Soul '69

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Soul '69
Soul '69 cover
Studio album by Aretha Franklin
Released 1969
Recorded Apr 17, 1968 - Sep 27, 1968
Genre Rhythm and blues
Label Atlantic Records
Producer Tom Dowd, Jerry Wexler
Professional reviews
Aretha Franklin chronology
I Say a Little Prayer
(1969)		 Soul '69
(1969)		 Don't Play That Song
(1970)

Soul '69 is a 1969 album of cover material released by soul legend Aretha Franklin. The album charted at #1 on Billboard "Black Albums" and at #15 on "Pop Albums" and launched two charting singles, "Tracks of My Tears" which reached #21 on "Black Singles" and #71 on "Pop Singles" and "Gentle on My Mind" which charted at #50 and #76 respectively. Originally released by Atlantic Records, the album was re-released on CD in 2002 by Atlantic and Rhino Records. It was subsequently incorporated into the compilation Trilogy by Warner Strategic Marketing in 2005, along with the albums Lady Soul and Live at the Fillmore West.[1]

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[edit] Critical reception

The album was critically well-received. Music journalist Stanley Booth wrote in Rolling Stone that Soul '69 was "quite possibly the best record to appear in the last five years", describing it as "excellent in ways in which pop music hasn't been since the Beatles spear-headed the renaissance of rock".[2] In spite of critical praise and popular success, however, the album has sunk into obscurity, becoming one of what journalist Richie Unterberger terms as "her most overlooked '60s albums".[3]

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Ramblin' (Maybelle Smith) – 3:10
  2. "Today I Sing the Blues" (Curley Hamner, Curtis Lewis) – 4:25
  3. "River's Invitation" (Percy Mayfield) – 2:40
  4. "Pitiful" (Rosie Marie McCoy, Charlie Singleton) – 3:04
  5. "Crazy He Calls Me" (Bob Russell, Carl Sigman) – 3:28
  6. "Bring It on Home to Me" (Sam Cooke) – 3:45
  7. "The Tracks of My Tears" (Warren "Pete" Moore, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Tarplin) – 2:56
  8. "If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody" (Rudy Clarke) – 3:08
  9. "Gentle on My Mind" (John Hartford) – 2:28
  10. "So Long" (Remus Harris, Irving Melsher, Russ Morgan) – 4:36
  11. "I'll Never Be Free" (Bennie Benjamin, George David Weiss) – 4:15
  12. "Elusive Butterfly" (Bob Lind) – 2:45

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Performance

[edit] Production

[edit] References

  1. ^ Lady Soul/Soul '69/Live at the Fillmore West at Allmusic
  2. ^ Booth, Stanley. (Mar 1, 1969) Soul '69 Rolling Stone. Accessed November 13, 2007.
  3. ^ Soul '69 at Allmusic