- 1Won't Be Long3:14
- 2Over The Rainbow2:43
- 3Love Is The Only Thing2:46
- 4Sweet Lover3:27
- 5All Night Long3:03
- 6Who Needs You?2:52
- 7Right Now2:28
- 8Are You Sure2:46
- 9Maybe I'm A Fool3:22
- 10It Ain't Necessarily So2:59
- 11(Blue) By Myself2:44
- 12Today I Sing The Blues2:49
- 13Who Needs You [alternate take]3:09
- 14Precious Lord Part 13:29
- 15Precious Lord Part 22:56
- 16Never Grow Old2:59
- 17You Grow Closer2:46
- 18Rock A Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody2:28
- 19Operation Heartbreak3:02
- 20It's So Heartbreakin'2:44
- 21Hard Times3:09
- Label
- State Of Art, Columbia
- Released
- 2018
- Format
- CD, Album, RE
- Country
- Europe
- Media
- Mint (M)
- Sleeve
- Mint (M)
Factory sealed, new copy. With hype sticker.
CD comes in mini LP style gatefold jacket release with obi-strip (on which is printed the tracklist) including an inner paper sleeve. "Limited Edition. 24-bit remastered" sticker on the shrink wrap.
Tracks 1 & 4: Ray Bryant (piano on 4), Aretha Franklin (piano on 1), Bill Lee (bass), Belton "Sticks" Evans (drums). Produced by John Hammond. Arranged by J. Leslie McFarland, Columbia Records studios, 799 Seventh Avenue, New York, November 17 (track 1) & December 19 (track 4), 1960.
Tracks 2, 3, 7 & 12: Tyree Glenn (trombone), Clifton "Skeeter" Best (guitar), Chauncey "Lord" Westbrook (guitar), Ray Bryant (piano), Bill Lee (bass), Osie Johnson (drums). Produced by John Hammond. Arranged by J. Leslie McFarland, Columbia Records studios, 207 East 30th Street, New York, August 1, 1960.
Tracks 5 & 11: Al Sears (tenor sax), Quentin Jackson (trombone), Chauncey "Lord" Westbrook (guitar), Ray Bryant (piano), Bill Lee (bass), Belton "Sticks" Evans (drums). Produced by John Hammond. Arranged by J. Leslie McFarland, Columbia Records studios, 207 East 30th Street, New York, November 17, 1960.
Tracks 6, 8 & 9: Al Sears (tenor sax), Chauncey "Lord" Westbrook (guitar), Aretha Franklin (piano on 8,9), Ray Bryant (piano on 6), Milt Hinton (bass), Belton "Sticks" Evans (drums). Produced by John Hammond. Arranged by J. Leslie McFarland, Columbia Records studios, 207 East 30th Street, New York, January 10, 1961.
Track 10: Lucky Warren (tenor sax), Chauncey "Lord" Westbrook (guitar), Ray Bryant (piano), Bill Lee (bass), Belton "Sticks" Evans (drums). Produced by John Hammond. Arranged by J. Leslie McFarland, Columbia Records studios, 207 East 30th Street, New York, December 19, 1960.
Bonus material:
Track 13, same date and personnel as 6, 8 & 9.
Tracks 14-17: Aretha Franklin (also piano), with unidentified chorus. Arranged and conducted by J.B. Junior. Live at the New Bethel Baptist Church, Detroit, Michigan, 1956.
Tracks 18 & 19: C. Massy (sax), Robert Ascher (trombone), Bucky Pizzareli (guitar), Russ Savakus (bass), Aretha Franklin or Ernie Hayes (piano), Gary Chester (drums), Charles Libove, Bernard Eichenbaum, George Ockner, Harry Lookovdky, Harry Katzman (violin), Unidentified female backing vocals. Produced by John Hammond. Conducted and arranged by Richard Wess. Columbia Records studios, 799 Seventh Avenue, New York, August 16, 1961.
Tracks 20 & 21: Stanley Webb, James Richardson, Toots Mondello, Romero Penque (sax), Bernie Privin, Joe Wilder, Bernie Glow, Jimmy Nottingham (trumpet), Jimmy Cleveland, Urbie Green, Robert Alexander, Morty Bowman (trombone), Bucky Pizzareli, Don Armone (guitar), Bill Lee (bass), Aretha Franklin or Mo Wechsler (piano), Teddy Somer (drums). Produced by John Hammond. Conducted and arranged by Richard Wess. Columbia Records studios, 799 Seventh Avenue, New York, November 7, 1961.
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