Atlantic (1967–1979)

Franklin in 1967

 

 

In November 1966, Franklin's Columbia recording contract expired and she chose to move 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 reached 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". 

Queen of Soul and All Her Glamour

Different Styles of the Queen of Soul

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; he would bring her on the road with him during his so-called "gospel caravan" tours for her to perform in various churches.

 He also helped Franklin sign her first recording deal with J.V.B. Records. Recording equipment was installed inside New Bethel Baptist Church and nine tracks were recorded. Franklin was featured on vocals and piano.

 In 1956, J-V-B released Franklin's first single, "Never Grow Old", backed with "You Grow Closer". "Precious Lord (Part One)" backed with "Precious Lord (Part Two)" followed in 1959. These four tracks, with the addition of "There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood", were released on side one of the 1956 album, Spirituals. This was reissued by Battle Records in 1962 under the same title.

 In 1965, Checker Records released Songs of Faith, featuring the five tracks from the 1956 Spirituals album, with the addition of four previously unreleased recordings.
During this time, Franklin would occasionally travel with The Soul Stirrers. According to music producer Quincy Jones, while Franklin was still young, Dinah Washington let him know, "Aretha was the ‘next one’".

 In 1958, Franklin and her father traveled to California, where she met singer Sam Cooke. At the age of 16, Franklin went on tour with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and she would ultimately sing at his funeral in 1968.

Aretha Louise Franklin Born 3-25-1942

Aretha Louise Franklin 

was born March 25, 1942, to Barbara (née Siggers) and Clarence LaVaughn "C. L." Franklin. She was delivered at her family's home located at 406 Lucy Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee. Her father was a Baptist minister and circuit preacher originally from Shelby, Mississippi. Her mother was an accomplished piano player and vocalist.

 Both Mr. and Mrs. Franklin had children from prior relationships in addition to the four children they had together. When Aretha was two, the family relocated to Buffalo, New York. By the time Aretha turned five, C. L. Franklin had permanently relocated the family to Detroit, where he took over the pastorship of the New Bethel Baptist Church.

 The Franklins had a troubled marriage due to Mr. Franklin's infidelities, and they separated in 1948.  At that time, Barbara Franklin returned to Buffalo with Aretha's half brother, Vaughn.  After the separation, Aretha recalled seeing her mother in Buffalo during the summer, and Barbara Franklin frequently visited her children in Detroit.

 Aretha's mother died of a heart attack on March 7, 1952, before Aretha's tenth birthday.  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.  She also attended public school in Detroit; going through her freshman year at Northern High School, but dropping out during her sophomore year^.
 
Aretha's father's emotionally driven sermons resulted in his being known as the man with the "million-dollar voice". He earned thousands of dollars for sermons in various churches across the country.  

 His celebrity status led to his home being visited by various celebrities. Among the visitors were gospel musicians Clara Ward, James Cleveland, and early Caravans members Albertina Walker and Inez Andrews. Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Wilson and Sam Cooke all became friends of C. L. Franklin, as well.  Singer Clara Ward 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.

Aretha Louise Franklin Recoreded 112 Singles on Billboard

Franklin recorded 112 charted singles on Billboard, including 77 Hot 100 entries, 17 top-ten pop singles, 100 R&B entries, and 20 number-one R&B singles, becoming the most charted female artist in history. 

Franklin's other well-known hits include "Rock Steady", "Call Me", "Ain't No Way", Don't Play That Song (You Lied)", "Spanish Harlem", "Day Dreaming", "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)", "Something He Can Feel", "Jump to It", "Freeway of Love", "Who's Zoomin' Who", and "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (a duet with George Michael).

 She won 18 Grammy Awards, including the first eight awards given for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance from 1968 through to 1975, and she is one of the best-selling musical artists of all time, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide.

Franklin received numerous honors throughout her career, including a 1987 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the first female performer to be inducted, the National Medal of Arts, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 

She was inducted to the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005 and to the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2012. 

Franklin is listed in two all-time lists by Rolling Stone magazine, including the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.

In 2008 she was ranked by Rolling Stone as the No. 1 greatest singer of all time.

Pink Cadillacs For Aretha Franklin

A pink Cadillac outside the viewing of Aretha Franklin at the Detroit's Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History on Tuesday.

Jeff Kowalsky/AFP/Getty Images

Bible Verses about the Word of God - NIV & KJV

		All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.			All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

	Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.	Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Psalm 119:105 | NIV	KJV

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.	But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
James 1:22 | NIV	KJV |

How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word.	Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
Psalm 119:9 | NIV	KJV |

The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.	The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Isaiah 40:8 | NIV	KJV |

He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”	But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
Luke 11:28 | NIV	KJV |

As for God, his way is perfect: The Lord’s word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him.	As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.
Psalm 18:30 | NIV	KJV |

Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.	Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock.
Matthew 7:24 | NIV	KJV |

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.	Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Matthew 24:35 | NIV	KJV |

Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation. Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life.	Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; Holding forth the word of life.
Philippians 2:14-16a | NIV	KJV |

The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.	The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
Psalm 119:130 | NIV	KJV |

Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”	But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Matthew 4:4 | NIV	KJV |

For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.	For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and ma			rrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12 | NIV	KJV |

RESPECT - Aretha Louise Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin 

(March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018)

 was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Franklin began her career as a child singing gospel at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan where her father C. L. Franklin was minister. She embarked on a secular career in 1960 at 18, recording for Columbia Records but achieving only modest success.

