Aretha Franklin

Trackimage Playbut Trackname Playbut Trackname
Respect 02:29 Tools
I Say a Little Prayer 03:30 Tools
Think 03:17 Tools
Chain of Fools 02:46 Tools
(You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman 02:45 Tools
I Never Loved a Man (the Way I Love You) 02:57 Tools
Rock Steady 03:15 Tools
Son of a Preacher Man 00:00 Tools
Save Me 02:22 Tools
Ain't No Way 04:16 Tools
Respect - Remastered 02:23 Tools
The House That Jack Built 02:21 Tools
Spanish Harlem 03:31 Tools
See Saw 02:44 Tools
Day Dreaming 03:53 Tools
Call Me 03:20 Tools
Don't Play That Song 02:59 Tools
The Weight 03:00 Tools
Drown in My Own Tears 04:04 Tools
Angel 04:28 Tools
Baby, I Love You 02:57 Tools
Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business) 03:22 Tools
Joy to the World 03:06 Tools
You're All I Need to Get By 00:00 Tools
Bridge Over Troubled Water 05:34 Tools
Freeway of Love 04:11 Tools
You Send Me 02:32 Tools
Today I Sing the Blues 02:45 Tools
Eleanor Rigby 02:38 Tools
Baby I Love You 02:57 Tools
Good Times 02:11 Tools
People Get Ready 03:37 Tools
Soul Serenade 02:42 Tools
Let It Be 03:30 Tools
Share Your Love with Me 00:00 Tools
A Change Is Gonna Come 04:21 Tools
Dr. Feelgood 03:23 Tools
Walk on By 00:00 Tools
Don't Let Me Lose This Dream 02:26 Tools
A Rose Is Still A Rose 03:59 Tools
Come Back Baby 02:28 Tools
(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone 02:26 Tools
Baby, Baby, Baby 02:57 Tools
Good to Me As I Am to You 03:58 Tools
Who's Zoomin' Who? 04:43 Tools
Spirit in the Dark 00:00 Tools
I'm in Love 00:00 Tools
I Will Survive 04:32 Tools
Something He Can Feel 06:25 Tools
Rolling in the Deep (The Aretha version) 00:00 Tools
You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman 02:45 Tools
Money Won't Change You 02:10 Tools
Groovin' 02:58 Tools
Night Time Is The Right Time 04:46 Tools
Niki Hoeky 02:31 Tools
Border Song (Holy Moses) 03:19 Tools
Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing 03:49 Tools
A Deeper Love 04:06 Tools
I Never Loved a Man 00:00 Tools
Try a Little Tenderness 03:17 Tools
Don't Play That Song (You Lied) 03:40 Tools
Oh No Not My Baby 00:00 Tools
Never Let Me Go 02:51 Tools
A Natural Woman 02:45 Tools
At Last 03:24 Tools
You're A Sweet Sweet Man 02:20 Tools
Blue Holiday 02:53 Tools
God Bless the Child 00:00 Tools
Winter Wonderland 02:12 Tools
Jump to It 00:00 Tools
O Christmas Tree 03:33 Tools
It Ain't Necessarily So 03:10 Tools
Amazing Grace 00:00 Tools
I Can't See Myself Leaving You 03:01 Tools
Willing to Forgive 04:09 Tools
Over the Rainbow 02:37 Tools
I Take What I Want 02:32 Tools
Kissin' by the Mistletoe 00:00 Tools
All Night Long 02:57 Tools
Who's Zoomin' Who? - Single Version 04:40 Tools
Freeway of Love - Single Mix 04:06 Tools
Rescue Me 00:00 Tools
Won't Be Long 03:17 Tools
Natural Woman 02:43 Tools
Maybe I'm a Fool 00:00 Tools
Think (Freedom) 00:00 Tools
Nobody Like You 02:24 Tools
Dark End Of The Street 04:39 Tools
Respect (stereo) 02:24 Tools
Who's Zoomin' Who 04:43 Tools
A Brand New Me 04:27 Tools
My Song 03:30 Tools
This Bitter Earth 04:37 Tools
Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby) 00:00 Tools
A Change 04:20 Tools
Muddy Water 02:33 Tools
Hello Sunshine 03:03 Tools
Tracks Of My Tears 02:57 Tools
Evil Gal Blues 02:38 Tools
Since You've Been Gone 02:26 Tools
All The King's Horses 00:00 Tools
Love For Sale 02:30 Tools
Angels We Have Heard On High 05:25 Tools
You Are My Sunshine 00:00 Tools
Drinking Again 00:00 Tools
Trouble in Mind 02:13 Tools
Ain't Nobody (Gonna Turn Me Around) 02:34 Tools
The Long and Winding Road 03:39 Tools
Young, Gifted and Black 00:00 Tools
You And Me 00:00 Tools
Get It Right 00:00 Tools
Jumpin' Jack Flash 04:59 Tools
Respect (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) 00:00 Tools
Skylark 02:49 Tools
Pullin' 00:00 Tools
Since You've Been Gone [Sweet Sweet Baby] 00:00 Tools
Midnight Train to Georgia 04:21 Tools
Pitiful 03:04 Tools
It Hurts Like Hell 00:00 Tools
Without the One You Love 02:48 Tools
I Will Survive (The Aretha version) 04:31 Tools
Until You Come Back To Me [That's What I Am Going To Do] 00:00 Tools
Unforgettable 03:38 Tools
Baby Baby Baby 02:27 Tools
Wholy Holy 00:00 Tools
Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive 00:00 Tools
When The Battle Is Over 00:00 Tools
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (mono single version) 00:00 Tools
Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody - Remastered 00:00 Tools
One Step Ahead - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Chain of Fools (unedited version) 04:21 Tools
I Never Loved A Man [The Way I Love You] [Stereo Version] - Stereo Version 04:00 Tools
You Made Me Love You 02:19 Tools
What a Fool Believes 05:15 Tools
Only The Lonely 00:00 Tools
Sweet Lover 03:23 Tools
One Step Ahead 02:34 Tools
Just for a Thrill 00:00 Tools
Why I Sing the Blues 00:00 Tools
The Thrill Is Gone (From Yesterday's Kiss) 00:00 Tools
Try Matty's 00:00 Tools
Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I Am Going To Do) 03:26 Tools
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman [with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra] 02:43 Tools
Think (LP Version) 02:19 Tools
I'm Every Woman / Respect 04:56 Tools
One Way Ticket 00:00 Tools
It Ain't Fair 00:00 Tools
People 04:05 Tools
Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody 00:00 Tools
Soulville 00:00 Tools
April Fools 03:26 Tools
Respect - 2003 Remaster 02:22 Tools
I Wonder 00:00 Tools
Prove It 03:00 Tools
I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) 03:59 Tools
Nobody Knows The Way I Feel This Morning 00:00 Tools
Honest I Do 00:00 Tools
Oh Happy Days 00:00 Tools
Oh Happy Day 05:56 Tools
The Shoop Shoop Song 02:14 Tools
While the Blood Runs Warm 00:00 Tools
Satisfaction 02:40 Tools
Love Is the Only Thing 00:00 Tools
Respect - Remaster 00:00 Tools
River's invitation 00:00 Tools
Lee Cross 00:00 Tools
What A Friend We Have In Jesus 00:00 Tools
Cold, Cold Heart 05:53 Tools
Ramblin' 00:00 Tools
Runnin' out of Fools 00:00 Tools
(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman 02:43 Tools
How I Got Over 04:21 Tools
Another Night 04:29 Tools
You Keep Me Hangin' On 04:41 Tools
Killing Me Softly 03:39 Tools
Climbing Higher Mountains 02:53 Tools
Love All the Hurt Away 04:05 Tools
Daydreaming 02:49 Tools
Going Down Slow 00:00 Tools
Mockingbird 02:47 Tools
Cry Like A Baby 00:00 Tools
Night Life 03:15 Tools
Gentle On My Mind 02:29 Tools
Sweet Bitter Love 05:13 Tools
Never Grow Old 02:52 Tools
Are You Sure 00:00 Tools
I Say A Little Prayer - Single Version 03:36 Tools
No One 00:00 Tools
Right Now 00:00 Tools
Love The One You're With 00:00 Tools
I've Been Loving You Too Long 03:33 Tools
First Snow in Kokomo 04:05 Tools
Sparkle 00:00 Tools
How Deep Is the Ocean 00:00 Tools
Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves 00:00 Tools
Yield Not to Temptation 00:00 Tools
Border Song (Holy Moses) [with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra] 00:00 Tools
Think - Single Version 02:16 Tools
Think (with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) 00:00 Tools
You'll Lose A Good Thing 02:42 Tools
Sit Down and Cry 00:00 Tools
Jimmy Lee 00:00 Tools
That's All I Want From You 02:45 Tools
Exactly Like You 02:36 Tools
He Will Wash You White as Snow 04:19 Tools
I Wonder (Where Are You Tonight) 03:20 Tools
Nothing Compares 2 U 04:17 Tools
Moon River - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Misty 03:38 Tools
Crazy He Calls Me 00:00 Tools
Look Into Your Heart 04:05 Tools
Rough Lover 00:00 Tools
I Say A Little Prayer (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) 04:18 Tools
(Blue) by Myself 00:00 Tools
If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody 00:00 Tools
I Knew You Were Waiting 00:00 Tools
The Day Is Past and Gone 00:00 Tools
This Girl's in Love With You 03:31 Tools
Every Little Bit Hurts 00:00 Tools
Bring It on Home to Me 00:00 Tools
Ever Changing Times 00:00 Tools
Somewhere 00:00 Tools
Through the Storm 00:00 Tools
Silent Night (Solo Piano Version) 00:00 Tools
Master Of Eyes (The Deepness Of Your Eyes) 00:00 Tools
Teach Me Tonight 00:00 Tools
One Step Ahead - Mono Mix 00:00 Tools
I'm Wandering 00:00 Tools
Dr. Feelgood (Love Is Serious Business) 00:00 Tools
I Never Loved A Man (the Way.. 00:00 Tools
IF EVER I WOULD LEAVE YOU 04:07 Tools
Look for the Silver Lining 00:00 Tools
Oh Me Oh My [I'm A Fool For You Baby] 00:00 Tools
You're All I Need To Get By - Take 2 00:00 Tools
Don't Cry, Baby 00:00 Tools
Make It With You 04:54 Tools
Mary, Don't You Weep 08:21 Tools
Respect - Stereo Version 00:00 Tools
Respect (stereo version) 00:00 Tools
Take A Look 00:00 Tools
You'll Never Walk Alone 06:44 Tools
Once In A While 00:00 Tools
United Together 00:00 Tools
I'm Sitting on Top of the World 00:00 Tools
Respect - LP Version 02:24 Tools
Do Right Woman - Do Right Man [Stereo Version] 00:00 Tools
I Say A Little Prayer (LP Version) 03:35 Tools
Like a Natural Woman 00:00 Tools
Don't Play That Song (You Lied) [with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra] 02:56 Tools
Wonderful 04:04 Tools
It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be 05:38 Tools
I Told You So 00:00 Tools
Here We Go Again 00:00 Tools
A Brand New Me (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) 04:19 Tools
96 Tears 00:00 Tools
I Surrender, Dear 00:00 Tools
Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do) [with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra] 03:26 Tools
Chains Of Fools 02:28 Tools
Just for You 00:00 Tools
Since You've Been Gone (Sweet Sweet Baby) (mono single version) 00:00 Tools
Who Needs You? 00:00 Tools
