Aretha Franklin - The Electrifying Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin, vocals [click here to see more vinyl featuring Aretha Franklin]
Written by James Vincent Monaco (A1), Joe McCarthy (A1), John Leslie McFarland (A2, A6, B1, B3), Jean Schwartz (A3), Joe Young (A3), Sam M. Lewis (A3), James Cleveland (A4), Dorothy Fields (A5), Jimmy McHugh (A5), Luther Dixon (B2), Willie Dixon (B2), J. Bailey (B3), Harry Beasley Smith (B4), Haven Gillespie (B4), Gordon Clifford (B5), Harry Barris (B5), Harold Arlen (B6), Johnny Mercer (B6)
1 LP, standard sleeve
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Record Industry
Label : Music on Vinyl
Original Label : Columbia
Recorded July 11, 1961 – January 25, 1962 at Columbia Recording Studios, New York City
Produced by John H. Hammond, Richard Wess
Originally released in March 1962
Reissued in 2011
Tracks:
Side A
- You Made Me Love You
- I Told You So
- Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody
- Nobody Like You
- Exactly Like You
- It's So Heartbreakin'
Side B
- Rough Lover
- Blue Holiday
- Just For You
- That Lucky Old Sun
- I Surrender, Dear
- Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive
Reviews:
“Before she signed to Atlantic Records in 1967, achieving huge commercial success and earning the honorific title ‘The Queen of Soul’, Aretha Franklin had a six-year period with Columbia Records during which she not only recorded her first secular album, Aretha: With The Ray Bryant Combo, but also became the darling of the jazz club circuit, picked as the new star female vocalist in Down Beat magazine's International Jazz Critics Poll. This release brings together the second and third of Aretha's albums for Columbia, The Electrifying Aretha Franklin and The Tender, the Moving, the Swinging Aretha Franklin, both dating from 1962. Conducted and arranged by Richard Wess and featuring a stellar cast of musicians including Oliver Nelson (sax), Mundell Lowe and Bucky Pizzarelli (guitar), Wynton Kelly and Tommy Flanagan (piano) and Jimmy Cobb (drums), the former ranges from the dramatic onward surge of ‘Rough Lover’ to the exuberant sermonising of ‘Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive’. Highlights from the latter include the self-penned ‘Without the One You Love’ to a searingly powerful ‘Lover Come Back to Me’.” Jazzwise Review by Peter Quinn
Ratings :
AllMusic : 3 / 5 , Discogs : 4.08 / 5