Aretha Franklin - Take A Look: The Clyde Otis Sessions

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:56
Size: 123.5 MB
Styles: Soul
Year: 1964/2011
Art: Front

[2:51] 1. I'll Keep On Smiling
[3:14] 2. Shangri-La
[2:32] 3. Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart
[4:16] 4. People
[2:32] 5. A Mother's Love
[2:15] 6. Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)
[2:56] 7. But Beautiful
[1:49] 8. That's Entertainment
[2:39] 9. Take A Look
[4:41] 10. (Ah, The Apple Trees) When The World Was Young
[2:27] 11. Jim
[2:57] 12. Sweet Bitter Love
[4:52] 13. Only The Lonely
[4:05] 14. My Coloring Book
[2:53] 15. I Wish I Didn't Love You So
[4:19] 16. People (Mono Mix0
[2:29] 17. A Mother's Love (Mono Mix)

Initial July 1964 sessions with Clyde Otis were productive but Columbia didn’t release the material as an album. Those efforts are represented here by The Clyde Otis Sessions. It’s amazing that so much quality material was left aside, including the song which gives the box set its title. “Take a Look” predates “What’s Going On?” and other socially-conscious songs (“Lord, what’s happening to this human race?/I can’t even see one friendly face…”) that drew headlines in the years to come. In spite of a powerful, pointed statement (“Take a look at your children…”) and ending summation (“Nobody wins when the price is hate”), “Take a Look” perhaps didn’t have a great impact because of its string-drenched arrangement that didn’t speak to the youth culture upon its release by Columbia in 1967 after Franklin’s departure for Atlantic.

Take A Look: The Clyde Otis Sessions

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