Singer: Aretha Franklin
Title: Young, Gifted And Black
Label: Atlantic ‎– SD 7213
Type: Vinyl, LP, Album, Club Edition, RCA Music Club Edition
Country: US
Date of released: 1972
Category: Funk / Soul
Style: Soul
Size MP3 zip: 1569 mb
Size FLAC zip: 1281 mb
Rating: 4.2✭
Format: MP3 MIDI AA MP3 AU VOX WMA MIDI FLAC

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1	Oh Me Oh My (I'm A Fool For You Baby) Written-By – Jim Doris	3:39
A2	Day Dreaming Written-By – Aretha Franklin	3:58
A3	Rock Steady Written-By – Aretha Franklin	3:12
A4	Young, Gifted And Black Written-By – Nina Simone	3:32
A5	All The King's Horses Written-By – Aretha Franklin	3:53
A6	A Brand New Me Written-By – Jerry Butler, Kenneth Gamble, Theresa Bell	4:23
B1	April Fools Written-By – Burt Bacharach & Hall David*	3:27
B2	I've Been Loving You Too Long Written-By – Jerry Butler, Otis Redding	3:32
B3	First Snow In Kokomo Written-By – Aretha Franklin	4:04
B4	The Long And Winding Road Written-By – John Lennon & Paul McCartney*	3:36
B5	Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time) Written-By – Thomas Bell*, William Hart	3:40
B6	Border Song (Holy Moses) Written-By – Elton John & Bernie Taupin	3:19

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – Atlantic Studios
• Recorded At – Criteria Recording Studios

Credits

• Acoustic Guitar – Don Arnone (tracks: A2)
• Arranged By [Horn] – Arif Mardin (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to B1, B3 to B6), Tom Dowd (tracks: A3, B2)
• Arranged By [String, Woodwind] – Arif Mardin
• Backing Vocals – Carolyn Franklin (tracks: A2 A3, A5, B2 to B4), Erma Franklin (tracks: A2 A3, A5, B2 to B4), J.R. Bailey (tracks: B6), Margaret Branch (tracks: B4), Ronald Bright* (tracks: B6), Sammy Turner (tracks: B6), The Sweet Inspirations (tracks: A1, A4, A6, B6), The Sweethearts Of Soul (tracks: A2, A3, A5, B1 to B3)
• Bass – Chuck Rainey (tracks: A2 to A5, B1, B3 to B6), Eric Gale (tracks: A1, A6), Robert Popwell (tracks: B2)
• Celesta [Celeste] – Aretha Franklin (tracks: A5)
• Concertmaster – Gene Orloff
• Design [Backliner] – Alyse Koylan
• Design [Cover] – Stanislaw Zagorski
• Drums – Al Jackson Jr. (tracks: A1, A6), Bernard Purdie (tracks: A2, A3, A5, B1 to B3, B5), Ray Lucas (tracks: A4, B4, B6)
• Engineer [Additional Recordings] – Don Cassale*, Jack Adams, Jimmy Douglass, Lew Hahn
• Engineer [Recording] – Chuck Kirkpatrick (tracks: A2, A3, A5, B2, B3), Gene Paul (tracks: A1, A4, A6, B1, B4 to B6), Howie Albert* (tracks: A2, A3, A5, B2, B3), Ron Albert (tracks: A2, A3, A5, B2, B3)
• Flute – Hubert Laws (tracks: B1, B5)
• Flute [Alto] – Hubert Laws (tracks: A2)
• Guitar – Cornell Dupree (tracks: A2 to A5, B1 to B6), Hugh McCracken (tracks: A1, A6)
• Horns – The Memphis Horns (tracks: A3, B2)
• Mastered By – GP*
• Organ – Billy Preston (tracks: A4, B4, B6)
• Organ, Electric Piano – Donny Hathaway
• Percussion – Mac Rebennack (Dr. John)* (tracks: A3), Robert Popwell (tracks: A3)
• Photography By – Ken Cunningham
• Piano – Aretha Franklin
• Producer – Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd (tracks: A2 to A5, B1 to B6)
• Remix – Arif Mardin
• Soloist, Trumpet – Neal Rosengarden* (tracks: B3)
• Vibraphone – Neal Rosengarden* (tracks: A5)
• Vocals – Aretha Franklin

Notes

℗ 1972 Atlantic Recording Corporation
A1 published by Nootrac, BMI
A2, A3, A5, B3 published by Pundit, BMI
A4 published by Ninady, BMI
A6 published by Assorted/Parabut, BMI
B1 published by Bleu Seas/Jac/April, ASCAP
B2 published by East/Time, BMI
B4 published by Maclen, BMI
B5 published by Nickel Shoe/Bell Boy, BMI
B6 published by Dick James, BMI

Hubert Laws appears courtesy of A&M Records

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
SD 7213	Aretha Franklin	Young, Gifted And Black ‎(LP, Album, PR)	Atlantic	SD 7213	US	1972
LM 2466	Aretha Franklin	Young, Gifted And Black ‎(LP, Album, Unofficial)	Liming Record	LM 2466	Taiwan	1972
WPCR-27653	Aretha Franklin	Young, Gifted And Black ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM)	Atlantic	WPCR-27653	Japan	2013
50.004	Aretha Franklin	Young, Gifted And Black ‎(LP, Album)	Atlantic	50.004	Venezuela	1972
SD 7213	Aretha Franklin	Young, Gifted And Black ‎(LP, Album, CP)	Atlantic	SD 7213	US	1972