專輯信息
專輯：Queen of the soul：The Atlantic Recordings
風格：R&B 靈魂
專輯介紹
對於年輕一輩的歌迷們而言，提起歌壇比較資深的「天后」，好象總不外乎Madonna、Janet Jackson、Mariah Carey和Whitney Houston等人。事實上，這幾位「天后」站在Aretha Franklin面前的時候，只能算是後生小輩。進入歌壇至今已經超過四十個年頭的Aretha Franklin，被尊為「靈魂音樂女王」，她曾經獲得總數多達十七座的葛萊美獎，其中包括了「終身成就獎」，這個紀錄到現在還沒有任何一位女性藝人可以超越。她擁有二十首R&B冠軍曲，她是第一個獲選進入「搖滾音樂名人殿堂」的女性歌手，也是有史以來第一個登上「時代」雜誌封面的黑人女性。根據「告示牌」的統計，她仍然是到目前為止，排行紀錄最突出的十大藝人之一，在女性的歌手中，只有麥當娜的排名超過她，其它所有「天后」都望塵莫及。她的生涯有過多次起起落落，本身也曾經犯下好些過錯，但是在世人心目中，她仍然是永遠的巨星，受到的推崇也從來沒有動搖過。1992年，為了向這位偉大的女歌手表示敬意，老東家Atlantic發行了這套四碟裝的精選集。包含了Aretha各個時期的作品。
專輯歌曲
Disc: 1
1. I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)
2. Do Right Woman, Do Right Man L
3. Save Me
4. Respect
5. Baby, Baby, Baby
6. Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business)
7. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
8. Soul Serenade
9. Drown in My Own Tears
10. Chain of Fools
11. Baby I Love You
12. Ain't Nobody (Gonna Turn Me Around)
13. Since You've Been Gone (Sweet Sweet Baby)
14. You Are My Sunshine
15. Going Down Slow
16. Never Let Me Go
17. I Wonder (Where Are You Tonight)
18. Prove It
19. Good Times
20. Come Back Baby
21. Change
22. You're a Sweet Sweet Man
23. Good to Me as I Am to You
24. People Get Ready
25. Ain't No Way
Disc: 2
1. Think
2. See Saw
3. House That Jack Built
4. Night Time Is the Right Time
5. I Say a Little Prayer
6. You Send Me
7. My Song
8. I Take What I Want
9. I Can't See Myself Leaving You
10. Night Life [Live]
11. Today I Sing the Blues
12. Pitiful
13. Tracks of My Tears
14. River's Invitation
15. Share Your Love With Me
16. It Ain't Fair
17. Sit Down and Cry
18. Honest I Do
19. Weight
20. When the Battle Is Over
21. Eleanor Rigby
22. One Way Ticket
23. Call Me
24. Pullin'
Disc: 3
1. Son of a Preacher Man
2. Try Matty's
3. Thrill Is Gone {From Yesterday's Kiss}
4. Dark End of the Street
5. You and Me
6. Let It Be
7. Spirit in the Dark
8. Why I Sing the Blues
9. Don't Play That Song
10. Young Gifted and Black
11. Border Song (Holy Moses)
12. Brand New Me
13. You're All I Need to Get By
14. Spanish Harlem
15. Rock Steady
16. Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby)
17. Day Dreaming
18. All the King's Horses
19. Bridge over Troubled Water
20. Angel
Disc: 4
1. Spirit in the Dark (Reprise) - Ray Charles
2. How I Got Over
3. So Swell When You're Well
4. Master of Eyes (The Deepness of Your Eyes)
5. Somewhere
6. I'm in Love
7. Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing
8. Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)
9. Every Natural Thing
10. Without Love (There Is Nothing) - Ray Charles
11. With Everything I Feel in Me
12. Mr. D.J. (5 for the D.J.)
13. Look into Your Heart
14. Sparkle
15. Rock With Me
16. Break It to Me Gently
17. Something He Can Feel
歌曲歌詞
I'm gettin the spirit in the dark
I'm gettin the spirit in the dark
People movin, aw, ain't we groovin?
Just gettin the spirit in the dark.
Tell me sister, how do you feel?
Tell me my brother, brother, brother, how do you feel?
Do you feel like dancin? Then get up and let's start dancin
Start gettin the spirit, spirit in the dark
It's like Sally Walker sittin in a saucer
That's how ya do it, it ain't nothin to it
Rise, Sally, rise, put your hand on your hips
and cover your eyes, and move on with the spirit,
move with the spirit, hey now move, move with the spirit
in the dark
(The remainder of the song is basically refrains of the chorus.)