Every Natural Thing 00:00 Tools
My Guy 03:03 Tools
There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood 00:00 Tools
Precious Memories 00:00 Tools
Ave Maria 00:00 Tools
Give Yourself To Jesus 00:00 Tools
Ain't No Way (mono single version) 00:00 Tools
This Little Light of Mine 00:00 Tools
Don't Say You're Sorry Again 00:00 Tools
I Never Loved A Man (The Way I 00:00 Tools
Until You Were Gone 00:00 Tools
I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You 00:00 Tools
God Will Take Care Of You 08:46 Tools
I Say A Little Prayer - LP Version 00:00 Tools
R-E-S-P-E-C-T 00:00 Tools
Son Of A Preacher Man (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) 00:00 Tools
Night Life (live) 03:14 Tools
You're All I Need To Get By (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Walk on By - Studio Rio Version 00:00 Tools
Say a Little Prayer 03:36 Tools
Since You've Been Gone (Sweet 02:27 Tools
Lover Come Back to Me 02:35 Tools
My Grown-Up Christmas List 00:00 Tools
I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) (Stereo version) 04:00 Tools
I Wish I Didn't Love You So 00:00 Tools
Silent Night 00:00 Tools
Old Landmark 00:00 Tools
Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time) 00:00 Tools
Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I) 00:00 Tools
This Christmas 00:00 Tools
Angel (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) 03:22 Tools
That's Life 00:00 Tools
Chain Of Fools (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Jump To It - Original Extended Version 00:00 Tools
I Apologize 00:00 Tools
Until You Say You Love Me 00:00 Tools
You're All I Need To Get By (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) 00:00 Tools
You Grow Closer 00:00 Tools
Let It Be (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) 03:34 Tools
Reach Out And Touch (Somebody's Hand) 02:40 Tools
So Long 00:00 Tools
Rock With Me 00:00 Tools
People Get Ready (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) 00:00 Tools
Bridge Over Troubled Waters 05:31 Tools
Elusive Butterfly 02:44 Tools
Honey 04:13 Tools
Get it Right - 20-Bit Digital Mastering From The Original Master Tapes: 1998 00:00 Tools
Laughing On The Outside (Crying on The Inside) 00:00 Tools
It Was You - Aretha Arrives Outtake 03:45 Tools
Operation Heartbreak 00:00 Tools
I say a little prayer ( Official song ) HQ version , Photos / Photoshoots 00:00 Tools
I Never Loved A Man (The Way That I Love You) 00:00 Tools
Somewhere over the rainbow 00:00 Tools
(You Make Me Feel) Like A Natural Woman 02:43 Tools
Night Life - Live Version 00:00 Tools
I'll Never Be Free 04:16 Tools
Jumpin' Jack Flash - (from "Jumping Jack Flash") 00:00 Tools
The Thrill Is Gone 00:00 Tools
(You Make Me Feel) Like A Natu 00:00 Tools
Never Leave You Again 00:00 Tools
Aretha Franklin - Respect 02:27 Tools
Looking Through a Tear 00:00 Tools
It's in His Kiss 00:00 Tools
I Don't Know You Anymore 00:00 Tools
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 00:00 Tools
So Swell When You're Well 00:00 Tools
Killing Me Softly With His Song 04:45 Tools
Here Today and Gone Tomorrow 00:00 Tools
Blue Holiday - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Love Me Right 03:37 Tools
Jump 04:19 Tools
Wholly Holy 00:00 Tools
Dr Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business) 03:22 Tools
Border Song [Holy Moses] 00:00 Tools
Hooked on Your Love 05:01 Tools
That Lucky Old Sun 00:00 Tools
If I Should Lose You 00:00 Tools
You Are My Joy 00:00 Tools
It's Raining Men 00:00 Tools
The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) 02:21 Tools
He's All Right 00:00 Tools
My Coloring Book 00:00 Tools
Rock Steady (Danny Krivit edit) 04:28 Tools
I Dreamed A Dream 05:10 Tools
I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You) - Demo 00:00 Tools
Who's Zoomin' Who? (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
I Get High 04:11 Tools
Love Pang 00:00 Tools
It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be - Album Edit 00:00 Tools
Respect [1967] 00:00 Tools
Rolling In the Deep 00:00 Tools
That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) 00:00 Tools
Sweet Bitter Love - Demo 00:00 Tools
Respect - Live at Fillmore West, San Francisco, February 5, 1971 00:00 Tools
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. 02:29 Tools
Someday We'll All Be Free 08:21 Tools
One Step Ahead - 2011 Remaster 02:39 Tools
Son of Preacher Man 00:00 Tools
Until You Come Back To Me [That's What I'm Gonna Do] 00:00 Tools
Oh Me Oh My (I'm A Fool For You Baby) [with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra] 00:00 Tools
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 05:24 Tools
Think - LP Version 00:00 Tools
MrBigstuff 00:00 Tools
Doctor's Orders 00:00 Tools
Oh Me Oh My 03:30 Tools
Talk To Me, Talk To Me - Soul '69 Outtake 00:00 Tools
Jesus On the Main Line 00:00 Tools
Christmas Ain't Christmas (Without The One You Love) 00:00 Tools
I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You) (Demo) 00:00 Tools
Come To Me 00:00 Tools
This Could Be The Start Of Something 00:00 Tools
Ain't Nobody Ever Loved You 00:00 Tools
Moon River 00:00 Tools
Spirit In The Dark (Reprise with Ray Charles) 19:24 Tools
Rock Steady (Alternate Mix) 00:00 Tools
Rocksteady 00:00 Tools
Without Love 00:00 Tools
Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves (With The Eurythmics) 00:00 Tools
Through The Storm (Duet with Elton John) 00:00 Tools
Drinking Again - Remastered 00:00 Tools
I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You) - Stereo 00:00 Tools
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natu 00:00 Tools
The Lord Will Make A Way 00:00 Tools
Respect (Lp Version) 00:00 Tools
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman - mono single version 00:00 Tools
Power 00:00 Tools
rock steady - alternate mix 00:00 Tools
Do Right Woman, Do Right Man [Stereo Version] 03:14 Tools
Jesus Is Real 00:00 Tools
Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) 00:00 Tools
(It's Just) Your Love 00:00 Tools
Chain of Fools (Unedited Versi 00:00 Tools
Son Of A Preacher Man - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Pride...A Deeper Love 00:00 Tools
In Case You Forgot 00:00 Tools
You're All I Need To Get By (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Say It Isn't So 00:00 Tools
Nessun Dorma 00:00 Tools
Winter Wonderland - Remastered 02:12 Tools
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman - LP Version 00:00 Tools
A Song for You 00:00 Tools
It Was You (Aretha Arrives Outtake) 00:00 Tools
Freeway Of Love - Single Version 00:00 Tools
If I Had A Hammer 00:00 Tools
Rock Steady - Alternate Mix - Young, Gifted And Black Outtake 00:00 Tools
I'll Dip 00:00 Tools
Holdin' On 00:00 Tools
So Damn Happy 00:00 Tools
By Myself 00:00 Tools
A House Is Not a Home 00:00 Tools
Border Song 00:00 Tools
No Matter What 00:00 Tools
Once In A Lifetime 00:00 Tools
Can't You Just See Me 00:00 Tools
Ain't No Mountain High Enough 00:00 Tools
Until You Come Back To Me (That`s What I`m Gonna Do) 00:00 Tools
Ain't No Way (Mono Single Vers 00:00 Tools
[You Make Me Feel Like] A Natural Woman [Mono Single Version] - Mono Single Version 00:00 Tools
Sweet Bitter Love (Demo) 00:00 Tools
Laughing on the Outside 00:00 Tools
One Step Ahead (Disco Tech Edit) 04:22 Tools
Little Brown Book 00:00 Tools
Everybody's Somebody's Fool 00:00 Tools
(No, No) I'm Losing You 00:00 Tools
I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) (Duet With George Michael) 00:00 Tools
How Glad I Am 02:34 Tools
Misty - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Dr. Feelgood [Love Is A Serious Business] 00:00 Tools
Moody's Mood 00:00 Tools
14 Angels 00:00 Tools
In The Morning 00:00 Tools
Jump to It - 12" Mix 00:00 Tools
Every Lil' Bit Hurts 00:00 Tools
Jump To It - Original Radio Mix 00:00 Tools
Respect - Remastered LP Version 00:00 Tools
'Twas The Night Before Christmas 00:00 Tools
Loving You Baby 00:00 Tools
I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Loved You) 00:00 Tools
The Right Time 00:00 Tools
Make Someone Happy 00:00 Tools
You Make Me Feel Like a Natura 00:00 Tools
Talk To Me, Talk To Me (Soul '69 Outtake) 00:00 Tools
Just Right Tonight 00:00 Tools
With Everything I Feel In Me 00:00 Tools
How Many Times 00:00 Tools
Ever Changin' Times (Featuring Michael McDonald) 00:00 Tools
Who Needs You 00:00 Tools
Let Me In Your Life 00:00 Tools
I Got Your Love 00:00 Tools
One NIght With The King 00:00 Tools
My Way 04:06 Tools
Pledging My Love / The Clock - Single B-Side 00:00 Tools
Rock-A-Lott 00:00 Tools
Falling Out Of Love 00:00 Tools
My Way (Spirit In The Dark Outtake) 00:00 Tools
A Natural Woman (You Make Me Feel Like) 00:00 Tools
Winter Wonderland (2011 Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Dr Feelgood 00:00 Tools
So Soon (Aretha Arrives Outtake) 00:00 Tools
The Fool On The Hill - This Girl's In Love With You Outtake 00:00 Tools
Since You've Been Gone [Sweet Sweet Baby] [Mono Single Version] - Mono Single Version 00:00 Tools
Do You Still Remember 00:00 Tools
My Way - Spirit In The Dark Outtake 00:00 Tools
Mr. Big (Aretha Now Outtake) 00:00 Tools
Sister From Texas 00:00 Tools
Tiny Sparrow 00:00 Tools
The Letter (Aretha Arrives Outtake) 00:00 Tools
Winter Wonderland (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
But Beautiful 00:00 Tools
Do Right Woman Do Right Man 00:00 Tools
Integrity 00:00 Tools
Watch My Back 00:00 Tools
The Fool On The Hill (This Girl's In Love With You Outtake) 00:00 Tools
The Woman 00:00 Tools
Chain of fools - unedited 00:00 Tools
Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves (Duet With Eurythmics) 04:14 Tools
Break It to Me Gently 00:00 Tools
