Aretha Franklin - Jewels In The Crown: All-Star Duets With the Queen
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Artist: Aretha FranklinEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-11-13
Music Label: Arista
Product features:
- FRANKLIN ARETHA JEWEL IN THE CROWN: ALL STAR DUETS
- Jumpin' Jack Flash
- Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves
- I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) featuring George Michael
- What Now My Love Sinatra, Frank with Aretha Franklin
- Put You Up On Game featuring Fantasia
- What Y'All Came To Do featuring John Legend
- Never Gonna Break My Faith featuring Mary J. Blige and The Harlem Boys Choir
- Through The Storm Duet with Elton John
- It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be Duet with Whitney Houston
- (You Make Me Feel) Like A Natural Woman Featuring Bonnie Raitt And Gloria Estefan
- Doctor's Orders Duet with Luther Vandross
- Ever Changing Times featuring Michael McDonald
- Chain Of Fools featuring Mariah Carey
- Don't Waste Your Time featuring Mary J. Blige
- Love All The Hurt Away featuring George Benson
- Nessun Dorma
Music reviews of Jewels In The Crown: All-Star Duets With the Queen
Music Review: Duets, Old & New
Rating: 3 Stars
When it comes to the music industry, and especially in R&B, we've often forgotten about older artists like Patti LaBelle, and Whitney Houston and how much of a influence they've brought to the music industry. Instead, we are often interested in acts like Beyonce' and Jennifer Lopez as the divas of this time. Nevertheless, it is sad we don't hear the unique melodies of greats. that also is why so much of us do overlook Aretha Franklin as a huge influence as well. For her 5 decades of influence as one of the great divas of all, her voice has still been proven past and present that it still shines on like a definite diamond. Although her previous albums haven't scored well, she still can maintain a huge ovation, even with others on this duets collection.
Aretha Franklin's 2007 duets album Jewels In The Crown: Duets With the Queen Of Soul, is a collection of some of Aretha's duets old and new. Some of the tracks are well worth listening too like the classics, and simply because some of them have been out of print for a longtime, as very rare gems which are real treats for die hard Aretha Franklin fans, while other duets could've fit the bill a bit better, especially the new tracks. Nevertheless, the collection does include some great gems like I Knew You Were Waiting For Me with George Michael, Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves with the Eurythmics, and a live recording of Chain Of Fools with Mariah Carey from VH1's 1998 Divas Live benefit concert. Surprisingly though, it is the rare gems that've finally came back to life that actually steal the show on the album like her overlooked collaborations with Elton John on 1989's Through the Storm and with Whitney Houston on It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Ever Gonna Be. Although the classics and the rare cuts work good, the new duets like the one with Fantasia Burrino from American Idol on Put You Up On Game, and John Legend on What Y'All Came To Do don't seem to measure the hype of a great set of new duets, and doesn't add-on well for anyone who is new to Aretha's sound. Instead, the new duets feel like they just are lackluster, and miss out to Aretha's classic sound and soulful, unique voice.
While Jewels In the Crown doesn't do enough to get those who are new to Aretha Franklin's distinctive voice, especially those who'd rather listen to Beyonce' and the disgraced Britney Spears, it is a great buy for die hard fans young and old. It is a good addition to your R&B music library, but doesn't clean itself up as a must buy for anyone who has definitely missed out on Aretha at her best, and seem more into who has to be hot now, and not the merit of the artist within.
Album Cover: B
Songs: C+
Price: B-
Remastering: B 1/2-
Overall: C+
Description of Jewels In The Crown: All-Star Duets With the Queen
2007 release, a collection of Aretha's finest duets including two previously unreleased tracks featuring John Legend and American Idol winner Fantasia. On Jewels In The Crown: All Star Duets With The Queen, Aretha performs memorable duets with some of music's biggest names including Keith Richards, Whitney Houston, Annie Lennox, George Michael, Mariah Carey, Frank Sinatra, Mary J. Blige, John Legend and many more.Browse the assembled talent on this disc and you're bound to be wowed by the bold names--Hello, Frank Sinatra, George Benson, and Elton John--but anyone who's been listening to the Queen of Soul long enough knows even fellow legends often have cause to feel humbled in her presence. And it's interesting, but the duets collected here tend to work in inverse proportion to the fame of the collaborator: "Hello My Love" with Sinatra is so-so, though it's certainly not for lack of effort by the always-on Aretha, while "Put You Up on Game" with American Idol's Fantasia comes as a revelation; Fantasia could have been all crack-voiced and quaking in her spike-heeled ankle boots, but she proves up to the challenge. If the heavy hitters were cowed by the Queen's supremacy and it shows (it does), it's worth remembering that a lot of the recycled tracks here--the ones you'll most likely buy the record for, including the exceptional "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" with the Eurythmics and "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" with George Michael--more than make up for it. Also, three new duets--the one with Fantasia, plus one with John Legend, and one with Mary J. Blige--prove Aretha's becoming more selective with her singing partners. You might have expected at least one of them to stumble, but none does. The older Aretha gets, it seems, the less room she has on her chain of fools. --Tammy La Gorce
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