Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin (March 25, 1942 - August 16, 2018) was a Memphis, Tennessee… Read Full Bio ↴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.
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.
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04. Chain of Fools Chain, chain, chain (Chain, chain, chain) Chain, chain, chai…
05 Don t Let Me Lose This Dream If I lose this dream (this dream) I don't know what…
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07. Chain of fools Chain, chain, chain (Chain, chain, chain) Chain, chain, chai…
08 Call Me I love you (I love you) And I love you (I…
10 Take me to heart And I'll always love you And nobody can…
10-You'll Lose A Good Thing If you should lose me, (oh yeah)you'll lose a good…
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14 Angels When at night I go to sleep 14 angels watch do…
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14) See Saw Sometimes you love me like a good man oughta Sometimes you…
14. Eleanor Rigby I'm Eleanor Rigby, I picked up the rice In the church…
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A Change I'm looking for a love maker I ain't looking for no…
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Don't Cry, Baby Don't cry, baby, don't cry, sugar Dry your eyes And let's be…
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Dr. Feelgood I don't want nobody Always Sittin' around me and my man I do…
Dr. Feelgood (Love Is A Serio I don't want nobody Always sittin' around me and my man I…
Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business) I don't want nobody, always Sittin' around me and my man I…
Dr.Feelgood I don't want nobody Always Sittin' around me and my man I do…
Drinking Again I'm drinkin' again Thinking of when, when you loved me I'm h…
Drown in My Own Tears It brings big tears Into my eyes When I began When I began…
Eight Days On The Road Sugar baby, be my savior, 'Cause I'm tired, I'm tired I've…
Eleanor Rigby I'm Eleanor Rigby, I picked up the rice In the church…
Elusive Butterfly You might wake up some mornin' To the sound of something…
Ever Changin' Times It's an ever changing time I see, that clock upon the…
Every Girl Every girl wants my guy (my guy) And I can…
Every Lil' Bit Hurts Yes, it's love, so much love You are the one I can't…
Every Natural Thing Nineteen birds in a sycamore tree Everyone with his own melo…
Everybody's Somebody's Fool Here we go with the trick questions They bring up to…
Everyday People Sometimes I'm right and I can be wrong My own beliefs…
everyday_people Sometimes I'm right and I can be wrong My own beliefs…
Evil Gal Blues I'm an evil gal don't you bother with me, no I…
Exactly Like You I used to have a perfect sweetheart Not a real one,…
Falling In Love With You Baby Oh, baby You see this girl This girl's in love with yo…
Falling Out Of Love It's in the way you say my name Though I hear…
First Snow In Kokomo (First snow in Kokomo) The first snow in Kokomo Off an India…
Follow Your Heart Oh, oh, whoo Oh baby, hey baby, whoo, whoo baby Do do…
For All We Know For all we know We may never meet again Before we go Make…
Freeway of Love Knew you'd be a vision in white How'd you get your…
Friendly Persuasion Thee I love, more than the meadow so green and…
Gentle On My Mind It's knowin' that your door is always open And your path…
Get it Right Alright gang let's start from number one Let's throw down ti…
Gimme Your Love It's an evil wind That blows no good, yeah It's a sad…
Gimme Your Love (with James Brown) It's an evil wind That blows no good, yeah It's a sad…
Give Me Your Love It's an evil wind that blows no good, yeah It's a…
Give Yourself To Jesus Give yourself to Jesus) Give yourself to Jesus (You don't ha…
Giving In Baby, ooh oh yeah I'm giving in to you Giving in 'cause…
God Bless the Child Them that's got shall get Them that's not shall lose So the…
God Bless the Child - Remastered Them that's God shall get Them that's not shall lose So the…
God Will Take Care Of You Be not dismayed whatever betide you, you need to know (God…
Going Down Slow I have had my fun, if I don't get well…
Good News Extra, extra Read all about it Extra, extra We heard the goo…
Good Times Everybody get in the groove and let the good times…
Good to Me As I Am to You If you had a dollar And I had a dime I wonder,…
Groovin On a Sunday afternoon (Sunday, Sunday) Really couldn't get a…
Half A Love Well, oh yes, mhm oh baby, oh, oh baby Yeah, make…
Hands Off Girl, you better keep your hands off of him He don't…
Harbor Lights I saw, I saw the harbor lights (Harbor lights) They only tol…
Hard Times My mother told me 'Fore she passed away Said son when I'm…
Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I) They call it hard times, yeah, yeah Oh, oh yeah, yeah,…
Hark! The Hearald Angels Sing Hark, the herald angels sing Glory to a new born King Peace…
He Will Wash You White as Snow If they had ever told me How sweet a kiss could…
He'll Come Along You been good to me But lately you leave much to…
He'll Wash You Whiter Than Snow Have mercy on me, oh God According to your unfailing love Ac…
He's The Boy I don't know what I did to turn your eye Is…
Heavenly Father [Chorus] Heavenly Father You're the One We're Waiting on Bec…
Hello Sunshine Hello (hello) sunshine So glad to see you sunshine Hello (he…
Her Little Heart Went to Loveland Her little heart went to loveland His little heart stayed at…
