Women and Songs: Beginnings Volume 2

Overview

The album was released on December 4, 2001, the same day as Women & Songs 5. 32 tracks that helped launch successful careers for some of the best female artists in the industry are included on this 2-disc collection.

The album begins with pure Aretha Franklin singing You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman, leads through some classic music on its way to Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue by Crystal Gayle, straight into Tina Turner's Private Dancer, and eventually nears an end with Whatever Will Be Will Be by Doris Day. And that's only the first disc; Jackie DeShannon appears on the second disc with What The World Needs Now Is Love, while Little Eva sings the party classic The Loco-Motion - a song that later appears on Women & Songs: 60s Girl Groups.

Disc 1

1. You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman
2. (performed by Aretha Franklin)
3. Walk On By
4. (performed by Dionne Warwick)
5. You've Changed
6. (performed by Billie Holiday)
7. I'm Sorry
8. (performed by Brenda Lee)
9. You Don't Own Me
10. (performed by Leslie Gore)
11. You Don't Know How Glad I Am
12. (performed by Nancy Wilson)
13. End Of The World
14. (performed by Skeeter Davis)
15. Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
16. (performed by Crystal Gayle)
17. Private Dancer
18. (performed by Tina Turner)
19. MacArthur Park
20. (performed by Donna Summer)
21. Love Is Like A Heatwave
22. (performed by Martha Reeves)
23. Release Me
24. (performed by Esther Phillips)
25. Who's Sorry Now
26. (performed by Connie Francis)
27. It That All There Is
28. (performed by Peggy Lee)
29. Whatever Will Be Will Be
30. (performed by Doris Day)
31. Mister Sandman
32. (performed by Emmylou Harris)

Disc 2

1. Anticipation
2. (performed by Carly Simon)
3. Rose Garden
4. (performed by Lynne Anderson)
5. Baby Don't Go
6. (performed by Sonny & Cher)
7. What The World Needs Now Is Love
8. (performed by Jackie DeShannon)
9. Goldfinger
10. (performed by Shirley Bassey)
11. Mangos
12. (performed by Rosemary Clooney)
13. Johnny Get Angry
14. (performed by Joanie Sommers)
15. I Cried A Tear
16. (performed by Lavern Baker)
17. The Loco-Motion
18. (performed by Little Eva)
19. Easier Said Than Done
20. (performed by The Essex)
21. Johnny Angel
22. (performed by Shelley Fabares)
23. Your Precious Love (with Tammi Terrell)
24. (performed by Marvin Gaye)
25. What's New
26. (performed by Linda Ronstadt)
27. Cry Me A River
28. (performed by Julie London)
29. Love Me Or Leave Me
30. (performed by Lena Horne)
31. La Vie En Rose
32. (performed by Edith Piaf)