On August 12, 1963, “Columbia” label released “Laughing on the Outside”, the fourth Aretha Franklin studio album. It was recorded in April – June 1963, at “Columbia Recording Studios” in New York and Hollywood, and was produced by Robert Mersey.

Personnel:

• Aretha Franklin – vocals
• Robert Mersey – arrangements, conductor
• Don Arnome, Tommy Tedesco, Billy Strange – guitar
• Earl Van Dyke, Dave Grusin, Andrew Acker, Leon Russell – piano
• C. Bosler, Ray Pohlman, Melvin Pollan – bass guitar
• Hindel Butts, Hal Blaine – drums
• Plas Johnson – saxophone
• Jimmy Nottingham – trumpet
• Robert Ascher – trombone
• Bernard Eichenbaum, Julius Schacter, Leo Kahn, Berl Senofsky, Felix Gigol, Max Pollikoff, George Ockner, John Rublowsky, Sid Sharp, Tibor Zelig, George Poole, Irving Lipschultz, Irving Weinper, Darrel Terwilliger – violin
• R. Dickler, Theodore Israel, Jacob Glick – viola
• Jesse Erlich, Anthony Twardowsky, Joseph Tekula – cello

Track listing:

1. Skylark – Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael
2. For All We Know – Sam M. Lewis, J. Fred Coots
3. Make Someone Happy – Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne
4. I Wonder (Where Are You Tonight) – Aretha Franklin, Ted White
5. Solitude – Duke Ellington, Eddie DeLange, Irving Mills
6. Laughing on the Outside – Bernie Wayne, Ben Raleigh
7. Say It Isn’t So – Irving Berlin
8. Until The Real Thing Comes Along – Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, L. E. Freeman
9. If Ever I Would Leave You – Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
10. Where Are You? – Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh
11. Mr. Ugly – Norman Mapp
12. I Wanna Be Around – Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstedt