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Aretha Louise Franklin (⫽ ə ˈ r iː θ ə ⫽ ə-REE-thə; March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Honored as the "Queen of Soul", Rolling Stone magazine twice named her as the greatest singer of all time.
Listen to this playlist of Aretha Franklin's Greatest Hits and comment your favorite song below 💭💗 ...more. An icon of 20th and 21st century music, the voice of the civil rights movement ...
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Aretha's Best is a greatest hits compilation by Aretha Franklin released in 2001. This "best of" album contains 20 tracks which were recorded by Franklin from 1967-1987.
No.TitleWriter (s)Original Album1.2.Aretha Franklin; Ted White3.Narada Michael Walden; Jeffrey Cohen4.Ronnie ShannonAretha Arrives (1967)- "Respect" (1967) Photo : Michael Ochs Archives/Getty. Aretha Franklin’s signature anthem is a commanding cover of Otis Redding’s 1965 rave-up that captured the spirit of the country on multiple levels – particularly the civil rights movement, with writer Phyl Garland calling Franklin’s “Respect” “the new Negro national anthem” in the October 1967 issue of Ebony.
- "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" (1967) Photo : Michael Ochs Archives/Getty. The title track of I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You was also the first song laid down by Franklin and her backing musicians during their very short January 1967 stint at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
- "Think" (1968) Photo : Michael Ochs Archives/Getty. On April 9, 1968, Franklin sang “Precious Lord” at the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Atlanta. Six days later, she sat at the piano at the New York studios of Atlantic Records, pounding the piano and singing about freedom.
- "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (1967) This Carole King and Gerry Goffin classic underlines the myth – sometimes celebrated, other times reductive – of Franklin as the epitome of earthy, “natural” womanhood.
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The Very Best of Aretha Franklin, Vol. 1 is a compilation album by singer Aretha Franklin, released by Rhino Records in March 1994. The album compiles 13 of her first 14 singles for Atlantic Records all of which were recorded during the 1960s.
