Artist	Song
Aretha Franklin	Runnin' Out of Fools
from Jazz to Soul (1992)
Aretha Franklin	Skylark
from The Queen In Waiting - The Columbia Years 1960-1965 (2002)
Aretha Franklin	Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business) [Demo]
from Rare & Unreleased Recordings From The Golden Reign of The Queen of Soul (2007)
Aretha Franklin	Lee Cross
from The Queen In Waiting - The Columbia Years 1960-1965 (2002)
Aretha Franklin	Today I Sing the Blues
from The Queen In Waiting - The Columbia Years 1960-1965 (2002)
Aretha Franklin	Sweet Bitter Love
from Sweet Bitter Love (2010)
Aretha Franklin	Try a Little Tenderness
from The Queen In Waiting - The Columbia Years 1960-1965 (2002)
Aretha Franklin	Won't Be Long
from The Queen In Waiting - The Columbia Years 1960-1965 (2002)
Aretha Franklin	Trouble In Mind
from Aretha Sings the Blues (1986)
Aretha Franklin	Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning
from The Queen In Waiting - The Columbia Years 1960-1965 (2002)
Aretha Franklin	Cry Like a Baby
from Aretha Franklin - The Early Years (1997)
Aretha Franklin	Can't You Just See Me
from Jazz to Soul (1992)
Aretha Franklin	Drinking Again
from Aretha Franklin - The Early Years (1997)
Aretha Franklin	Muddy Water
from Aretha Sings the Blues (1986)
Aretha Franklin	Operation Heartbreak
from Jazz to Soul (1992)

Comment:

In 1960 Columbia Records had a plan: turn teenage Aretha Franklin into a middle-of-the-road star like Diahann Carroll or Barbra Streisand. The plan didn’t work. Aretha was destined to be Aretha, and from the get-go she came out swinging — defiant, undefeated, [i]unstoppable[/i]. Her debut hit, “Runnin’ Out of Fools,” finds her weaving a supple groove around a hardened heart as she tells her ex-man she won’t be his fool a second time. In “Try a Little Tenderness,” she takes you in another direction, promising and pleading; the emotion is so immediate you can practically feel her breath in your ear. The swoon-inducing “Skylark” soars, then tears your heart out. When Aretha reaches the second chorus and claims the victory, just make sure you’re sitting down. (If you’re not, the sheer strength of her voice will see to it that you do.) And that’s only the beginning — as you’re about to [i]experience[/i], young Aretha is nothing short of a revelation.

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