little Prayer,” “Respect” or “Let It Be” in later years. Despite her distinctive voice, perhaps some of the other ingredients just weren’t in place yet, but that doesn’t make these recordings any less worthwhile."

In addition to the original masterpiece, this collector’s edition includes 4 bonus tracks from the same period: the touching “Trouble in Mind,” the soulful Ray Charles number “Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I),” the endearing “It’s So Heartbreakin’,” and the dance-floor stomper “Rough Lover.

PERSONNEL:

• ARETHA FRANKLIN, lead vocals.
• Unidentified personnel on all tracks

Recorded in New York, between April 27 and May 11, 1962.

TRACKS:

• SIDE 1
• 1. DON’T CRY, BABY
• 2. TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS
• 3. I APOLOGIZE
• 4. WITHOUT THE ONE YOU LOVE
• 5. LOOK FOR THE SILVER LINING
• 6. I’M SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD
• 7. TROUBLE IN MIND (*)
• 8. HARD TIMES (NO ONE KNOWS BETTER THAN I) (*)

• SIDE 2
• 1. JUST FOR A THRILL
• 2. GOD BLESS THE CHILD
• 3. I’M WANDERING
• 4. HOW DEEP IS THE OCEAN?
• 5. I DON’T KNOW YOU ANYMORE
• 6. LOVER COME BACK TO ME
• 7. IT’S SO HEARTBREAKIN’ (*)
• 8. ROUGH LOVER (*)
• * BONUS TRACKS