Walk on By - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Do Right Woman - Do Right Man (stereo version) 00:00 Tools
Dr. Feelgood (Love Is A Serious Business) (Demo) 00:00 Tools
Walk In The Light 04:00 Tools
Good News 00:00 Tools
Winter Wonderland - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Impossible 00:00 Tools
Everyday People 00:00 Tools
Gimme Your Love 00:00 Tools
Every Girl (Wants My Guy) 00:00 Tools
Love All The Hurt Away (Duet with George Benson) 00:00 Tools
This Is for Real 00:00 Tools
If You Don't Think 00:00 Tools
An Angel Cries 00:00 Tools
Land Of Dreams 00:00 Tools
Only Thing Missin' 00:00 Tools
Through The Storm (Featuring Elton John) 00:00 Tools
Lean On Me - Single B-Side 00:00 Tools
Gentle On My Mind - Mono [Remastered] 00:00 Tools
For All We Know 00:00 Tools
Aretha Franklin - Killing me Softly with his Song 00:00 Tools
Better Friends Than Lovers 04:11 Tools
Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool For You) 00:00 Tools
I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You) (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
You're Taking Up Another Man's Place - This Girl's In Love With You/Spirit In The Dark Outtake 00:00 Tools
You Are My Joy (Reprise) 02:33 Tools
A Rose Is Still A Rose - Original Radio Edit 00:00 Tools
(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone - Mono Single Version 00:00 Tools
Mr. D.J. (5 for the D.J.) 00:00 Tools
You Keep Me Hangin' On (This Girl's In Love With You/Spirit In The Dark Outtake) 00:00 Tools
If She Don't Want Your Lovin' 00:00 Tools
Eleanor Rigby - Live at Fillmore West, San Francisco, February 5, 1971 00:00 Tools
A Little Bit Of Soul - Mono Mix 00:00 Tools
Do Right Woman - Do Right Man (Stereo) 00:00 Tools
You Send Me - Mono [Remastered] 00:00 Tools
Ain't No Way - mono single version 00:00 Tools
Didn't I [Blow Your Mind This Time] 00:00 Tools
That's the Way I Feel About Cha 00:00 Tools
Do Right Woman (Do Right Man) 00:00 Tools
I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face 00:00 Tools
Push 05:35 Tools
Search On 00:00 Tools
Can't Turn You Loose 00:00 Tools
Ain't No Way (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Bridge Over Troubled - Live at Fillmore West, San Francisco, February 5, 1971 00:00 Tools
Love the One Your With - Live at Fillmore West, San Francisco, February 5, 1971 00:00 Tools
I'm Trying To Overcome (This Girl's In Love With You/Spirit In The Dark Outtake) 00:00 Tools
Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves 00:00 Tools
You Make Me Feel (Like a Natural Woman) 00:00 Tools
My Cup Runneth Over (Young, Gifted And Black Outtake) 00:00 Tools
Takin' Another Man's Place 00:00 Tools
Rock Steady (alt mix) 00:00 Tools
Look To The Rainbow 05:14 Tools
Chain Of Fools [Mono Version] (45 version) 00:00 Tools
Are You Leaving Me (Demo) 00:00 Tools
Lean On Me (Single B-Side) 00:00 Tools
The Makings Of You 00:00 Tools
Do Right Woman 00:00 Tools
The Letter - Aretha Arrives Outtake 03:37 Tools
At Last (Let Me In Your Life Outtake) 00:00 Tools
Precious Lord (Part One) 00:00 Tools
Son Of A Preacherman 00:00 Tools
You Keep Me Hangin' On - This Girl's In Love With You/Spirit In The Dark Outtake 00:00 Tools
i knew you were waiting for me 00:00 Tools
Follow Your Heart - 2011 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Jump To It - Original 12" Mix 00:00 Tools
Rock Steady (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Chain Of Fools [Unedited Album Version] - Unedited Album Version 00:00 Tools
I Need A Strong Man (The To-To Song) (Young, Gifted And Black Outtake) 00:00 Tools
The Thrill Is Gone [From Yesterday's Kiss] 00:00 Tools
Take It Like You Give It 00:00 Tools
Giving In 00:00 Tools
The Happy Blues (Let Me In Your Life Outtake) 00:00 Tools
I'll Fly Away 04:16 Tools
Mister Spain 00:00 Tools
Pink Cadillac 04:14 Tools
Respect [Stereo Version] 00:00 Tools
Heavenly Father (Young, Gifted And Black Outtake) 00:00 Tools
Kissin' By The Mistletoe - Mono Mix 00:00 Tools
I Apologise 00:00 Tools
Baby I Love You (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Angel (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Freedom 00:00 Tools
I Dreamed A Dream (From Les Mis'erables) 00:00 Tools
Do You Know (Hey Now Hey (The Other Side Of The Sky) Outtake) 00:00 Tools
Love Letters (Let Me In Your Life Outtake) 00:00 Tools
Ain't But the One 00:00 Tools
Chain Of Fools [Unedited Album Version] - Unedited 00:00 Tools
The Masquerade Is Over 00:00 Tools
Dr. Feelgood - Live at Fillmore West, San Francisco, February 5, 1971 00:00 Tools
Don't Play That Song - Live at Fillmore West, San Francisco, February 5, 1971 00:00 Tools
So Soon - Aretha Arrives Outtake 00:00 Tools
Bit Of Soul 00:00 Tools
It Was You (Outtake) 00:00 Tools
Since You've Been Gone (Sweet, Sweet Baby) 00:00 Tools
Shangri-La 00:00 Tools
You're All I Need To Get By - Take 1 00:00 Tools
Make It With You - Live at Fillmore West, San Francisco, February 5, 1971 00:00 Tools
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Chain of Fools [Unedited Version] 00:00 Tools
Spirit in the Dark - [Reprise wtih Ray Charles] [Live at Fillmore West, San Francisco, February 7, 1971] 00:00 Tools
Suzanne (Hey Now Hey (The Other Side Of The Sky) Outtake) 00:00 Tools
(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
I'm In Love (Alternate Vocal - Let Me In Your Life Outtake) 00:00 Tools
Dr. Feelgood (Love Is A Serious Business) - Demo 00:00 Tools
This Is (Hey Now Hey (The Other Side Of The Sky) Outtake) 00:00 Tools
Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer For You 00:00 Tools
Tree Of Life (Hey Now Hey (The Other Side Of The Sky) Outtake) 00:00 Tools
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman [Mono Single Version] 00:00 Tools
Think (Blues Brothers) 00:00 Tools
Mr. Big - Aretha Arrives Outtake) 00:00 Tools
He'll Come Along 00:00 Tools
(There Is) No Greater Love 04:40 Tools
Call Me [*] 00:00 Tools
Dr. Feelgood (Love Is A Serious Business) (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
I Want To Be With You (Hey Now Hey (The Other Side Of The Sky) Outtake) 00:00 Tools
Drinking Again - 2011 Remaster 00:00 Tools
My Little Brown Book 00:00 Tools
What Did You Give 00:00 Tools
More 00:00 Tools
Spirit in the Dark - Live at Fillmore West, San Francisco, February 7, 1971 00:00 Tools
Jim 00:00 Tools
I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) [Stereo Version] 00:00 Tools
When The World Was Young 00:00 Tools
On No Not My Baby 00:00 Tools
Remarks By Reverend C L. Franklin 00:00 Tools
Are You Sure? 00:00 Tools
jumpin jack flash (with keith richards) 00:00 Tools
Through The Storm (with Elton John) 04:27 Tools
With Pen in Hand 05:08 Tools
Precious Lord (Part Two) 02:51 Tools
Oh Baby 00:00 Tools
Someone Else's Eyes 00:00 Tools
See Saw (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do) (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Only The One You Love - 2011 Remaster 00:00 Tools
When You Love Me Like That 00:00 Tools
Solitude 00:00 Tools
Do Right Woman, Do Right Man (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Drown in My Tears 00:00 Tools
The Lord's Prayer 00:00 Tools
Mary Don't You Weep 00:00 Tools
Eight Days on the Road 00:00 Tools
Take Me With You 00:00 Tools
Can't You Just See Me - 2011 Remaster 00:00 Tools
A Mother's Love 00:00 Tools
Oh Me Oh My [I'm A Fool For You Baby] [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Love Me Forever 00:00 Tools
Jump to It - Radio Mix 00:00 Tools
Precious Lord, Take My Hand/You've Got A Friend - Medley 00:00 Tools
Until You Come Back To Me (Tha 00:00 Tools
Hey Now Hey (The Other Side Of The Sky) 00:00 Tools
[Sweet Sweet Baby] Since You've Been Gone 00:00 Tools
Skylark (Alternate Version) 00:00 Tools
Mr. Big Stuff 00:00 Tools
Jumpin' Jack Flash (From "Jumping Jack Flash") 00:00 Tools
Chain of Fools (Unedited) 00:00 Tools
Drown In My Own Tears (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
What Now My Love (With Frank Sinatra) 03:16 Tools
I Never Loves A Man (The Way I Love You) (Demo Version) 00:00 Tools
Aint No Mountain Higher 00:00 Tools
It's Your Thing 00:00 Tools
Good Times (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
The House That Jack Built (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
The Happy Blues - Let Me In Your Life Outtake 00:00 Tools
Over the Rainbow - Remastered 00:00 Tools
On Our Way 00:00 Tools
You Can't Always Get What You Want 00:00 Tools
Bridge Over Troubled Water (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
People Get Ready (LP Version) 03:44 Tools
(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone (mono single version) 00:00 Tools
Spirit in the Dark (Reprise) 00:00 Tools
A Little Bit Of Soul - 2011 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Winter Wonderland (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
He's The Boy 00:00 Tools
My Cup Runneth Over - Young, Gifted And Black Outtake 00:00 Tools
I'm Trying To Overcome - This Girl's In Love With You/Spirit In The Dark Outtake 00:00 Tools
Don't Play That Song (You Lied) (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Aretha Franklin - Bridge Over Troubled Water 05:31 Tools
Lean On Me 00:00 Tools
You Send Me - 2018 Mono Remaster 00:00 Tools
Master Of Eyes (The Deepness Of Your Eyes) (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Call Me (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
How To Murder Your Wife - 2011 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Respect [stereo] 00:00 Tools
Respect - Live At Fillmore West 00:00 Tools
Are You Leaving Me - Demo 00:00 Tools
Aretha's Introduction 00:00 Tools
