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This is a sixteen track release set to coincide with Black History Month, her appearances at Radio City Music Hall and her 70th birthday.

Hope this is a box set

funkpill said:

Hope this is a box set

16 tracks?

I doubt it.

Timmy84 said:

funkpill said:

Hope this is a box set

16 tracks?

I doubt it.

oh dang...I overlook that part

guess not

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QUEEN OF SOUL'S 70th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED WITH 16-SONG COLLECTION SPOTLIGHTING HER FIRST 18 YEARS AS AN ARISTA ARTIST

FROM 1980'S "UNITED TOGETHER" TO 1998'S "ROSE IS STILL A ROSE" - INCLUDING #1 HITS "JUMP TO IT," "GET IT RIGHT," AND GRAMMY AWARD®-WINNING "FREEWAY OF LOVE" (WITH CLARENCE CLEMONS)

Star-powered collaborations with Keith Richards ("Jumpin' Jack Flash"), the Eurythmics ("Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves"), George Benson ("Love All The Hurt Away"), Whitney Houston ("It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be"), George Michael (Grammy Award®-winning "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)") - and more!

Previously unreleased mix of "Ever Changing Times" duet with Michael McDonald, written and produced by Burt Bacharach & Carol Bayer Sager

Available everywhere through Arista/Legacy starting January 31, 2012

Release coincides with observance of Black History Month in February, and Aretha's return to Radio City Music Hall in New York for concerts on February 17 & 18th

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NEW YORK, Dec. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The 70th birthday of Queen Of Soul Aretha Franklin, winner of 15 Grammy Awards® and the first female ever to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame, will be celebrated on March 25, 2012. In honor of this momentous occasion, and also in advance of Black History Month in February, KNEW YOU WERE WAITING: THE BEST OF ARETHA FRANKLIN 1980-1998 will be available at all physical and digital retail outlets starting January 31, 2012, through Arista/Legacy, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.

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KNEW YOU WERE WAITING puts the spotlight on Aretha's hitmaking years as an Arista Records artist, working closely with Arista founder and president Clive Davis. Davis served as executive producer of KNEW YOU WERE WAITING, which was compiled and produced by Leo Sacks, known for his work on last year's definitive box set, Take A Look: Aretha Franklin Complete on Columbia, as well as scores of historic Soul and R&B projects for Legacy Recordings over the past two decades.

The new chronologically-sequenced, 16-song collection is the first major U.S. release to focus on the nearly two-decades string of hits that marked Aretha's tenure at Arista. These range from her label debut, 1980's #3 comeback R&B smash "United Together" (her first Top 5 hit in over three and a half years), to 1998's iconic #5 R&B entry, "A Rose Is Still A Rose," written, produced and arranged by Lauryn Hill of the Fugees.

"When Aretha Franklin signed to Arista Records in 1980," writes Ernest Hardy in his liner notes to KNEW YOU WERE WAITING, "she had nothing left to prove… She had redefined the terms and reset the boundaries of both R&B and pop. She had sung jazz, gospel and blues, and erased the lines between them. She embodied the beauty that was Blackness while providing a soundtrack to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. She had worked with the very best songwriters, musicians, producers, arrangers and visionaries, and proved herself to be one of the best singers, songwriters, musicians and visionaries the music industry had ever seen." Hardy is an award-winning cultural critic and essayist based in Los Angeles.

Underscoring Hardy's point, Aretha's Arista years were indeed marked by a steady flow of successful collaborations with contemporary music's "very best songwriters, musicians, producers, arrangers and visionaries." Virtually every track on KNEW YOU WERE WAITING supports this, starting with "United Together," which was written and produced by Chuck Jackson (known for his career-making hits with Natalie Cole), and features Aretha's beloved Sweet Inspirations on backing vocals (the 'original' lineup of Cissy Houston, Myrna Smith, Sylvia Shenwell and Estelle Brown). Likewise, "Love All The Hurt Away," a duet with George Benson, was written by Sam Dees, and produced by the late Arif Mardin, the legendary producer who worked on so many of Aretha's early breakthrough '60s and '70s Atlantic LPs.

Lauryn Hill, Arif Mardin and Chuck Jackson are just three of the important producers with whom Aretha worked at Arista. In addition to tracks produced by Luther Vandross (with arrangements by Marcus Miller), Narada Michael Walden, and Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds, KNEW YOU WERE WAITING also includes tracks produced by Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones and Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics.

In addition to the collaborations above, KNEW YOU WERE WAITING contains many more A-list collaborations that have become cornerstones in the Aretha canon:

• "Freeway Of Love" (1985), featuring the late Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band on tenor saxophone, Randy Jackson on bass, and percussion by the Santana rhythm section, was a #1 R&B hit for 5 weeks, and went on to win the Grammy Award® for Best R&B Female Vocal;
• "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves" (1985), a Top 20 pop hit with the Eurythmics' Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart (who produced), also features [Tom Petty] Heartbreakers band members Benmont Tench (organ), Stan Lynch (drums), and Mike Campbell (lead guitar);
• "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (1986), a Top 20 R&B and pop crossover smash duet with Keith Richards (who produced and played lead guitar, along with fellow Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood), was the title song from the movie Jumpin' Jack Flash starring Whoopi Goldberg;
• "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (1986), a duet with George Michael, was another mega-hit, #1 pop for a fortnight and #5 R&B, and winner of the Grammy Award® for Best R&B Vocal Duo;
• "Through The Storm" (1989), a Top 20 R&B and pop crossover hit vocal duet with Elton John, is one of two Albert Hammond/Diane Warren compositions (among many!) that were brought to Aretha by Clive Davis;
• "It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be" (1989), a #5 R&B hit duet with Whitney Houston, is the other Hammond/Warren composition here, from the same album (Through The Storm); and
• "Ever Changing Times" (1991), a Top 20 R&B hit vocal duet with Michael McDonald, written and produced by the hitmaking duo of Burt Bacharach and Carol Bayer Sager, in a mix previously unreleased on CD.

