| Soft and Beautiful | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | April 1969 | |||
| Recorded | July 9–16, 1964 | |||
| Genre | Soul,R&B | |||
| Length | 34:23 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Clyde Otis | |||
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Soft and Beautiful is the fifteenthstudio album by theAmerican singerAretha Franklin, released in the spring of 1969 byColumbia Records.
The album was recorded when Franklin was 22 years old between July 9 and 16, 1964,[1] It was her last album on Columbia before she moved toAtlantic Records and until 1969, unreleased, although an alternative version of "A Mother's Love" appeared on Franklin's 1966 Columbia LPSoul Sister.[2] It reached Number 29 onBillboard's R&B chart.Mark Bego, inAretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul, called it "the most consistently paced album of her later Columbia years".[2] Originally released by Columbia Records, the album was reissued on CD with her 1962 albumThe Tender, The Moving, The Swinging Aretha Franklin.
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