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Aretha Franklin

Aretha

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3 AVAILABLE FORMATS: 1CD edition, deluxe 4CD box set & 2LP edition. 1CD edition & 2LP edition: The greatest hits of Aretha Franklin. ("I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)", "Think" (Blues Brothers version), "Respect"), tracks from Columbia and Arista, and unreleased tracks ("Call Me - Alternate Version", "Until You Come Back To Me - Work Tape", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (Annual Kennedy Center Honors 12/19/15) 4CD BOX SET EDITION: This 4CD anthology box set is the very first to trace the entirety of Aretha Franklin's career, including tracks from the various labels she recorded for. In total, 81 tracks including 19 unreleased tracks on CD (alternative versions of her hits, demos, rarities, and live performances, including her stunning rendition of "(You Make Me Feel) Like A Natural Woman" at the 38th Annual Kennedy Center Honors in 2015). Chronological, this anthology opens with "Never Grow Old" and "You Grow Closer," her first single from 1956, then features Columbia Records tracks ("Won't Be Long," "Runnin' Out Of Fools," "One Step Ahead"), as well as a large number of songs for Atlantic Records (recorded between 1967 and 1979, including her biggest hits, and also the demos of "My Kind Of Town (Detroit Is)" and "Try A Little Tenderness"), alternative takes of "Chain Of Fools," "Rock Steady," and "Spanish Harlem," or live versions of "Baby I Love You" and "Don't Play That Song." It continues with the Arista Records period (between 1980 and 2007) which includes "Jump To It," "Freeway Of Love," and memorable collaborations with Eurythmics and George Michael. Finally, this box set also offers other rarities, sung with Tom Jones ("It's Not Unusual/See Saw"), Smokey Robinson ("Ooo Baby Baby"), and Dionne Warwick ("I Say A Little Prayer").

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Disc 1

  1. Never grow old (live)
  2. You grow closer (live)
  3. Today I sing the blues
  4. Won't be long
  5. Are you sure
  6. Operation heartbreak
  7. Skylark
  8. Runnin' out of fools
  9. One step ahead
  10. (No, no) I'm losing you
  11. Cry like a baby
  12. A little bit of soul
  13. My kind of town (Detroit is) (demo)
  14. Try a little tenderness (demo)
  15. I never loved a man (the way I love you) (2018 Mono remaster)
  16. Do right woman, do right man (2018 Mono remaster)
  17. Respect (2018 mono remaster)
  18. A change is gonna come (mono)
  19. Chain of fools (alternate version)
  20. (I can't get no) satisfaction (UK single version)
  21. (Sweet sweet baby) Since you've been gone (2020 remaster)
  22. Ain't no way (2020 remaster)
  23. My song (2018 Mono remaster)
  24. You send me (2018 Mono remaster)
  25. The house that Jack built (2018 Mono remaster)
  26. Tracks of my tears (2020 remaster)

Disc 2

  1. Baby, I love you (live at the Olympia Theatre, Paris, may 7, 1968)
  2. Son of a preacher man
  3. Call me (alternate version)
  4. Let it be (with The Dixie Flyers) (2020 remaster)
  5. Young gifted and black (alternate longer take)
  6. Bridge over troubled water (long version)
  7. It's not unusual / see saw (with Tom Jones) (live)
  8. You're all I need to get by (Work tape)
  9. Brand new me (Alternate take 6)
  10. Spanish Harlem (Alternate mix)
  11. Rock steady (Alternate mix - young gifted and black outtake)
  12. Day dreaming
  13. Share your love with me (Live at Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 3-6-1971)
  14. Don't play that song (Live at Fillmore West)
  15. Dr. Feelgood (live)
  16. Spirit in the dark (Reprise) (Live at Fillmore West)
  17. How I got over (Live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, L.A., 13-01-1972)(
  18. Master of eyes (the deepness of your eyes)

Disc 3

  1. Somewhere (alternate version)
  2. Angel (Work tape)
  3. The boy from Bombay
  4. Til it's over (Demo)
  5. Oh baby AKA there's something magic about (Demo)
  6. Until you come back to me (Demo)
  7. I'm in love (Alternate vocal - let me in your life Outtake)
  8. Without love
  9. Mr. D.J. (5 for the D.J.)
  10. You
  11. Something he can feel (edit)
  12. Look into your heart
  13. Break it to me gently
  14. When I think about you
  15. Almighty fire (Woman of the future)
  16. Ladies only (Short version)
  17. You light up my life
  18. Ooo baby baby (with Smokey Robinson) (Live)
  19. Amazing grace

Disc 4

  1. The blues brothers - Think
  2. I say a little prayer (with Dionne Warwick) (Live)
  3. United together
  4. Jump to it
  5. The wind
  6. Freeway of love
  7. Aretha Franklin & Eurytmics - Sisters are doing it for themselves)
  8. Aretha Franklin & George Michael - I knew you were waiting (for me)
  9. Oh happy day (Live)
  10. A rose is still a rose
  11. Someday we'all be free
  12. The makings of you
  13. Nessun Dorma (Live)
  14. At last (with Lou Rawls) (Live)
  15. Ronald Isley - You've got a friend (feat. Aretha Franklin)
  16. Rolling in the deep (The Aretha version)
  17. My country 'tis of thee
  18. (You make me feel like) A natural woman (Live)

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