The Great Aretha Franklin: The First 12 Sides

Original Release Date:  1973

Track Listing

• 1. Won't Be Long
• 2. Over the Rainbow
• 3. Love Is the Only Thing
• 4. Sweet Lover
• 5. All Night Long
• 6. Who Needs You?
• 7. Right Now
• 8. Are You Sure?
• 9. Maybe I'm a Fool
• 10. It Ain't Necessarily So
• 11. (Blue) By Myself
• 12. Today I Sing the Blues

Credits

• George Gershwin: Composer
• Aretha Franklin: Piano, Vocals
• Ray Bryant: Piano
• Al Sears: Sax (Tenor)
• Tyree Glenn: Trombone
• John Hammond, Sr.: Producer, Liner Notes
• Henri Renaud: Producer
• Quentin Jackson: Trombone
• Skeeter Best: Guitar
• Homer Banks: Composer
• Belton Evans: Drums
• Sticks Evans: Drums
• Ira Gershwin: Composer
• John Hammond: Producer
• Milt Hinton: Bass
• Osie Johnson: Drums
• Bill Lee: Bass
• Warren Luckey: Sax (Tenor)
• Alan Silvestri: Composer
• Vernon Smith: Photography
• Lord Westbrook: Guitar
• Karen Lee Grant: Artwork, Design
• Raymond Jackson: Composer
• Sidney Wyche: Composer
• J. Leslie McFarland: Composer
• Curtis Reginald Lewis: Composer