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The King (Elvis), the King of Pop (Michael Jackson), the Queen of Soul (Aretha Franklin), the Queen of Tejano music (Selena) ...
Aretha Franklin’s work was rich in the joy ... Her third Atlantic LP, after the pause for breath of Aretha Arrives, Lady Soul is a set of soul covers (Don Covay’s Chain Of Fools the big hit; Curtis ...
about soul? Well, Lady Soul has the nitty-gritty answer. For, there is no denying that gospel gut-singing moved uptown with Aretha Franklin and her penetrating wail of truth. When this chunky ...
Aretha Franklin is one of them ... Afterward, spent and exalted, Lady Soul said something that nobody in the church that night needed to be told: “My heart is still there in gospel music.
It's a 1968 classic, by the late great Aretha Franklin, from her Lady Soul album. The song did great on the charts and was even nominated for several awards, including the Grammy Award for Best Female ...
Aretha Franklin was already a decade-long veteran ... as a single until September and then included on January 1968's Lady Soul, Franklin's third Atlantic album in 10 months.
by the onset of the 1970s Aretha Franklin was also at a crossroads in her career, and personally. Maintaining her reign as the Queen of Soul started taking a toll on her personal life and Lady ...
In 1985, Atlantic Records released one of the best hits collections ever compiled, Aretha Franklin ... But while Franklin’s defining work as the Queen of Soul still lay ahead of her, there ...
Through her music, Aretha Franklin told us her story – her battle ... Preferences Ain’t No Way was released in 1968 on the Lady Soul album as a B-side track. The ballad was composed by Aretha ...
It was in the late 1960s when Franklin's career really took off; her albums Lady Soul and Aretha Now dropped in 1968, and included the mega-hits "Chain of Fools," "Think" and "I Say a Little Prayer." ...
between the release of Lady Soul and Aretha Now, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. opened up a wound in the country that has never fully healed. Franklin capped off the year with a live ...