Here We Go Again Come on now Oh oh oh oh oh Here we, here we,…
Here's Where I Came In (Here's where I came in and here's Where I walk out,…
Hey Now Hey I want to be with you I want to be with…
His Eyes Are on the Sparrow Why should I feel discouraged, why should the shadows come, …
Hold On I Hold on Hold on (Hold on) don't you ever be sad? Lean on…
Holdin' On Holdin' on, holdin' on, holdin' on Holdin' on to something t…
Holy Moses Holy Moses, I have been removed I have seen the specter,…
Honest I Do Don't you know that I love you? Honest, I do (oh,…
Honey Mmm... Oh...ooh...ooh...ooh...ooh...ooh...ooh... I gave you…
Honey I Need Your Love Come on, baby, I need your love Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh,…
Hooked on Your Love Your tender smile gives me happy thoughts of you, hey…
How Deep Is the Ocean How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie How…
How Glad Am I My love has no beginning, my love has no end, No…
How Glad I Am - Remastered My love has no beginning, my love has no end No…
How I Got Over How I got over how I got over How I got…
How Long I ve Been Waiting My darling, ooh darling How long I've been waiting for you N…
How Long I've Been Waiting My darling, oh darling How long I've been waiting for you Ne…
How many time You used to tell me you loved me You used to…
How to Murder Your Wife Strangle your darling with diamonds Drown her in sparkling c…
I If I told a lie, if I made you cry When…
I Apologize If I told a lie, if I made you cry When…
I Can't See Myself Leaving You You've been running around This I know, yeah I ought to pack…
I Can't Turn You Loose Huh I can't turn you loose now If I do I'm…
I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face I can't wait until I see my, my baby's face When…
i don Oh, lately when I hold you You're like a stranger in…
I Dreamed a Dream There was a time when men were kind When their voices…
I Get High Woke up this morning Lookin' back over the dark to my…
I Got Your Love I got your love It's all that i got I got your…
I Knew You Were Waiting Like a warrior that fights and wins the battle I know…
I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) (feat. George Michael) '''Aretha Franklin:''' Like a warrior that fights And wins t…
I Knew You Were Waiting for Me Like a warrior that fights and wins the battle I know…
I Knew You Were Waiting ft. George Michael Like a warrior that fights And wins the battle I know the…
I Love Every Little Thing About You Baby, you've been my love and my friend You've been here…
I May Never Get to Heaven I may never get to heaven by Conway Twitty I walked…
I need you Yeah, I know that it's over And there's nothing that I…
I Needed You Baby If you want my lovin' If you really do Don't be afraid,…
i never love You're a no good heart breaker You're a liar and you're…
I Never Loved A Man (the Way.. You're a no good heart breaker You're a liar and you're…
I Never Loved A Man... You're a no good heart breaker You're a liar and you're…
I Never Loveda Man You're a no good heart breaker You're a liar and you're…
I Say a Little Frayer The moment I wake up Before I put on my makeup…
I Say A Little Prayer For You The moment I wake up Before I put on my makeup I…
I Still Can't Forget I'm still with you because you Merely happen to be someone W…
I Surrender Dear We've played the game of 'stay away' But it costs more…
I Take What I Want I take what I want I'm a bad go-getter, yeah (What…
I Told You So I wish I didn't love you so, my love for…
I Wanna Be Around I wanna be around to pick up the pieces When somebody…
I Wanna Make It Up to You (I'll make it up to you) (I'll make it up to…
I Want To Be With You I want to be with you I want to be with…
I Was Made For You Without you, darling, I'm no good I'm just as hopeless, one…
I Will Surive At first I was afraid, I was petrified Kept thinking I…
I Will Survive At first I was afraid, I was petrified Kept thinking I…
I Will Trust In the Lord I will trust in the Lord. I will trust in the…
I Wish I Didn I wish I didn't love you so, my love for…
I Wish it Would Rain Sunshine, blue skies please go away My man has found another…
I Wonder I wonder my darling Where are you again tonight? Are you hol…
I'll Dip Well, it hurts too much to stay Sometimes I just ain't…
I'll Keep on Smiling I'm gonna smile and take it, baby Until I get tired…
I'll Never Be Free Each time I hold somebody new My arms grow cold thinking…
I'll say a little prayer for you The moment I wake up Before I put on my makeup I…
I'm Every Woman Respect Whatever you want, Whatever you need, Anything you want do…
I'm Every Woman / Respect Whatever you want Whatever you need Anything you want done, …
I'm In Love I'm in love, yes I am I'm in love, yes I…
I'm Losing You Though you don't call anymore I sit and wait in vain I…
I'm Not Strong Enough To Love You Again You say you love me, and you wanna come back…
I'm Sitting On the Top of the World I'm sitting on top of the world Just rolling along, Just…
I'm Sitting on Top of the World I'm sitting on top of the world Just rolling along, Just…
I'm Sitting On Top of the World (Remastered) Just rolling along, Just rolling along I'm quitting the blue…
I'm Trying To Overcome I tried to make you happy And you were feeling sad Tried…
I'm Wandering I'm wandering Been moving to and fro, just wandering With no…
I'm Your Speed Like a fool I went and stayed too long Now I'm…
I've Been in the Storm Too Long I've been loving you too long to stop now You were…