Sisters Are Doin It For Themselves (With Eurythmics) 00:00 Tools
It Ain't Nessecarily So 00:00 Tools
Save Me (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
The Weight (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
I Never Loved A Man - LP Version 00:00 Tools
You Made Me Love You - Remastered 00:00 Tools
What You See Is What You Sweat 04:09 Tools
Dont Play That Song 00:00 Tools
Eleanor Rigby (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
You're All I Need 00:00 Tools
Don't Cry Baby 00:00 Tools
Never Let Me Go (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
My Sweet Lord (instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Cry Like A Baby - 2011 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Spanish Harlem (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Rolling In The Deep (The Aretha Version) - Papercha$er Remix 00:00 Tools
Medley: Precious Lord, Take My Hand / You've Got a Friend 00:00 Tools
Groovin 02:58 Tools
One Step Ahead (Remastered) 02:33 Tools
It Will Have To Do Until The Real Thing Comes Along 03:03 Tools
So Swell When Your Well 00:00 Tools
Whatever It Is 00:00 Tools
Mercy 00:00 Tools
Ain't But The One - With Ray Charles 00:00 Tools
Don't Play That Song (You Lied) (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) 00:00 Tools
Spirit in the Dark [Reprise with Ray Charles] 00:00 Tools
Take It Like You Give It - Mono Mix 00:00 Tools
Heavenly Father - Young, Gifted And Black Outtake 00:00 Tools
Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home? - Alternate Version 00:00 Tools
Why Was I Born? 00:00 Tools
You're All I Need To Get By (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Ain't No Way - Mono [Remastered] 00:00 Tools
Dr. Feelgood (love is a seriou 00:00 Tools
Chain Of Fools - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Who's Zooming Who 04:43 Tools
United Together - Single Version 03:50 Tools
Think - Live 02:18 Tools
Brand New Me 00:00 Tools
Love All The Hurt Away (With George Benson) 00:00 Tools
Together Again 00:00 Tools
(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone (Mono) - Remastered 00:00 Tools
What Now, My Love? 00:00 Tools
At Last - Let Me In Your Life Outtake 00:00 Tools
Rock Steady (Alternate Mix - Young, Gifted And Black Outtake) 04:31 Tools
Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved A Man (The Way That I Love You) 02:49 Tools
It's So Heartbreakin 00:00 Tools
Master Of Eyes [The Deepness Of Your Eyes] 00:00 Tools
Let It Be (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Won't Be Long - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Ain't Nobody 02:34 Tools
Mary Goes Round 03:06 Tools
Ever Changing Times (feat. Michael McDonald) 00:00 Tools
Hold On I'm Comin' 00:00 Tools
Border Song (Holy Moses) (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Can You Love Again (Hey Now Hey (The Other Side Of The Sky) Outtake) 00:00 Tools
It's My Turn 00:00 Tools
School Days 04:57 Tools
Ain't No Way [Mono Single Version] 00:00 Tools
What Now My Love 00:00 Tools
Ain't No Way [Mono Single Version] - Mono Single Version 00:00 Tools
Think (Live) 00:00 Tools
Follow Your Heart 00:00 Tools
One Room Paradise 00:00 Tools
Follow Your Heart - Mono Mix 00:00 Tools
Sit Down And Cry (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Get it Right (20-Bit Digital Mastering From The Original Master Tapes: 1998) 00:00 Tools
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
A Rose Is Still a Rose (Original Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
Remarks by Reverend C.L. Franklin 00:00 Tools
Nessun Dorma (With The New York Recording Orchestra) 00:00 Tools
Opening Remarks 00:00 Tools
Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time) (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Spirit In The Dark (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
96 Tears (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
I Wanna Make It Up to You 06:42 Tools
What a Diff'rence a Day Makes 00:00 Tools
Every Natural Thing (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Border Song (Holy Moses) (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) 00:00 Tools
There Is No Greater Love 00:00 Tools
Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love) 00:00 Tools
If You Need My Love Tonight 00:00 Tools
Her Little Heart Went To Loveland - 2011 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Put You Up On Game (With Fantasia) 00:00 Tools
Day Dreaming (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Pullin' (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Sweetest Smile And The Funkiest Style - Hey Now Hey The Other Side Of The Sky Outtake 00:00 Tools
The Thrill Is Gone (From Yesterday's Kiss) (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home? 00:00 Tools
Maybe I Am a Fool 00:00 Tools
You Can't Take Me For Granted 00:00 Tools
Come Back Baby (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Think (single version) 00:00 Tools
Christmas Ain't Christmas [Without The One You Love] 00:00 Tools
Reach Out and Touch [Somebody's Hand] - Live at Fillmore West, San Francisco, February 7, 1971 00:00 Tools
Groovin' (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
I Need A Strong Man - The To-To Song Young, Gifted And Black Outtake 00:00 Tools
Niki Hoeky (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Son Of A Preacher - Mono [Remastered] 00:00 Tools
I Knew You Were Waiting For Me (with George Michael) 00:00 Tools
Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do) (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) 00:00 Tools
Chain Of Fools (Remastered LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Why I Sing The Blues (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
This Girl's In Love With You - 1972 Live in Philly Remastered 00:00 Tools
Remember Me - 2011 Remaster 00:00 Tools
You Made Me Love You (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Going Down Slow (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
My Song (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Try Matty's (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
A Brand New Me (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Medley: Day Dreaming/Think - 1972 Live in Philly Remastered 00:00 Tools
Only The One You Love - Mono Mix 00:00 Tools
Money Won't Change You (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
If You Don't Think (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Ain't Nobody Gonna Turn Me Around (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
A Rose Is Still A Rose [Original Radio Edit] 00:00 Tools
Make It With You (Live @ Fillmore West) 00:00 Tools
Spanish Harlem - 1972 Live in Philly Remastered 00:00 Tools
I'm In Love (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Just My Daydream 00:00 Tools
All The King's Horses (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Bridge Over Troubled Water (Live @ Fillmore West) 00:00 Tools
There's A Star For Everyone 00:00 Tools
Medley: Chain Of Fools/See Saw - 1972 Live in Philly Remastered 00:00 Tools
Good To Me As I Am To You (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Don't Let Me Lose This Dream (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
All Night Long - Remastered 00:00 Tools
First Snow In Kokomo (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Soul Seranade (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Land Of Dreams - 2011 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Prove It (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
When They Ask About You 00:00 Tools
How To Murder Your Wife - Mono Mix 00:00 Tools
Respect - 1972 Live in Philly Remastered 00:00 Tools
The Thrill Is Gone [From Yesterday's Kiss] [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
How I Got Over [Live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, January 13, 1972] - Live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, January 13, 1972 00:00 Tools
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (Remastered LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Border Song [Holy Moses] [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
I Wonder (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Swanee 00:00 Tools
Mixed-up Girl 00:00 Tools
You Make Me Feel 00:00 Tools
Living in the Streets 00:00 Tools
Cry Like A Baby - Mono Mix 00:00 Tools
Spirit In The Dark (Reprise wi 00:00 Tools
Something He Can Feel (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Oh Me Oh My (I'm A Fool For You Baby) (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
This Is - The Other Side Of The Sky Outtake 00:00 Tools
Chain Of Fools (with Mariah Carey) 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sweet Baby (Since You've Been Gone) 00:00 Tools
Jump to It - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Chain Of Fools [Unedited Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Just Right Tonight (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Put You Up On Game 00:00 Tools
Respect (One Rascal Mix) 00:00 Tools
Honest I Do (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Eight Days On The Road (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Little Miss Raggedy Ann - 2011 Remaster 00:00 Tools
A Song For You (LP Version) 04:00 Tools
That's Life (LP Version) 03:31 Tools
This Girl's In Love With You (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Medley: I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)/I Say A Little Prayer - 1972 Live in Philly Remastered 00:00 Tools
When The Battle Is Over (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Think (feat. The Blues Brothers) 00:00 Tools
