“Young, Gifted And Black” by Aretha Franklin - album review
Team Aretha remain on good form in 1972. Jerry Wexler on production with The Memphis Horns and The Sweet Inspirations and sisters Carolyn and Erma on background vocals. Aretha leads from the front with that great message: “To Be Young, Gifted And Black Is Where It’s At”. It’s to America’s great shame that, in institutional reality, black music continues to have to fight in the seemingly never ending struggle for equal rights that are in line with the legislative ideology. The album veers from the magnificently poignant to the more tiresome “showbiz” presentation. It’s a bit of a constant battle for my affections. She’s still winning, just about…
The Jukebox Rebel
13-May-2006
| A1 | [03:42]  Aretha Franklin - Oh Me Oh My (I’m A Fool For You Baby) (Jim Doris) Soul Ballad |
| A2 | [03:59]  Aretha Franklin - Day Dreaming (Aretha Franklin) R n B |
| A3 | [03:13]  Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady (Aretha Franklin) Disco / Funk |
| A4 | [03:34]  Aretha Franklin - (To Be) Young, Gifted And Black (Nina Simone) Soul |
| A5 | [03:56]  Aretha Franklin - All The Kings Horses (Aretha Franklin) Soul Ballad |
| A6 | [04:26]  Aretha Franklin - A Brand New Me (Theresa Bell, Jerry Butler, Kenneth Gamble) Soul |
| B1 | [03:29]  Aretha Franklin - April Fools (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) Disco / Funk |
| B2 | [03:36]  Aretha Franklin - I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (Otis Redding, Jerry Butler) Soul Ballad |
| B3 | [04:04]  Aretha Franklin - First Snow In Kokomo (Aretha Franklin) Soul Ballad |
| B4 | [03:38]  Aretha Franklin - The Long And Winding Road (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) Soul Ballad |
| B5 | [03:42]  Aretha Franklin - Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time) (Thom Bell, William Hart) Soul |
| B6 | [03:19]  Aretha Franklin - Border Song (Holy Moses) (Bernie Taupin, Reginald Dwight) Soul |
