Aretha Now

Aretha Now is the thirteenth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, released in June, 1968 by Atlantic Records. Quickly certified Gold, it eventually reached a million in US sales. It was Aretha's fourth #1 on the R&B albums survey and reached third place on Billboard's main album chart.^[6]

Aretha Now
Studio album by Aretha Franklin
Released	June 14, 1968[1]
Recorded	December 1967 – April 1968[1]
Studio	Atlantic Studios, (New York City, New York)
Genre	Soul[2]
Length	29:23
Label	Atlantic (#8186)
Producer	Jerry Wexler
Aretha Franklin chronology
Lady Soul (1968) Aretha Now (1968) Aretha in Paris (1968)
Singles from Aretha Now
"Think"/"You Send Me" Released: May 2, 1968 "I Say a Little Prayer" Released: July 26, 1968 "I Can't See Myself Leaving You" Released: April 7, 1969

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[5]

In 1993, it was reissued on CD through Rhino Records.^[1] The album was rated the 133rd best album of the 1960s by Pitchfork.^[7]

Track listing

Information is based on the album's liner notes^[1][8]

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Think"	Aretha Franklin, Ted White	2:19
2.	"I Say a Little Prayer"	Burt Bacharach, Hal David	3:36
3.	"See Saw"	Don Covay, Steve Cropper	2:46
4.	"Night Time Is the Right Time"	Nappy Brown	4:50
5.	"You Send Me"	Sam Cooke	2:29

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"You're a Sweet Sweet Man"	Ronnie Shannon	2:19
7.	"I Take What I Want"	Isaac Hayes, Mabon "Teenie" Hodges, David Porter	2:33
8.	"Hello Sunshine"	King Curtis, Ronnie Miller	3:03
9.	"A Change"	Dorian Burton, Clyde Otis	2:27
10.	"I Can't See Myself Leaving You"	Shannon	3:01

Personnel

Information is based on the album's liner notes^[1][8]

• Aretha Franklin – lead vocals (all), piano (1–5, 7, 10)
• Tommy Cogbill – guitar (1–3, 10), bass guitar (6, 8–9)
• Carolyn Franklin – background vocals (6, 8–9)
• Roger Hawkins – drums (all)
• Jerry Jemmott – bass guitar (1–5, 7, 10)
• Jimmy Johnson – guitar (1, 3, 5–6, 8–10)
• Spooner Oldham – Hammond organ (1, 5), electric piano (3, 6–7, 10), piano (8)
• The Sweet Inspirations – background vocals (all)
• Bobby Womack – guitar (6, 8–9)
• Horns:
  • Floyd Newman – baritone saxophone
  • Willie Bridges – baritone saxophone (1, 3–5, 7, 10)
  • Charles Chalmers, Andrew Love – tenor saxophone
  • King Curtis, Seldon Powell – tenor saxophone
  • Bernie Glow, Wayne Jackson, Melvin Lastie, Joe Newman – trumpet
  • Haywood Henry – baritone saxophone (6, 8)
  • Tony Studd – bass trombone
  • Frank Wess – tenor saxophone, flute
• All arrangements by Tom Dowd and Arif Mardin
• Tom Dowd – engineering

Charts

Billboard Music Charts (North America)

Chart (1968)	Peak position
Pop Albums	3
R&B Albums	1
Jazz Albums	9

See also

• Album era
• List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of the 1960s