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Aretha Franklin – Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing | Track profile | Dork

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Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing

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Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing

From Soul Queen

Track 57

3:50

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"Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" is a track by Aretha Franklin, from the album Soul Queen. The track is 3:50 long.

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Aretha Franklin

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From Soul Queen

3:50

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Aretha Franklin

29th October 2007

Track number

57

1I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)
2:45
2Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
3:17
3Save Me
2:16
4Drown in My Own Tears
4:03
5Baby, Baby, Baby
2:54
6Respect
2:27
7Good Times
2:06
8Dr. Feelgood (Love Is Serious Business)
3:19
9(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
2:40
10Never Let Me Go
2:54
11Night Life (Live)
3:15
12Baby, I Love You
2:39
13Chain of Fools
2:43
14Ain't Nobody (Gonna Turn Me Around)
2:38
15(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone
2:26
16Good to Me as I Am to You
3:58
17You're a Sweet Sweet Man
2:17
18Come Back Baby
2:27
19Ain't No Way
4:14
20My Song
3:29
21Think
2:19
22You Send Me
2:27
23See Saw
2:44
24The House That Jack Built
2:20
25I Say a Little Prayer
3:32
26Night Time Is the Right Time
4:45
27Tracks of My Tears
2:55
28I Take What I Want
2:32
29I Can't See Myself Leaving You
3:02
30Pitiful
2:59
31Gentle on My Mind
2:29
32Share Your Love with Me
3:18
33The Weight
2:52
34When the Battle Is Over
2:43
35Pullin'
3:38
36Eleanor Rigby
2:33
37Call Me
3:57
38Dark End of the Street
4:40
39Let It Be
3:30
40You and Me
3:34
41Spirit in the Dark
4:04
42Don't Play That Song
3:02
43Bridge over Troubled Water
5:31
44Border Song (Holy Moses)
3:20
45A Brand New Me
4:23
46Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby)
3:41
47You're All I Need to Get By
3:34
48Spanish Harlem
3:31
49Rock Steady
3:14
50Day Dreaming
3:59
51All the King's Horses
3:49
52April Fools
3:27
53Wholy Holy
5:46
54Angel
4:28
55Master of Eyes (The Deepness of Your Eyes)
3:25
56I'm in Love
2:51
57Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing
3:50
58Every Natural Thing
2:37
59Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)
3:26
60Something He Can Feel
6:15
—Eleanor Rigby
2:33
—Think
2:19
—You Send Me
2:27

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Young, Gifted And Black (Alternate Longer Take)

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Baby, I Love You (Live at the Olympia Theatre, Paris, May 7, 1968)

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Let It Be [2020 Remaster]

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Ooo Baby Baby [Live]

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Something He Can Feel (Edit)

Til It's Over (Demo)

Try A Little Tenderness (Demo)

You Send Me (2018 Mono Remaster)

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Brand New Me (Alternate Take 6)

Do Right Woman, Do Right Man (2018 Mono Remaster)

You Light Up My Life

Here's Where I Came In (Here's Where I Walk Out)

Somewhere (alternate version)

My Kind of Town (Detroit Is) (demo)

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The Atlantic Singles (1968)

Wholy Holy (live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, January 13, 1972)

Wholy Holy (Live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, January 13, 1972) [Single Edit]

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How I Got Over (live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, January 13, 1972) (single edit)

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A Rose Is Still a Rose (London Connection Remix) [Mixed]
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Angel (Work Tape)
At Last (Live)
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