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Stock Photo | | Item Specifics - Music: CDs | | | Artist: | Aretha Franklin | | Release Date: | Dec 14, 1993 | | | Format: | CD | | Record Label: | Atlantic & Atco Remasters | | | Genre: | R&B | | UPC: | 081227152727 | | | Sub-Genre: | Soul | | Album Type: | Full-Length CD | | | | | Condition: | Used | | | |
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Mint condition. In ottime condizioni.
A monumental album.
My favorite Aretha album/cd.
"Young, Gifted and Black" is a fantastic blend of gospel infused soul music mixed with some of sophisticated pop songs chosen for this project.
Aretha is in fine vocal form.
"Young, Gifted and Black" cemented Aretha as the Queen of Soul.
Here, Aretha is sharp, clever and versatile, her writing is inspired, her interpretations are equal, even better than the originals in most cases.
This project is an excellent presentation of Aretha's vocal virtuosity; her composition skill and her funky piano genious.
A Classic in every sense of the word. If you don't have this your collection is incomplete.
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I apply a 15% discount from the 2nd item bought simultaneously.
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| Track listing | 1. Oh Me Oh My (I'm A Fool For You Baby)
2. Day Dreaming
3. Rock Steady
4. Young, Gifted And Black
5. All The King's Horses
6. Brand New Me, A
7. April Fools
8. I've Been Loving You Too Long
9. First Snow In Kokomo
10. Long And Winding Road, The
11. Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)
12. Border Song (Holy Moses)
| | Details | | Contributing artists: | Billy Preston, Cornell Dupree, Donny Hathaway, Dr. John, Eric Gale, Hubert Laws, The Memphis Horns | | Producer: | Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd | | Distributor: | WEA | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Personnel include: Aretha Franklin (vocals, piano, celesta, electric piano); Cornell Dupree, Hugh McCracken, Don Arnone (guitar); Hubert Laws (flute, alto flute); Andrew Love (tenor saxophone); Wayne Jackson (trumpet); Donny Hathaway (electric piano, organ); Billy Preston (organ); Robert Popwell (bass instrument, percussion); Chuck Rainey, Eric Gale (bass instrument); Al Jackson Jr., Ray Lucas, Bernard Purdie (drums); Mac "Dr. John" Rebennack, Neal Rosengarden (percussion); The Sweet Inspirations, Carolyn Franklin (background vocals).
Recording information: Atlantic Recording Studios, New York, New York (08/12/1970 - 02/19/1971); Criteria Studio, Miami, Florida (01/27/1971 - 02/16/1971).
Recorded over a seven-month period in 1970 and 1971, YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK captures Aretha Franklin at the peak of her artistic and commercial powers. A stirring, rock-solid release that holds its own with the singer's better-known albums, it also includes some eclectic song choices. Nestled against original, uptempo groovers like "Rock Steady," for example, is a soulful reading of the Beatles' "The Long and Winding Road." (Beatles sideman Billy Preston's signature organ playing is featured throughout the recording.)
Upon its release in January 1972, the album yielded four Top Ten singles on the R&B charts and two Top Ten singles on the pop charts. Franklin baffled some fans at the time by covering "Border Song (Holy Moses)," but the song, composed by a then-obscure team of Elton John and Bernie Taupin, landed at #5 on the R&B charts. Franklin's stirring cover of Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water," recorded during the same sessions but omitted from the initial release, appears on the reissue. Overall, YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK is one of the brightest releases in what would prove to be Franklin's most fertile, diverse, and productive period.
| | Editorial reviews | Franklin dug into her culture, stepping out in satiny arrangements...
Spin
...an extremely personal, beautiful record...controlled throughout by one sensibility, Miss Franklin's...
Rolling Stone (03/16/1972)
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