Aretha Franklin / Essential Recordings 1956-62


＜CD1 Total Time: 48:28＞
01 Right Now 2:26
02 Today I Sing The Blues 2:46
03 Love Is The Only Thing 2:43
04 Over The Rainbow 2:41
05 (Blue) By Myself 2:41
06 Won’t Be Long 3:12
07 All Night Long 3:00
08 It Ain’t Necessarily So 2:56
09 Sweet Lover 3:25
10 Who Needs You? 2:49
11 Are You Sure 2:44
12 Maybe I’m A Fool 3:20
13 Kissin’ By The Mistletoe 2:22
14 When They Ask About You 3:00
15 I Surrender, Dear 2:48
16 Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody 2:26
17 Operation Heartbreak 3:00


＜CD2 Total Time: 48:42＞
01 I Told You So 2:45
02 Rough Lover 2:49
03 It’s So Heartbreakin’ 2:42
04 Hard Times 3:08
05 You Made Me Love You 2:20
06 Just For You 2:22
07 Blue Holiday 2:55
08 That Lucky Old Sun 3:21
09 Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive 2:18
10 Exactly Like You 2:38
11 Nobody Like You 2:24
12 Try A Little Tenderness 3:19
13 I Apologize 2:56
14 Without The One You Love 2:51
15 Don’t Cry, Baby 3:25
16 I’m Wandering 3:30
17 I Don’t Know You Anymore 2:52


＜CD3 Total Time: 53:53＞
01 Lover, Come Back To Me 2:36
02 How Deep Is The Ocean? 2:51
03 I’m Sitting On Top Of The World 2:45
04 Look For The Silver Lining 3:07
05 Trouble In Mind 2:16
06 Just For A Thrill 2:35
07 God Bless The Child 3:05
08 I Surrender, Dear [Mono] 2:48
09 There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood 4:29
10 Precious Lord –Part 1 3:23
11 Precious Lord –Part 2 2:52
12 You Grow Closer 2:44
13 Never Grow Old 2:57
14 The Day Is Past And Gone 4:58
15 He Will Wash You White As Snow 4:18
16 While The Blood Runs Warm 3:06
17 Yield Not To Temptation 2:57


メンバー：Aretha Franklin, lead vocals
On all tracks, plus:
Collective personnel: Joe Wilder (trumpet), Oliver Nelson, Al Sears (tenor sax),
Ray Bryant, Aretha Franklin,Wynton Kelly (piano), Mundell Lowe (guitar),
Milt Hinton, George Duvivier (bass), Osie Johnson (drums),among many others.
CD1, CD2 & CD3, 1-8: Recorded in New York, 1960-62.
CD3: 9-17: Aretha Franklin (also piano). Arranged and conducted by J.B.Junior.
Live at the New Bethel Baptist Church, Detroit, Michigan, 1956.