Aretha In Paris is a live album by Aretha Franklin.
It was recorded May 7, 1968 and was released in October 1968.
Please don’t get this confused with the 1977 Aretha Franklin Live In Paris.
Live Albums By Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin is recognised as one of the greatest singers of classic soul and R&B.
Like many others, she started performing in the world of gospel but than stepped across into the mainstream when she signed for Atlantic Records when she had considerable success with both singles and albums.
The Studio Albums Of Aretha Franklin
Her main success as an album artist was from 1967:
1967 I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
1967 Aretha Arrives
1968 Lady Soul
1968 Aretha Now
1969 Soul ’69
1970 This Girl’s in Love with You
1970 Spirit in the Dark
1972 Young, Gifted and Black
She continued to record regularly throughout the 1970s and 1980s but with the exception of Who’s Zoomin’ Who? from 1985, she never matched her earlier success. Since then her recording has been much less regular.
Live Albums By Aretha Franklin
1968 Aretha In Paris released in 1968
1971 Aretha Live at Fillmore West released in 1971
1972 Amazing Grace released in 1972
1972 Oh Me Oh My: Aretha Live in Philly released in 2007
1987 One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism released in 1987
Various extended versions of the concert at the Fillmore West in 1971 with King Curtis providing support and acting as her backing band, have been released.
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Aretha In Paris is a live album by Aretha Franklin.
It was recorded May 7, 1968 and was released in October 1968.
Please don’t get this confused with the 1977 Aretha Franklin Live In Paris.
Amazing Grace is a live album by Aretha Franklin with the Rev James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir .
It was recorded at at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles on January 13–14, 1972. The original double vinyl album was released in June 1972. This was the original release on CD. In 1999 many more songs were added to create the Complete Recordings.
Set List
The original double vinyl album had the following songs:
Disc: 1
1. Mary, Don’t You Weep
2. Precious Lord, Take My Hand/You’ve Got A Friend
3. Old Landmark
4. Give Yourself To Jesus
5. How I Got Over
6. What A Friend We Have In Jesus
7. Amazing Grace
Disc: 2
1. Precious Memories
2. Climbing Higher Mountains
3. Remarks By Rev. C.L. Franklin
4. God Will Take Care Of You
5. Wholy Holy
6. You’ll Never Walk Alone
7. Never Grow Old
Amazing Grace Complete Recordings has the following:
Disc: 1
1. Organ Introduction (On Our Way)
2. Opening Remarks
3. On Our Way
4. Aretha’s Introduction
5. Wholy Holy
6. You’ll Never Walk Alone
7. What A Friend We Have In Jesus
8. Precious Memories
9. How I Got Over
10. A. Precious Lord, Take My Hand/ You’ve Got A Friend
11. Climbing Higher Mountains
12. Amazing Grace
13. My Sweet Lord (Instrumental)
14. Give Yourself To Jesus
Disc: 2
1. Organ Introduction (On Our Way)/Opening Remarks
2. On Our Way
3. Aretha’s Introduction
4. What A Friend We Have In Jesus
5. Wholy Holy
6. Climbing Higher Mountains
7. God Will Take Care Of You
8. Old Landmark
9. Mary, Don’t You Weep
10. Never Grow Old
11. Remarks By Reverend C.L. Franklin
12. Precious Memories
13. My Sweet Lord
These sets from the separate days have some duplicates and some different songs. On Our Way, Wholy Holy, What A Friend We Have In Jesus, Precious Memories, Climbing Higher Mountains and the instrumental My Sweet Lord are on both.
You’ll Never Walk Alone, How I Got Over, A. Precious Lord, Take My Hand/You’ve Got A Friend, How I Got Over and ironically Amazing Grace are only on the first CD.
God Will Take Care Of You, Old Landmark, Mary, Don’t You Weep and Never Grow Old are only on the second CD.
Performing this music we have:
Aretha Franklin – vocals, piano
Rev. James Cleveland – piano, vocals
Chuck Rainey – bass
Cornell Dupree – guitar
Kenneth Lupper – organ
Pancho Morales – percussion, conga
Bernard “Pretty” Purdie – drums
Southern California Community Choir – background vocals
Rev. C.L. Franklin makes the opening remarks.
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This album is included in the poll to find the best soul live albums. If I ever create a poll for best gospel albums, it will go in there as well.
My aim is to help you to find the best live albums through readers polls, my own reviews and from bringing in Amazon reviews.
You can see the complete list of readers polls at Live Album Polls.
What is the best Aretha Franklin live album?
Aretha Live At Fillmore West is a live album by soul singer Aretha Franklin in concert in San Francisco over three nights in March 1971.
These concerts caught Aretha singing pop songs rather than her great soul classics from albums like I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You and Lady Soul.
It has also been released in various versions.
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