Through the Storm (Aretha Franklin album)

Through The Storm
Studio album by Aretha Franklin
Released May, 1989
Recorded 1988
Genre R&B, rock, pop
Length 35:16
Label Arista
Producer Narada Michael Walden
Arif Mardin
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin chronology
One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism
(1987)		 Through The Storm
(1989)		 What You See Is What You Sweat
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Msn Music [2]
Artist direct [3]

Through The Storm is an album by Aretha Franklin, released on Arista Records in the spring of 1989. Despite the hit title track - a duet with superstar Elton John - the album was a critical and sales failure, peaking at #55. It sold approximately 225,000 copies in the United States and was taken out of print shortly afterward. The follow-up single, "It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be" - a duet with Whitney Houston, failed to make the Pop Top 40. Other guest artists were James Brown, The Four Tops and Kenny G.

Contents

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Gimme Your Love" (Narada Michael Walden, Jeffrey Cohen) - 5:18 with James Brown
  2. "Mercy" (Siedah Garrett, Glen Ballard) - 4:05
  3. "He's the Boy" (Aretha Franklin) - 4:05
  4. "It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be" (duet with Whitney Houston) (Albert Hammond, Diane Warren) - 5:37

Side two

  1. "Through the Storm" (duet with Elton John) (Albert Hammond, Diane Warren) - 4:20
  2. "Think (1989)" - (Aretha Franklin, Ted White)[4]- 3:39
  3. "Come to Me" (Willard Eugene Price)[5]- 3:42
  4. "If Ever a Love There Was" (Pamela Phillips Oland, Tedd Cerney)[6] - 4:30 with The Four Tops and Kenny G.

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Msn Music review
  3. ^ Artist direct review
  4. ^ The fourth recorded version of the song by Aretha Franklin, which was originally included on Aretha Now and released as a single in 1968. Two different versions of the song were recorded for the Blues Brothers movie. Franklin lip-synched to one version in the movie, with a different version appearing on the soundtrack.
  5. ^ Remixed edition of song first released on Franklin's 1980 Arista debut, Aretha.
  6. ^ Originally recorded on the 1988 Four Tops album Indestructible, their sole release for Arista Records, which was also Franklin's label at the time.