･ LIMITED EDITION - SPECIAL 10-PANEL DIGIPACK
･ 3-CD SET
･ 24 BIT DIGITALLY REMASTERED
･ COMPREHENSIVE 24-PAGE BOOKLET WITH MEMORABILIA AND UPDATED LINER NOTES
Known as the “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin ranked as No.1 in the “100 Greatest Singers of All Time” Rolling Stone magazine’s 2010 poll. She is also an 18-time Grammy Award winner as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement and Grammy Living Legend awardee standing among the greatest living singers (she is 75-years-old at this writing).
This outstanding 51-track 3-CD set presents all of the studio master takes Aretha Franklin recorded between 1960 (her debut dates) and 1962 as well as a rarely heard live recording from 1956 that marks the first existing testimony of her wonderful talents.

ARETHA FRANKLIN lead vocals
On all tracks plus:
Collective personnel: Joe Wilder (trumpet) Oliver Nelson Al Sears (tenor sax) Ray Bryant Aretha Franklin Wynton Kelly (piano) Mundell Lowe (guitar) Milt Hinton George Duvivier (bass) Osie Johnson (drums) among many others.
CD1 CD2 & CD3 1-8: Recorded in New York 1960-62.
CD3: 9-17: Aretha Franklin (also piano). Arranged and conducted by J. B. Junior.
Live at the New Bethel Baptist Church Detroit Michigan 1956.

CD 1:
1. Right Now
2. Today I Sing The Blues
3. Love is the only thing
4. Over the rainbow
5. (Blue) By Myself
6. Wont Be Long
7. All night long
8. It Aint Necessarily So
9. Sweet Lover
10. Who Needs You?
11. Are You Sure?
12. Maybe Im A Fool
13. Kissin By The Mistletoe
14. When they ask about you
15. I Surrender Dear
16. Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody
17. Operation Heartbreak

CD 2:
1. I Told You So
2. Rough Lover
3. Its So Heartbreakin
4. Hard Times
5. You Made Me Love You
6. Just For You
7. Blue Holiday
8. That Lucky Old Sun
9. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive
10. Exactly Like You
11. Nobody Like You
12. Try A Little Tenderness
13. I Apologize
14. Without The One You Love
15. Dont Cry Baby
16. Im Wandering
17. I Dont Know You Anymore

CD 3:
1. Lover Come Back To Me
2. How Deep Is The Ocean
3. Im Sitting On Top Of The World
4. Look For The Silver Lining
5. Trouble in mind
6. Just For A Thrill
7. God Bless The Child
8. I Surrender Dear [Mono]
9. There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood
10. Precious Lord [Part 1]
11. Precious Lord [Part 2]
12. You Grow Closer
13. Never Grow Old
14. The Day Is Past And Gone
15. He Will Wash You White As Snow
16. While The Blood Runs Warm
17. Yield Not To Temptation