If Ever a Love There Was I saw your face as I hurried past the cafe And…
IF EVER I WOULD LEAVE YOU If ever I would leave you, it wouldn't be in…
If I Had A Hammer If I had a hammer I'd swing it in the morning Swing…
If I Should Lose You If I should lose you The stars would fall from the…
If She Don't Want Your Lovin' (If she don't, if she don't, if she don't) (If she…
If You Don I say I'll move the mountains And I'll move the mountains If…
If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody If you gotta make a fool of somebody If you have…
If You Need My Love Tonight Inside my mind the hands of time rewind To when you're…
Im In Love I'm in love, yes I am I'm in love, yes I…
Impossible If they had ever told me How sweet a kiss could…
In Case You Forgot Something is wrong, baby Is the feeling gone, baby? Maybe I …
In The Morning Hear me baby Hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me,…
Integrity (No kind of shady) (I am the lady) Let me run this…
Introduction /Rock Steady Rock steady, baby That's what I feel now Let's call the song…
Introduction to Hard Times My mother told me 'Fore she passed away Said son when I'm…
It It isn't, it wasn't, it ain't never gonna be It isn't,…
It Ain People All around me But I don't even Have a friend Lord kno…
It Ain't Neccessarily So It ain't necessarily so It ain't necessarily so The things t…
It ain't necessary so It ain't necessarily so It ain't necessarily so The things…
It Ain't Nessesary So It ain't necessarily so It ain't necessarily so The things t…
It Hurts Like Hell Oh, baby Oh oh, babe Oh oh oh oh oh…
It Isn't It Wasn't It Ain't Never Gonna Be It isn't, it wasn't, it ain't never gonna be It isn't,…
It Only Happens It happens every time I look into your eyes I can…
It Was You (I'll make it up to you) (I'll make it up to…
It Will Have to Do Until the Real Thing Comes Along Oh I'd work for you, I'd slave for you, I'd be…
It's in His Kiss Does he love me I wanna know How can I tell…
It's Just A Matter Of Love Ah ah ah Ah ew ah Ooh boy Do do do do…
It's Just A Matter Of Time Someday, Someway You'll realize that you've been blind Yes D…
It's My Turn I can't cover my feelings In the name of love Or play…
It's Raining Men Humidity Is rising Barometer's Getting low According To our …
It's So Heartbreakin It's so heartbreaking when the one you love Is in love…
It's so Heartbreakin' It’s so heartbreaking when the one you love Is in love…
It's Your Thing Oooh yeah Get out (Get out) We're gonna throw down, yeah (Th…
Its Raining Men Humidity is rising Barometer's getting low According to our …
Ive Been in the Storm Too Long I've been loving you too long to stop now You were…
i´m sitting on the top of the world I'm sitting on top of the world Just rolling along, Just…
Jesus Hears Every Prayer (Intro: talking) Jesus hears every prayer he understands al…
Jim Jim doesn't ever bring me pretty flowers, Jim never tries to…
Jimmy Lee All this time I couldn't shake your memory And I…
Johnny When I think of Johnny I remember the spring I remember hi…
Joy to the World Joy, joy Joy to the world, the Lord has come Let…
Jump Yeah, yeah, oh Bum bum bum, boy Why don't I shake it Don't…
Jump To It Jump, jump, jump to it Jump, jump, jump to it Jump, jump,…
Jump To It (Original 12 Jump, jump, jump to it Jump, jump, jump to it Jump, jump,…
Jumpin' Jack Flash I was born in a crossfire hurricane, well And I howled…
Jumpin' Jack Flash - I was born in a crossfire hurricane, well And I howled…
Jumping Jack Flash I was born in a crossfire hurricane, well And I howled…
Just for a Thrill Just for a thrill You changed the sunshine to rain Just for…
Just for You I'll say goodbye to all that old friends Just for you,…
Just My Daydream Hey, I got a secret The sweetest daydream You and me I'…
Just Right Tonight You want to feel something so sweet and funky Boy, you…
Karaoke (Ooh) What you want (Ooh) Baby, I got (Ooh) What you need …
Keep On Loving You Loving you, baby Brings a chill right down my spine, yes…
Killing me softly Strumming my pain with his fingers Singing my life with his…
Kissin By The Mistletoe There's a very good reason Why the holiday season Is a wonde…
Ladies Only This is for ladies ladies only This is your moment it's…
Land Of Dreams N the land of my dreams You're sweeter than ever before In…
Laughing On The Outside The crowd sees me out dancing Carefree and romancing Oh I'm …
Lean On Me Let me walk this road of life with you Step by…
Lee Cross Here comes, here comes Lee Cross Here he comes, here comes…
Let It Be When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes…
Let Me In Your Life I need someone, hey baby, let me love you Please don't…
Like a Natural Woman Looking out on the morning rain I used to feel so…
Little Brown Book My little brown book With the silver binding How it keeps re…
Little Miss Raggedy Ann Call myself miss Raggedy Ann Cause somebody who used to love…
Living in the Streets People working night and day You need to take some time…
Look for the Silver Lining Please don't be offended if I preach to you awhile,…
Look Into Your Heart Oh, oh, whoo Oh baby, hey baby, whoo, whoo baby Do do…
Look To The Rainbow Yeah, yeah On the day I was born, said my father,…
Looking Through a Tear When love leaves & breaks your heart Your dreams simply fall…
Love All The Hurt Oh Oh Oh baby, oh baby, oh baby I see myself in…
Love All the Hurt Away (with George Benson) I see myself in your face A reflection of pain Somebody made…
