Aretha Franklin: The Queen Of Soul

Дискография видимо снята с allmusic а у них там она выложена не по исторической хронологии а по принципу что можно купить в магазине, в итоге там есть альбомы которых не было в природе, но при этом часто отсутствуют реальные номерные пластинки, поэтому советую использовать данный источник как справочник но не считать его истинной в последней инстанции.
А появление данной темы всячески приветствую.

2Кот Котофеич:

>AMG в плане дискографий - это беда!

Полностью согласен, пользуюсь только когда нет возможности найти более путного варианта, ну и иногда сверить каких альбомом из изданных на сд не хватает.

Королева записала дуэт с Мэри Джей Блайдж для саундтрэка к новому фильму "Бобби" о Роберте Кеннеди.

Арита когда-то выступал в старом отеле "Амбассадор" в ЛА, где Кеннеди был убит в 1968 году. Также она пела на его заупокойной службе.

Like most people, I appreciated the Kennedys, and I did do Bobby's memorial service at Arlington (National) Cemetery and met the rest of the family and thought very highly of them," Franklin said in a phone interview last week. "I just couldn't let it pass."

Franklin said she learned even more about Kennedy through her involvement in the project. The final song on the soundtrack, out Tuesday, features a speech by the late politician.

"I had no idea Bobby Kennedy was as deep as he was," Franklin said. "He really had a lot of substance and content."

Что касается еще одной совместной работы с Мэри Джей, Арита сказала:

"It's always delightful. We had fun. She's a younger artist whom I appreciate."

Новый альбом Королева планирует выпустить в следующем феврале:

"I've got a lot of good stuff, a lot of good stuff — I'm very very happy with all of it," she said of the record, which includes a duet with Faith Hill. I'm so happy and delighted that it was my project entirely. I didn't have to ask anyone about anything, I didn't have to get anybody's approval about anything — this has been my thing."

Трэклист саундрэка к Bobby

1. A Generous and Compassionate Country (RFK Speech)
2. Aretha Franklin & Mary J. Blige feat. The Harlem Boys Choir - "Never Gonna Break My Faith"
3. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - "Tracks Of My Tears"
4. The Supremes - "Come See About Me"
5. Shorty Long - "Function At The Junction"
6. Hugh Masekela - "Grazing In The Grass"
7. Stevie Wonder - "I Was Made To Love Her"
8. The Moody Blues - "Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon)"
9. Los Bravos - "Black Is Black"
10. Marvin Gaye - "Ain't That Peculiar"
11. Aretha Franklin - "Baby, I Love You"
12. Demi Moore - "Louie Louie""
13. Mark Isham "No One Left But Bobby"
14. Simon & Garfunkel - "The Sound Of Silence"
15. Mark Isham "The Mindless Menace of Violence" and `On The Mindless Menace Of Violence' (RFK Speech)

Singer Aretha Franklin performs during a tribute to Ahmet Ertegun at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York City, Monday, March 12, 2007. Ertegun, a co-founder of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame died on December 16, 2006.

GORGEOUS!

Aretha Franklin A to Z
The Queen of Soul, who has no peer, plays Thursday at Bass Concert Hall
By Michael Corcoran

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Lady Soul is making a rare Austin appearance Thursday April 19 at Bass Concert Hall (the show is a makeup date from Dec. 3, postponed because of a scheduling problem). May the letters of the alphabet spell out the story of a preacher's daughter who sang sanctified rhythm and blues like none other and became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

A
"Amazing Grace." Franklin grew up deep in the church, which was the concept of this 1972 return to her gospel roots. The album acknowledges the three greatest musical influences of Franklin's life: Clara Ward, whose rendition of "Peace In the Valley" at a funeral made an 8-year-old Aretha want to become a singer; her over-the-top contralto singing model Mahalia Jackson; and Franklin's piano adviser, the great James Cleveland.

