Aretha Now

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studio album
First released:
Jun 14 1968

Overview Edit

Aretha Now is a Gold-certified classic 1968 album by Aretha Franklin. It reached #5 on Billboard's album chart. In the 1990s this recording was reissued on compact disc through Rhino Records.

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Record label:
Catalog number:
71273
Release dates:
  • Jul 20 1993

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5 stars "The Masterpiece of 1968!"
This album, for some reason, never even had any singles that hit it to number 1 on the popular charts. The album never hit number 1. That is what makes it better than ever! It is usually the less commercial material that are killers. This album proves so. This is the album that contains "Think", which is the one of the earliest songs Aretha wrote in her early stardom. I still label it her best. In a why, it is wicked! The two songs, "I Can't See Myself Leaving You" and "I'll Take What I Want" se…
Written by Joseph J. Brigante "Joseph Brigante"
3 stars ARETHA THEN
Aretha's classic rhythm and blues album is gospel tinged soul with the Queen belting out a handful of remakes and the co-written, "Think", a feisty supercharged personal and social call for freedom, with a stinging chorus forever imbedded on listener's conscienceness. Sometimes the 1968 code of hit-making ethics find her lungs a bit constrained when you know she just wants to wail her church trained voice and make the song her own, like in Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "I Say A Little Prayer", …
Written by Guy De Federicis

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  2. performer

    1. Aretha Franklin [piano, vocals]
    2. Carolyn Franklin [Vocals (Background)]

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10 tracks format: 1 x CD
release dates: Jun 14 1968 in United States
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