So Damn Happy (Aretha Franklin album)

So Damn Happy
Studio album by Aretha Franklin
Released	September, 2003
Recorded	2002-03
Genre	R&B, Soul, hip hop
Label	Arista
Producer	Antonio "LA" Reid
Aretha Franklin chronology
A Rose Is Still a Rose (1998) So Damn Happy (2003) Jewels in the Crown: All-Star Duets with the Queen (2007)

So Damn Happy is a 2003 studio album by Aretha Franklin for Arista Records. Her first studio album since her Gold-certified A Rose Is Still a Rose in 1998, it included the Grammy-winning track, "Wonderful".

The album peaked at #33 on Billboard's album chart and #11 on the R&B Albums chart. As of 2012, the album had sold 304,000 copies in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan.^[1]

Shortly after its release, Franklin left Arista after a stay of 23 years. She later announced plans to start her own Detroit-based record label, Aretha Records.

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Track listing

1. "The Only Thing Missin'" (Gordon Chambers, Troy Taylor, Rick Williams, Mylia "Sunny" Davis) - 3:07
2. "Wonderful" (Aleese Simmons, Ron "Amen-Ra" Lawrence) - 4:04
3. "Holdin' On" (ft. Mary J. Blige) (Earl Klugh, Mary J. Blige, Bruce Miller, Taylor) - 4:37
4. "No Matter What" (ft. Mary J. Blige) (Blige, Miller, Taylor) - 4:33
5. "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" (James "Big Jim" Wright, Terry Lewis, James Harris) - 4:35
6. "So Damn Happy" (Aretha Franklin) - 4:29
7. "You Are My Joy" (Franklin) - 2:34
8. "Falling Out of Love" (Burt Bacharach, Jerry Leiber, Jed Leiber) - 4:31
9. "Ain't No Way" (Chambers, Barry J. Eastmond) - 4:37
10. "Good News" (Norman West) - 4:55
11. "You Are My Joy (Reprise)" (Franklin) - 2:33

Full Personnel

References

1. ↑ "Ask Billboard: She Loves Me! She Really Loves Me!". Billboard. 2007-05-18. Retrieved 2012-03-16. 

Aretha Franklin
Studio albums	Columbia Aretha (1961) The Electrifying Aretha Franklin (1962) The Tender, the Moving, the Swinging Aretha Franklin (1962) Laughing on the Outside (1963) Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington (1964) Runnin' Out of Fools (1964) Yeah!!! (1965) Soul Sister (1966) Take It Like You Give It (1967) Take a Look (1967) Soft and Beautiful (1969) Atlantic I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967) Aretha Arrives (1967) Lady Soul (1968) Aretha Now (1968) Soul '69 (1969) This Girl's in Love with You (1970) Spirit in the Dark (1970) Young, Gifted and Black (1972) Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky) (1973) Let Me in Your Life (1974) With Everything I Feel in Me (1974) You (1975) Sparkle (1976) Sweet Passion (1977) Almighty Fire (1978) La Diva (1979) Arista Aretha (1980) Love All the Hurt Away (1981) Jump to It (1982) Get It Right (1983) Who's Zoomin' Who? (1985) Aretha (1986) Through the Storm (1989) What You See Is What You Sweat (1991) A Rose Is Still a Rose (1998) So Damn Happy (2003) Other Songs of Faith (1956) This Christmas, Aretha (2008) Aretha: A Woman Falling Out of Love (2011) Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics (2014)
Live albums	Aretha in Paris (1968) Aretha Live at Fillmore West (1971) Amazing Grace (1972) One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism (1987) Oh Me Oh My: Aretha Live in Philly, 1972 (2007)
Compilation albums	Aretha's Gold (1969) Aretha's Greatest Hits (1971) The Best of Aretha Franklin (1973) Aretha Sings the Blues (1980) 30 Greatest Hits (1985) Greatest Hits: 1980–1994 (1994) The Early Years (1997) Greatest Hits (1998) Aretha's Best (2001) Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul (2007) Jewels in the Crown: All-Star Duets with the Queen (2007) A Deeper Love: The Best of Aretha Franklin (2009) The Great American Songbook (2011) Knew You Were Waiting: The Best of Aretha Franklin (1980-1998) (2012)
Box sets	Queen of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings (1992/2014) Take A Look: Aretha Franklin Complete on Columbia (2011)
Singles	"Precious Lord (Part 1)" (1959) "Today I Sing the Blues" (1960) "Won't Be Long" (1960) "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" (1961) "Operation Heartbreak" (1961) "I Surrender, Dear" (1962) "Try a Little Tenderness" (1962) "Say It Isn't So" (1963) "Skylark" (1963) "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" (1964) "One Step Ahead" (1965) "You Made Me Love You" (1965) "Mockingbird" (1967) "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" (1967) "Respect" (1967) "Baby I Love You" (1967) "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (1967) "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" "Chain of Fools" (1967) "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (1968) "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" (1968) "Think" (1968) "You Send Me" (1968) "The House That Jack Built" (1968) "I Say a Little Prayer" (1968) "See Saw" (1968) "My Song" (1968) "The Weight" (1969) "Tracks of My Tears" (1969) "I Can't See Myself Leaving You" (1969) "Gentle on My Mind" (1969) "Share Your Love with Me" (1969) "Eleanor Rigby" (1969) "Call Me" (1970) "Son of a Preacher Man" (1970) "Spirit in the Dark" (1970) "The Thrill Is Gone" (1970) "Don't Play That Song" (1970) "Border Song (Holy Moses)" (1970) "You're All I Need to Get By" (1971) "Bridge over Troubled Water" (1971) "Spanish Harlem" (1971) "Rock Steady" (1971) "Day Dreaming" (1972) "Wholy Holy" (1972) "Angel" (1973) "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" (1973) "I'm in Love" (1974) "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" (1974) "Something He Can Feel" (1976) "Break It to Me Gently" (1977) "What a Fool Believes" (1981) "It's My Turn" (1981) "Jump to It" (1982) "Get It Right" (1983) "Freeway of Love" (1985) "Who's Zoomin' Who" (1985) "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" (1985) "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (1986) "Jimmy Lee" (1986) "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (1987) "Oh Happy Day" (1988) "Gimme Your Love" (1989) "It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be" (1989) "Everyday People" (1991) "Someday We'll All Be Free" (1992) "A Deeper Love" (1993) "A Rose Is Still a Rose" (1998) "Here We Go Again" (1998) "Put You Up on Game" (2007) "Rolling in the Deep (The Aretha Version)" (2014)
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