KNEW YOU WERE WAITING as Hardy concludes, "makes clear that Aretha Franklin was a vibrant, soulful, stretching, creative, forceful artist at Arista Records. She kept her fingers on the pulse of the world around her while sating old fans and scoring new ones. Her music at the label was about a place that exists behind and beyond mere words... No one expresses joy the way she does. No one conveys grief or loss with anywhere near her force or heartbreaking precision. She burns right through the words she sings, taking you straight to the core. That is her unmatched genius."

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it's a good compilation,but it's missing one of my favorites by her....

80s underrated R&B song of the day: "Love Me Right" by Aretha Franklin (1982)

SoulAlive said:

it's a good compilation,but it's missing one of my favorites by her....

80s underrated R&B song of the day: "Love Me Right" by Aretha Franklin (1982)

Seeing how the collection has hits on it, it would've been kinda silly to include it but I love the song. In fact, she had some nice songs on it (her cover of "It's Your Thing" actually kicks ass, she did a live performance of it in Jamaica and she and the band were ON POINT; "It's My Daydream" - a track written for her by Smokey was also good and the closest the two got to collaborating; "Make It Up to You" with Levi and the Four Tops was excellent; my personal favorite is "If She Don't Love You" and "Love Me Right" was also real good).

Aretha was STILL at the peak of her powers when Jump to It was released and is arguably her greatest '80s record.

I agree,Jump To It is her best album of the 80s.Luther Vandross did a superb job on the production."Love Me Right" is my favorite...it was the second single and while it didn't do as well as the title track,it's a highlight of the album.

SoulAlive said:

I agree,Jump To It is her best album of the 80s.Luther Vandross did a superb job on the production."Love Me Right" is my favorite...it was the second single and while it didn't do as well as the title track,it's a highlight of the album.

Don't know why Arista didn't push more for it...

I have enough Retha CDs already but I have to admit that the duet with Geore Michael is among her best work and his. The two of them harmonize so beautifully together. Sometimes I think George is underappreciated as a soul singer and Aretha is unrecognized as a pop artist.

HotGritz said:

I have enough Retha CDs already but I have to admit that the duet with Geore Michael is among her best work and his. The two of them harmonize so beautifully together. Sometimes I think George is underappreciated as a soul singer and Aretha is unrecognized as a pop artist.

More than just an understatement...

I'm definitely passing on this one.

The track listing is a reminder of how wildly uneven her output has been since 1980.

Aretha Franklin, Knew You Were Waiting: Th... 1980-1998 (Arista/Legacy Recordings 88697 99780 2 7, 2012)

1. United Together
2. Love All the Hurt Away (Duet with George Benson)
3. Jump to It
4. Get It Right
5. Freeway of Love
6. Who’s Zoomin’ Who
7. Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves (Duet with The Eurythmics)
8. Another Night
9. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
10. Jimmy Lee
11. I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) (Duet with George Michael)
12. Through the Storm (Duet with Elton John)
13. It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be (Duet with Whitney Houston)
14. Ever Changing Times (Duet with Michael McDonald)
15. Willing to Forgive
16. A Rose is Still a Rose

Track 1 from Aretha, Arista AL-9538, 1980
Track 2 from Love All the Hurt Away, Arista AL-9552, 1981
Track 3 from Jump to It, Arista AL-9602, 1982
Track 4 from Get It Right, Arista AL8-8019, 1983
Tracks 5-8 from Who’s Zoomin’ Who?, Arista AL8-8286, 1985
Tracks 9-11 from Aretha, Arista AL-8442, 1986
Tracks 12-13 from Through the Storm, Arista AL-8572, 1989
Track 14 previously unreleased on CD, original mix from What You See is What You Sweat, Arista AL-8628, 1991
Track 15 from Greatest Hits 1980-1994, Arista 74321 16202-2, 1994
Track 16 from A Rose is Still a Rose, Arista 07822 18987-2, 1998

getxxxx said:

Aretha Franklin, Knew You Were Waiting: Th... 1980-1998 (Arista/Legacy Recordings 88697 99780 2 7, 2012)

1. United Together
2. Love All the Hurt Away (Duet with George Benson)
3. Jump to It
4. Get It Right
5. Freeway of Love
6. Who’s Zoomin’ Who
7. Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves (Duet with The Eurythmics)
8. Another Night
9. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
10. Jimmy Lee
11. I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) (Duet with George Michael)
12. Through the Storm (Duet with Elton John)
13. It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be (Duet with Whitney Houston)
14. Ever Changing Times (Duet with Michael McDonald)
15. Willing to Forgive
16. A Rose is Still a Rose

Track 1 from Aretha, Arista AL-9538, 1980
Track 2 from Love All the Hurt Away, Arista AL-9552, 1981
Track 3 from Jump to It, Arista AL-9602, 1982
Track 4 from Get It Right, Arista AL8-8019, 1983
Tracks 5-8 from Who’s Zoomin’ Who?, Arista AL8-8286, 1985
Tracks 9-11 from Aretha, Arista AL-8442, 1986
Tracks 12-13 from Through the Storm, Arista AL-8572, 1989
Track 14 previously unreleased on CD, original mix from What You See is What You Sweat, Arista AL-8628, 1991
Track 15 from Greatest Hits 1980-1994, Arista 74321 16202-2, 1994
Track 16 from A Rose is Still a Rose, Arista 07822 18987-2, 1998

Unless this is a new mix, that statement is not true. "What You See Is What You Sweat" is on cd and in $1 everywhere. This song is also on her Duets cd from a few years ago.