With Everything I Feel in Me
With Everything I Feel in Me is the twenty-first studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, Released on November 25, 1974, by Atlantic Records.
Background
This recording did not do as well commercially as previous Franklin albums. The LP reached #57 on Billboard's Top Album charts and peaked at #6 on the R&B album charts. None of its singles reached the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. The lead single, "Without Love", written by Aretha's sister Carolyn Franklin and former Motown producer Ivy Jo Hunter, charted at #45 Pop, but fared far better on the R&B charts reaching #6. The title cut also charted at #20 on the R&B charts in early 1975.Cash Box said that the title song " slow and steady, it gets into a gorgeous groove with back-up singers, guitar, horns and slinky organ cooking full force under dynamic vocal."
Track listing
- "Without Love" – 3:47
- "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" – 4:17
- "When You Get Right Down to It" – 3:55
- "You'll Never [Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)]" – 5:40
- "With Everything I Feel in Me" – 3:53
- "I Love Every Little Thing About You" – 3:42
- "Sing It Again – Say It Again" – 3:51
- "All of These Things" – 3:54
- "You Move Me" – 6:22
Personnel
- Aretha Franklin – vocals, acoustic piano
- Ken Bichel – synthesizer, Fender Rhodes electric piano
- Margaret Branch – background vocals
- Brenda Bryant – background vocals
- Cornell Dupree – guitar
- Gordon Edwards – bass guitar
- Steve Gadd – drums
- Albhy Galuten – synthesizer
- Ralph MacDonald – percussion
- Arif Mardin – string arrangements, horn arrangements, synthesizer arrangements
- Hugh McCracken – guitar
- Robbie McIntosh – percussion
- The Memphis Horns – horns
- * Andrew Love – tenor saxophone, tenor sax solo
- * Ed Logan – tenor saxophone
- * Wayne Jackson – trumpet
- * James Mitchell – baritone saxophone
- * Jack Hale – trombone
- Gene Orloff – concertmaster
- Leon Pendarvis – Hammond organ
- Bernard Purdie – drums
- Chuck Rainey – bass guitar
- Pat Rebillot – Mellotron
- Pat Smith – background vocals
- Hamish Stuart – percussion
- Grady Tate – drums
- Richard Tee – Fender Rhodes electric piano, Hammond organ
Production
- Producers – Tom Dowd, Aretha Franklin, Arif Mardin and Jerry Wexler.
- Recorded by Gene Paul ; Karl Richardson.
- Additional Recording – Lew Hahn
- Mixed by Arif Mardin and Gene Paul
- Recorded at Atlantic Studios and Criteria Studios.
- Art Direction – Bob Defrin
- Photography – Joel Brodsky