Love Everything About You Baby, you've been my love and my friend You've been here…
Love For Sale Love for sale! Advertising young love for sale Who would lik…
Love Is the Only Thing I love and you love We love Sweet love I look and you…
Love Me Forever (Love me right) love me (Love me right) come on (Love me…
Love Pang Oh baby I feel your perfect love Whenever my day begins Whil…
Love The One You If you want my lovin' If you really do Don't be afraid,…
Love The One You re With When you're down, and confused And you don't remember who yo…
Love The One You're With When you're down, and confused And you don't remember who y…
Lover Come Back You went away I let you We broke the ties that bind I…
Lover Come Back to Me You went away I let you We broke the ties that bind I…
Loving You Baby Loving you, baby Brings a chill right down my spine, yes…
Make It Up To You (I'll make it up to you) (I'll make it up to…
Make It With You Hey have you ever tried Really reaching out for the other…
Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman Looking out on the morning rain I used to feel so…
Make Someone Happy Make someone happy Make just one someone happy Make just one…
Mary Don't You Weep Oh oh Mary Oh, Mary, don't you weep, don't you mourn Oh,…
Mary Goes Round Here comes Mary Girls well now you better just hide your…
Master Of Eyes One look in your eyes Baby, just turns me on So inviting…
May Be I'm a Fool Hmm, maybe I'm a fool for loving you so And maybe,…
Maybe I Hmm, maybe I'm a fool for loving you so And maybe,…
Medley: Day Dreaming/Think Daydreamin' and I'm thinkin' of you Daydreamin' and I'm thin…
Memphis Soul Stew Today's special is Memphis Soul Stew We sell so much of…
Mercy Dear boy! He talks just like a naval He looks just…
Midnight Train to Georgia Baby, baby Don't go Baby, baby Don't, don't, don't, don't go…
Mister Spain I can feel your blackness and your manhood, and your love I…
Misty Oh look, just look at me I'm as helpless as a…
Mockingbird Everybody have you heard? He's gonna buy me a mockingbird An…
Mockingbird - Remastered Moch (Yeah) Ing (Yeah) Bird (Yeah) Yeah (Yeah) Mocking bird …
Money Won Told me, darling, that you had to go Find somebody, I…
Money Won't Change You Told me, darling, that you had to go Find somebody, I…
Moody's Mood There I go, there I go, there I go There I…
Moon River Moon River, wider than a mile: I'm crossin' you in…
More More than the greatest love The world has known This is the…
More Than Just A Joy You're more than just a joy, baby You're more than just…
Mr. Big Oh yeah, hoo Mr.Bigstuff, who do u think u are? Mr.Bigst…
Mr. D.J I was sitting at home, yes, I was And it occured…
Mr. Ugly Haunt my house, Mr ugly I know how beautiful you are When…
Muddy Water Baby, we've got to have us a little talk Gonna have…
My Baby Just Cares for Me To make you laugh, I would be a fool for…
My Coloring Book In case you fancy coloring books and lots of people…
My Country My country 'tis of thee Sweet land of liberty Of thee I…
My Country 'Tis of Thee My country 'tis of thee Sweet land of liberty Of thee I…
My Cup Runneth Over Sometimes in the morning, when shadows are deep, I lie…
My Grown-Up Christmas List Do you remember me? I sat upon your knee And I…
My Guy Nothing you could say could tear me away from my…
My Guy My Girl Every girl wants my guy (my guy) And I can…
My Little Brown Book My little brown book With the silver binding How it keeps …
My Song You told me That you would leave me here in tears Now…
My Way And now the end is near And so I face the…
Natural Woman Lookin out on the morning rain (ch-ooo) I used to feel so…
Nessun Dorma Nessun dorma nessun dorma Tu pure, o Principessa Nella tua f…
Never Gonna Break My Faith My Lord I have read this book so many times But nowhere…
Never Grow Old I have heard of a land on the far away…
never leave u again Mm, my darling, my darling Ooh, darling, oh Now I know t…
Never Leave You Again Mm, my darling, my darling Ooh, darling, oh Now I know that…
Never Let Me Go Just let me love you tonight Forget about tomorrow My darlin…
Night Life In the evenin' when the sun goes down You gonna find…
Night Time Is The Right Time You know the night time Is the right time Oh to be,…
Niki Hoeky Way down in Louisiana Down in Cajun land Folks got something…
No Greater Love There is no greater love Than what I feel for you No…
No Matter What It's funny how We've wasted our time On so-called friends…
No One Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh…
No One Could Ever Love You More Please, let me sit down beside you. I've got something…
Nobody Knows The Way I Feel This Morning Hmm, nobody knows Nobody knows the way I feel this morning I…
Nobody Like You I've looked around all over town And I'm so lonely and…
Nothing Compares 2 U It's been seven hours and fifteen days Since you took your…
O Christmas Tree O Christmas tree, o Christmas tree How lovely are thy branch…
O Happy Day Well, well, well, well It was it was It was so nice My…
Oh Baby You came to me for the first time And you showed…
Oh Happy Day Oh happy day (oh happy day) Oh happy day (oh happy…
Oh Happy Days Well, well, well, well It was it was It was so nice My…
Oh Happy Days Gospel Oh happy day (oh happy day) Oh happy day (oh happy…
Oh Me Oh My To make you laugh, I would be a fool for…
Oh No Not My Baby (Sweet, sweet baby) When my friends told me you had someone…
oh no not my baby-twc (Sweet, sweet baby) When my friends told me you had someone…
Ol' Man River Here we all work, on one jar or another Why should…
