I Say a Little Prayer

Release: 1968

Release: 1968Source checked

V3.6 reconciles the original release year with the reviewed Artist Essentials entry for this exact retained recording ID. Year precision is used; an album-first release is not silently replaced by a later single, reissue or annual-list year. The original studio recording appeared on Aretha Now in June 1968 before the July single coupling with The House That Jack Built. The later television duet is not the selected recording.

The large badge identifies this listening list, not a newly issued recording. Later reissues and renewed chart popularity do not replace an original release date. How years are assigned.

Owner-supplied release annotations
Reported dates in 1968.html. Not independently established; neighboring dates can reflect album/single or regional differences.

Aretha Now - Rhino original-album history
Documents the 1968 Aretha Now album, including its opening Think and I Say a Little Prayer recordings; identifies the Sweet Inspirations as the backing vocal group.

Aretha Now - Rhino track list
Original album track membership for Think and I Say a Little Prayer; the modern CD release date is excluded.

Record World, 29 May 1976 - Aretha singles and album discographies
Contemporary release-date tables in the Aretha supplement, PDF pages 44 and 46: 1967 singles and debut LP; Think single before Aretha Now in 1968; Rock Steady single in 1971 before Young, Gifted and Black in 1972; Day Dreaming in 1972; Until You Come Back to Me in 1973 before its 1974 album. Month differences against later Rhino histories are not resolved into exact dates.

Aretha boxed set - Rhino recording-version inventory
Explicitly identifies the later Blues Brothers Think, alternate Chain of Fools and Rock Steady, television duet I Say a Little Prayer, and a work tape of Until You Come Back to Me as different versions; none is silently substituted here.