Reach Out And Touch (Live @ Fillmore West) 00:00 Tools
You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Women 02:43 Tools
Share Your Love With Me (Live At Fillmore West) 00:00 Tools
Eleanor Rigby (Live At Fillmore West) 00:00 Tools
Don't Play That Song - 1972 Live in Philly Remastered 00:00 Tools
Love The One You're With (Live At Fillmore West) 00:00 Tools
You Are My Sunshine (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Rock Steady - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Love The One You're With (Live @ Fillmore West) 00:00 Tools
Ramblin' (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Think (1989) 00:00 Tools
Bring It On Home To Me (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
It's Just A Matter Of Time 00:00 Tools
I've Been Loving You Too Long (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Moody's Mood (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Don't Waste Your Time 00:00 Tools
Gentle On My Mind (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
The Long And Winding Road (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Ever Changing Times (With Michael McDonald) 00:00 Tools
Bridge Over Troubled Water (Extended LP Version) 00:00 Tools
A Rose Is Still A Rose - Album Version (Without Intro) 00:00 Tools
April Fools (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Eleanor Rigby (Live @ Fillmore West) 00:00 Tools
Elusive Butterfly (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Deeper - 2011 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Young, Gifted And Black (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Johnny 00:00 Tools
River's Invitation (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Oh No Not My Baby (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
One Way Ticket (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Let Me In Your Life (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Mixed-Up Girl (Live At Fillmore West) 00:00 Tools
Respect Aretha Franklin 00:00 Tools
How I Got Over (Live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, January 13, 1972) - Single Edit 00:00 Tools
Respect (Live @ Fillmore West) 00:00 Tools
Respect (Live At Fillmore West) 00:00 Tools
what yall came to do (with john legend) 00:00 Tools
What A Friend We Have In Jesus (1-14-1972 Version) 00:00 Tools
Suzanne - Hey Now Hey The Other Side Of The Sky Outtake 00:00 Tools
That's All I Want For You (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Dark End Of The Street (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Tracks Of My Tears (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Pitiful (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Today I Love Ev'rybody 00:00 Tools
You And Me (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home? (Alternate Version) 00:00 Tools
I'm In Love - Alternate Vocal - Let Me In Your Life Outtake 00:00 Tools
Introduction (Also Sprach Zarathustra)/Rock Steady - 1972 Live in Philly Remastered 00:00 Tools
How I Got Over (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Dr. Feelgood (Live At Fillmore West) 00:00 Tools
Somewhere (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Ain't No Way - 2018 Mono Remaster 04:16 Tools
A Deeper Love - Sam Halabi Radio Remix 00:00 Tools
If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
My Sweet Lord (1-14-1972 Instrumental Version) 00:00 Tools
With Pen In Hand (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Medley: Bridge Over Troubled Water/We've Only Just Begun - 1972 Live in Philly Remastered 00:00 Tools
Wholy Holy (1-14-1972 Version) 00:00 Tools
Don't Go Breaking My Heart 04:10 Tools
I Won't Cry Anymore - 2011 Remaster 00:00 Tools
I Still Can't Forget - 2011 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Crazy He Calls Me (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
My Sweet Lord (1-13-1972 Instrumental Version) 00:00 Tools
Respect [Stereo Version][*] 00:00 Tools
See Saw - Mono [Remastered] 00:00 Tools
I Wonder (Where You Are Tonight) 00:00 Tools
who's zoomin' who (lp version) 00:00 Tools
Bridge Over Troubled Water (Live At Fillmore West) 00:00 Tools
Never Grow Old (Live Version) 02:52 Tools
Giving Him Something He Can Feel 03:28 Tools
Walk On By - 2011 Remaster 00:00 Tools
The Masquerade Is Over (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Oh Me Oh My (I'm A Fool For You Baby)-LLF 00:00 Tools
Spanish Harlem (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
So Long (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Don't Play That Song For Me 00:00 Tools
It Ain't Fair (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Her Little Heart Went To Loveland - Mono Mix 00:00 Tools
Do You Know - Hey Now Hey The Other Side Of The Sky Outtake 00:00 Tools
Every Girl (Wants My Guy) - 20-Bit Digital Mastering From The Original Master Tapes: 1998 00:00 Tools
The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) - 2011 Remaster 00:00 Tools
You're All I Need To Get By (Live At Fillmore West) 00:00 Tools
Master Of Eyes 00:00 Tools
Amazing Grace [Live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, January 13, 1972] - Live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, January 13, 1972 12:41 Tools
On Our Way (1-13-1972 Version) 00:00 Tools
Dr. Feelgood (Live @ Fillmore West) 00:00 Tools
Spirit In The Dark (Live At Fillmore West) 00:00 Tools
Knocking On Heavens Door 00:00 Tools
Eleanor Rigby - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Rose Of Washington Square - 2011 Remaster 00:00 Tools
I Want To Be With You - Hey Now Hey The Other Side Of The Sky Outtake 00:00 Tools
Save Me - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Runnin' Out Of Fools - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Tree Of Life - Hey Now Hey The Other Side Of The Sky Outtake 03:34 Tools
Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
You're Taking Up Another Man's Place (Spirit In The Dark Outtake) 00:00 Tools
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Live At Fillmore West 00:00 Tools
Day Dreaming-LLF 00:00 Tools
The Makings Of You (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Oh Baby (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Rough Lover - Remastered 00:00 Tools
I'll Never Be Free (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Precious Lord, Take my Hand / You've Got a Friend 00:00 Tools
Can You Love Again - Hey Now Hey The Other Side Of The Sky Outtake 00:00 Tools
Love Letters - Let Me In Your Life Outtake 00:00 Tools
Hey Now Hey [The Other Side Of The Sky] 02:41 Tools
Wholy Holy (1-13-1972 Version) 00:00 Tools
never gonna break my faith (with mary j blige) 00:00 Tools
On Our Way (1-13-1972 Opening Remarks Version) 00:00 Tools
Don't Play That Song (You Lied) (Live @ Fillmore West) 00:00 Tools
Trouble In Mind (Mono Mix) 00:00 Tools
Maybe I'm A Fool (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
God Will Take Care Of You (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Organ Introduction [On Our Way] [Live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, January 13, 1972] 00:00 Tools
Mary, Don't You Weep (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) 00:00 Tools
aretha franklin - until you come back to me 02:35 Tools
rock steady [danny krivit edit] 00:00 Tools
On Our Way (1-14-1972 Version) 00:00 Tools
I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You (Stereo) 00:00 Tools
Opening Remarks By Reverend C L. Franklin (1-13-1972 LP Version) 00:00 Tools
I Will Survive (The Aretha Version) - Terry Hunter Extended Remix 06:44 Tools
That's The Way I Feel About Cha - Alternate Version - Hey Now Hey The Other Side Of The Sky Outtake 00:00 Tools
Think [1968] 00:00 Tools
The Only Thing Missin' (Radio Mix) 00:00 Tools
Jump To It (Original 12" Mix) 00:00 Tools
Truth and Honesty 00:00 Tools
Precious Lord, Take My Hand/You've Got A Friend (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Remarks By Reverend C L. Franklin (1-14-1972 Version) 00:00 Tools
you make me feel like a natural woman (with bonnie raitt and gloria estefan) 04:39 Tools
What A Friend We Have In Jesus (1-13-1972 Version) 05:56 Tools
Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Aretha's Introduction (1-13-1972 Thursday Night Version) 00:00 Tools
Rock Steady [Alternate Mix][#] 00:00 Tools
(you make me feel like a) natu 00:00 Tools
Climbing Higher Mountains (1-13-1972 Version) 00:00 Tools
Get It Right - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Exactly Like You - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Precious Memories (1-13-1972 Version) 00:00 Tools
Do Right Woman, Do Right Man (Stereo Version) 00:00 Tools
The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Ol' Man River 00:00 Tools
Pledging My Love/the Clock (Single B-Side) 00:00 Tools
Never Gonna Break My Faith 00:00 Tools
Pretender 00:00 Tools
Chain Of Fools (Lyrics) 00:00 Tools
Bridge Over Troubled Water - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Try a Little Tenderness - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Kind Of Man 00:00 Tools
Spirit In The Dark (Reprise) (Live At Fillmore West) 00:00 Tools
Oh Me Oh My (I'm A Fool For You Baby) - 1972 Live in Philly Remastered 00:00 Tools
Young, Gifted And Black - 1972 Live in Philly Remastered 00:00 Tools
Mr. Ugly 00:00 Tools
I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) (feat. George Michael) 00:00 Tools
Skylark - Alternate Version 00:00 Tools
On Our Way (1-14-1972 Opening Remarks Version) 00:00 Tools
It Ain't Necessarly So 00:00 Tools
Give Yourself To Jesus (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Whole Lot of Me 00:00 Tools
