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Aretha Arrives is the twelfth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, Released on August 4, 1967 by Atlantic Records. Its only single release was "Baby I Love You", a million-selling Gold 45 which hit #1 R&B and #4 on the Billboard Hot 100. This is her second album for Atlantic. The sessions for the album were delayed because Aretha shattered her elbow in an accident during a southern tour. She decided she was ready to record before her doctor thought she was ready. While she still did not have full mobility, she provided piano accompaniment on the slower songs and played with her left hand only on "You Are My Sunshine".[2]

Reception

After its release, Rolling Stone magazine reviewed the collection by saying: "...neither the sophistication nor the subtlety of the musicians involved gets in the way of the basic primitivism of Aretha's music. The best cuts on the record hit with tremendous immediacy and force, and do so in an entirely artistic way. The only hang-ups are the occasional reliance on unnecessary gimmicks, and the weakness of some of the material."[3]

In 2004, Q ranked the album at number 1 in its list of "20 Forgettable Follow-Ups to Big Albums".[4]

Track listing

  1. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)
  2. "You Are My Sunshine" (Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell)
  3. "Never Let Me Go" (Joseph Wade Scott)
  4. "96 Tears" (Rudy Martinez)
  5. "Prove It" (Randy Evretts, Horace Ott)
  6. "Night Life" (Willie Nelson, Walt Breeland, Paul Buskirk)
  7. "That's Life" (Dean Kay, Kelly Gordon)
  8. "I Wonder" (Cecil Gant, Raymond Leveen)
  9. "Ain't Nobody (Gonna Turn Me Around)" (Carolyn Franklin)
  10. "Going Down Slow" (James B. Oden)
  11. "Baby I Love You" (Ronnie Shannon)

Personnel

vocal group backgrounds

See also

References

Tracks and Personnel are from the LP liner notes.[2]

  1. ^ Aretha Arrives at AllMusic
  2. ^ a b "Aretha Arrives", Aretha Franklin, Atlantic 8150 (1967) LP.
  3. ^ "Aretha" by Jon Landau. Rolling Stone, Vol. 1, No. 2, November 23, 1967, p. 16.
  4. ^ http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/q150lists.htm
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