Soul '69
1969 studio album by Aretha Franklin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1969 studio album by Aretha Franklin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Soul '69 is the fourteenth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin; released in 1969 by Atlantic Records, the album 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.
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Released | January 17, 1969 | |||
Recorded | April 17–18 & September 24, 1968 | |||
Studio | Atlantic Studios, (New York City, New York) | |||
Genre | Soul, jazz | |||
Length | 40:49 | |||
Label | Atlantic (#8212), Rhino | |||
Producer | Tom Dowd, Jerry Wexler | |||
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Singles from Soul '69 | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
Rolling Stone | (positive)[3] |
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".[3] In spite of critical praise and popular success, however, the album has sunk into obscurity, becoming one of what journalist Richie Unterberger terms as "[Aretha Franklin's] most overlooked '60s albums".[4]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Ramblin'" | Big Maybelle | 3:10 |
2. | "Today I Sing the Blues" | Curtis Reginald Lewis | 4:25 |
3. | "River's Invitation" | Percy Mayfield | 2:40 |
4. | "Pitiful" | Rose 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 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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7. | "Tracks of My Tears" | Smokey Robinson, Pete Moore, Marv Tarplin | 2:56 |
8. | "If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody" | Rudy Clark | 3:08 |
9. | "Gentle on My Mind" | John Hartford | 2:28 |
10. | "So Long" | Russ Morgan, Remus Harris, Irving Melsher | 4:36 |
11. | "I'll Never Be Free" | Bennie Benjamin, George David Weiss | 4:15 |
12. | "Elusive Butterfly" | Bob Lind | 2:45 |
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