Title: Respect: Aretha's Influences and Inspiration Artist: Various Artists Label: Ace Records UK Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 029667035323 Genre: Soul/R & B Release Date: 2009-03-10 Number of Discs: 1 Additional Details: UNITED KINGDOM - IMPORT
2009 release that contains songs that influenced and inspired the 'Greatest Singer of All Time' (Rolling Stone). Her fans will be familiar with the songs on this collection, but maybe not these versions. Spanning the years 1948-1972, highlights include 'Try a Little Tenderness' by the influential Little Miss Cornshucks, 'Drown in My Own Tears' by Aretha's hero Ray Charles, Helen Humes' original of 'Today I Sing the Blues' and 'Sit Down And Cry' by unsung Soul heroine Jean Wells. Comprising originals of songs made famous by the "Queen of Soul" during her first two decades as a recording artist, or in some cases the versions she grew up loving, the two-dozen R&B, Soul and Gospel recordings here, many of them performed by her favorite artists, helped influence and inspire Aretha to become the great singer she is. Ace.
Tracks: 1.1 Respect - Otis Redding 1.2 The House That Jack Built - Thelma Jones 1.3 Seesaw - Don Covay ; the Goodtimers 1.4 Sit Down and Cry - Jean Wells 1.5 Don't Play That Song (You Lied) - Ben E King 1.6 Every Little Bit Hurts - Brenda Holloway 1.7 Soulville - Dinah Washington 1.8 Pitiful - Big Maybelle 1.9 Share Your Love with Me - Bobby Bland 1.10 Today I Sing the Blues - Helen Humes with Buck Clayton's Orchestra 1.11 My Song - Johnny Ace with the Beale Streeters 1.12 Try a Little Tenderness - Little Miss Cornshucks 1.13 I'm Wanderin' - Jackie Wilson 1.14 The River's Invitation - Percy Mayfield 1.15 Drown in My Own Tears - Ray Charles 1.16 The Dark End of the Street - James Carr 1.17 Prove It - Mary Wheeler 1.18 I'm in Love - Wilson Pickett 1.19 Eight Days on the Road - Howard Tate 1.20 To Be Young, Gifted and Black - Nina Simone 1.21 Let Me in Your Life - Bill Withers 1.22 That's the Way I Feel About Cha - Bobby Womack 1.23 I Say a Little Prayer - Dionne Warwick 1.24 The Day Is Passed and Gone - Clara Ward