  • 24,811,731
    plays
  • 1,713,745
    listners
  • 24811731
    top track count

Aretha Franklin (March 25, 1942 - August 16, 2018) was a Memphis, Tennessee born and Detroit, Michigan reared American iconic gospel, soul, and R&B singer, songwriter and pianist. Many have called her "The Queen Of Soul" and "Lady Soul". She is renowned for her soul and R&B recordings (on many, of which, she accompanied herself on keyboards and piano, a skill she learned at an early age, learning to play by ear, according to lifetime friend Smokey Robinson) but was also adept at jazz, rock, blues, pop, and gospel. She is generally regarded as one of the best vocalists ever by such industry publications and media outlets as Rolling Stone and VH1, due to her phenomenal technical and interpretative talents. Adept at the piano as well as having a gifted voice, Franklin became a child prodigy. By the age of fourteen, she signed a record deal with Battle Records, where her father Reverend C.L. Franklin recorded his sermons and gospel vocal recordings, and she issued Songs of Faith in 1956. She is the second most honored female popular singer in Grammy history (after Alison Krauss), having won eighteen competitive Grammys (including an unprecedented eleven for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, eight of them consecutive). The state of Michigan has declared her voice to be a natural wonder. Franklin is perhaps best-known for her interpretation of Otis Redding's Respect, recorded in 1967 with sisters Carolyn Franklin and Erma Franklin. Many of her songs, however, were originals that have since been covered by other artists. Some of her best-known compositions include (Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone, Ain't No Way, All the King's Horses, Baby, Baby, Baby, Call Me, Dr. Feelgood, Rock Steady, Spirit in the Dark, and Think (which she performed in the film The Blues Brothers). On March 25, 1942, Aretha Louise Franklin was born at 406 Lucy Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, to Barbara (née Siggers) and Clarence LaVaughn "C. L." Franklin. Her father was a Baptist minister and circuit preacher originally from Shelby, Mississippi, while her mother was an accomplished piano player and vocalist. Her parents both had children, three in total, from outside their marriage. The family relocated to Buffalo, New York, when Aretha was two. Before her fifth birthday, in 1946, C. L. Franklin permanently relocated the family to Detroit, Michigan where he took over the pastorship of New Bethel Baptist Church. Aretha's parents had a troubled marriage due to stories of her father's philandering and in 1948, the couple separated, with Barbara relocating back to Buffalo with her son, Vaughn, from a previous relationship. Contrary to popular belief, her mother did not abandon her children; not only did Aretha recall seeing her mother in Buffalo during the summer, but Barbara also frequently visited her children in Detroit. Aretha's mother died of a heart attack on March 7, 1952, before Aretha's tenth birthday. The news of her mother's death was broken by her father, who had gathered Aretha and her siblings in the kitchen to tell them and that he "could not have been more understanding." Several women, including Aretha's grandmother, Rachel, and Mahalia Jackson took turns helping with the children at the Franklin home. During this time, Aretha learned how to play piano by ear. Aretha's father's emotionally driven sermons resulted in his being known as the man with the "million-dollar voice" and earning thousands of dollars for sermons in various churches across the country. His celebrity status led to his home being visited by various celebrities, among them gospel musicians Clara Ward, James Cleveland and early Caravans members Albertina Walker and Inez Andrews as well as Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Wilson and Sam Cooke. Ward was not only a visitor to the home, but was romantically involved with Aretha's father, though "she preferred to view them strictly as friends." Ward also served as a role model to the young Aretha. Franklin attended Northern High School but later dropped out during her sophomore year. Music career Beginnings (1952–1960) Just after her mother's death, Franklin began singing solos at New Bethel, debuting with the hymn, "Jesus, Be a Fence Around Me." When Franklin was 12, her father began managing her, bringing her on the road with him during his so-called "gospel caravan" tours for her to perform in various churches. He helped his daughter sign her first recording deal with J.V.B. Records, where her first album, Songs of Faith, was released in 1956. Franklin sometimes traveled with The Soul Stirrers during this time. In 1958, Franklin and her father traveled to California, where she met Sam Cooke. At the age of 16, Franklin went on tour with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and in 1968 sang at his funeral. As a young gospel singer, Franklin spent summers on the circuit in Chicago, staying with Mavis Staples' family. After turning 18, Franklin confided to her father that she aspired to follow Sam Cooke in recording pop music, and moved to New York. Serving as her manager, C. L. agreed to the move and helped to produce a two-song demo that soon was brought to the attention of Columbia Records, who agreed to sign her in 1960. Franklin was signed as a "five-percent artist". During this period, Franklin would be coached by choreographer Cholly Atkins to prepare for her pop performances. Before signing with Columbia, Sam Cooke tried to persuade Franklin's father to have his label, RCA, sign Franklin. He had also been courted by local record label owner Berry Gordy to sign Franklin and her elder sister Erma to his Tamla label. Franklin's father felt the label was not established enough yet. Franklin's first Columbia single, "Today I Sing the Blues", was issued in September 1960 and later reached the top ten of the Hot Rhythm & Blues Sellers chart. Initial success (1961–1966) In January 1961, Columbia issued Franklin's first secular album, Aretha: With The Ray Bryant Combo. The album featured her first single to chart the Billboard Hot 100, "Won't Be Long", which also peaked at number 7 on the R&B chart. Mostly produced by Clyde Otis, Franklin's Columbia recordings saw her performing in diverse genres such as standards, vocal jazz, blues, doo-wop and rhythm and blues. Before the year was out, Franklin scored her first top 40 single with her rendition of the standard, "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody", which also included the R&B hit, "Operation Heartbreak", on its b-side. "Rock-a-Bye" became her first international hit, reaching the top 40 in Australia and Canada. By the end of 1961, Franklin was named as a "new-star female vocalist" in DownBeat magazine. In 1962, Columbia issued two more albums, The Electrifying Aretha Franklin and The Tender, the Moving, the Swinging Aretha Franklin, the latter of which reached No. 69 on the Billboard chart. In the 1960s during a performance at the Regal Theater, a WVON radio personality announced Franklin should be crowned, "the Queen of Soul". By 1964, Franklin began recording more pop music, reaching the top ten on the R&B chart with the ballad "Runnin' Out of Fools" in early 1965. She had two R&B charted singles in 1965 and 1966 with the songs "One Step Ahead" and "Cry Like a Baby", while also reaching the Easy Listening charts with the ballads "You Made Me Love You" and "(No, No) I'm Losing You". By the mid-1960s, Franklin was netting $100,000 from countless performances in nightclubs and theaters. Also during that period, she appeared on rock and roll shows such as Hollywood A Go-Go and Shindig!. However, she struggled with commercial success while at Columbia. Label executive John H. Hammond later said he felt Columbia did not understand Franklin's early gospel background and failed to bring that aspect out further during her period there. Commercial success (1967–1979) In November 1966, after six years with Columbia, Franklin chose not to renew her contract with the company and signed to Atlantic Records. In January 1967, she traveled to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to record at FAME Studios and recorded the song, "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", backed by the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. Franklin only spent one day recording at FAME, as an altercation broke out between manager and husband Ted White, studio owner Rick Hall, and a horn player, and sessions were abandoned. The song was released the following month and reached number one on the R&B chart, while also peaking at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Franklin her first top-ten pop single. The song's b-side, "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man", reached the R&B top 40, peaking at number 37. In April, Atlantic issued her frenetic version of Otis Redding's "Respect", which shot to number one on both the R&B and pop charts. "Respect" became her signature song and was later hailed as a civil rights and feminist anthem. Franklin's debut Atlantic album, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, also became commercially successful, later going gold. Franklin scored two more top-ten singles in 1967, including "Baby I Love You" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman". Her rapport with producer Jerry Wexler helped in the creation of the majority of Franklin's peak recordings with Atlantic. In 1968, she issued