John hammond columbia records trial#

With Aretha Franklin, piano Al Sears, tenor saxophone Chauncey (Lloyd) Westbrook, guitar Milton John Milt Hinton, bass Belton (Sticks) Evans, drums 3. 'Are You Sure' ( Meredith Willson) 2:44įrom the Broadway musical production of The Unsinkable Molly Brown With Clifton (Skeeter) Best, guitar William (Bill) Lee, bass James Osie Johnson, drums Tyree Glenn, trombone 2. With Aretha Franklin, piano Al Sears, tenor saxophone Chauncey (Lloyd) Westbrook, guitar Milt Hinton, bass Belton (Sticks) Evans, drums Side Two 1. ' Who Needs You?' ( Billie Holiday, Jeanne Burns) 2:50 With Chauncey (Lord) Westbrook, guitar Bill Lee, bass Belton (Sticks) Evans, drums Al Sears, tenor saxophone Quentin Jackson, trombone 6. With William (Bill) Lee, bass Belton (Sticks) Evans, drums 5. With Chauncey (Lord) Westbrook, Clifton (Skeeter) Best, guitar William (Bill) Lee, bass James Osie Johnson, drums Tyree Glenn, trombone Paul Owens, vocal obbligato 4. With Chauncey (Lord) Westbrook, Clifton (Skeeter) Best, guitar William (Bill) Lee, bass Osie Johnson, drums Tyree Glenn, trombone 3. With John McFarland, piano Bill Lee, bass Belton (Sticks) Evans, drums 2.

All songs produced by John Hammond and arranged by J.

The album was recorded at the New York studios of Columbia Records, 207 East 30th Street, except tracks 1 and 4 which were recorded at the company's studios at 799 Seventh Avenue.

(See the separate track listing below the 1972 listing). There are some minor changes in the track list for the 1973 edition as well. The exact same recording 'The Great Aretha Franklin: The First 12 Sides', was once more re-released on vinyl, this time in 1973 by CBS/Embassy, trademarks of Columbia Records, probably being a UK edition, which on the center label bears these identification numbers: EMB S-31006 (KC 31953). Though rare to find an original 6-eye pressing on vinyl, Columbia Records re-released these sessions and retitled them as 'The Great Aretha Franklin: The First 12 Sides', in 1972. Columbia was experimenting to see what kind of music worked best with Aretha's style. The album showcases an 18-year-old Franklin, covering a range of pop standards. Leslie McFarland, while taking charge of the album's production, which received mixed reviews. Hammond paired Aretha Franklin with Ray Bryant and arranger J. Franklin, Aretha traveled to New York City's Columbia Record Studios to record her debut album for the label. With the support of her father, Reverend C.L.

Hammond, who on the liner notes of the 1973 edition of 'The Great Aretha Franklin: The First 12 Sides' mentions that she was in fact recommended by the composer Curtis Reginald Lewis. Following in the footsteps of her close friend Sam Cooke, Aretha was 'discovered' by famed Columbia Records producer John H. The album is Aretha's first release for Columbia, and is also known under its working title Right Now It's Aretha. He leaves two sons, Jason and blues performer John Paul Hammond.Aretha is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Aretha Franklin, released on February 27, 1961, by Columbia Records. He spent some time running his own recording company, then served Columbia as a consultant. He left Columbia briefly during the 1940s to work with Mercury Records, then returned to Columbia and retired in the late 1970s.

John hammond columbia records trial#

for the Advancement of Colored People and covered the trial of the Scottsboro Boys for The Nation and The New Republic during the mid-1930s.Īlthough Hammond was not a professional musician himself, he was an accomplished viola player. He was a board member of the National Assn. Hammond was intensely interested in the struggle of blacks for equality. As an independent record producer for Columbia, he supervised recording sessions for Holiday, pianist Wilson and numerous others. He was a disc jockey, a columnist for the jazz magazine Down Beat and a music critic for various other publications.

In 1932, he persuaded Columbia to record Henderson. Barely out of college, he took over a theater where he presented shows featuring such black acts as Henderson’s band. He went to Yale University and studied music at Juilliard.

Hammond was born in New York City on Dec. Things were either “superb” and “marvelous,” jazz critic Leonard Feather observed in a 1983 piece on Hammond, or they were “dreadful” and “terrible.”Īt that time, when he was 72, Hammond had lost little of “the boundless enthusiasm that has characterized his long love affair with music,” Feather wrote. Hammond was always known as a man of intense opinions and with few in-between feelings. He discovered and signed for Columbia folk singer Pete Seegar, guitarist George Benson, Dylan and Springsteen. He recorded Aretha Franklin when she was only 19. But as the Swing Era slipped away, Hammond did not fade with it.