Aretha Franklin – Aretha - Through the Storm [Expanded Editions] (2014) MP3VBR Beolab1700

Aretha Franklin – Aretha - Through the Storm [Expanded Editions] (2014) MP3VBR Beolab1700

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Aretha Franklin - Aretha
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Artist...............: Aretha Franklin
Album................: Aretha
Genre................: Soul
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2014
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: LAME 3.98
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Extreme, (avg. bitrate: 261kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Information..........:

Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 18/05/2015

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Tracklisting
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Aretha: Expanded Edition (Arista ARCD-8442, 1986 – reissued Funky Town Grooves FTG-398, 2014)

CD 1

Jimmy Lee
I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)
Do You Still Remember
Jumpin’ Jack Flash
Rock-A-Lott
An Angel Cries
He’ll Come Along
If You Need My Love Tonight
Look To The Rainbow
Rock-A-Lott (Street Mix)
Rock-A-Lott (Single Mix)
Rock-A-Lott (Radio Edit)
Rock-A-Lott (Dub)
Rock-A-Lott (Acapella)
An Angel Cries (7″ Mix)

CD 2

I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) (7″ Mix)
I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) (Instrumental)
I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) (Edited Remix)
I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) (Percapella)
I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) (Extended Remix)
Jimmy Lee (Extended Version)
Jimmy Lee (Dub Version)
Jumpin’ Jack Flash (Street Mix)
Jumpin’ Jack Flash (Edited Street Mix)
Jumpin’ Jack Flash (Master Dub Mix)
Jumpin’ Jack Flash (Beat Dub Mix)
Jumpin’ Jack Flash (7″ Mix)
Aretha Megamix

Through the Storm: Expanded Edition (Arista ARCD-8572, 1989 – reissued Funky Town Grooves FTG-399, 2014)

CD 1

Gimme Your Love
Mercy
He’s The Boy
It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be
Through The Storm
Think (1989) (Remake)
Come To Me
If I Ever A Love There Was
Gimme Your Love (Single Vesion)
Gimme Your Love (Alternate Mix)
Gimme Your Love (Extended Remix – Purple Mix)
Gimme Your Love (The Purple Mix Edit)
Gimme Your Love (The Purple Mix – Part One)
Gimme Your Love (The Purple Mix – Part Two)
Aretha Franklin & James Brown Interview

CD 2

It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be (Album Edit)
It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be (Single Version)
It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be (Single Remix)
It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be (Extended Radio Mix)
It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be (House Radio Mix)
It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be (Hip Hop Radio Mix)
It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be (New Jack Swing Dub Edit)
It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be (After Hours Club Mix)
It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be (1989 Vogue Dub Mix)
It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be (Nic Mercy’s 1999 Mix)
It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be (Instrumental)


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Funky Town Grooves released two titles from Aretha Franklin‘s Arista catalogue: 1986’s Aretha (her second album of that name for Arista) and 1989’s Through the Storm.

Aretha welcomed back producer Narada Michael Walden and yielded a number of chart hits including a rowdy take on The Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” featuring moonlighting Stones Keith Richards (who also produced the track) and Ron Wood, “Jimmy Lee,” “If You Need My Love Tonight” and a duet with George Michael, “I Knew You Were Waiting for Me.” The latter earned the Queen her first No. 1 Pop single since “Respect” in 1967, and helped propel Aretha to Gold status. FTG adds a whopping 19 bonus tracks to the original 9-song album which also featured a sublime rendition of the Burton Lane/E.Y. Harburg standard “Look to the Rainbow,” from the musical Finian’s Rainbow. The bonus material includes five different mixes each of “Rock-a-Lott,” “I Knew You Were Waiting for Me,” and “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” plus the single edit of “An Angel Cries,” two mixes of “Jimmy Lee,” and the non-album “Aretha Megamix.”

Franklin followed her pop smash with a return to her gospel roots via One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, but was back in the secular realm with 1989’s Through the Storm, the second of FTG’s new 2-CD reissues. Disappointingly, the short, eight-song album again overseen by Narada Michael Walden stalled outside of the top 50 on the Billboard 200 despite the Top 20 single hit with the title track featuring Elton John. That duet is one of the four on the LP. It also features Whitney Houston on “It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be,” which like “Through the Storm” was written by the team of Albert Hammond (“It Never Rains in Southern California”) and the ubiquitous Diane Warren. The Four Tops and Kenny G join Franklin on “If Ever a Love There Was,” and Soul Brother No. 1 James Brown drops in for “Gimme Your Love.” FTG is adding 18 bonus cuts: six versions of the Brown duet plus an interview with Brown and Franklin on the first disc, and eleven, count ‘em, eleven mixes of “It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be” on Disc Two.

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