Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky)

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Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky)
Aretha Franklin - Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky).jpg
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ReleasedJune 25, 1973
RecordedApril–August 1972
Studio Record Plant, Los Angeles, California.
Label Atlantic (#7265), Rhino
Producer Quincy Jones, Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin chronology
Amazing Grace
(1972)
Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky)
(1973)
The Best of Aretha Franklin
(1973)
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Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky) is the nineteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Aretha Franklin.

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Released in mid-1973 by Atlantic Records, it was the first Atlantic album by Franklin to miss the Top 25 of the main Billboard chart, peaking at #30, and reaching #2 on the R&B albums listing. This album was originally planned to be a straight jazz album with songs like "Moody's Mood" and "Just Right Tonight", but producers Franklin and Quincy Jones took a detour and produced songs like "Mister Spain" and the title cut.

Other notable songs include the No. 1 R&B and top 20 pop single "Angel" written by Franklin's younger sister Carolyn, as well as a cover of "Somewhere" which features Franklin on piano and Phil Woods on alto saxophone. This recording was reissued on compact disc through Rhino Records in the 1990s. The song "Master of Eyes" was included as the tenth track on the reissue though it was not included on the first release.

Track listing

Side One

  1. "Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky)" (Aretha Franklin) - 4:41
  2. "Somewhere" (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim) - 6:14
  3. "So Swell When You're Well" (James Booker, Aretha Franklin) - 4:14
  4. "Angel" (Carolyn Franklin, Sonny Sanders) - 4:26
  5. "Sister from Texas" (Aretha Franklin) - 3:08

Side Two

  1. "Mister Spain" (Carolyn Plummer) - 6:41
  2. "That's The Way I Feel About Cha" (Bobby Womack, Jim Grisby, Joe Hicks) - 7:10
  3. "Moody's Mood" (James Moody, Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) - 2:55
  4. "Just Right Tonight" (Aretha Franklin, Avery Parrish, Buddy Feyne, Quincy Jones, Robert Bruce) - 7:42'

CD reissue bonus track

  1. "Master of Eyes (The Deepness of Your Eyes)" (Aretha Franklin, Bernice Hart) - 3:25

Personnel

Production

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References

  1. Bedard, George. Hey Now Hey at AllMusic
  2. 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.