Old Landmark Let us all (all go back) To the old (old landmark) Let…
old man river Here we all work, on one jar or another Why should…
Once In A Lifetime Just once in a lifetime A woman knows a moment one…
Once In A While My soul can't last, my soul can't last Once in a…
One NIght With The King One night With the King Changes Everything One day In H…
One Room Paradise I don’t need no diamonds (She don’t need) And I don’t…
One Step I'm only one step ahead of heartbreak One step ahead of…
One Way Ticket I remember you've forgotten to remember I wonder why? Baby, …
Only Star Ooh, ooh ah ooh, ooh ah Ooh, ooh ah ooh, ooh…
Only The Lonely Each place I go only the lonely go Some little small…
Only The One You Love You're a no good heart breaker You're a liar and you're…
Only Thing Missin' Ooh Woke up this mornin' to a perfect day I opened my…
Operation Heartbreak Operation heartbreak You took your love from me And for the …
Over the Rainbow Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high There's a land that…
Over the Rainbow - Remastered Somewhere Over the rainbow Way up high There's a land That I…
People People, People who need people Are the luckiest people in th…
People Get Ready I believe I believe I believe I do believe People get ready…
Piece of My Heart Pain in my heart Is treating me cold Where can my baby…
Pitiful Oh pitiful Pitiful Feel so sorry for me Pitiful It's pitiful…
Pitiful /LP Version What you want, baby, I got it What's you need? You…
Please Answer Me My soul can't last my soul can't last Once in a…
Prayer Invocation by Rev. Cecil Franklin It makes me very happy tonight That my family is here…
Precious Lord Precious Lord, take my hand Lead me on, let me stand I'm…
Precious Lord / You've Got A Friend When you're down and troubled And you need a helping hand …
Precious Lord (Part One) Lead, lead, lead me on to the light Oh, take my…
Precious Lord (Pt. 1) Ain't no harm to moan At, at, oh, at the river…
Precious Lord (Take My Hand), Part 1 Lead, lead, lead me on to the light Oh, take my…
Precious Lord /You've Got a Friend When you're down and troubled And you need a helping hand …
Precious Lord Pt. 1 Lead, lead, lead me on to the light Oh, take my…
Precious Lord Pt. 2 When you're down and troubled And you need a helping hand …
Precious Lord Take My Hand Precious Lord, take my hand, Lead me on, let me stand, I…
Precious Lord Take my Hand / You've Got a Friend You need a friend And Jesus said, "Call my name And I'll…
Precious Lord Take My Hand/You've Got A Friend When you're down and troubled And you need some loving care …
Precious Lord, Pt. 1 Lead, lead, lead me on to the light Oh, take my…
Precious Lord, Pt. 2 Ain't no harm to moan At, at, oh, at the river…
Precious Lord, Take My Hand Precious Lord, take my hand, Lead me on, let me stand, I…
Precious Memories Precious memories, how they linger How they ever flood my so…
Pretender Pretender Ooh, pretender Ohhh Ahhhh I wake myself up every …
Pride...A Deeper Love (Pride) a deeper love (Pride) a deeper love (Pride) a deep…
Prove It Prove it, prove it, prove it, prove it to me Prove That…
Pullin Everyone knew but me that soon you would be callin'…
Push Oh yeah, oh yeah Oh yeah, woo Heavy traffic in the street,…
Put It Back Together Again Woke up to a rainy day Sun dried all of the…
Put You Up On Game Come on over here sweetie I really wanna talk to…
R-E-S-P-E-C-T What you want Baby, I got it What you need Do you know…
R.E.S.P.E.C.T What you want (ho) baby I got it What you need…
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. What you want Baby, I got it What you need Do you know…
Ramblin I've got the blues for the highway Rambling blues, I got…
Reach Out And Touch Reach out and touch Somebody's hand Make this world a better…
Reasons why Rock, let's rock, yeah I used to wonder 'bout a lot…
Remarks By Reverend C L. Franklin We'd like very much to have Aretha's father just come forwar…
Remember Me Remember me i'm the girl you said hello to And gave…
Rescue Me Rescue me Oh take me in your arms Rescue me I want your…
Respect (Ooh) what you want (Ooh) baby, I got (Ooh) what you need (O…
Respect (stereo version) (ooo) What you want (ooo) Baby, I got it (ooo) What you…
Right Now Tell me if you love me Right now Tell me if you…
River's invitation I've been well across the country And I've stayed in every…
Rock a Bye Your Baby Wth a Dixie Melody Rock-a-bye your baby with a Dixie melody When you croon Cro…
Rock Me Babe I'm a roadrunner honey But you can't beat me I'm a roadrun…
Rock Steady Rock steady, baby That's what I feel now Let's call the song…
Rock Steady (Alt mix) Rock steady baby! That's what I feel now Let's call this son…
Rock Steady Instrumental Rock steady, baby That's what I feel now Let's call the song…
Rock With Me Ooh, ooh, ooh, baby I know this is madness A blind man…
Rock-a-bye baby with a dixie melody Rock-a-bye your baby with a Dixie melody When you croon Cro…
Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody Rock-a-bye your baby with a Dixie melody When you croon C…
Rock-A-Lott Rock, rock, rock... It's time to jam, y'all Freaks, ge…
Rocksteady Rock steady, baby That's what I feel now Just call the son…
Rolling In the Deep There's a fire burning in my heart Reaching a fever pitch…
Rose of Washington Square - Oh my God, stand by - No, I said the…
Rough Lover Now, listen here, girls I'm gonna tell you What I want right…
Runnin Sure you haven't got the wrong number You sure it's me…
