Soul '69

by Aretha Franklin

Soul '69 cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 17 January 1969
  • Label: Atlantic
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 7:13
  • Community rating: 3.58/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Soul '69' places Aretha Franklin in a jazz-leaning big-band and small-group context, revisiting standards and recent songs through her Atlantic-era vocal authority. The album highlights her command of swing phrasing as much as gospel-soul intensity. It shows how her late-1960s work could move across soul, blues, jazz, and pop repertory without losing a clear interpretive center.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Here I Am (Come And Take Me)
  2. Crisis

Credits

  • Barry Kamen - artwork
  • Al Green - written-by
  • Mabon "Teenie" Hodges - written-by
  • Aretha Franklin - Primary Artist
  • Mabel Smith - Written-By
  • Curtis Lewis - Written-By
  • Percy Mayfield - Written-By
  • Charles Singleton - Written-By
  • Rose Marie McCoy - Written-By
  • Bob Russell - Written-By
  • Carl Sigman - Written-By
  • Sam Cooke - Written-By
  • Marvin Tarplin - Written-By
  • Smokey Robinson - Written-By
  • Warren Moore - Written-By
  • Rudy Clark - Written-By
  • John Hartford - Written-By
  • Irving Melsher - Written-By
  • Remus Harris - Written-By
  • Russ Morgan - Written-By
  • Bennie Benjamin - Written-By
  • George David Weiss - Written-By
  • Bob Lind - Written-By

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