Aretha Franklin / The Early Hits


Side A:
1 Operation Heartbreak 3:02 (Al Kasha-Alan Thomas-Curtis Williams)
2 Today I Sing The Blues 2:48 (Curtis Lewis)
3 Won’t Be Long 3:14 (J.Leslie Mcfarland)
4 It Ain’t Necessarily So 2:58 (George & Ira Gershwin)
5 I Surrender, Dear 2:50 (Harry Barris-Gordon Clifford)
6 Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody 2:28
　(Samuel Lewis-Jean Schwartz-Joe Young)
7 Rough Lover 2:51 (J.Leslie Mcfarland)
8 It’s So Heartbreakin’ 2:44 (J.Leslie Mcfarland)
9 Over The Rainbow 2:43 (Harold Arlen-E.Y. Harburg)


Side B:
1 That Lucky Old Sun 3:23 (Haven Gillespie-Harry Beasley Smith)
2 Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive 2:20 (Harold Arlen-Johnny Mercer)
3 Try A Little Tenderness 3:21 (James Campbell-Reginald Connelly-Harry M.Woods)
4 Without The One You Love 2:53 (Aretha Franklin)
5 Don’t Cry, Baby 3:27 (Saul Bernie-James P.Johnson-Stella Unger)
6 Lover, Come Back To Me 2:38 (Sigmund Romberg-Oscar Hammerstein Ii)
7 Trouble In Mind 2:18 (Richard M.Jones)
8 God Bless The Child 3:07 (Billie Holiday-Arthur Herzog, Jr.)
9 Hard Times 3:08 (Ray Charles)


メンバー：Aretha Franklin, lead vocals
On all tracks, plus:
A1, A5 & A6:C.Massey (saxophone), Robert Ascher (trombone),
Bucky Pizzarelli (guitar), Russ Savakus (bass),
Aretha Franklin or Ernie Hayes (piano), Gary Chester (drums),
Charles Libove, Bernard Eichenbaum, George Ockner, Harry Lookovsky,
Harry Katzman (violin). Unidentified female backing vocals.
Produced by John Hammond. Conducted and arranged by Richard Wess.
Columbia Records studios, 799 Seventh Avenue, New York, August 16, 1961.
A2 & A9:Tyree Glenn (trombone), Chauncey “Lord” Westbrook (guitar),
Ray Bryant (piano), Bill Lee (bass), Osie Johnson (drums).
Produced by John Hammond. Arranged by J.Leslie McFarland.
Columbia Records studios, 207 East 30th Street, New York, August 1, 1960.
A3:Aretha Franklin (also piano), Bill Lee (bass), Belton “Sticks” Evans (drums).
Produced by John Hammond. Arranged by J.Leslie McFarland.
Columbia Records studios, 799 Seventh Avenue, New York, November 29, 1960.
A4:Lucky Warren (tenor saxophone), Chauncey “Lord” Westbrook (guitar),
Ray Bryant (piano), Bill Lee (bass), Belton “Sticks” Evans (drums).
Produced by John Hammond. Arranged by J.Leslie McFarland.
Columbia Records studios, 207 East 30th Street, New York, December 19, 1960.
A7, A8 & B9:Stanley Webb, James Richardson, Toots Mondello,
Romero Penque (saxophone), Bernie Privin, Joe Wilder, Bernie Glow,
Jimmy Nottingham (trumpet),Jimmy Cleveland, Urbie Green, Robert Alexander,
Morty Bowman (trombone), Bucky Pizzarelli, Don Armone (guitar),
Bill Lee (bass), Aretha Franklin or Mo Wechsler (piano), Teddy Somer (drums).
Produced by John Hammond. Conducted and arranged by Richard Wess.
Columbia Records studios, 799 Seventh Avenue, New York, November 7, 1961.
B1:Phil Bodner (saxophone), Joe Wilder (trumpet), Mundell Lowe (guitar),
Jimmy Rowser (bass), Tommy Flanagan (piano),Teddy Sommer (drums), Gene Orloff,
Julius Schachter, Arnold Eidus, Harry Katzman, Hinda Barnett, Anthony Bambino (violin),
Leon Frengut and Harold Furmansky (viola), Peter Makas and George Koutzen (cello).
Produced by John Hammond. Conducted and arranged by Richard Wess.
Columbia Records studios, 799 Seventh Avenue, New York, December 21, 1961.
B2:Oliver Nelson and Jerry Dodgion (saxophone), Joe Newman (trumpet), Al Grey (trombone),
Mundell Lowe (guitar), Larry Gales (bass),
Wynton Kelly (piano), Jimmy Cobb (drums).
Conducted and arranged by Richard Wess.
Columbia Records studios, 799 Seventh Avenue, New York, January 25, 1962.
B3-B8:Unidentified personnel.
Produced, conducted and arranged by Robert Mersey.
Columbia Records studios, 799 Seventh Avenue, New York, April 27 (B3-B5),
May 4 (B6) & May 11 (B7-B8), 1962.