Description
DESCRIPTION
Two CD set. 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.
TracksCredits
- 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
