The Electrifying Aretha Franklin
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| Studio album by Aretha Franklin | ||||
| Released | March 19, 1962 | |||
| Recorded | July 11, 1961; August 16, 1961; November 7, 1961; December 21, 1961; January 25, 1962 at Columbia Recording Studios, (New York City, New York) |
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| Length | 31:30 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | John H. Hammond, Richard Wess | |||
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The Electrifying Aretha Franklin is the third studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, Released on March 19, 1962 by Columbia Records. The album which also known under its working title The Incomparable Aretha Franklin, was recorded at Columbia Recording Studios, 799 Seventh Avenue, New York. It was produced by John Hammond and arranged by Richard Wess.
This reception was written on "New Stars" newspaper in 1961. "The dimly lit, smoke-filled jazz club was taking on the aspect of a revival tent. The slight, attractive girl at the piano was rasping out a fervent cry, much in the manner of a preacher exhorting his congregation. The audience - sophisticated city-dwellers all - was responding, picking up the leader's lusty calls and answering them with exciting, spontaneous antiphonal replies in the best call-and-response tradition of Negro songs. The young girl's propulsive, Gospel-tinged piano and the crowd's surgingly infectious handclapping further added to the emphatic church-music feeling. The lissome preacher was Aretha Franklin, perhaps the most gripping and individual vocal stylist in some time."
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