Satisfaction I can't get no satisfaction I can't get no satisfaction And …
Save Me Save me! Somebody save me Save me! Somebody save me, yeah P…
Say A Little Pray For You The moment I wake up Before I put on my makeup I…
Say a Little Prayer The moment I wake up Before I put on my makeup…
Say Isn't So Say it isn't so, say it isn't so Everyone is saying…
Say it isn It isn't, it wasn't, it ain't never gonna be It isn't,…
Say It Isn't So Say it isn't so, say it isn't so Everyone is saying…
School Days School days School days Dear ole golden Rule days Reading (…
Science You've Been Gone Baby baby, sweet baby There's something that I just got to…
Search On When I talk to you, you seem so confused You don't…
See Saw Sometimes you love me like a good man oughta Sometimes you…
Shangri-La Your kisses take me to Shangri-La Each kiss is magic that…
Share Your Love With Me It's an evil wind that blows no good, yeah It's a…
Shoop Shoop Song Does he love me I wanna know How can I tell…
Signed Sealed Delivered Like a fool I went and stayed too long Now I'm…
Silent Night Silent night, holy night All is calm, all is bright Round yo…
Since You've Been Gone Baby baby, sweet baby There's something that I just got to…
Since Youve Been Gone Baby baby, sweet baby There's something that I just got to…
Sing It Again I'm taking a ride With my best friend I hope he never…
Sister From Texas The sister from texas who's been many places, that's who…
Sisters are do it for themselves Now there was a time when we used to say That…
Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves (with Eurythmics) Now there was a time when they used to say That…
Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves Now there was a time when we used to say That…
Sit Down and Cry Baby, no one could have told me How could they have…
Skylark Skylark Have you anything to say to me? Won't you tell me…
Skylark - Remastered Skylark, have you anything to say to me? Won't you tell…
So Damn Happy My love Oh baby, my love It's always been you You make me…
So Long So long, I hope we'll meet again One day And I'm hoping…
So Soon Here I am In a days of broken-hearted (Baby, baby, baby,…
So Swell When You're Well You know I love you, baby, from A to Z, But…
So Well You know I love you, baby, from A to Z But…
Solitude In my solitude you haunt me With reveries of days gone…
Someday We Hang on to the world as it spins around Just…
Someone Else's Eyes This is my life and it's my right to live The…
Something He Can Feel Shoo do, shoo Shoo do, shoo do do do do Shoo do,…
Somewhere There's a place for us Somewhere there is a place for…
Somewhere over the rainbow Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high There's a land that…
Son Of A Preacher Man Billy Ray was a preacher's son And when his daddy would…
Son of Preacher Man Billy Ray was a preacher's son And when his daddy would…
Soul Serenade Only you can hear my soul serenade I want to be…
Soulville Soulville, Soulville Come on and show me the way to get…
Spanish Harlem (La-la-la la la la la la la la) (La-la-la la la…
Sparkle I sparkle Loving the way that I do (It is true) I…
Spirit In The Dark I'm gettin' the spirit in the dark, hmm-hmm I'm gettin' the…
Suzanne Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You…
Swanee Swanee how I love ya, how I love ya My dear…
Sweet Bitter Love I talked to you today, we've loved each other For so…
Sweet Lover Say I bet you never thought you'd find A sweet lover You'd…
Sweet Passion There comes a time, in every woman's life, When she…
Sweet Sixteen When I first met you, baby Baby, you were just sweet…
Sweet sweet baby Baby baby, sweet baby There's something that I just got to…
Take A Look Take a look in the mirror Look at yourself But don't you…
Take It Like You Give It Take it, take it just like you Give it, oh, oh,…
Take Me With You Take me with you Everywhere you go, honey Take me with you S…
Take My Hand Precious Lord Precious Lord, take my hand Lead me on, let me stand I'm…
takin' another man's place You don't want me And you don't want nobody else to…
Talk To Me Talk To Me Listen, baby There's something I want you to do now Do it…
Teach Me Tonight Did you say, I've got a lot to learn Well, don't…
That The clown with his pants falling down Or the dance that's…
That Lucky Old Sun Up in the mornin' out on the job, work like…
That's All I Want From You That's all, that's all I want from you That's all, that's…
That's Entertainment The clown with his pants falling down Or the dance that's…
That's Life That's life, that's what people say You're riding high in Ap…
That'S The Way I Feel About Ch Huh, you know life is funny when you look at…
Thats all I want from you That's all, that's all I want from you That's all, that's…
Thats Life That's life, that's what people say You're riding high in Ap…
Thats The Way I Feel About Cha Huh, you know life is funny when you look at…
That´s the way i feel Hmm, nobody knows Nobody knows the way I feel this morning I…
The April Fools April fools, April fools April fools, April fools April fool…
The Christmas Song Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping on…
The Christmas Song Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping on yo…
The Day Is Past and Gone The day is past and gone, The evening shades appear; O may…
The Fool On The Hill Day after day, Alone on a hill, The man with the foolish…
The House That Jack Built This is the house that Jack built, y'all Remember this house…
