The Sweet Inspirations · 1967 · Cissy Houston was eight months pregnant with Whitney when they cut this? No — Whitney was four years old. But listen close, and you'll hear the same DNA.

Ann Peebles · 1969 · Ann Peebles didn’t need to scream – she just opened her mouth and the Memphis Horns did the rest.

Bettye Swann · 1969 · She sang like she'd already lived the song twice.

Townes Van Zandt · 1968 · A drunk poet walks into a Nashville barn and records the saddest songs you'll ever hear.

Pearls Before Swine · 1967 · Tom Rapp recorded this in a room where you could hear the floorboards, and it never left that room.

The Fugs · 1965 · They were poets who couldn't play and made something that still sounds dangerous.

The Holy Modal Rounders · 1968 · This is what happens when you give a banjo player acid and tell him the tape is rolling.

John Coltrane · 1961 · Coltrane took a show tune from The Sound of Music and turned it into a 13-minute modal meditation that bent the trajectory of jazz.

John Coltrane · 1964 · John Coltrane's Classic Quartet cut this in the same sessions as My Favorite Things — and it's the one that sat on the shelf.

Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans · 1961 Spin it Again - This is what happens when a hard bop saxophonist and a modal pianist meet in a room with a bassist and drummer who know when to get out of the way.

Bill Evans & Jim Hall · 1966 Spin it Again - Two men, one hour, nothing but air between the notes.

Bill Evans · 1962 Spin it Again - This is what happens when two masters decide to stop competing and listen.

Pink Floyd · 1967 Spin it Again - Four English boys recorded this in Abbey Road while The Beatles were next door making Sgt. Pepper — one of them never recovered.

The Beatles · 1967 Spin it Again - The Beatles stopped touring and started building impossible worlds on four-track tape with a twenty-one-year-old engineer who quit halfway through.

Aretha Franklin · 1968 Spin it Again - She married her gospel fire to Muscle Shoals' rhythm — the result is untouchable.

Dusty Springfield · 1969 Spin it Again - A British pop voice walks into a Memphis studio and doesn't come out the same. The result is 34 minutes of the most convincing soul ever cut by a white woman born in Enfield.

Nico · 1968 Spin it Again - She turned her back on pop and walked into a winter that never ended.

Terry Riley · 1969 Spin it Again - This album taught Brian Eno that the cathedral could be built in a box.

Herbert von Karajan · 1962 Spin it Again - Karajan's first stereo complete cycle, recorded in a Berlin church with a pair of microphones and an iron will, remains the cold perfection that all other Beethoven sets are measured against.

The Red Krayola · 1967 Spin it Again - Four art students in Houston made the most aggressively uncommercial album of 1967, and it still sounds like the future.