Aretha Franklin - Aretha Arrives (1967)
Tracklist front / back album covers
Side one
1. "Satisfaction" 2:35
2. "You Are My Sunshine" 4:18
3. "Never Let Me Go" 2:50
4. "96 Tears" 2:12
5. "Prove It" 2:58
6. "Night Life" 3:10
Side two
7. "That's Life" 4:25
8. "I Wonder" 4:21
9. "Ain't Nobody (Gonna Turn Me Around)" 2:31
10. "Going Down Slow" 4:27
11. "Baby, I Love You" 2:39
Aretha Franklin Band Members / Musicians
Aretha Franklin – vocals, piano
Jimmy Johnson, Joe South – guitar
Tommy Cogbill – bass guitar
Roger Hawkins – drums
Teddy Sommer – vibraphone
Spooner Oldham, Truman Thomas – piano, organ, electric piano
Charles Chalmers, King Curtis – tenor saxophone
Tony Studd – bass trombone
Melvin Lastie – trumpet
Gene Orloff – director of string section
The Sweet Inspirations – background vocals on "Ain't Nobody"
Aretha, Carolyn and Erma Franklin – background vocals on "You Are My Sunshine", "96 Tears", "That's Life" and "Baby I Love You"
Ralph Burns - string and French horn arrangements
Arif Mardin, Tom Dowd - recording engineer, arrangements
Aretha Arrives was the 11th studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, released on August 4, 1967, by Atlantic Records. Its first single release was "Baby I Love You", a million-selling Gold 45 which hit #1 R&B and #4 on the Billboard Hot 100, followed by "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" in 1968. This was her second album for Atlantic. The sessions for the album were delayed because Franklin shattered her elbow in an accident during a southern tour. She decided she was ready to record before her doctor thought she was ready. While she still did not have full mobility, she provided piano accompaniment on the slower songs and played with her left hand only on "You Are My Sunshine".
