Aretha Franklin - Freeway of Love - Selected Best Tracks (1985-1989)

I'm my opinion, from the late 1970s to the end of her career, Aretha Franklin's music is hit or miss. So I've created stray tracks albums that uses the best of anything she did in those years, be it from her studio albums or non-album tracks.

I had previously made a version of this album that dealt with the years 1980 to 1985. But I found more material I liked that radically transformed this album. It now deals with 1985 to 1989. Note how the time period is very different, so nearly all the songs are different.

Franklin's career recovered somewhat in the early 1980s after hitting a nadir in the peak disco years of the late 1980s. Probably the peak of this period of her career was her 1985 album "Who's Zooming Who?" which contained three big hits. Those are the first three songs here.

The next two songs come from her 1986 album "Aretha," including a number one hit duet with George Michael, "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)." The last song on this album, "He's the Boy," comes from her 1989 album "Through the Storm."

The rest of the songs are non-album tracks. Three of them are officially unreleased: "You Are So Beautiful," a duet with Billy Preston, "Shine," and "Please, Please, Please," a duet with James Brown.

This album is 48 minutes long.

If you had the old version of this album, be sure to also get "Hold On, I'm Coming," which contains what I consider the best songs she did from the early 1980s.

01 Freeway of Love (Aretha Franklin)
02 Who's Zoomin' Who (Aretha Franklin)
03 Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves (Eurythmics & Aretha Franklin)
04 Jimmy Lee (Aretha Franklin)
05 I Knew You Were Waiting [For Me] (Aretha Franklin & George Michael)
06 Jumpin' Jack Flash [Live] (Aretha Franklin)
07 You Are So Beautiful (Aretha Franklin & Billy Preston)
08 Shine (Aretha Franklin)
09 Please, Please, Please (James Brown & Aretha Franklin)
10 Oh Happy Day (Aretha Franklin & Mavis Staples)
11 He's the Boy (Aretha Franklin)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15115163/ArethaF_1985-1989_FreewyofLove_atse.zip.html

The cover art is based on a 1985 photo.