Aretha Franklin - The Queen in Waiting / 2CD set

2020 European CD reissue.

If you want a sampling of Aretha's music before she became a star, you'll find the best selection on The Queen Is Waiting, remastered and sounding better than ever. Aretha plays piano on a few cuts and her singing is pure. There are so many treasures here, including her own song "Without The One You Love" and a stunning performance of Billy Strayhorn's "My Little Brown Book". Aretha's early pop Columbia recordings are just as magnificent as the Atlantic R&B titles that made her a superstar, but in a very different context, on several songs surrounded by a jazz quartet. "Running Out Of Fools", one of her best, was even covered by Elvis Costello.

    - Disc 1 -
    1 Nobody Like You
    2 Once in a While
    3 Maybe I'm a Fool
    4 Muddy Water
    5 Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home? (Alternate Version)
    6 Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)
    7 Today I Sing the Blues
    8 Won't Be Long
    9 Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning
    10 Evil Gal Blues
    11 Lee Cross
    12 Walk on By
    13 I Wonder (Where Are You Tonight)
    14 God Bless the Child
    15 Blue Holiday
    16 Looking Through a Tear
    17 Tiny Sparrow
    18 Here Today and Gone Tomorrow
    19 Little Brown Book
    20 Without the One You Love

    - Disc 2 -
    1 This Bitter Earth
    2 Just for a Thrill
    3 Skylark
    4 Skylark (Alternate Version)
    5 Trouble in Mind
    6 Runnin' Out of Fools
    7 Drinking Again
    8 Laughing on the Outside
    9 What a Diff'rence a Day Makes
    10 Soulville
    11 You'll Lose a Good Thing
    12 Take a Look
    13 Cry Like a Baby
    14 I Wish I Didn't Love You So
    15 Only the Lonely
    16 People (From Funny Girl)
    17 Mockingbird
    18 Until You Were Gone
    19 My Coloring Book
    20 Try a Little Tenderness