Earlier today, the sad news broke that Aretha Franklin passed away at age 75 from advanced pancreatic cancer. Not surprisingly, obituary after obituary has been published since. Instead of putting together yet another review of her life, I’m posting the above clip to celebrate Franklin’s music. I think the above footage of (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman says it all why Franklin rightly was called the Queen of Soul.
Co-written by Carole King and Jerry Goffin with input from producer Jerry Wexler, the beautiful tune was released by Franklin as a single in September 1967. It also was included on her 14th studio album Lady Soul from January 1968. King also recorded her own version of the song for her 1971 landmark record Tapestry.
Since Franklin certainly deserves more than this brief post, I’m planning to do additional writing about her in the coming days.
Sources: Uncut, Wikipedia, YouTube
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The Queen of Soul- seems to be getting a lot of love- in multiple posts today. Sad to hear of her passing- glad to see she is so fondly remembered.
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I guess one can look at the attention in different ways.
No matter whether you call her the “Queen of Soul” or give her another label, I think there’s no question that Aretha Franklin was one of the best vocalists of our time, who performed many great songs.
On the other hand, it’s a bit sad to see that it oftentimes takes death or another tragic event for many folks and the media to rediscover an artist. I saw somewhere that sales of her albums have already started to soar.
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Hey Nineteen
That’s ‘Retha Franklin
She don’t remember the Queen of Soul
It’s hard times befallen
The sole survivors
She thinks I’m crazy
But I’m just growing old
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Admittedly, I only recognized the tune based on the first line – oh, well, so much for calling myself a Steely Dan fan!
I guess it goes to show that at least in my case the music comes long before the words!
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That was always my favorite Steely Dan line..
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Since I dig Deacon Blues, mine would be:
They have a name for the winners in the world/I wanna name when I lose/They call Alabama the Crimson Tide/Call me Deacon Blues
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A good one
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Just looking at this again – what a phenomenal performance!
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