Let Me in Your Life

Let Me in Your Life
Studio album by Aretha Franklin
Released	February 25, 1974
Recorded	April 10, 1973-September 7, 1973
Studio	Atlantic Studios and A&R Studios (New York, NY); Criteria Studios (Miami, FL).
Genre	R&B
Label	Atlantic (#7292), Rhino
Producer	Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler, Aretha Franklin, Tom Dowd.
Aretha Franklin chronology
The Best of Aretha Franklin (1973)The Best of Aretha Franklin1973 Let Me in Your Life (1974) With Everything I Feel in Me (1974)With Everything I Feel in Me1974
Singles from Let Me in Your Life
"Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" Released: July, 1973 "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" Released: December, 1973

Professional ratings
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Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Robert Christgau	B+ [1]
Rolling Stone	(mixed) link

Let Me in Your Life is the twentieth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, Released on February 25, 1974 by Atlantic Records.

This was one of Aretha's top-selling Atlantic Records albums. The album hit #1 on Billboard's R&B albums chart and reached #14 on Billboard's main album chart, missing the Gold standard by a small margin. Featuring three hit singles, it is regarded as one of Franklin's best Atlantic recordings. In the 1990s, it was issued on compact disc through Rhino Records.

Track listing

Side One

1. "Let Me in Your Life" (Bill Withers) - 3:24
2. "Every Natural Thing" (Eddie Hinton) - 2:31
3. "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson) - 3:47
4. "I'm in Love" (Bobby Womack) - 2:48
5. "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" (Clarence Paul, Stevie Wonder, Morris Broadnax) - 3:26
6. "The Masquerade is Over" (Herbert Magidson, Allie Wrubel) - 4:27

Side Two

1. "With Pen in Hand" (Bobby Goldsboro) - 5:03
2. "Oh Baby" (Aretha Franklin) - 4:55
3. "Eight Days On the Road" (Michael Gayle, Jerry Ragovoy) - 2:59
4. "If You Don't Think" (Aretha Franklin) - 3:50
5. "A Song for You" (Leon Russell) - 5:33

Personnel

• Aretha Franklin – lead vocals, piano (2, 5, 7-9), Fender Rhodes (10, 11)
• Eumir Deodato – piano, Fender Rhodes (1), rhythm arrangements (1), string arrangements (1)
• Richard Tee – piano (1), Hammond organ (2, 5, 10, 11), Fender Rhodes (2), keyboards (10)
• Bob James – Hammond organ (1), keyboards (3)
• Donny Hathaway – keyboards (3, 7), piano (4, 6), Fender Rhodes (5, 8)
• Ken Bichel – synthesizer (5)
• David Spinozza – guitar (1, 3, 4, 6)
• Cornell Dupree – guitar (2, 4, 7-11)
• Hugh McCracken – guitar (5)
• Stanley Clarke – bass guitar (1, 3, 4, 6)
• Chuck Rainey – bass guitar (2, 5, 7, 9)
• Willie Weeks – bass guitar (8, 10, 11)
• Rick Marotta – drums (1, 3, 4, 6)
• Bernard Purdie – drums (2, 5, 7-11)
• Ralph MacDonald – percussion (1-4, 6-11)
• Pancho Morales – percussion (2, 7, 9)
• Joe Farrell – tenor saxophone (2), flute (5)
• Ernie Royal – trumpet (10)
• Arif Mardin – horn arrangements (1, 2, 4, 7-11), percussion arrangement (1), string arrangements (2, 4)
• William Eaton – arrangements (3, 4, 5)
• Gene Orloff – concertmaster
• Margaret Branch – backing vocals (2, 5, 7, 9)
• Ann S. Clark – backing vocals (2, 5, 7, 9)
• Sylvia Shemwell – backing vocals (3)
• Myrna Smith – backing vocals (3)
• Judy Clay – backing vocals (3, 4)
• Cissy Houston – backing vocals (3, 4)
• Gwen Guthrie – backing vocals (4)
• Deirdre Tuck Corley – backing vocals (4)

Production

• Producers – Aretha Franklin, Arif Mardin and Jerry Wexler (Tracks 1-6, 8 & 9); Tom Dowd (Tracks 7, 10 & 11).
• Engineers – Phil Ramone (Tracks 1, 3, 4 & 6); Gene Paul (Tracks 2 & 8-11); Lew Hahn (Track 5); Howard Albert and Ron Albert (Track 7).
• Recorded at Atlantic Studios and A&R Studios (New York, NY); Criteria Studios (Miami, FL).
• Remixed by Arif Mardin at Atlantic Studios.
• Mastered by Gene Paul at Atlantic Studios.
• Photography – Joel Brodsky

See also

• List of number-one R&B albums of 1974 (U.S.)

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