the top-selling albums Lady Soul and Aretha Now, which included some of Franklin's most popular hit singles, including "Chain of Fools", "Ain't No Way", "Think" and "I Say a Little Prayer". That February, Franklin earned the first two of her Grammys, including the debut category for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. On February 16, Franklin was honored with a day named for her and was greeted by longtime friend Martin Luther King Jr. who gave her the SCLC Drum Beat Award for Musicians just two months before his death. Franklin toured outside the US for the first time in May, including an appearance at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam where she played to a near hysterical audience who covered the stage with flower petals. She appeared on the cover of Time magazine in June. Franklin's success expanded during the early 1970s, during which she recorded top-ten singles such as "Spanish Harlem", "Rock Steady" and "Day Dreaming" as well as the acclaimed albums Spirit in the Dark, Young, Gifted and Black, and her gospel album, Amazing Grace, which sold more than two million copies. In 1971, Franklin became the first R&B performer to headline Fillmore West, later that year releasing the live album Aretha Live at Fillmore West. Franklin's career began to experience problems while recording the album, Hey Now Hey, which featured production from Quincy Jones. Despite the success of the single "Angel", the album bombed upon its release in 1973. Franklin continued having R&B success with songs such as "Until You Come Back to Me" and "I'm in Love", but by 1975 her albums and songs were no longer top sellers. After Jerry Wexler left Atlantic for Warner Bros. Records in 1976, Franklin worked on the soundtrack to the film Sparkle with Curtis Mayfield. The album yielded Franklin's final top 40 hit of the decade, "Something He Can Feel", which also peaked at number one on the R&B chart. Franklin's follow-up albums for Atlantic, including Sweet Passion (1977), Almighty Fire (1978) and La Diva (1979), bombed on the charts, and in 1979 Franklin opted to leave the company. Later years (1979–2018) In 1980, after leaving Atlantic Records,[48] Franklin signed with Clive Davis's Arista Records and that same year gave a command performance at London's Royal Albert Hall in front of Queen Elizabeth. Franklin also had an acclaimed guest role as a waitress in the 1980 comedy musical The Blues Brothers.[49][50] Franklin's first Arista album, Aretha (1980), featured the No. 3 R&B hit "United Together" and her Grammy-nominated cover of Otis Redding's "I Can't Turn You Loose". The follow-up, 1981's Love All the Hurt Away, included her famed duet of the title track with George Benson, while the album also included her Grammy-winning cover of Sam & Dave's "Hold On, I'm Comin'". Franklin achieved a gold record—for the first time in seven years—with the 1982 album Jump to It. The album's title track was her first top-40 single on the pop charts in six years. In 1985, inspired by a desire to have a "younger sound" in her music, Who's Zoomin' Who? became her first Arista album to be certified platinum. The album sold well over a million copies thanks to the hits "Freeway of Love", the title track, and "Another Night". The following year's Aretha album nearly matched this success with the hit singles "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Jimmy Lee" and "I Knew You Were Waiting for Me", her international number-one duet with George Michael. During that period, Franklin provided vocals to the theme songs of the TV shows A Different World and Together. In 1987, she issued her third gospel album, One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, which was recorded at her late father's New Bethel church, followed by Through the Storm in 1989. Franklin's 1991 album, What You See is What You Sweat, flopped on the charts. She returned to the charts in 1993 with the dance song "A Deeper Love" and returned to the top 40 with the song "Willing to Forgive" in 1994. In 1998, Franklin returned to the top 40 with the Lauryn Hill-produced song "A Rose Is Still a Rose", later issuing the album of the same name, which went gold. That same year, Franklin earned international acclaim for her performance of "Nessun dorma" at the Grammy Awards, filling in at the last minute for Luciano Pavarotti, who had cancelled after the show had already begun. Her final Arista album, So Damn Happy, was released in 2003 and featured the Grammy-winning song "Wonderful". In 2004, Franklin announced that she was leaving Arista after more than 20 years with the label. To complete her Arista obligations, Franklin issued the duets compilation album Jewels in the Crown: All-Star Duets with the Queen in 2007. The following year, she issued the holiday album This Christmas, Aretha, on DMI Records. Franklin performed The Star-Spangled Banner with Aaron Neville and Dr. John for Super Bowl XL, held in her hometown of Detroit in February 2006. She later made international headlines for performing "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" at President Barack Obama's inaugural ceremony with her church hat becoming a popular topic online. In 2010, Franklin accepted an honorary degree from Yale University. In 2011, under her own label, Aretha's Records, she issued the album Aretha: A Woman Falling Out of Love. In 2014, Franklin was signed under RCA Records, controller of the Arista catalog and a sister label to Columbia via Sony Music Entertainment, and was working with Clive Davis. An album was planned with producers Babyface and Danger Mouse. On September 29, 2014, Franklin performed to a standing ovation, with Cissy Houston as backup, a compilation of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" on the Late Show with David Letterman. Franklin's cover of "Rolling in the Deep" was featured among nine other songs in her first RCA release, Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics, released in October 2014. In doing so, she became the first woman to have 100 songs on Billboard′s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with the success of her cover of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep", which debuted at number 47 on the chart. Franklin, waiting to perform at the White House in 2015 In December 2015, Franklin gave an acclaimed performance of "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors during the section for honoree Carole King, who co-wrote the song. During the bridge of the song, Franklin dropped her fur coat to the stage, for which the audience rewarded her with a mid-performance standing ovation. She returned to Detroit's Ford Field on Thanksgiving Day 2016 to once again perform the national anthem before the game between the Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions. Seated behind the piano, wearing a black fur coat and Lions stocking cap, Franklin gave a rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" that lasted more than four minutes and featured a host of improvizations. Franklin released the album A Brand New Me in November 2017 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, which uses archived recordings from her past. It peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Top Classical Albums chart. Music style and image According to Richie Unterberger, Franklin was "one of the giants of soul music, and indeed of American pop as a whole. More than any other performer, she epitomized soul at its most gospel-charged." She had often been described as a great singer and musician due to "vocal flexibility, interpretive intelligence, skillful piano-playing, her ear, her experience". Franklin's voice was described as being a "powerful mezzo-soprano voice". She was praised for her arrangements and interpretations of other artists' hit songs. Describing Franklin's voice as a youngster on her first album, Songs of Faith, released in 1956 when she was just 14, Jerry Wexler explained that it "was not that of a child but rather of an ecstatic hierophant". Personal life After being raised in Detroit, Franklin relocated to New York City in the 1960s, where she lived until moving to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s. She eventually settled in Encino, Los Angeles where she lived until 1982. She then returned to the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan to be close to her ailing father and siblings. Franklin maintained a residence there until her death. Following an incident in 1984, she cited a fear of flying that prevented her from traveling overseas; she performed only in North America afterwards. Franklin was the mother of four sons. She first became pregnant at the age of 12 and gave birth to her first child, named Clarence after her father, on January 28, 1955. According to the news site Inquisitr, "The father of the child was Donald Burk, a boy she knew from school." On January 22, 1957, then aged 14, Franklin had a second child, named Edward after his father Edward Jordan. Franklin did not like to discuss her early pregnancies with interviewers. Both children took her family name. While Franklin was pursuing her career and "hanging out with [friends]", Franklin's grandmother Rachel and sister Erma took turns raising the children. Franklin would visit them often. Franklin's third child, Ted White Jr., was born in February 1964 and is known professionally as Teddy Richards. He has provided guitar backing for his mother's band during live concerts. Her youngest son, Kecalf Cunningham was born in 1970 and is the child of her road manager Ken