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