Love All the Hurt Away is the twenty-seventh studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin. It was released on August 20, 1981. This album is the singer's second release under the Arista Records label. The Arif Mardin-produced disc reached fourth place on Billboard's R&B albums chart and number 36 on the main Billboard album chart, selling roughly 250,000 copies in the US.
Background
Franklin's cover version of Sam & Dave's classic hit "Hold On, I'm Comin'" won Franklin her 11th Grammy Award in the Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female category. The award was her first Grammy win since 1975. After its original release, the album was re-issued on CD in 2012 by Cherry Red Records and it also included three bonus tracks.[2]
^The Global and Mail - In Photos: Aretha Franklin "The Queen of Soul"
^"Cherry Red Records - aretha franklin, love all the hurt away, expanded edition, soul, funk, BBR". Archived from the original on 2013-05-05. Retrieved 2013-04-25.
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^Christgau, Robert. "Love All the Hurt Away review". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 2015-04-28.
^ a bThe Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. pp. 263, 264.