The Long and Winding Road Woah Woah Woah The long and winding road, oh that leads to y…
the lord Our father Which art in heaven Hallowed be Thy, Thy name Th…
The Lord Will Make A Way I know the Lord Will make a way Yes, He will I know…
The Lord's Prayer Our father Which art in heaven Hallowed be Thy, Thy name Th…
The Makings Of You Add a little sugar, honeysuckle And a great big expression o…
The Masquerade Is Over Your eyes don't shine like they used to shine And the…
The Only Thing Missin Ooh Woke up this mornin' to a perfect day I opened my…
The Sha-La Bandit Sha-la-la-la, la, la, baby... Sha-la-la-la, la, la... Sha-la…
The Shoop Shoop Song Does he love me I wanna know How can I tell…
The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) Does he love me? I wanna know! How can I tell if…
The Shoop Shopp Song Does he love me I wanna know How can I tell…
The Thrill Is Gone The thrill is gone The thrill is gone away Thrill…
The Way We Were Memories like the corners of my mind Memories Misty watercol…
The Weight I pulled in to Nazareth, I was feelin' 'bout a…
The Woman Darling, the question has been answered And you tried hard n…
There I saw your face as I hurried past the cafe And…
There Is a Fountain There is a fountain that I see Filled with blood drawn…
There Is No Greater Love There is no greater love Than what I feel for you No…
There's A Star For Everyone Starlight, star bright, falling star that I'm seein' tonight…
Think You better think (think) Think about what you're trying to…
Think Med Blues Brothers You better think (think) think about what you're trying to…
think ( blues brothers version You better think (think) Think about what you're tryin' to …
Think (single version) You better think (think) Think about what you're tryin' to d…
This Bitter Earth This bitter, bitter earth What fruit had passed What good is…
This Christmas Hello? Hi, Merry Christmas, sweetnin' How are you? Oh, I'm c…
This Could Be The Start Of Something You're walkin' along the street, or you're at a party, Or…
This Girl's in Love With You Baby Oh, baby You see this girl This girl's in love with yo…
This Is Oh oh Oh oh If I wanted to, I'd have…
This Is Outtake) Set me free, why don't you babe Get out of my…
This Is For Real Oh oh Oh oh If I wanted to, I'd have…
This Little Light of Mine This little light of mine I’m gonna let it shine This litt…
Thrill Is Gone {From Yesterday's Kiss} The thrill is gone The thrill is gone away Thrill…
Through The Storm Oh oh oh, oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah Love, ooh…
Tighten Up Your Tie Button Up Your Jacket Don't get too comfortable, my boy I'm expecting company Don'…
Tiny Sparrow Come all you fair and tender maiden Be careful how you…
Today I Love Ev'rybody I think the sky is blue Just as far as I…
Today I Sing the Blues Without a word of warning The blues walked in this morning A…
Together Again Well, here we are after so many years Together again, yes,…
Tracks Of My Tears People say I'm the life of the party Beause I tell…
Tree Of Life Outtake) (a poem as lovely as a tree) gather around the tree of…
Trouble in Mind Trouble in mind, yes I'm blue But I won't be blue…
Trouble In Mind (Mono Mix) Trouble in mind, I'm blue But I won't be blue always, 'Cause…
Truth and Honesty I would like to see a show of hands Nothin' concealed,…
Try a Little Tenderness Oh she may be weary Them young girls they do get…
Try a Little Tenderness - Remastered She may be weary Women do get weary Wearing the same shabby…
Try Matty's Everyday I'm making my way to Matty's in the morning Everyda…
Two Sides Of Love Two sides Two sides of love can make me wonder Can lift…
U Can't See Me You've been running around This I know, yeah I ought to pack…
Unforgettable Unforgettable That's what you are Unforgettable Tho' near or…
United Together We've had a hard time You and I Life sent…
Until the Real Thing Comes Along Oh I'd work for you, I'd slave for you, I'd be…
Until You Come Back To Me Though you don't call anymore I sit and wait in vain I…
Until You Say You Love Me Say Can't I hear you say Somethin'? Deep inside, fall on th…
Until You Were Gone I said I didn't need you baby I said I'd get…
Untile You Come Back to Me Though you don't call anymore I sit and wait in vain I…
Walk In The Light Jesus is the light of the world Come on choir Walk in…
Walk On By If you see me walking down the street And I start…
Walk Softly Walk softly when you walk by me 'Cause my heart is…
Watch My Back Darling, darling, darling I want to know, want to know, want…
Weight I pulled in to Nazareth, I was feelin' 'bout a…
What A Diff What a diff'rence a day makes Twenty-four little hours Broug…
What a Diff'rence a Day Makes What a difference a day makes Twenty-four little hours Bro…
What A Difference A Day Made What a difference a day makes Twenty-four little hours Bough…
What a Fool Believes He came from somewhere back in her long ago The sentimental…
What a Friend We Have in Jesus What a friend we have in Jesus All our sins and…
What A Wonderful World I don't know much about my history, now Don't know much…
What Did You Give Monsieur, monsieur, avec tu, mon amour We could be the very…
What I Did For Love Kiss today goodbye The sweetness and the sorrow We did wha…
What if i should ever need you Yeah, I know that it's over And there's nothing that I…
What Now My Love What now my love, now that you've left me How can…
What Y'All Came To Do I been workin' graveyard shifts eight days and no breaks Th…