B
Baptist by birth. Franklin grew up the demur daughter of electrifying Baptist minister C.L. Franklin, "the man with the million dollar voice," known across the country for recordings of his sermons. Perhaps tired of her husband's womanizing ways but unable to penetrate his wall of power and control, Franklin's mother, Barbara, left the family when Franklin was 6 and died four years later, in 1952.

C
Cooke, Sam. Franklin's friend, idol and a major crush. Like Sam, Aretha would cross over from gospel to pop at the risk of alienating hard-core churchgoers.

D
Detroit. Chicago was the capital of gospel music, but the Franklin family made the Motor City a contender. A 14-year-old Aretha debuted with "Gospel Sounds of Aretha Franklin" on Detroit-based JVB Records, which was also her father's label.

E
Erma, Cecil, Aretha, Carolyn. The four children of C.L. and Barbara Franklin. Erma recorded the original version of "Piece Of My Heart," a hit for Janis Joplin, while Carolyn wrote "Ain't No Way," which soared with one of Aretha's greatest vocal achievements. C.L. also had a daughter in 1940 with a teenage congregation member. Barbara had a kid in a liaison before she married Franklin's father. Franklin herself had two children out of wedlock before she turned 18. In total, she has four sons.

F
Fear of flying. The Otis Redding tragedy and her own scare in a small plane put Franklin's airplane anxiety in the red. She does not like to fly, which has put a crimp in her touring schedule.

G
Gunshot. The cause of C.L. Franklin's death in 1984. He was shot during a home invasion in 1979 and spent the last five years of his life in a coma.

H
Hammond, John. The man who signed Billie Holiday to Columbia (and, later, Bob Dylan) saw Franklin as the next great pop/jazz voice. Hammond signed her in 1960, but her Columbia period, where she seemed posed as a young, black Judy Garland, registered disappointing sales. The real Franklin had yet to be recorded.

I
"I Never Loved a Man (the Way That I Loved You)." Here's where it all changed. Imagine what it was like to be in Fame Studio in Muscle Shoals, Ala., in January 1967, on the first day of recording. Aretha sat down at the piano and broke up a bull session by playing the chords of this song, which became her first of many hits on Atlantic. Producer Jerry Wexler put it all on the line by signing Franklin for $25,000 — a huge sum for a failure at Columbia — but he knew if he got her with the right musicians, in the right studio, it would click. In the next two years, Franklin and company produced four classic soul albums ("I Never Loved a Man" and "Aretha Arrives" in 1967 and "Lady Soul" and "Aretha Now" in 1968) — one of the greatest creative spurts in music history.

J
January 21, 1987. Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Nineteen years earlier she was the first African American woman on the cover of Time magazine.

K
King Curtis and that incredible band. As evidenced by the recently reissued "Live at the Fillmore West" CD, the soul queen had found her greatest backing band with Bernard Purdie on drums, Billy Preston on organ and King Curtis on sax. At the end of the show, Franklin says she hoped to be "doing our thing" with Curtis and band for years to come, but the Fort Worth native would be dead within a year, murdered in front of his Manhattan apartment by a drug addict.

L
Lawsuit. In December 2000, Franklin sued the supermarket tabloid The Star for $50 million, claiming the story "Aretha Franklin Drinking Herself Into Grave" was a complete fabrication. The suit was eventually settled, with details undisclosed.

M
Muscle Shoals. This is where Aretha found the magic, but after Franklin's husband/manager Ted White got in a fistfight with studio owner Rick Hall (White didn't like the way the notoriously blunt Hall talked to the singer), the rest of her classic "Muscle Shoals" albums were actually recorded in New York, with the Alabama musicians flown in.

N
Nineteen. Number of Grammy Awards Franklin has won.

O
October 25, 2002. Franklin's $1.6 million, 12-bedroom house in the Detroit suburbs (one of four she owns in the area) burned to the ground. Arson was suspected, and a furious Franklin went to the media to denounce charges from prosecutors that she was not cooperating with the investigation. Franklin's son Edward was briefly a suspect, but after a full investigation prosecutors declined to charge him.

P
"Precious Lord, Take My Hand." Gospel standard Franklin sang at the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral in 1968 and four years later at Mahalia Jackson's funeral.

