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::MUSIC NEWS::
LE Newsletter -
November 5, 2009
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Aretha Franklin: Giving The Queen Of Soul
Her Propers
Source:
www.globeandmail.com -
Brad Wheeler
(November 03, 2009)
What
you want, baby I got it. In 1967,
Aretha Franklin
spelled it out
with a roundhouse opening-blow entrance to the song Respect
, even before she literally said the letters on the
sock-it-to-you chorus R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means
to me. And the backups chirped, just a little bit, just a
little bit.
Franklin arrives at Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall on Friday Nov. 6
as the long-reigning Queen of Soul, but her talent isn't limited
to one genre or even to her head-turning voice. She was
gospel-trained and had a nice touch with pop too listen to her
sublime take on Burt Bacharach and Hal David's I Say a Little
Prayer . Atlantic Records producer and executive Jerry
Wexler thought the world of her piano playing, describing her
style as a combination of Mildred Falls Mahalia Jackson's
accompanist and Thelonious Monk. In other words, Wexler
wrote in 2004, Aretha brought a touch of jazz to her gospel
piano.
On the night before Franklin's version of Respect was
released, the song's writer and original singer Otis Redding
listened to a tape of it in Wexler's office. He said, She done
took my song, and he was so right. |
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