What You See Is What You Sweat Boyfriend I'm true to you, don't make me blue I thought…
Whatever It Is Whatever it is, it's only the beginning Whatever it takes It…
When i think about you Ooh, baby You give me such a good good feeling So good…
When The Battle Is Over One more time you hurt me You thought you you had…
When The World Was Young It isn't by chance I happen to be a boulevardier,…
When They Ask About You When I go for a walk I meet old friends we…
When You Get Right Down To It When you get right down to it Isn't this moment what…
When You Love Me Like That Love me (Love me right) Come on (Love me right, love me…
Where Are You Where, where are you? Where have you gone without me? I thou…
While the Blood Runs Warm While the blood is running warm in your veins While the…
Who Needs You If you ever need me You know where to call me And…
Who's Zoomin Who Ooh, boy, uh-huh Ah, yeah Oh, oh, oh, oh, ah, yeah You walke…
Who's Zoomin Who? You walked in on the sly Scopin' for love In the crowd,…
Who's Zoomin' Ooh, boy, uh-huh Ah, yeah Oh, oh, oh, oh, ah, yeah You walke…
Who's Zoomin' Who (7" version) Oooh boy... uh, uh-huhh Oh yeahhh... You walked in on the sl…
Who's Zoomin' Who? Ooh, boy, uh-huh Ah, yeah Oh, oh, oh, oh, ah, yeah You walke…
Who's Zooming Who Ooh, boy, uh-huh Ah, yeah Oh, oh, oh, oh, ah, yeah You wa…
Wholy Holy Ah, wholy holy Come together Wholy holy People got to come t…
Wholy Holy [Live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church Lo Ah, wholy holy Come together Wholy holy People got to com…
Whos Zoomin Who Ooh, boy, uh-huh Ah, yeah Oh, oh, oh, oh, ah, yeah You walke…
Why I Sing The Blues Everybody wants to know, they've ask me why I sing…
Why Was I Born Spending these lonesome evenings With nothing to do But to l…
will survive First I was afraid, I was petrified Kept thinking I could…
Willing the forgive I read her letters And I saw her picture And…
Winter Wonderland Sleigh bells ring are you listening? In the lane, snow is…
With Everything I Feel In Me Love you oh I love you baby, yes I do I…
With Pen in Hand With pen in hand You sign your name Today at five…
Without Love All night long, one night I could not sleep for ringing…
Without the One You Love What is romance Without the one you love? Well, it's heartbr…
Without You What is romance Without the one you love? Well, it's heart…
Won Baby, here I am By the railroad track Waiting for my baby He…
Won't Be Long - Remastered Baby, here I am By the railroad tracks Waiting for my baby '…
Wonderful I don't know much about my history, now Don't know much…
Yield Not to Temptation Yield not to temptation For yielding, yielding is sin Each v…
You Add a little sugar, honeysuckle And a great big expression …
You and me Say Can't I hear you say Somethin'? Deep inside, fall on th…
You Are All I Need to Get By Like the sweet morning dew, I took one look at…
You Are My Joy This is love, my darling There's no denying In my responses,…
You Are My Sunshine Ooh, they tell me That into each life Some rain has sure…
You Can You've been running around This I know, yeah I ought to pack…
You Can't Always Get What You Want You can't always get what you want You can't always get…
You Can't Take Me For Granted He loves me He loves me He loves me now I reminisce of…
You Got All The Aces I can see no reason why you wanna leave, baby Well…
You Grow Closer There's a still small voice saying to me "Closer, grow close…
You Keep Me Hangin' On Set me free, why don't you, babe Get out of my…
You Made Me Love You You made me love you I didn’t want to do it…
You Make Me Looking out on the morning rain I used to feel so…
You Make Me Feel Like Looking out on the morning rain I used to feel so…
You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman - Looking out on the morning rain I used to feel so…
You Make Me Feel... Looking out on the morning rain I used to feel…
You Make Me fell Looking out on the morning rain I used to feel so…
You Make My Life Thank you, baby Oh, thank you, baby Oh, you came in my…
You Move Me Say Can't I hear you say Somethin'? Deep inside, fall on th…
You Send Me Darling, you send me Darling, you send me Darling, you send …
You'll Loose a Good Thing If you should lose me, (oh yeah)you'll lose a good…
You'll Never Get To Heaven Lalala Daddy told me always to follow the golden rule And h…
You'll Never Walk Alone When you walk through a storm, Hold your head up…
You're A Sweet Sweet Man I don't care what they say I don't care what they…
You're All I Need To Get By Like the sweet morning dew, I took one look at…
You're Taking Up Another Man's Place You don't want me And you don't want nobody else to…
You've Got a Friend When you're down and troubled And you need a helping hand An…
You've Got Her (You've got her So why not let me be? Let me…
Youll Never Walk Alone When you walk through a storm, Hold your head up…
Young To be young Gifted, and black Oh, what a lovely precious thi…
Young, Gifted and Black Truly young gifted and black. Wo ward oh lowly, precious is …
Your A Sweet Sweet Man You've got enough sugar To start a sugarcane mill And when y…
Your Love Ah ah ah Ah ew ah Ooh boy Do do do do…
Youre All I Need To Get By Like the sweet morning dew, I took one look at…
You´ll Never Get To Heaven Lalala Daddy told me always to follow the golden rule And h…
You’re All I Need To Get By Like the sweet morning dew, I took one look at…
Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart Dear, when you smiled at me, I heard a melody It…