Let Me in Your Life
Let Me In Your Life | ||||
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Studio album by Aretha Franklin | ||||
Released | February 25, 1974 | |||
Recorded |
April 10, 1973-September 7, 1973 Whitney Studios, (Glendale, California) | |||
Genre | R&B | |||
Label | Atlantic (#7292), Rhino | |||
Producer | Jerry Wexler, Aretha Franklin | |||
Aretha Franklin chronology | ||||
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Singles from Let Me in Your Life | ||||
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Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Allmusic | link |
Robert Christgau | B+ [1] |
Rolling Stone | (mixed) link |
Let Me in Your Life is the twenty-first studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, Released on February 25, 1974 by Atlantic Records. It's one of Aretha's top-selling albums. The album hit #1 on Billboard's R&B albums chart and #14 on Billboard's main album chart, but just missed the Gold standard by a small margin. Featuring three hit singles, it is regarded as one of Franklin's best Atlantic recordings. In the 1990s, it was issued on compact disc through Rhino Records.
Track Listing
- "Let Me in Your Life" (Bill Withers)
- "Every Natural Thing" (Eddie Hinton)
- "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson)
- "I'm in Love" (Bobby Womack)
- "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" (Clarence Paul, Stevie Wonder, Morris Broadnax)
- "The Masquerade is Over" (Herbert Magidson, Allie Wrubel)
- "With Pen in Hand" (Bobby Goldsboro)
- "Oh Baby" (Aretha Franklin)
- "Eight Days On the Road" (Michael Gayle, Jerry Ragovoy)
- "If You Don't Think" (Aretha Franklin)
- "A Song for You" (Leon Russell)
Personnel
- Aretha Franklin - lead vocals (All tracks), acoustic piano (tracks 2, 5, 7-9), electric piano (tracks 10-11)
- Gwen Guthrie - background vocals (tracks 4-5)
- Donny Hathaway - acoustic piano (tracks 4, 6), electric piano (tracks 5, 8), additional keyboards (3, 7)
- Bob James - organ (track 1), additional keyboards (3)
- Chuck Rainey - bass (tracks 2, 5, 7, 9)
- Ernie Royal - trumpet (track 10)
- Deodato - arranger, electric piano (track 1)
- Ralph MacDonald - percussion (tracks 1-4, 6-11)
- Kenneth Bichel - synthesizer (track 5)
- Margaret Branch - background vocals (tracks 2, 5, 7, 9)
- Cissy Houston - background vocals (tracks 3-5)
- Ann S. Clark - background vocals (tracks 2, 5, 7, 9)
- Stanley Clarke - bass (tracks 1, 3-4, 6)
- Judy Clay - background vocals (tracks 3-4)
- Cornell Dupree - guitar (tracks 2, 4, 7-11)
- Joe Farrell - tenor saxophone (track 2), flute (track 5)
- Arif Mardin - producer (All tracks), string arranger (track 2, 4)
- Rick Marotta - drums (tracks 1, 3-4, 6)
- Hugh McCracken - guitar (track 5)
- Pancho Morales - percussion (tracks 2, 7, 9)
- Gene Orloff - concert master
- Bernard "Pretty" Purdie - drums (tracks 2, 5, 7-11)
- Sylvia Shemwell - background vocals (track 3)
- Myrna Smith - background vocals (track 3)
- David Spinozza - guitar (tracks 1, 3-4, 6)
- Richard Tee - additional keyboards (track 10)
- Deirdre Tuck Corley - background vocals (track 4)
- Willie Weeks - bass (tracks 8, 10-11)
See also
References
- ↑ Christgau, Robert. "Let Me in Your Life review". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 2015-04-28.
External links
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