Aretha Franklin & George BensonBest Aretha Franklin & George Benson Albums Ranked
5.0
Avg Score
4
Opinions
8
Albums
1
Reviewer
Summary from 4 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Aretha Franklin & George Benson's catalog across 8 albums from 4 opinions, with an overall average of 5.0/10. The top-rated Aretha Franklin & George Benson album is Jump to It (1982) with a 8.0/10 average from 1 rating, followed by Get It Right and So Damn Happy. The discography on Wavelength spans 1982 to 2003.
Jump to It
“For the first time since her early days on Atlantic, Aretha Franklin has made an album on which she sounds completely at home. Where Franklin’s recent records have cast her as a maturing pop-soul diva looking back on the past with a detached sense of history, Jump to It is an LP totally in and […]”
So Damn Happy
“The queen of soul is still the Queen. But that doesn’t mean the material on Aretha Franklin’s latest album is deserving of her crown. Last time around, on 1998’s A Rose Is Still a Rose, Lauryn Hill, Puff Daddy and other hot hitmakers plied fresh beats and old-school samples to aim Aretha’s R&B at young […]”
Through the Storm
“Aretha’s records used to make history. Now they’re just historical "events" that she can’t seem to get through without a lot of help from her friends. Of the eight (count ’em) cuts on Through the Storm, four are "pairings of the century": Aretha with James Brown on "Gimme Your Love" (a series of whoops and […]”
Get It Right
“Aretha Franklin teamed up with singer-song-writer-producer Luther Vandross last year to produce Jump to It, which featured a superbly consistent set of tunes and easily the finest singing Lady Soul has done in ten years. The second time around, this terrific twosome didn’t quite get it right. Vandross’ songs on Get It Right lack luster, […]”
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