Aretha (1980 album)

Aretha

Studio album by Aretha Franklin

Released

October 25, 1980

Recorded

April-July, 1980

Genre

Soul, Funk, Pop, R&B

Length

39:23

Label

Arista

Producer

Chuck Jackson, Todd Cochrane, Aretha Franklin, Arif Mardin, Keith Richards, Narada Michael Walden

Aretha Franklin chronology

La Diva
(1979)

Aretha
(1980)

Aretha Sings the Blues
(1980)

Singles from Aretha

"United Together"
Released: May 24, 1980
"What A Fool Believes"
Released: June 1980 (UK)^[1]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
Robert Christgau	B- ^[3]

Aretha is the twenty-eighth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, Released on October 25, 1980 by Arista Records. Franklin's first Arista single release, "United Together", reached #3 on the Soul chart and crossed over to #56 on Billboard's Hot 100. The album itself peaked at #47 and spent 30 weeks on Billboard's main album chart, eventually selling close to 350,000 copies.

It was recently re-issued by SoulMusic Records.^[4] This was the second album with this title to be released by the artist, and her first ever for Arista after a 12-year tenure with Atlantic Records. Other Franklin albums titled "Aretha" were also released in 1986 and 1961. The disc's opening track, "Come To Me", appeared again on her 1989 album, Through The Storm.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Come To Me"	Willard Gene Price	3:42
2.	"I Can't Turn You Loose"	Otis Redding	3:55
3.	"United Together"	Phil Perry, Chuck Jackson	5:02
4.	"Take Me With You"	Phil Perry, Terry Coleman, Chuck Jackson	4:05
5.	"Whatever It Is"	Mark Gary, Eddie Setser, Jerry Michael	3:38
6.	"What a Fool Believes"	Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald	5:13
7.	"Together Again"	Franklin, Phil Perry, Chuck Jackson	3:34
8.	"Love Me Forever"	Franklin, Rev. Patrick Henderson, Kenny Moore	4:47
9.	"School Days"	Aretha Franklin	4:54

Production

Produced By Chuck Jackson and Arif Mardin
Engineers: Lee DeCarlo, Lewis Hahn, Frank Kejmar, Jeremy Smith
Assistant Engineers: Michael O'Reilly, Stewart Whitmore
Mixing: Reginald Dozier
Re-mixing: Lewis Hahn, Arif Mardin, Michael O'Reilly, Gene Paul
Re-Mix Assistant: Joe Mardin
Mastering: Ken Perry, Bill Inglot

Personnel

Drums: Tony Coleman, James Gadson, Ed Greene, Yogi Horton, Steve Jordan, Jeff Porcaro, Bernard "Petty" Purdie
Percussion: George Devens, Greg "Gigi" Gonaway, Darryl Jackson, Jason Martin, Raul Rekow, Orestes Vilato
Bass: Francisco Centeno, Tony Coleman, Scott Edwards, Randy Jackson, Louis Johnson, James Jamerson, Mike Porcaro
Guitars: Vernon "Ice" Black, Cornell Dupree, Paul Jackson, Jr., Steve Lukather, Greg Poree, Doc Powell, Keith Richards, Allen Rogen, David T. Walker, Teddy White, David Williams, Ron Wood
Keyboards, Synthesizers, Organ, Piano: Walter Afanasieff, Bob Christianson, Todd Cochrane, Tony Coleman, Aretha Franklin, David Foster, Preston Glass, Nick Johnson, Michael Lang, Chuck Leavell, David Paich, Steve Porcaro, David Sancious, Richard Tee
Saxophone: Michael Brecker (Tenor), Louis del Gatto (Baritone), Kenny G, Eddie Mininfeld, David "Fathead" Newman (Tenor), Seldon Powell (Tenor), Marc Russo, David Sanborn, David Tofani (Alto)
Trumpet: Randy Brecker, Lew Soloff
Trombone: Barry Rogers, Wayne Wallace
Horns: Jerry Hey
French Horn: John Clark, Peter Gordon,
Strings: Jonathan Abramowitz, Jack Barber, A. Brown, Peter Dimitriades, Harold Kohon, Harry Lookofsky, Joseph Malin, Alan Shulman, Mitsue Takayama, Gerald Tarack, M. Wright, Frederick Zlotkin, F. Zoltin
Strings and Horns arranged by Arif Mardin & Benjamin Wright
Backing Vocals: Kitty Beethoven, Ortheia Barnes, Estelle Brown, Tony Coleman, Brenda Corbett, Preston Glass, Larry Graham, Jennifer Hall, Chuck Jackson, Liz Jackson, Randy Jackson, Edie Lehmann, Myrna Matthews, Marti McCall, Claytoven Richardson, Esther Ridgeway, Gloria Ridgeway, Sylvia Shemwell, Myrna Smith, Hamish Sutart, The Sweet Inspirations, Jeanie Tracy,

