Antes de que Aretha Franklin saltara a la fama, firmó con Columbia Records. Este álbum recopilatorio 3LP recoge algunas de las canciones más notables de Aretha durante su etapa en Columbia, de 1960 a 1965. The Queen in Waiting destaca las grabaciones de jazz y big-band de Franklin, e incluye las canciones «Won’t Be Long», «Walk On By», «Today I Sing The Blues» y «Try A Little Tenderness» entre otras.
La Reina en Espera: The Columbia Years 1960-1965 está disponible en edición limitada de 3 LP de 2.000 copias numeradas individualmente en vinilo jaspeado dorado y negro y viene con tres fundas interiores impresas.
A1 Nobody Like You
A2 Once In A While
A3 Maybe I’m A Fool
A4 Muddy Water
A5 Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home? (Alternate Version)
A6 Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)
A7 Today I Sing The Blues
A8 Won’t Be Long
B1 Nobody Knows The Way I Feel This Morning
B2 Evil Gal Blues
B3 Lee Cross
B4 Walk On By
B5 I Wonder (Where Are You Tonight)
B6 God Bless The Child
C1 Blue Holiday
C2 Looking Through A Tear
C3 Tiny Sparrow
C4 Here Today And Gone Tomorrow
C5 Little Brown Book
C6 Without The One You Love
C7 This Bitter Earth
D1 Just For A Thrill (Album Version)
D2 Skylark
D3 Skylark (Alternate Version)
D4 Trouble In Mind
D5 Runnin’ Out Of Fools
D6 Drinking Again
E1 Laughing On The Outside (Crying On The Inside) (Album Version)
E2 What A Diff’rence A Day Makes
E3 Soulville
E4 You’ll Lose A Good Thing (Album Version)
E5 Take A Look (Alternate Version)
E6 Cry Like A Baby
E7 I Wish I Didn’t Love You So
F1 Only The Lonely
F2 People (From Funny Girl)
F3 Mockingbird
F4 Until You Were Gone
F5 My Coloring Book
F6 Try A Little Tenderness