The Long and Winding Road

Name: The Long and Winding Road
Duration: 3 min 38 s

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Release artist	Release group type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
Official
1.10	The Long and Winding Road	3:36	Aretha Franklin	Young, Gifted and Black	Aretha Franklin	Album	US1972-01-24	Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)	SD 7213

recording engineer:	Gene Paul (on 1970-08-12)
producer:	Tom Dowd Arif Mardin Jerry Wexler
bass:	Chuck Rainey (American bassist) (on 1970-08-12)
drums (drum set):	Ray Lucas (on 1970-08-12)
guitar:	Cornell Dupree (on 1970-08-12)
organ:	Billy Preston (on 1970-08-12)
piano and lead vocals:	Aretha Franklin (on 1970-08-12)
background vocals:	Margaret Branch (on 1970-08-12) Carolyn Franklin (on 1970-08-12) Erma Franklin (on 1970-08-12)
horn arranger:	Arif Mardin

recorded at:	Atlantic Studios (1841 Broadway, New York, 1957–1991) in Midtown Manhattan (on 1970-08-12)

sampled by:	The Life by Styles P (aka Styles of the LOX) feat. Pharoahe Monch (American rapper)

SecondHandSongs:	https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/5375 [info]

recording of:	The Long and Winding Road (on 1970-08-12: cover)

written in:	Scotland (in 1968)

writer:	John Lennon (The Beatles) (in 1968) Paul McCartney (The Beatles) (in 1968)

publisher:	EMI Music Publishing (do not use as a release label!) Maclen Music Ltd. (U.S. based publisher for Lennon–McCartney) Northern Songs Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC (1995–2020) Sony/ATV Songs LLC Sony/ATV Tunes LLC (ASCAP) ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング A事業部 (Sony Music Publishing (Japan) Inc., A Division)

referred to in medleys:	The Beatles Concerto: 3rd Movement: Presto (Can’t Buy Me Love / The Long and Winding Road) Beatle medley (order: 4)
later translated versions:	Beatle medley Ovensuu
is the basis for:	Beatles Concerto Grosso No. 3 (In the Style of J. S. Bach): The Long and Winding Road - Overture