Soft and Beautiful
Studio album by Aretha Franklin
Released	April 1969
Recorded	July 9–16, 1964
Genre	Soul,R&B
Length	34:23
Label	Columbia
Producer	Clyde Otis
Aretha Franklin chronology
Soul '69 (1969) Soft and Beautiful (1969) Aretha's Gold (1969)

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.

Side One

1. "Only the Lonely" (Sammy Cahn,Jimmy Van Heusen)
2. "I Wish I Didn't Love You So" (Frank Loesser)
3. "(Ah, the Apple Trees) When the World Was Young" (Johnny Mercer, M. Philippe-Gérard)
4. "Shangri-La" (Carl Sigman,Robert Maxwell,Matty Malneck)
5. "A Mother's Love" (Cliff Owens)

Side Two

1. "My Coloring Book" (John Kander,Fred Ebb)
2. "Jim" (Nelson Shawn,Caesar Petrillo, Edward Rose)
3. "Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)" (Paul Francis Webster,Dimitri Tiomkin)
4. "But Beautiful" (Johnny Burke,Jimmy Van Heusen)
5. "People" fromFunny Girl (Jule Styne,Bob Merrill)

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