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Let Me in Your Life

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Released
  
February 25, 1974

Release date
  
25 February 1974

Genre
  
Rhythm and blues

Artist
  
Aretha Franklin

Label
  
Atlantic Records

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Recorded
  
April 10, 1973-September 7, 1973 Whitney Studios, (Glendale, California)

Producer
  
Jerry Wexler, Aretha Franklin

Let Me in Your Life (1974)
  
With Everything I Feel in Me (1974)

Similar
  
Aretha Franklin albums, Rhythm and blues albums

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Let Me in Your Life is the twenty-second studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, Released on February 25, 1974 by Atlantic Records. It's one of Aretha's top-selling albums. The album hit #1 on Billboard's R&B albums chart and #14 on Billboard's main album chart, but just missed the Gold standard by a small margin. Featuring three hit singles, it is regarded as one of Franklin's best Atlantic recordings. In the 1990s, it was issued on compact disc through Rhino Records.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Let Me in Your Life" (Bill Withers)
  2. "Every Natural Thing" (Eddie Hinton)
  3. "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson)
  4. "I'm in Love" (Bobby Womack)
  5. "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" (Clarence Paul, Stevie Wonder, Morris Broadnax)
  6. "The Masquerade is Over" (Herbert Magidson, Allie Wrubel)
  7. "With Pen in Hand" (Bobby Goldsboro)
  8. "Oh Baby" (Aretha Franklin)
  9. "Eight Days On the Road" (Michael Gayle, Jerry Ragovoy)
  10. "If You Don't Think" (Aretha Franklin)
  11. "A Song for You" (Leon Russell)

Personnel

  • Aretha Franklin - lead vocals (All tracks), acoustic piano (tracks 2, 5, 7-9), electric piano (tracks 10-11)
  • Gwen Guthrie - background vocals (tracks 4-5)
  • Donny Hathaway - acoustic piano (tracks 4, 6), electric piano (tracks 5, 8), additional keyboards (3, 7)
  • Bob James - organ (track 1), additional keyboards (3)
  • Chuck Rainey - bass (tracks 2, 5, 7, 9)
  • Ernie Royal - trumpet (track 10)
  • Deodato - arranger, electric piano (track 1)
  • Ralph MacDonald - percussion (tracks 1-4, 6-11)
  • Kenneth Bichel - synthesizer (track 5)
  • Margaret Branch - background vocals (tracks 2, 5, 7, 9)
  • Cissy Houston - background vocals (tracks 3-5)
  • Ann S. Clark - background vocals (tracks 2, 5, 7, 9)
  • Stanley Clarke - bass (tracks 1, 3-4, 6)
  • Judy Clay - background vocals (tracks 3-4)
  • Cornell Dupree - guitar (tracks 2, 4, 7-11)
  • Joe Farrell - tenor saxophone (track 2), flute (track 5)
  • Arif Mardin - producer (All tracks), string arranger (track 2, 4)
  • Rick Marotta - drums (tracks 1, 3-4, 6)
  • Hugh McCracken - guitar (track 5)
  • Pancho Morales - percussion (tracks 2, 7, 9)
  • Gene Orloff - concertmaster
  • Bernard "Pretty" Purdie - drums (tracks 2, 5, 7-11)
  • Sylvia Shemwell - background vocals (track 3)
  • Myrna Smith - background vocals (track 3)
  • David Spinozza - guitar (tracks 1, 3-4, 6)
  • Richard Tee - additional keyboards (track 10)
  • Deirdre Tuck Corley - background vocals (track 4)
  • Willie Weeks - bass (tracks 8, 10-11)
    • Technical
  • Gene Paul, Howard Albert, Lew Hahn, Phil Ramone, Ron Albert - recording engineer
  • Joel Brodsky - photography

    • Songs

    1Let Me In Your Life3:29
    2Every Natural Thing2:37
    3Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing3:48

    References

    Let Me in Your Life Wikipedia
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