Queen Of Soul

I was going to write about an idea I had the other night,

but instead,

I would like to pay tribute to someone who influenced me,

in my youth.

Their is no mistaking the voice of

Aretha Franklin

and how her music gaped the color barriers during the late

Nineteen-Sixties.

I could be wrong,

but most kids today probably haven't heard of

Aretha

or her music.

Unless they are true aficionados about

Music

and its

History.

Aretha Franklin

is the

Queen Of Soul! 

Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, Dead at 76

By Douglas Wolk and David Browne for Rolling Stone Magazine on MSN.com/Entertainment

It was a small moment that would reverberate for decades. On January 24th, 1967, Aretha Franklin was struggling to record “I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You),” her first project for Atlantic after several years recording more conventional material for Columbia. As Franklin would recall, something with the studio musicians wasn’t clicking until someone said, “Aretha, why don’t you sit down and play?” Taking a seat at the piano, Franklin quickly cut the smoldering track that would become her first No. 1 R&B hit. “It just happened,” she said. “We arrived, and we arrived very quickly.” And it never stopped. For more than five decades, Franklin was a singular presence in pop music, a symbol of strength, women’s liberation and the civil rights movement. Franklin, one of the greatest singers of all time, died Thursday, according to the Associated Press.

Dubbed the Queen of Soul in 1967, Franklin loomed over culture in several monumental ways. The daughter of a preacher man, she was born with one of pop’s most commanding and singular voices, one that could move from a sly, seductive purr to a commanding gospel roar. From early hits like “I Never Loved a Man” and “Think” up through later touchstones like “Sisters Are Doin’ it for Themselves” with Eurythmics, there was no mistaking Franklin’s colossal pipes. As one of her leading producers, Jerry Wexler, said of her simmering gospel-pop classic, “Spirit in the Dark,” “It was one of those perfect R&B blends of the sacred and the secular … It’s Aretha conducting church right in the middle of a smoky nightclub. It’s everything to everyone.”

This is,

Remembering

And,

“The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.”
- Marianne Faithfull -

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