Cunningham. Franklin was married twice. Her first husband was Theodore "Ted" White, whom she married in 1961 at age 19. Franklin had actually seen White the first time at a party held at her house in 1954. After a contentious marriage that involved domestic violence, Franklin separated from White in 1968, divorcing him in 1969. Franklin then married her second husband, actor Glynn Turman, on April 11, 1978 at her father's church. By marrying Turman, Franklin became stepmother of Turman's three children from a previous marriage. Franklin and Turman separated in 1982 after Franklin returned to Michigan from California, and they divorced in 1984. At one point, Franklin had plans to marry her longtime companion Willie Wilkerson. Franklin and Wilkerson had had two previous engagements stretching back to 1988. Franklin eventually called the 2012 engagement off. Franklin's sisters, Erma and Carolyn, were professional musicians as well and spent years performing background vocals on Franklin's recordings. Following Franklin's divorce from Ted White, her brother Cecil became her manager, and maintained that position until his death from lung cancer on December 26, 1989. Sister Carolyn died the previous year in April 1988 from breast cancer, while eldest sister Erma died from throat cancer in September 2002. Franklin's step-brother Vaughn died two months after Erma in late 2002. Her half-sister, Carl Kelley (née Jennings; born 1940) is C. L. Franklin's daughter by Mildred Jennings, a then 12-year-old congregant of New Salem Baptist Church in Memphis, where C. L. was pastor. Franklin was performing at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, on June 10, 1979, when her father, C. L., was shot twice at point blank range in his Detroit home.[92] After six months at Henry Ford Hospital, still in a state of coma, C.L. was moved back to his home with 24-hour nursing care. Aretha moved back to Detroit in late 1982 to assist with the care of her father, who died at Detroit's New Light Nursing Home on July 27, 1984.[93] Some of her music business friends have included Dionne Warwick, Mavis Staples, and Cissy Houston, who began singing with Franklin as members of the Sweet Inspirations. Cissy sang background on Franklin's hit "Ain't No Way". Franklin first met Cissy's daughter, Whitney, in the early 1970s. She was made Whitney's honorary aunt, not a godmother as has been occasionally misreported, and Whitney often referred to her as "Auntie Ree". When Whitney Houston died on February 11, 2012, Franklin said she was surprised by her death. She had initially planned to perform at Houston's memorial service on February 18, but her representative claimed that Franklin suffered a leg spasm and was unable to attend. In response to criticism of her non-attendance, she stated, "God knows I wanted to be there, but I couldn't." Franklin was a registered Democrat. Health problems Franklin dealt with weight issues for years. In 1974, she dropped 40 pounds (18 kg) during a crash diet and maintained her new weight until the end of the decade.[100] She again lost weight in the early 1990s, before gaining some back. A former chain smoker who struggled with alcoholism, she quit smoking in 1992. She admitted in 1994 that her smoking was "messing with my voice", but after quitting smoking she said later, in 2003, that her weight "ballooned". In 2010, Franklin canceled a number of concerts, after she decided to have surgery for an undisclosed tumor. Discussing the surgery in 2011, she quoted her doctor as saying that it would "add 15 to 20 years" to her life. She denied that the ailment had anything to do with pancreatic cancer, as had been rumored. On May 19, 2011, Franklin had her comeback show in the Chicago Theatre. In May 2013, she canceled two performances to deal with an undisclosed medical treatment. Later the same month, she canceled three June concerts and planned to return to perform in July. A show scheduled for July 27 in Clarkston, Michigan was canceled due to continued medical treatment. In addition, she canceled an appearance at a Major League Baseball luncheon in Chicago honoring her commitment to civil rights on August 24. She also canceled a performance of September 21 in Atlanta due to her health recovery. During a phone interview with the Associated Press in late August 2013, Franklin stated that she had a "miraculous" recovery from her undisclosed illness but had to cancel shows and appearances until her health was at 100%, estimating she was about "85% healed". Franklin later returned to live performing, including a 2013 Christmas concert at Detroit's MotorCity Casino Hotel. She launched a multi-city tour in mid-2014, starting with a performance on June 14 in New York at Radio City Music Hall. In 2017, Franklin canceled a series of concerts due to health reasons. During an outdoor Detroit show, she asked the audience to "keep me in your prayers". In July 2017, Franklin reemerged, appearing to have lost more weight before a performance at the Wolf Trap in Virginia. In 2018, she canceled a series of shows, citing doctor's orders. Franklin's final performance was at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City during Elton John's 25th anniversary gala for the Elton John AIDS Foundation on November 7, 2017. Final illness and death On August 13, 2018, Franklin was reported to be gravely ill at her home in Riverfront Towers, Detroit. She was reported to be under hospice care and surrounded by friends and family. Stevie Wonder, Jesse Jackson, and ex-husband Glynn Turman, among others, visited her on her deathbed. Franklin died at her home on August 16, 2018, aged 76. The cause was reported to be pancreatic cancer. Numerous celebrities in the entertainment industry and politicians paid tribute to Franklin, including former U.S. president Barack Obama who said she "helped define the American experience". Civil rights activist and minister Al Sharpton called her a "civil rights and humanitarian icon". A private funeral was arranged for August 31, following a two-day public viewing of Franklin's casket at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit. Legacy and honors Franklin wipes a tear after being given the Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 9, 2005, at the White House. She is seated between fellow recipients Robert Conquest (left) and Alan Greenspan. Franklin received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1979, had her voice declared a Michigan "natural resource" in 1985, and became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences awarded her a Grammy Legend Award in 1991, then the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. Franklin was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1994, recipient of the National Medal of Arts in 1999, and was bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005. She was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame in 2005. Franklin became the second woman inducted to the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. She was the 2008 MusiCares Person of the Year, performing at the Grammys days later. Following news of Franklin's surgery and recovery in February 2011, the Grammys ceremony paid tribute to the singer with a medley of her classics performed by Christina Aguilera, Florence Welch, Jennifer Hudson, Martina McBride, and Yolanda Adams. That same year she was ranked 19th among the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time top artists, and ranked first on the Rolling Stone list of Greatest Singers of All Time. In 2013, she was again ranked first in Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Singers" list. Inducted to the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2012, Franklin was described as "the voice of the civil rights movement, the voice of black America" and a "symbol of black equality". Asteroid 249516 Aretha was named in her honor in 2014. "American history wells up when Aretha sings," President Obama explained in response to her performance of "A Natural Woman" at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors. "Nobody embodies more fully the connection between the African-American spiritual, the blues, R&B, rock and roll—the way that hardship and sorrow were transformed into something full of beauty and vitality and hope". On June 8, 2017, the City of Detroit honored Franklin's legacy by renaming a portion of Madison Street, between Brush and Witherell Streets, "Aretha Franklin Way". On January 29, 2018, The Oakland Press′s correspondent Gary Graff confirmed that the American Idol runner-up Jennifer Hudson will take the role to play Franklin in her coming biopic. The news was announced by the film's executive producer Clive Davis, who made public their decision on the choice of actors casting in the film two days before Graff's article was published. An all-star tribute concert to Franklin, celebrating her music, is scheduled for November 14, 2018, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Honorary degrees Franklin received an honorary degree from Harvard University in 2014, as well as honorary doctorates in music from Princeton University, 2012; Yale University, 2010; Brown University, 2009; University of Pennsylvania, 2007; Berklee College of Music, 2006; New England Conservatory of Music, 1997; and University of Michigan, 1987. Franklin was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Wayne State University in 1990 and an honorary Doctor of Law degree by Bethune–Cookman University in 1975. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

Similar Artists

Tags