Aretha Franklin - Forever Young in Stereo (Remastered) (2026) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Aretha Franklin
- Title: Forever Young in Stereo (Remastered)
- Year Of Release: 2026
- Label: DONT' EXPLAIN
- Genre: Soul
- Quality: FLAC 24/44100; 16/44100
- Total Time: 00:27:53
- Total Size: 155; 294 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Forever Young in Stereo (Remastered) is a compilation drawn from Aretha Franklin's studio recordings of 1961–1962, captured at Columbia Records' New York studios under the direction of producers John Hammond and Robert Mersey. The material originates primarily from two early LPs — The Electrifying Aretha Franklin (March 1962) and The Tender, The Moving, The Swinging Aretha Franklin (August 1962) — a period when Columbia was attempting to market the young singer as a jazz-inflected pop stylist, following the blueprint the label had used with Billie Holiday, and inadvertently restraining the gospel fire that would define her later Atlantic recordings.
The tracklist is a survey of the Great American Songbook and vintage pop: "Try a Little Tenderness," "You Made Me Love You," "That Lucky Old Sun," "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive." Franklin, barely twenty, navigates this repertoire with uncanny poise — her voice already carrying the declarative authority that within a few years would crown her Queen of Soul. The inclusion of "Nobody Like You," a gospel piece by her mentor James Cleveland, hints at the deeper wellspring Columbia kept at arm's length. The stereo remaster restores the warmth of Richard Wess's and Robert Mersey's orchestral arrangements, revealing textural nuances that were obscured in the original mono pressings.
Tracklist:
1-1 Aretha Franklin - Don't Cry, Baby (Remastered) [3:22]
1-2 Aretha Franklin - You Made Me Love You (Remastered) [2:21]
1-3 Aretha Franklin - Blue Holiday (Remastered) [2:54]
1-4 Aretha Franklin - Just for You (Remastered) [2:21]
1-5 Aretha Franklin - I Apologise (Remastered) [2:55]
1-6 Aretha Franklin - Try a Little Tenderness (Remastered) [3:18]
1-7 Aretha Franklin - Nobody Like You (Remastered) [2:25]
1-8 Aretha Franklin - Exactly Like You (Remastered) [2:38]
1-9 Aretha Franklin - Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive (Remastered) [2:19]
1-10 Aretha Franklin - That Lucky Old Sun (Remastered) [3:21]
The tracklist is a survey of the Great American Songbook and vintage pop: "Try a Little Tenderness," "You Made Me Love You," "That Lucky Old Sun," "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive." Franklin, barely twenty, navigates this repertoire with uncanny poise — her voice already carrying the declarative authority that within a few years would crown her Queen of Soul. The inclusion of "Nobody Like You," a gospel piece by her mentor James Cleveland, hints at the deeper wellspring Columbia kept at arm's length. The stereo remaster restores the warmth of Richard Wess's and Robert Mersey's orchestral arrangements, revealing textural nuances that were obscured in the original mono pressings.
Tracklist:
1-1 Aretha Franklin - Don't Cry, Baby (Remastered) [3:22]
1-2 Aretha Franklin - You Made Me Love You (Remastered) [2:21]
1-3 Aretha Franklin - Blue Holiday (Remastered) [2:54]
1-4 Aretha Franklin - Just for You (Remastered) [2:21]
1-5 Aretha Franklin - I Apologise (Remastered) [2:55]
1-6 Aretha Franklin - Try a Little Tenderness (Remastered) [3:18]
1-7 Aretha Franklin - Nobody Like You (Remastered) [2:25]
1-8 Aretha Franklin - Exactly Like You (Remastered) [2:38]
1-9 Aretha Franklin - Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive (Remastered) [2:19]
1-10 Aretha Franklin - That Lucky Old Sun (Remastered) [3:21]
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