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1967 I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (Atlantic SD 8139)
1968 Lady Soul (Atlantic SD 8176 Original pressing)
1968 Aretha Now (Atlantic SD 8186 Stereo)
1968 Aretha Now (Atlantic 587 114 Mono)
1970 Spirit in the Dark (Atlantic SD 8265 Original pressing)
1986 I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) (Epic EPC 650253 6 Maxi-Single)
Aretha Franklin is one of the giants of soul music, and indeed of American pop as a whole. More than any other performer, she epitomized soul at its most gospel-charged. Her astonishing run of late-'60s hits with Atlantic Records -- "Respect," "I Never Loved a Man," "Chain of Fools," "Baby I Love You," "I Say a Little Prayer," "Think," "The House That Jack Built," and several others -- earned her the title "Lady Soul," which she has worn uncontested ever since. Yet as much of an international institution as she's become, much of her work -- outside of her recordings for Atlantic in the late '60s and early '70s -- is erratic and only fitfully inspired, making discretion a necessity when collecting her records.
Franklin's roots in gospel ran extremely deep. With her sisters Carolyn and Erma (both of whom would also have recording careers), she sang at the Detroit church of her father, Reverend C.L. Franklin, while growing up in the 1950s. In fact, she made her first recordings as a gospel artist at the age of 14. It has also been reported that Motown was interested in signing Aretha back in the days when it was a tiny start-up. Ultimately, however, Franklin ended up with Columbia, to which she was signed by the renowned talent scout John Hammond.
Franklin would record for Columbia constantly throughout the first half of the '60s, notching occasional R&B hits (and one Top 40 single, "Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody") but never truly breaking out as a star. The Columbia period continues to generate considerable controversy among critics, many of whom feel that Aretha's true aspirations were being blunted by pop-oriented material and production. In fact, there's a reasonable amount of fine items to be found on the Columbia sides, including the occasional song ("Lee Cross," "Soulville") where she belts out soul with real gusto. It's undeniably true, though, that her work at Columbia was considerably tamer than what was to follow, and suffered in general from a lack of direction and an apparent emphasis on trying to develop her as an all-around entertainer, rather than as an R&B/soul singer.
When Franklin left Columbia for Atlantic, producer Jerry Wexler was determined to bring out her most soulful, fiery traits. As part of that plan, he had her record her first single, "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)," at Muscle Shoals in Alabama with esteemed Southern R&B musicians. In fact, that was to be her only session actually at Muscle Shoals, but much of the remainder of her '60s work would be recorded with the Muscle Shoals Sound Rhythm Section, although the sessions would actually take place in New York City. The combination was one of those magic instances of musical alchemy in pop: the backup musicians provided a much grittier, soulful, and R&B-based accompaniment for Aretha's voice, which soared with a passion and intensity suggesting a spirit that had been allowed to fly loose for the first time.
In the late '60s, Franklin became one of the biggest international recording stars in all of pop. Many also saw Franklin as a symbol of black America itself, reflecting the increased confidence and pride of African-Americans in the decade of the civil rights movement and other triumphs for the black community. The chart statistics are impressive in and of themselves: ten Top Ten hits in a roughly 18-month span between early 1967 and late 1968, for instance, and a steady stream of solid mid- to large-size hits for the next five years after that. Her Atlantic albums were also huge sellers, and far more consistent artistically than those of most soul stars of the era. Franklin was able to maintain creative momentum, in part, because of her eclectic choice of material, which encompassed first-class originals and gospel, blues, pop, and rock covers, from the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel to Sam Cooke and the Drifters. She was also a fine, forceful, and somewhat underrated keyboardist.
Franklin's commercial and artistic success was unabated in the early '70s, during which she landed more huge hits with "Spanish Harlem," "Bridge Over Troubled Water," and "Day Dreaming." She also produced two of her most respected, and earthiest, album releases with Live at Fillmore West and Amazing Grace. The latter, a 1972 double LP, was a reinvestigation of her gospel roots, recorded with James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir. Remarkably, it made the Top Ten, counting as one of the greatest gospel-pop crossover smashes of all time.
Franklin had a few more hits over the next few years -- "Angel" and the Stevie Wonder cover "Until You Come Back to Me" being the most notable. Her Atlantic contract ended at the end of the 1970s, and since then she's managed to get intermittent hits -- "Who's Zooming Who" and "Jump to It" are among the most famous. Many of her successes were duets, or crafted with the assistance of contemporaries such as Luther Vandross. In 1986 Franklin released her follow-up to Who’s Zoomin’ Who?, the self-titled Aretha, which saw the single “I Knew You Were Waiting for Me,” a duet with George Michael, hit the top of the charts. There was also another return to gospel in 1987 with One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism. Franklin shifted back to pop with 1989’s Through the Storm, but it wasn’t a commercial success, and neither was 1991’s new jack swing-styled What You See Is What You Sweat.
