The Queen in Waiting: The Columbia Years (1960–1965)

The Queen in Waiting: The Columbia Years (1960–1965)
The Queen in Waiting: The Columbia Years (1960–1965)
Compilation album by Aretha Franklin
Released	September 24, 2002
Recorded	August 1, 1960 – October 12, 1965
Genre	Jazz; R&B; gospel;
Length	2:06:38
Label	Legacy
Aretha Franklin chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic (The Queen in Waiting)	^[1]
AllMusic (The Essential)	^[2]
AllMusic (The Essential 3.0)	^[3]

The Queen in Waiting: The Columbia Years (1960–1965) is a 2002 compilation album of Aretha Franklin's early recordings from 1960 to 1965 when she was signed to Columbia Records. It was repackaged as part of The Essential series in 2010,^[4] with a three-disc set containing eight additional songs also being released as The Essential 3.0.^[3]

Background[]

The Queen in Waiting highlights Franklin's jazz and big-band recordings with Columbia before she became famous after she moved to Atlantic Records.^[5] Not knowing how to best utilize Franklin's talent, her producers had her record a mixture of jazz, blues, gospel, pop, and soul, and Columbia was criticized for mismanaging Franklin during her tenure with them.^[6]^[7] Collections such as this one and the more comprehensive Take a Look: Aretha Franklin Complete on Columbia are attempts to bring exposure to Franklin's catalog of early recordings.^[7]

Track listing[]

Disc one[]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Nobody Like You"	James Cleveland	2:23
2.	"Once in a While"	L. C. Cook	2:31
3.	"Maybe I'm a Fool"	John Leslie McFarland	3:15
4.	"Muddy Water"	Harry Richman, Jo Trent, Peter De Rose	2:24
5.	"Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?" (alternate version)	Hughie Cannon	2:14
6.	"Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)"	Ray Charles	3:09
7.	"Today I Sing the Blues"	Curtis Lewis	2:41
8.	"Won't Be Long"	John Leslie McFarland	3:18
9.	"Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning"	Tom Delaney, Pearl Delaney	5:10
10.	"Evil Gal Blues"	Lionel Hampton, Leonard Feather	2:41
11.	"Lee Cross"	Ted White	3:22
12.	"Walk On By"	Burt Bacharach, Hal David	2:50
13.	"I Wonder (Where Are You Tonight)"	Aretha Franklin, Ted White	3:21
14.	"God Bless the Child"	Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog Jr.	3:03
15.	"Blue Holiday"	Willie Denson, Luther Dixon	2:54
16.	"Looking Through a Tear"	Arthur Resnick, Bobby Scott	3:03
17.	"Tiny Sparrow"	Bobby Scott	2:49
18.	"Here Today and Gone Tomorrow"	Babs Gonzales, Glen Ballard, Marti Sharron	3:29
19.	"Little Brown Book"	Billy Strayhorn	3:18
20.	"Without the One You Love"	Aretha Franklin	2:46

Disc two[]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"This Bitter Earth"	Clyde Otis	4:34
2.	"Just for a Thrill"	Lil Hardin Armstrong, Don Raye	2:54
3.	"Skylark"	Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael	2:21
4.	"Skylark" (alternate version)	Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael	4:04
5.	"Trouble in Mind"	Richard M. Jones	2:43
6.	"Runnin' Out of Fools"	Kay Rogers, Richard Ahlert	2:43
7.	"Drinking Again"	Johnny Mercer, Doris Tauber	3:28
8.	"Laughing on the Outside (Crying on the Inside)"	Bernie Wayne, Ben Raleigh	3:16
9.	"What a Diff'rence a Day Makes"	Stanley Person, María Grever	3:31
10.	"Soulville"	Titus Turner, Morris Levy, Henry Glover, Dinah Washington	2:26
11.	"You'll Lose a Good Thing"	Huey P Meaux, Barbara Lynn	2:40
12.	"Take a Look"	Clyde Otis	2:42
13.	"Cry Like a Baby"	Jo Armstead, Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson	2:13
14.	"I Wish I Didn't Love You So"	Frank Loesser	2:55
15.	"Only the Lonely"	Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen	4:54
16.	"People"	Jule Styne, Bob Merrill	4:18
17.	"Mockingbird"	Inez Foxx, Charlie Foxx	2:48
18.	"Until You Were Gone"	Joy Byers	3:16
19.	"My Coloring Book"	John Kander, Fred Ebb	4:08
20.	"Try a Little Tenderness"	James Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Harry M. Woods	3:14

Limited edition 3.0[]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"(In My) Solitude"	Duke Ellington, Eddie DeLange, Irving Mills	3:50
2.	"Love for Sale"	Cole Porter	2:31
3.	"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive"	Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer	2:18
4.	"Unforgettable"	Irving Gordon	3:40
5.	"All Night Long"	Curtis Lewis	3:06
6.	"Every Little Bit Hurts"	Ed Cobb	2:50
7.	"Sweet Bitter Love"	Van McCoy	3:00
8.	"If Ever I Would Leave You"	Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe	4:07