The Early Hits
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Known as the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin ranked as No.1 in the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time Rolling Stone magazine s 2010 poll. She is also an 18-time Grammy Award winner as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement and Grammy Living Legend awardee, standing among the greatest living singers (she is 75-years-old at this writing). This outstanding collection gathers all of her early hits from the period 1960-62, when she started to gain renown. What distinguished Aretha Franklin from other female singers was, above all, the sheer power of her voice its high belting chest register pushed into the soprano range without the operatic tonal roundness of a trained soprano extension. This is not mere technical gibberish: it defines a way of singing common to most popular vocalists in our time. But Aretha did it better than almost anyone. And unlike some, she has an upper extension, but she uses it for coloration, mostly in soft singing, not for sustained high passages or surging climaxes. Aretha Franklin would record for Columbia constantly throughout the first half of the 60s, notching occasional R&B hits (and one Top Forty single, Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody , but never truly breaking out as a star. The Columbia period continues to generate considerable controversy among critics, many of whom feel that Aretha s true aspirations were being blunted by pop-oriented material and production. In fact there s a reasonable amount of fine items to be found on the Columbia sides, including the song Operation Heartbreak (initially issued in 1961) where she belts out soul with real gusto. Virgin Vinyl 180 Gram Gatefold Edition