Now solidly an iconic figure and acknowledged as one of the best singers of her generation no matter what her record sales were, Franklin contributed songs to several movie soundtracks in the next few years before releasing the R&B-based A Rose Is Still a Rose in 1998. So Damn Happy followed five years later in 2003 and again saw disappointing sales, but it did generate the Grammy-winning song “Wonderful.” Franklin left Arista Records that same year after 23 years and started her own label, Aretha’s Records, two years later in 2005. A duets compilation, Jewels in the Crown: All-Star Duets with the Queen, was issued in 2007, followed by her first holiday album, 2008’s This Christmas Aretha, originally as a Borders exclusive and then distributed by DMI. The first release on her own label, Aretha: A Woman Falling Out of Love, appeared in the spring of 2011. Despite sometimes poor health, she continued to select new projects to work on, ever the institution, her reputation secure as one of the best singers of the modern era.
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1967 I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You/A1 - Respect.flac
51.8 MB
1967 I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You/A2 - Drown In My Own Tears.flac
82.3 MB
1967 I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You/A3 - I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You).flac
55 MB
1967 I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You/A4 - Soul Serenade.flac
51.9 MB
1967 I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You/A5 - Don't Let Me Lose This Dream.flac
46.9 MB
1967 I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You/A6 - Baby, Baby, Baby.flac
57.2 MB
1967 I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You/Artwork/Aretha_I Never Loved_Back.jpg
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1967 I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You/Artwork/Aretha_I Never Loved_Front.jpg
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1967 I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You/Artwork/Aretha_I Never Loved_LabelA.jpg
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1967 I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You/Artwork/Aretha_I Never Loved_LabelB.jpg
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1967 I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You/B1 - Dr. Feelgood.flac
68.2 MB
1967 I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You/B2 - Good Times.flac
44.3 MB
1967 I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You/B3 - Do Right Woman - Do Right Man.flac
65.1 MB
1967 I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You/B4 - Save Me.flac
47.1 MB
1967 I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You/B5 - A Change Is Gonna Come.flac
84.9 MB
1967 I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You/dr13.txt
1.2 KB
1967 I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You/Equipment.txt
728 B
1968 Aretha Now (Mono)/01 - Think.flac
27.7 MB
1968 Aretha Now (Mono)/02 - I Say A Little Prayer.flac
41.8 MB
1968 Aretha Now (Mono)/03 - See Saw.flac
32.7 MB
1968 Aretha Now (Mono)/04 - Night Time Is The Right Time.flac
56.6 MB
1968 Aretha Now (Mono)/05 - You Send Me.flac
27.9 MB
1968 Aretha Now (Mono)/06 - You're A Sweet Man.flac
27.7 MB
1968 Aretha Now (Mono)/07 - I Take What I Want.flac
30.5 MB
1968 Aretha Now (Mono)/08 - Hello Sunshine.flac
36.9 MB
1968 Aretha Now (Mono)/09 - A Change.flac
29.1 MB
1968 Aretha Now (Mono)/10 - I Can't See Myself Leaving You.flac
34.4 MB
1968 Aretha Now (Mono)/Artwork/Aretha Franklin_1.jpg
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1968 Aretha Now (Mono)/Artwork/Aretha Franklin_2.jpg
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1968 Aretha Now (Mono)/Artwork/Back.jpg
1.2 MB
1968 Aretha Now (Mono)/Artwork/Front.jpg
1.2 MB
1968 Aretha Now (Mono)/Artwork/Side 1.jpg
