Aretha Franklin Amazing Grace Rare 1972 Atlantic Monarch Press Dbl Vinyl LP
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Amazing Grace Live album by Aretha Franklin Released June 1, 1972 Recorded January 13–14, 1972 Venue New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles Genre Gospel Length 85:43 Label Atlantic Producer Jerry Wexler, Arif Mardin, Aretha Franklin Aretha Franklin chronology Young, Gifted and Black
(1972) Amazing Grace
(1972) Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky)
(1973)
Amazing Grace is a live album by American soul singer Aretha Franklin. It was recorded in January 1972 at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, with Reverend James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir accompanying Franklin in performance. The recording was originally released as a double album on June 1, 1972, by Atlantic Records.
The album was a critical and commercial success, selling over two million copies in the United States alone and earning a double platinum certification. It also won Franklin the 1973 Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance. As of 2017, it stands as the biggest selling disc of Franklin's entire fifty-plus year recording career as well as the highest-selling live gospel music album of all time.
Critical reception
Retrospective professional reviews Review scores Source Rating AllMusic Christgau's Record Guide B+ The Encyclopedia of Popular Music The Great Rock Discography 7/10 MusicHound R & B: The Essential Album Guide The Rolling Stone Album GuideReviewing for Rolling Stone in 1972, Jon Landau commented: "Amazing Grace is more a great Aretha Franklin album than a great gospel album. She plays havoc with the traditional styles but she sings 'like never before' on record. The liberation and abandon she has always implied in her greatest moments are now fully and consistently achieved." Landau found himself "struck first by the comprehensiveness and depth of the arrangement and then by the brilliance of her lead voice," hailing her performance as "a virtuoso display of gospel pyrotechnics, done with control and imagination." He was especially fond of the uptempo songs expressing "unqualified joy," saying they "hit with tremendous power."
Robert Christgau was less enthusiastic about the album, later writing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981): "Because I don't think God's grace is amazing or believe that Jesus Christ is his son, I find it hard to relate to gospel groups as seminal as the Swan Silvertones and the Dixie Hummingbirds and have even more trouble with James Cleveland's institutional choral style. There's a purity and a passion to this church-recorded double-LP that I've missed in Aretha, but I still find that the subdued rhythm section and pervasive call-and-response conveys more aimlessness than inspiration. Or maybe I just trust her gift of faith more readily when it's transposed to the secular realm."
In another retrospective review, Ron Wynn of AllMusic regarded Amazing Grace as possibly Franklin's "greatest release ever in any style" and said, "Her voice was chilling, making it seem as if God and the angels were conducting a service alongside Franklin, Rev. James Cleveland, the Southern California Community Choir, and everyone else in attendance. Her versions of 'How I Got Over' and 'You've Got a Friend' are legendary."
Rolling Stone ranked the album number 154 on the 2020 reboot of their 'The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time' list.
Track listing
1972 double LP
Side one No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Mary, Don't You Weep" Spiritual 7:29 2. "Medley: Precious Lord, Take My Hand / You've Got a Friend" Thomas A. Dorsey, Frank Frazier / Carole King 5:34 3. "Old Landmark" W. Herbert Brewster, Adeline M. Brunner 3:40 4. "Give Yourself to Jesus" Robert Fryson 5:16 Side two No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "How I Got Over" Clara Ward 4:22 2. "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" Joseph M. Scriven, Charles Crozat Converse 6:03 3. "Amazing Grace" John Newton 10:45 Side three No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Precious Memories" J.B.F. Wright 7:20 2. "Climbing Higher Mountains" Traditional 2:32 3. "Remarks by Reverend C.L. Franklin" 1:56 4. "God Will Take Care of You" Traditional 8:48 Side four No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Wholy Holy" Marvin Gaye, Renaldo Benson, Al Cleveland 5:30 2. "You'll Never Walk Alone" Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II 6:31 3. "Never Grow Old" Traditional 9:57price rating
