Today I Sing The Blues - 38 Greatest Hits

~ Release by Aretha Franklin (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

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#TitleRatingLength
1Today I Sing The Blues
2:46
2Love Is The Only Thing
recording of:
Love Is the Only Thing
lyricist and composer:
J. Leslie McFarland (composer)
2:40
3Won't Be Long
3:19
4Right Now
recording of:
Right Now
writer:
J. Leslie McFarland (composer)
2:24
5Over The Rainbow
recording of:
Over the Rainbow (The Wizard of Oz)
lyricist:
Yip Harburg (in 1938)
composer:
Harold Arlen (in 1938)
premiered by:
Judy Garland (in 1939)
publisher:
EMI Feist Catalog Inc., EMI Music (do not use as release label! this is a music publisher), EMI Partnership Ltd., EMI United Partnership Ltd., J. Albert & Son Pty. Ltd., Leo Feist Music, Robbins Music Corp. Ltd., United Partnership Ltd. and Warner/Chappell (Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.)
sub-publisher:
香港商百代音樂股份有限公司台灣分公司 (EMI Music Publishing (S.E.Asia) Ltd., Taiwan Branch), フジパシフィック音楽出版 SBK事業部 (Fujipacific Music Inc. SBK Division) (until 2014-12-31), ヤマハミュージックパブリッシング (Yamaha Music Publishing) (until 2017-03-31), フジパシフィックミュージック SBK事業部 (Fujipacific Music SBK Department) (from 2015-01-01 to present) and ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (Yamaha Music Entertainment Holdings, Inc., holding company – do not use as release label) (from 2017-04-01 to present)
part of:
The 12th Academy Award for Best Original Song (number: 1) and Academy Award for Best Original Song (number: 1939 winner)
part of:
The Wizard of Oz (1942 Arlen/Harburg musical)
part of:
The Wizard of Oz (1939 film soundtrack)
2:39
6Sweet Lover
recording of:
Sweet Lover
writer:
J. Leslie McFarland (composer) and Sid Wyche
3:21
7All Night Long
recording of:
All Night Long
writer:
Curtis Reginald Lewis (US songwriter)
publisher:
EMI Music Publishing (do not use as a release label!), Six Continents Music Publishing and Warner/Chappell Music, Hong Kong Limited (華納音樂版權香港有限公司, 1995–2019)
3:02
8Who Needs You
2:46
9Are You Sure
recording of:
Are You Sure
lyricist and composer:
Meredith Willson
2:41
10Maybe I'm A Fool
recording of:
Maybe I’m a Fool
writer:
J. Leslie McFarland (composer)
publisher:
Chappell & Co.
3:17
11It Ain't Necessarily So
recording of:
It Ain’t Necessarily So (jazz standard originally from Porgy and Bess; catch-all for unspecified pop and jazz arrangements)
lyricist:
Ira Gershwin, Dorothy Heyward (playwright) and DuBose Heyward
composer:
George Gershwin (composer)
publisher:
Chappell Music (ASCAP), Gershwin Publishing Corp, Warner Chappell Music (publisher as Warner/Chappell Music), Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty. Ltd. and Warner/Chappell North America Limited (formerly incorporated as Marmalade Music Ltd., from 1968/09/19–1999/11/09)
was commissioned by:
Gershwin Publishing Corp (in 1935)
version of:
Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene II. “It ain’t necessarily so” (Sportin’ Life)
2:52
12(Blue) By Myself
recording of:
(Blue) By Myself
writer:
Joe Bailey (US double bassist and songwriter) and J. Leslie McFarland (composer)
2:39
13Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody
recording of:
Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody
lyricist:
Sam M. Lewis (1930s lyricist) and Joe Young (US lyricist)
composer:
Jean Schwartz
publisher:
B. Feldman & Co. Ltd. (publisher est. 1946) and Redwood Music Ltd. (Carlin)
2:24
14Operation Heartbreak
recording of:
Operation Heartbreak
writer:
Al Kasha (composer, songwriter and arranger), Alan Thomas (songwriter for Aretha Franklin) and Curtis Williams (1950s doo-wop singer, member of The Penguins)
publisher:
EMI Blackwood Music Inc.
2:59
15You Made Me Love You
2:18
16I Told You So
bass:
Bill Lee (bassist, composer, father of Spike Lee) (on 1961-11-07)
drums (drum set):
Teddy Somer (on 1961-11-07)
guitar:
Don Armone (on 1961-11-07) and Bucky Pizzarelli (on 1961-11-07)
piano:
Mo Wechsler (on 1961-11-07)
saxophone:
James Richardson (on 1961-11-07), Toots Mondello (on 1961-11-07), Romero Penque (on 1961-11-07) and Stanley Webb (on 1961-11-07)
trombone:
Robert Alexander (trombone) (on 1961-11-07), Morty Bowman (on 1961-11-07), Jimmy Cleveland (US jazz trombonist) (on 1961-11-07) and Urbie Green (on 1961-11-07)
trumpet:
Bernie Glow (on 1961-11-07), Jimmy Nottingham (on 1961-11-07), Bernie Privin (on 1961-11-07) and Joe Wilder (on 1961-11-07)
conductor:
Richard Wess (on 1961-11-07)
arranger:
Richard Wess
recorded at:
Columbia Studios in New York, New York, United States (on 1961-11-07)
recording of:
I Told You So (on 1961-11-07)
writer:
J. Leslie McFarland (composer)
42:43
17Nobody Like You
recording of:
Nobody Like You
writer:
Rev. James Cleveland
publisher:
Screen Gems–EMI Music, Inc. (USA, affiliated with BMI)
2:22
18Exactly Like You
2:35
19It's So Heartbreakin'
recording of:
It’s So Heartbreakin’
writer:
J. Leslie McFarland (composer)
2:39
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