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1968 Aretha Now (Mono)/Artwork/Side 2.jpg
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1968 Aretha Now (Mono)/Artwork/US Front.jpg
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1968 Aretha Now (Mono)/folder.jpg
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1968 Aretha Now (Mono)/Notes.txt
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1968 Aretha Now (Mono)/track.txt
3.1 KB
1968 Aretha Now (Stereo)/A1 - Think.flac
47.9 MB
1968 Aretha Now (Stereo)/A2 - I Say A Little Prayer.flac
71.2 MB
1968 Aretha Now (Stereo)/A3 - See Saw.flac
56.1 MB
1968 Aretha Now (Stereo)/A4 - Night Time Is The Right Time.flac
95.4 MB
1968 Aretha Now (Stereo)/A5 - You Send Me.flac
46.3 MB
1968 Aretha Now (Stereo)/Artwork/ArethaNow_Back.jpg
2.4 MB
1968 Aretha Now (Stereo)/Artwork/ArethaNow_Front.jpg
8.2 MB
1968 Aretha Now (Stereo)/Artwork/ArethaNow_LabelA.jpg
700.7 KB
1968 Aretha Now (Stereo)/Artwork/ArethaNow_LabelB.jpg
481.9 KB
1968 Aretha Now (Stereo)/B1 - You're A Sweet Sweet Man.flac
47.9 MB
1968 Aretha Now (Stereo)/B2 - I Take What I Want.flac
53.4 MB
1968 Aretha Now (Stereo)/B3 - Hallo Sunshine.flac
64.5 MB
1968 Aretha Now (Stereo)/B4 - A Change.flac
51.4 MB
1968 Aretha Now (Stereo)/B5 - I Can't See Myself Without You.flac
60.5 MB
1968 Aretha Now (Stereo)/dr12.txt
1.2 KB
1968 Aretha Now (Stereo)/Equipment.txt
640 B
1968 Lady Soul/A1 - Chain Of Fools.flac
59.8 MB
1968 Lady Soul/A2 - Money Won't Change You.flac
46.9 MB
1968 Lady Soul/A3 - People Get Ready.flac
77.9 MB
1968 Lady Soul/A4 - Niki Hoeky.flac
55.9 MB
1968 Lady Soul/A5 - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman.flac
56.2 MB
1968 Lady Soul/Art/Back.jpg
2.6 MB
1968 Lady Soul/Art/Front.jpg
6.2 MB
1968 Lady Soul/Art/Side 1.jpg
511.4 KB
1968 Lady Soul/Art/Side 2.jpg
612.2 KB
1968 Lady Soul/B1 - Since You've Been Gone (Sweet Sweet Baby).flac
49.9 MB
1968 Lady Soul/B2 - Good To Me As I Am To You.flac
81.3 MB
1968 Lady Soul/B3 - Come Back Baby.flac
52.5 MB
1968 Lady Soul/B4 - Groovin'.flac
61.2 MB
1968 Lady Soul/B5 - Ain't No Way.flac
83 MB
1968 Lady Soul/Equipment.txt
728 B
1968 Lady Soul/folder.jpg
84.2 KB
1968 Lady Soul/track.txt
3.7 KB
1970 Spirit In The Dark/A1 Don't Play That Song.flac
73.4 MB
1970 Spirit In The Dark/A2 The Thrill Is Gone (From Yesterday's Kiss).flac
104.8 MB
1970 Spirit In The Dark/A3 Pullin'.flac
86.3 MB
1970 Spirit In The Dark/A4 You And Me.flac
81.7 MB
1970 Spirit In The Dark/A5 Honest I Do.flac
76.3 MB
1970 Spirit In The Dark/A6 Spirit In The Dark.flac
96 MB
1970 Spirit In The Dark/Art/Back.jpg
826.1 KB
1970 Spirit In The Dark/Art/Front.jpg
929.8 KB
1970 Spirit In The Dark/Art/Side 1.jpg
937.8 KB
1970 Spirit In The Dark/Art/Side 2.jpg
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1970 Spirit In The Dark/B1 When The Battle Is Over.flac
66.1 MB
1970 Spirit In The Dark/B2 One Way Ticket.flac
65.5 MB
1970 Spirit In The Dark/B3 Try Matty's.flac
59.2 MB
1970 Spirit In The Dark/B4 That's All I Want From You.flac
65.2 MB
1970 Spirit In The Dark/B5 Oh No Not My Baby.flac
66.7 MB
1970 Spirit In The Dark/B6 Why I Sing The Blues.flac
71.3 MB
1970 Spirit In The Dark/folder.jpg
72.3 KB
1970 Spirit In The Dark/Notes.txt
1.8 KB
1970 Spirit In The Dark/track.txt
4.8 KB
1986 Aretha Franklin & George Michael - I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)/01 - I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) (Extended Remix).flac
148.2 MB
1986 Aretha Franklin & George Michael - I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)/02 - I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) (Percapella).flac
107.5 MB
1986 Aretha Franklin & George Michael - I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)/03 - I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) (Edited Remix).flac
110 MB
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1986 Aretha Franklin & George Michael - I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)/Folder.jpg