Q
Queen of Soul. No question. No debate. She's the undisputed title holder.

R
"Respect." Franklin's first pop No. 1 single in 1967. Otis Redding, who wrote the tune, reportedly told producer Wexler, "I just lost my song. That girl took it away from me." Franklin's spelling out of the title and the syncopated "sock it to me" chant were innovative touches that took the song to a new place, and an enriched meaning as a declaration of female empowerment.

S
Sixty-five. Age Franklin turned on March 25.

T
Turman, Glynn. "The Wire's" Mayor Royce was Franklin's second husband from '78 to '84.

U
"Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)." This version of a Stevie Wonder song hit No. 3 on the pop charts in 1973, leading to a long drought on the charts. It would take 12 years for Franklin to hit the Top 10 again, with "Who's Zoomin' Who" in 1985.

V
Vandross, Luther. Helped get Franklin's career back on track by writing and producing the acclaimed LPs "Jump To It" in '82 and and "Get It Right" in '83 for her new label, Arista.

W
Weight issues. In defense of overweight Heart singer Ann Wilson a few years back, Chris Cornell noted that his two favorite female singers were Wilson and the equally corpulent Aretha Franklin, but that nobody made cruel fun of the soul queen like they do Wilson. That's changed, as Franklin's weight becomes a big yucking matter for radio talkers like Howard Stern and Jim Rome whenever she appears on TV. She's Aretha Franklin, people; show some R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

X
X, Malcolm. Franklin's version of Donny Hathaway's "Someday We'll All Be Free" was a highlight of the "Malcolm X" soundtrack.

Y
"Young and the Restless." The soap-addicted singer's favorite daytime obsession, along with "The Bold and the Beautiful."

Z
Zenith. There's never been a Grammy save like in March 1998, when Luciano Pavarotti, suffering from a head cold, had to cancel his performance of "Nessun Dorma" just half an hour before he was supposed to go on. Producers knocked on Franklin's dressing room door and asked if she could fill in. Now, there are opera greats who would've taken a pass; after all, the Puccini aria is Pavarotti's signature tune. But an unintimidated Franklin, presented with a tape of Pavarotti's rehearsal as a guideline, nailed the song, blowing the doors off the theater. It was a performance bordering on miraculous, the crowning achievement in a career of a much-honored, much-adored vocal icon who still had something to prove.

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2Primal Scream:
спасибо большое, очень интересно) только сейчас "докопалась" до этой темы)
парочка фоток оттуда же:

1. обложка понравилась)

2. Концертное - живое

подпись под картинкой была такая:

As evidenced by the recently reissued "Live at the Fillmore West" CD, the soul queen had found her greatest backing band with Bernard Purdie on drums, Billy Preston on organ and King Curtis on sax. At the end of the show, Franklin says she hoped to be "doing our thing" with Curtis and band for years to come, but the Fort Worth native would be dead within a year, murdered in front of his Manhattan apartment by a drug addict.

--Michael Corcoran

2Maryless:

На здоровье!

"Hey Nineteen
That's 'Retha Franklin
She don't remember the Queen of Soul"

-- "Hey Nineteen" by Steely Dan

2Primal Scream:

ОГО! Вот это кадр!
)))

Rare and Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul (2 CDs)
Rhino, Oct. 16, 2007

Previously unreleased material from Aretha Franklin in the vaults at Atlantic has been unearthed for an upcoming collection from Rhino Records. The double-disc "Rare and Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul" will be released Oct. 16, featuring B-sides, demos and outtakes from Franklin's 13-year history with the label.

The first disc chronicles the Queen of Soul's initial rise at Atlantic and features previously unreleased tunes "You Keep Me Hanging On," "Trying To Overcome," and "My Way," a rare cover of the Beatles' "Fool on the Hill" and demo versions of "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)," "Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business)" and "Sweet Bitter Love."

The second disc contains a duet with Ray Charles on "Ain't but the One," which was originally televised in a tribute to Duke Ellington. It also includes an alternate version of "Rock Steady" and outtakes from the "Young, Gifted and Black" and "Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky)" sessions.