References

↑ http://www.discogs.com/Aretha-Franklin-What-A-Fool-Believes/release/508109
↑ Elias, Jason. Aretha at AllMusic
↑ Christgau, Robert. "Aretha review". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 2015-04-28.
↑ http://www.soulmusic.com/index.asp?S=3&T=36&ART=2554

Aretha Franklin

Studio albums

Columbia	Aretha (1961) The Electrifying Aretha Franklin (1962) The Tender, the Moving, the Swinging Aretha Franklin (1962) Laughing on the Outside (1963) Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington (1964) Runnin' Out of Fools (1964) Yeah!!! (1965) Soul Sister (1966) Take It Like You Give It (1967) Take a Look (1967) Soft and Beautiful (1969)

Atlantic	I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967) Aretha Arrives (1967) Lady Soul (1968) Aretha Now (1968) Soul '69 (1969) This Girl's in Love with You (1970) Spirit in the Dark (1970) Young, Gifted and Black (1972) Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky) (1973) Let Me in Your Life (1974) With Everything I Feel in Me (1974) You (1975) Sparkle (1976) Sweet Passion (1977) Almighty Fire (1978) La Diva (1979)

Arista	Aretha (1980) Love All the Hurt Away (1981) Jump to It (1982) Get It Right (1983) Who's Zoomin' Who? (1985) Aretha (1986) Through the Storm (1989) What You See Is What You Sweat (1991) A Rose Is Still a Rose (1998) So Damn Happy (2003)

Other	Songs of Faith (1956) This Christmas, Aretha (2008) Aretha: A Woman Falling Out of Love (2011) Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics (2014)

Live albums

Aretha in Paris (1968)
Aretha Live at Fillmore West (1971)
Amazing Grace (1972)
One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism (1987)
Oh Me Oh My: Aretha Live in Philly, 1972 (2007)

Compilation albums

Aretha's Gold (1969)
Aretha's Greatest Hits (1971)
The Best of Aretha Franklin (1973)
Aretha Sings the Blues (1980)
30 Greatest Hits (1985)
Greatest Hits: 1980–1994 (1994)
The Early Years (1997)
Greatest Hits (1998)
Aretha's Best (2001)
Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul (2007)
Jewels in the Crown: All-Star Duets with the Queen (2007)
A Deeper Love: The Best of Aretha Franklin (2009)
The Great American Songbook (2011)
Knew You Were Waiting: The Best of Aretha Franklin (1980-1998) (2012)

Box sets

Queen of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings (1992/2014)
Take A Look: Aretha Franklin Complete on Columbia (2011)

Singles

"Precious Lord (Part 1)" (1959)
"Today I Sing the Blues" (1960)
"Won't Be Long" (1960)
"Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" (1961)
"Operation Heartbreak" (1961)
"I Surrender, Dear" (1962)
"Try a Little Tenderness" (1962)
"Say It Isn't So" (1963)
"Skylark" (1963)
"The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" (1964)
"One Step Ahead" (1965)
"You Made Me Love You" (1965)
"Mockingbird" (1967)
"I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" (1967)
"Respect" (1967)
"Baby I Love You" (1967)
"(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (1967)
"Do Right Woman, Do Right Man"
"Chain of Fools" (1967)
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (1968)
"(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" (1968)
"Think" (1968)
"You Send Me" (1968)
"The House That Jack Built" (1968)
"I Say a Little Prayer" (1968)
"See Saw" (1968)
"My Song" (1968)
"The Weight" (1969)
"Tracks of My Tears" (1969)
"I Can't See Myself Leaving You" (1969)
"Gentle on My Mind" (1969)
"Share Your Love with Me" (1969)
"Eleanor Rigby" (1969)
"Call Me" (1970)
"Son of a Preacher Man" (1970)
"Spirit in the Dark" (1970)
"The Thrill Is Gone" (1970)
"Don't Play That Song" (1970)
"Border Song (Holy Moses)" (1970)
"You're All I Need to Get By" (1971)
"Bridge over Troubled Water" (1971)
"Spanish Harlem" (1971)
"Rock Steady" (1971)
"Day Dreaming" (1972)
"Wholy Holy" (1972)
"Angel" (1973)
"Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" (1973)
"I'm in Love" (1974)
"Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" (1974)
"Something He Can Feel" (1976)
"Break It to Me Gently" (1977)
"What a Fool Believes" (1981)
"It's My Turn" (1981)
"Jump to It" (1982)
"Get It Right" (1983)
"Freeway of Love" (1985)
"Who's Zoomin' Who" (1985)
"Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" (1985)
"Jumpin' Jack Flash" (1986)
"Jimmy Lee" (1986)
"I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (1987)
"Oh Happy Day" (1988)
"Gimme Your Love" (1989)
"It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be" (1989)
"Everyday People" (1991)
"Someday We'll All Be Free" (1992)
"A Deeper Love" (1993)
"A Rose Is Still a Rose" (1998)
"Here We Go Again" (1998)
"Put You Up on Game" (2007)
"Rolling in the Deep (The Aretha Version)" (2014)