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2002 compilation album by Aretha Franklin
The Queen in Waiting: The Columbia Years (1960–1965)
Released September 24, 2002 Recorded August 1, 1960 – October 12, 1965
Genre
Length 2 :06 :38
Label
Legacy
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating
AllMusic (The Queen in Waiting )
[1] AllMusic (The Essential )
[2] AllMusic (The Essential 3.0 )
[3]
The Queen in Waiting: The Columbia Years (1960–1965) is a 2002
compilation album of
Aretha Franklin 's early recordings from 1960 to 1965 when she was signed to
Columbia Records . It was repackaged as part of The Essential series in 2010,
[4] with a three-disc set containing eight additional songs also being released as The Essential 3.0 .
[3]
Background
The Queen in Waiting highlights Franklin's jazz and big-band recordings with Columbia before she became famous after she moved to
Atlantic Records .
[5] Not knowing how to best utilize Franklin's talent, her producers had her record a mixture of jazz, blues, gospel, pop, and soul, and Columbia was criticized for mismanaging Franklin during her tenure with them.
[6]
[7] Collections such as this one and the more comprehensive Take a Look: Aretha Franklin Complete on Columbia are attempts to bring exposure to Franklin's catalog of early recordings.
[7]
Track listing
Disc one
Title Writer(s) 1. "Nobody Like You"
James Cleveland 2:23 2. "Once in a While" L. C. Cook 2:31 3. "Maybe I'm a Fool"
John Leslie McFarland 3:15 4. "Muddy Water"
Harry Richman , Jo Trent,
Peter De Rose 2:24 5. "
Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home? " (alternate version)
Hughie Cannon 2:14 6. "Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)"
Ray Charles 3:09 7. "
Today I Sing the Blues "
Curtis Lewis 2:41 8. "
Won't Be Long "
John Leslie McFarland 3:18 9. "Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning"
Tom Delaney , Pearl Delaney 5:10 10. "Evil Gal Blues"
Lionel Hampton ,
Leonard Feather 2:41 11. "Lee Cross" Ted White 3:22 12. "
Walk On By "
Burt Bacharach ,
Hal David 2:50 13. "I Wonder (Where Are You Tonight)" Aretha Franklin, Ted White 3:21 14. "
God Bless the Child "
Billie Holiday ,
Arthur Herzog Jr. 3:03 15. "Blue Holiday"
Willie Denson ,
Luther Dixon 2:54 16. "Looking Through a Tear"
Arthur Resnick ,
Bobby Scott 3:03 17. "Tiny Sparrow" Bobby Scott 2:49 18. "Here Today and Gone Tomorrow" Babs Gonzales, Glen Ballard, Marti Sharron 3:29 19. "Little Brown Book" Billy Strayhorn 3:18 20. "Without the One You Love" Aretha Franklin 2:46
Disc two
Title Writer(s) 1. "This Bitter Earth" Clyde Otis 4:34 2. "Just for a Thrill"
Lil Hardin Armstrong , Don Raye 2:54 3. "
Skylark "
Johnny Mercer ,
Hoagy Carmichael 2:21 4. "Skylark" (alternate version) Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael 4:04 5. "Trouble in Mind"
Richard M. Jones 2:43 6. "Runnin' Out of Fools" Kay Rogers, Richard Ahlert 2:43 7. "
Drinking Again "
Johnny Mercer , Doris Tauber 3:28 8. "
Laughing on the Outside (Crying on the Inside) " Bernie Wayne, Ben Raleigh 3:16 9. "
What a Diff'rence a Day Makes "
Stanley Person ,
María Grever 3:31 10. "Soulville"
Titus Turner ,
Morris Levy ,
Henry Glover , Dinah Washington 2:26 11. "
You'll Lose a Good Thing "
Huey P Meaux ,
Barbara Lynn 2:40 12. "Take a Look"
Clyde Otis 2:42 13. "Cry Like a Baby"
Jo Armstead ,
Nickolas Ashford ,
Valerie Simpson 2:13 14. "I Wish I Didn't Love You So"
Frank Loesser 2:55 15. "Only the Lonely"
Sammy Cahn ,
Jimmy Van Heusen 4:54 16. "
People "
Jule Styne ,
Bob Merrill 4:18 17. "
Mockingbird "
Inez Foxx ,
Charlie Foxx 2:48 18. "Until You Were Gone"
Joy Byers 3:16 19. "
My Coloring Book "
John Kander ,
Fred Ebb 4:08 20. "Try a Little Tenderness" James Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Harry M. Woods 3:14
Limited edition 3.0
Release history
Date
Label
Format
Catalog
September 24, 2002
Legacy
CD
C2K 85696
October 26, 2010
Columbia, Legacy
CD
88697 68830-2/88697 68830-2
References
^ Unterberger, Richie.
Aretha Franklin - The Queen in Waiting: The Columbia Years (1960–1965) : Review at
AllMusic . Retrieved January 31, 2019.
^ Leggett, Steve.
Aretha Franklin - The Essential Aretha Franklin: The Columbia Years at
AllMusic . Retrieved January 31, 2019.
^
a
b Leggett, Steve.
Aretha Franklin - The Essential 3.0: The Columbia Years at
AllMusic . Retrieved January 31, 2019.
^ Marchese, Joe (September 22, 2010).
"Short Takes: Legacy's First Paul Simon Release, James Taylor Goes Gold, and Spector Set Due" . The Second Disc . Retrieved January 31, 2019 .
^ Kot, Gret (August 16, 2018).
"Aretha Franklin's essential recordings" . Daily Gazette . Retrieved January 31, 2019 .
^ Neal, Mark Anthony (October 17, 2002).
"Aretha Franklin: The Queen in Waiting: The Columbia Years (1960-1965) " . PopMatters . Retrieved January 31, 2019 .
^
a
b Wang, Oliver (May 12, 2011).
"Aretha Franklin: 'Take A Look' Back At The Columbia Years" . NPR . Retrieved January 31, 2019 .
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