Disc 1:
"I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)"
"Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business)"
"Sweet Bitter Love"
"It Was You"
"The Letter"
"So Soon"
"Mr. Big"
"Talk to Me, Talk to Me"
"The Fool on the Hill"
"Pledging My Love/The Clock"
"You're Taking Another Man's Place"
"You Keep Me Hangin' On"
"I'm Trying to Overcome"
"My Way"
"My Cup Runneth Over"
"You're All I Need To Get By" (first outtake)
"You're All I Need To Get By" (second outtake)
"Lean on Me"

Disc 2:
"Rock Steady"
"I Need a Strong Man"
"Heavenly Father"
"Sweetest Smile and the Funkiest Style"
"This Is"
"Tree of Life"
"Do You Know"
"Can You Love Again"
"I Want Tto Be with You"
"Suzanne"
"That's the Way I Feel About Cha"
"Ain't But the One"
"The Happy Blues"
"At Last"
"Love Letters"
"I'm in Love"
"Are You Leaving Me"

Спасибо, Primal Scream!!!

2Primal Scream:

>The first disc chronicles the Queen of Soul's
>initial rise at Atlantic and features previously
>unreleased tunes "You Keep Me Hanging On," "Trying
>To Overcome," and "My Way"...

Лукавят атланщики,
"Май Вей" в исполнении Королевы уже выпускали официально в прошлом гэ.
А релиз, канешна, буит достойный...

Aretha Franklin's JEWELS IN THE CROWN: ALL-STAR DUETS WITH THE QUEEN, In Stores November 13th

The queen of soul performs memorable duets with some of the biggest names
in music on a must have collection that includes Keith Richards, Whitney
Houston, Annie Lennox, George Michael, Mariah Carey, Frank Sinatra, Mary J
Blige, John Legend and many more.

Multiple Grammy Nominee Fantasia duets with Aretha on the lead single, 'PUT
YOU UP ON GAME,' impacting radio on October 1st.

NEW YORK, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Arista recording artist Aretha
Franklin, the incomparable Queen Of Soul and 17-time Grammy winner, adds
another jewel to her crown with the release of a must have collection of
show- stopping duets from her new album, JEWELS IN THE CROWN: ALL-STAR
DUETS WITH THE QUEEN. Franklin, a Grammy Living Legend, Grammy Lifetime
Achievement Award recipient, and the first woman inducted into the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame, will release this stellar collection on November 13,
2007.

Franklin duets with a combination of music icons and some of the
hottest voices in music today including Whitney Houston ("It Isn't, It
Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be"), John Legend ("What Y'All Came To Do"),
Luther Vandross ("Doctor's Orders"), Annie Lennox ("Sisters Are Doing It
For Themselves"), Keith Richards ("Jumping Jack Flash"), Elton John
("Through The Storm"), Frank Sinatra ("What Now My Love"), George Michael
("I Knew You Were Waiting"), Michael McDonald ("Ever Changing Times"),
George Benson ("Love All The Hurt Away"), and good friend Mary J. Blige
("Don't Waste My Time"). Aretha and Mary J. also join on a second tune,
"Never Gonna Break My Faith" (with the Harlem Boys Choir). Rounding out the
collection are two thrilling performances, both tributes to Aretha on her
classics, "A Natural Woman (You Make Me Feel Like)" with Bonnie Raitt and
Gloria Estefan; and "Chain Of Fools" with Mariah Carey.

"Put You Up On Game" with Fantasia, is the lead single from JEWELS IN
THE CROWN: ALL-STAR DUETS WITH THE QUEEN, impacting radio on October 1st.

The album concludes on a historic note with Franklin's performance of
"Nessum Dorma," the heroic aria from Act III of Puccini's final opera
Turandot, with an all-star orchestra. Aretha originally agreed to step in
at the last minute and perform the aria in place of ailing tenor Luciano
Pavarotti at the Grammy awards world wide telecast in February 1998. With
just eight minutes of preparation backstage, she sang it with the 72-piece
orchestra in Pavarotti's key (three steps lower than her own) and stole the
show.

