Let Me in Your Life

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Let Me in Your Life
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 26, 1974
RecordedMarch 24 [1] – September 7, 1973 [2]
Studio
Genre R&B
Length42:53
Label Atlantic, Rhino
Producer Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler, Aretha Franklin, Tom Dowd
Aretha Franklin chronology
The Best of Aretha Franklin
(1973)
Let Me in Your Life
(1974)
With Everything I Feel in Me
(1974)
Singles from Let Me in Your Life
  1. "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)"
    Released: November 1973
  2. "I'm in Love"
    Released: April 1974
  3. "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing"
    Released: August 1974
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Christgau's Record Guide B+ [7]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]

Let Me in Your Life is the twentieth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, released on February 26, 1974, by Atlantic Records.

Contents

It was one of Franklin's top-selling Atlantic Records albums. The album hit number 1 on Billboard 's R&B albums chart and stopped just short of the Top 10 of Billboard's main album chart, narrowly missing Gold certification. [10]

It featured three hit singles and is regarded as one of Franklin's best Atlantic recordings. After many years out of print, it was issued on compact disc through Rhino Records in 1994. [11]

Track listing

Information is based on the album's Liner Notes [11] [12]
Side One

  1. "Let Me in Your Life" (Bill Withers) – 3:24
  2. "Every Natural Thing" (Eddie Hinton) – 2:31
  3. "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson) – 3:47
  4. "I'm in Love" (Bobby Womack) – 2:48
  5. "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" (Clarence Paul, Stevie Wonder, Morris Broadnax) – 3:26
  6. "The Masquerade is Over" (Herbert Magidson, Allie Wrubel) – 4:27

Side Two

  1. "With Pen in Hand" (Bobby Goldsboro) – 5:03
  2. "Oh Baby" (Aretha Franklin) – 4:55
  3. "Eight Days On the Road" (Jerry Ragovoy, Mike Gayle) – 2:59
  4. "If You Don't Think" (Aretha Franklin) – 3:50
  5. "A Song for You" (Leon Russell) – 5:33

Personnel

Information is based on the album's Liner Notes [11] [12]

Main
Arif Mardin's Horn Section [1] [2] [3] [4]
Arif Mardin's String Section [1] [2] [3] [4]

Technical personnel

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Aretha Franklin with Arif Mardin Orchestra. "Atlantic Recording Sessions: March 24, 1973 (NYC)". Jazz Disco. Retrieved September 19, 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 Aretha Franklin with Arif Mardin Orchestra. "Atlantic Recording Sessions: September 7, 1973 (NYC)". Jazz Disco. Retrieved September 19, 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 Aretha Franklin with Arif Mardin Orchestra. "Atlantic Recording Sessions: August 13, 1973 (NYC)". Jazz Disco. Retrieved September 19, 2019.
  4. 1 2 3 Aretha Franklin with Arif Mardin Orchestra. "Atlantic Recording Sessions: April 9, 1973 (NYC)". Jazz Disco. Retrieved September 19, 2019.
  5. Aretha Franklin with William Eaton Orchestra. "Atlantic Recording Sessions: April 10, 1973 (NYC)". Jazz Disco. Retrieved September 19, 2019.
  6. "Let Me in Your Life - Aretha Franklin | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" via www.allmusic.com.
  7. Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: F". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies . Ticknor & Fields. ISBN   089919026X . Retrieved February 24, 2019 via robertchristgau.com.
  8. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
  9. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 262.
  10. "Aretha Franklin". Billboard.
  11. 1 2 3 Franklin, Aretha, Let Me in Your Life (CD re-Issue liner notes). Rhino Records, 1994.
  12. 1 2 Franklin, Aretha. "Let Me in Your Life" (Original Album Notes). Atlantic. 1974.