

Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin - The Electrifying Aretha Franklin (WaxTime)
Format: 180g Vinyl LP
Cat No: 772007
Aretha's second album for the Columbia label (originally released in 1962), 'The Electrifying Aretha Franklin' still found the label unsure as to how to promote the singer, although this album was a step in the right direction. Producer John Hammond created something of an intimate atmosphere in the studio, yet some of the material would appear to be better suited to the stage. Yet towering above even the mediocre material is Aretha's voice, as strong and as powerful then as it would become later in the decade. Tracks like You Made Me Love You may be standards, but they are not standard Aretha Franklin, yet she manages to breathe life into each and every song.
TRACKLISTING:
A1 You Made Me Love You
A2 I Told You So
A3 Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody
A4 Nobody Like You
A5 Exactly Like You
A6 It's So Heartbreakin'
A7 When They Ask About You
B1 Rough Lover
B2 Blue Holiday
B3 Just For You
B4 That Lucky Old Sun
B5 I Surrender, Dear
B6 Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive
B7 Hard Times