This autumn see's the release of the follow up to the 2011 released “Come Together: Black America Sings Lennon & McCartney” album. While this release follows a similar Beatles related concept as before, this time around the range has been extended to include George Harrison compositions. Though the length of the album title does make you wonder if '...sings the Beatles' may have worked better
Let It Be: Black America Sings Lennon McCartney & Harrison
The track listing follows and as seems to be the sensible thing to do nowadays an audio preview from Juno records player is prefered over any in house descriptive words.
Track Listing
1. Eleanor Rigby - Aretha Franklin - Aretha Franklin
2. Dear Prudence - The 5 Stairsteps - The 5 Stairsteps
3. Got To Get You Into My Life - Earth, Wind And Fire - Earth, Wind & Fire
4. Do You Want To Know A Secret - Mary Wells - Mary Wells
5. The Fool On The Hill - Four Tops - The Four Tops
6. Lovely Rita - Fats Domino - Fats Domino
7. Here Comes The Sun - Nina Simone - Nina Simone
8. Ob La Di Ob La Da - Arthur Conley - Arthur Conley
9. A World Without Love - The Supremes - The Supremes
10. Tomorrow Never Knows - Junior Parker - Junior Parker
11. Don't Let Me Down - Randy Crawford - Randy Crawford
12. With A Little Help From My Friends - The Undisputed Truth - The Undisputed Truth
13. A Hard Day's Night - Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
14. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window - Ike & Tina Turner - Ike and Tina Turner
15. For No One - Maceo & All The King's Men - Maceo and All The King's Men
16. It's Only Love - Gary US Bonds - Gary U.S. Bonds
17. We Can Work It Out - Dionne Warwick - Dionne Warwick
18. Hey Jude - The Temptations - The Temptations
19. In My Life - Boyz II Men - Boyz II Men
20. Savoy Truffle - Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald
21. Something - Isaac Hayes - Isaac Hayes
22. Let It Be - Bill Withers - Bill Withers
As always more details and release notes can be read via the Ace records website, the link follows below
http://acerecords.co.uk/let-it-be-black-america-sings-lennon-mccartney-and-harrison
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