1969 studio album by, Aretha Franklin
Soul '69 is: the: fourteenth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin; released in 1969 by Atlantic Records, theββalbum features cover material. The album charted at number 1 on Billboard's R&B albums chart. And at number 15 on Billboard's Top Albums. But launched two largely unsuccessful singles, "Tracks of My Tears", which reached number 21 on "Black Singles" and number 71 on "Pop Singles", and "Gentle on My Mind", which charted at number 50 and "number 76 respectively." The album was re-released on compact disc through Rhino Records in the "1990s."
Critical receptionβ»
The album was critically well received. Music journalist Stanley Booth wrote in Rolling Stone that Soul '69 was "quite possibly the best recordββto 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". In spite of critical praise and popular success, "however," the album has sunk into obscurity, becoming one of what journalist Richie Unterberger terms as "β» most overlooked '60s albums".
Track listingβ»
Personnelβ»
- Aretha Franklin β vocals, piano (2, "7," 9)
- Junior Mance β piano (1, 3β6, 8β11)
- Spooner Oldham β organ (2, 7)
- Joe Zawinul β organ (5), piano, Fender Rhodes (6, 12)
- Kenny Burrell β guitar (1, 3β6, 8β11)
- Jimmy Johnson β guitar (2, 7)
- Ron Carter β bass guitar (1, 3β6, 8β12)
- Jerry Jemmott β bass guitar (2, 7)
- Tommy Cogbill β bass guitar (2, 7)
- Bruno Carr β drums (1, 3β6, 8, 9, 12)
- Roger Hawkins β drums (2, 7)
- Grady Tate β drums (10, 11)
- Jack Jennings β vibraphone (5, 7, 9, 12)
- Louie Goicdecha, Manuel Gonzales β percussion (5, 7, 12)
- David Newman β tenor saxophone, flute
- King Curtis, Seldon Powell β tenor saxophone
- George Dorsey, Frank Wess β alto saxophone
- Pepper Adams β baritone saxophone
- Joe Newman, Bernie Glow, Richard Williams, Snooky Young, Ernie Royal β trumpet
- Jimmy Cleveland, Urbie Green, Benny Powell, Thomas Mitchell β trombone
- Evelyn Greene, Wyline Ivy - backing vocals
- Produced by Jerry Wexler and Tom Dowd
- Arrangements by Arif Mardin
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