From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Through the Storm (Aretha Franklin album)
Through the Storm (Aretha Franklin album)
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Msn Music [2]
Artist direct [3]
Through The Storm Track listing
Side one
1. "Gimme Your Love" (Narada Michael Walden, Jeffrey
Cohen) - 5:18 with James Brown
2. "Mercy" (Siedah Garrett, Glen Ballard) - 4:05
3. "He’s the Boy" (Aretha Franklin) - 4:05
4. "It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be" (duet
with Whitney Houston) (Albert Hammond, Diane
Warren) - 5:37
Side two
1. "Through the Storm" (duet with Elton John) (Albert
Hammond, Diane Warren) - 4:20
Studio album by Aretha Franklin 2. "Think (1989)" - (Aretha Franklin, Ted White)[4]- 3:39
3. "Come to Me" (Willard Eugene Price)[5]- 3:42
Released May, 1989
4. "If Ever a Love There Was" (Pamela Phillips Oland,
Recorded 1988 Tedd Cerney)[6] - 4:30 with The Four Tops and Kenny
Genre R&B, rock, pop G.
Length 35:16
Personnel
Label Arista
• Aretha Franklin - Vocals, Producer
Producer Narada Michael Walden • Narada Michael Walden - Producer
Arif Mardin
• Arif Mardin - Producer
Aretha Franklin
• James Brown - Vocals
Aretha Franklin chronology • Whitney Houston - Vocals
• Elton John - Vocals
One Lord, One Faith, Through What You See Is
• The Four Tops - Vocals
One Baptism The Storm What You Sweat
(1987) (1989) (1991) • Kenny G - Instrumental
Through The Storm Is a 80s album by Aretha Franklin, re- References
leased on Arista Records in the spring of 1989. Despite the [1] Allmusic review
hit title track, "Through The Storm" - a duet with super- [2] Msn Music review
star Elton John, the album was a critical and sales failure. [3] Artist direct review
It sold approximately 225,000 copies in the United States [4] The fourth recorded version of the song by Aretha
and was taken out of print shortly afterward. The follow- Franklin, which was originally included on Aretha
up single, "It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be" - a Now and released as a single in 1968. Two different
duet with Whitney Houston, failed to make the Pop Top versions of the song were recorded for the Blues
40. Other guest artists were James Brown, The Four Tops Brothers movie. Franklin lip-synched to one version
and Kenny G.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Through the Storm (Aretha Franklin album)
in the movie, with a different version appearing on [6] Originally recorded on the 1988 Four Tops album
the soundtrack. Indestructible, their sole release for Arista Records,
[5] Remixed edition of song first released on Franklin’s which was also Franklin’s label at the time.
1980 Arista debut, Aretha.
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