Franklin, a true music legend, was signed in 1980 by Clive Davis,
Arista founder and Chairman & CEO, BMG Label Group.

Guide Review - Aretha Franklin: Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen

If you're a hardcore fan who wants to hear Aretha tackle some classics from other artists' catalogs, this double disc set is perfect for you -- and for even casual fans, it offers a close, personal look at the process of Aretha being Aretha, including an alternate-universe version of her deep album cuts.

Pros
The vast majority of these 35 tracks have never been heard anywhere, in any form.
Offers up a more intimate, jazzy, interpretive side of Aretha than you get on her hits.
Like Ray Charles, Aretha demonstrates an ability to tackle absolutely any song and make it hers.

Cons
Few of these tracks sound like hits, or even definitive statements. But they're prime Aretha.

Like Brother Ray Charles before her, Aretha Franklin was an interpretive stylist in her peak years, but it's a facet of her musical personality lost on many of her fans, who merely groove on her self-penned classics ("Think," "Rock Steady") or the songs given her by her peers ("Chain Of Fools," "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman"). But as "Respect," "Spanish Harlem," and "I Say A Little Prayer" prove, she could make any song her own. (In fact, Otis Redding himself good-naturedly joked that Aretha "stole" "Respect" from him.)
Except for a slightly funkier alternate mix of "Rock Steady," none of those songs are present on this newly-unearthed collection of rarities from the Queen of Soul. Indeed, to get the alternate takes of her biggest hits you'll have to pick up one of Rhino's remastered versions of her classic albums like Lady Soul and Young, Gifted, and Black.

But subtract the intimate demos that lead off the set, the two b-sides, and a previously unreleased duet with Ray himself on "Ain't But The One," taken from a 1973 TV special, and you're left with Lady Soul tackling the Great American Songbook, or at least her version of it: if you ever wanted to hear Aretha wrap her golden voice around Leonard Cohen ("Suzanne"), Motown ("You Keep Me Hangin' On" and "You're All I Need To Get By"), or even "My Way," for God's sake, this two-disc set can hook you up. Atlantic's quality control was so good that most of these tracks don't seem better than what made it to LP back in Aretha's prime -- only Joe South's "So Soon" sounds like a lost hit -- but producer Jerry Wexler, who handpicked these outtakes, realizes these are still snapshots of the Queen in her prime, and therefore invaluable. The Aretha here is a little quieter, moodier, jazzier, and more thoughtful than the one on the radio... but still a legend.

Christina Aguilera Planning Duet With Aretha Franklin
October 2007

Pop diva Christina Aguilera and soul legend Aretha Franklin are releasing a duet according to legendary hip-hop producer DJ Premier. Premier produced much of the first disc of Aguilera's double album Back to Basics, including her Grammy winning hit single "Ain't No Other Man." During an interview with Hip Hop Canada, he said "Christina got back at me because she's doing a duet with Aretha Franklin."

The song will appear on Aretha Franklin's album Jewels In The Crown: All-Star Duets with the Queen, a duets album that will hit stores on November 13, 2007. As of now, all the tracks on the album are known, such as "Chain of Fools" with Mariah Carey and "Put You Up On Game" with Fantasia, but Aguilera's track is the only one that remains a mystery. But considering Premier was asked to produce the song, it's most likely new and not a cover of one of Aretha's old hits.

Earlier this year Aguilera made waves when she covered "It's A Man's World" at the Grammys as a tribute to the late James Brown, which prompted some to say the petite blonde songstress was possessed by the Godfather of Soul.

Reportedly, Aguilera is also about six months pregnant. Though many claim the pregnancy is obvious, she has yet to publicly comment.

2mary_live:

>Christina Aguilera Planning Duet With Aretha Franklin
>October 2007

Aguilera пытается отделиться от своего подросткового творчества, что же то что она сейчас делает доказывает что её будущее светлее чем у старой конкурентки.