 Franklin achieved commercial success and acclaim after signing with Atlantic Records in 1966, with songs such as "Respect", "Chain of Fools", "Think", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", and "I Say a Little Prayer". 

By the end of the 1960s, she was called "The Queen of Soul". Franklin recorded acclaimed albums such as I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967), Lady Soul (1968), Spirit in the Dark (1970), Young, Gifted and Black (1972), Amazing Grace (1972), and Sparkle (1976) before experiencing problems with her record company. 

She left Atlantic in 1979 and signed with Arista Records, finding success with the albums Jump to It (1982) and Who's Zoomin' Who? (1985) and with her part in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. Franklin received international acclaim for singing the opera aria "Nessun dorma" at the Grammy Awards of 1998, replacing Luciano Pavarotti.

 Later that year, she scored her final Top 40 song with "A Rose Is Still a Rose", and her stage performance at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2015 was highly praised.

TV Awards of Aretha Franklin

TV Land Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2012	Music Icon	Aretha Franklin	Won

NAACP Image Awards of Aretha Louise Franklin

NAACP Image Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1997	Hall of Fame Award	Aretha Franklin	Won
2008	Vanguard Award		Won
2015	Outstanding Album	"Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics"	Won

American Music Awards -- Aretha Franklin

American Music Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1983	Favorite Soul/R&B Album	"Jump to It"	Won
	Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist	Aretha Franklin	Nominated
1984			Won
1986			Won
1987	Favorite Soul/R&B Female Video Artist

18 Grammy Awards

Grammy Awards

Franklin was nominated for a Grammy Award 44 times and was the award winner 18 times. Eleven of her albums were nominated, winning four times.

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1968	Best Rhythm & Blues Solo Vocal Performance, Female	"Respect"	Won
	Best Rhythm & Blues Recording		Won
	Best Vocal Performance, Female	"Respect" (single)	Nominated
	Best Contemporary Female Solo Vocal Performance	"(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (single)	Nominated
1969	Best Contemporary–Pop Vocal Performance, Female	"I Say A Little Prayer" (single)	Nominated
	Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance, Female	"Chain of Fools"	Won
1970	Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female	"Share Your Love with Me" (track from the This Girl's in Love with You album)	Won
1971		"Don't Play That Song" (track from the Spirit in the Dark album)	Won
1972		"Bridge Over Troubled Water"	Won
1973	Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female	Young, Gifted and Black (album)	Won
	Best Soul Gospel Performance	Amazing Grace (album)	Won
	Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female	"Day Dreaming" (track from the Young, Gifted and Black album)	Nominated
	Best Soul Gospel Performance	"Precious Memories" (track from the Amazing Grace album)	Nominated
1974	Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female	"Master of Eyes (The Deepness of Your Eyes)" (track from the Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky) album)	Won
1975		"Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" (track from the Let Me in Your Life album)	Won
1977		"Something He Can Feel" (track from the Music from the Warner Bros. Picture "Sparkle" album)	Nominated
1978		"Break It to Me Gently" (track from the Sweet Passion album)	Nominated
1979		Almighty Fire (album)	Nominated
1981		"I Can't Turn You Loose" (track from the Aretha album)	Nominated
1982		"Hold On! I'm Comin'" (track from the Love All the Hurt Away album)	Won
1983		Jump to It (album)	Nominated
1984		Get It Right (album)	Nominated
1986	Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female	"Freeway of Love" (track from the Who's Zoomin' Who? album)	Won
	Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals	"Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" (duet with Eurythmics) (track from the Who's Zoomin' Who? album)	Nominated
1987	Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female	"Jumpin' Jack Flash" (track from the Aretha album)	Nominated
1988	Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female	Aretha (album)	Won
	Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals	"I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (duet with George Michael) (track from the Aretha album)	Won
1989	Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female	One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism (album)	Won
	Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo, Group, Choir or Chorus	"Oh Happy Day" (track from the One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism album)	Nominated
1990	Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female	Through the Storm (album)	Nominated
	Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal	"Gimme Your Love" (duet with James Brown on her Through the Storm album)	Nominated
		"It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be" (duet with Whitney Houston on Franklin's Through the Storm album)	Nominated
1992	Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female	What You See Is What You Sweat (album)	Nominated
	Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal	"Doctor's Orders" (duet with Luther Vandross on her What You See Is What You Sweat album)	Nominated
1994	Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female	"Someday We'll All Be Free" (from the Malcolm X film's soundtrack)	Nominated
1995		"A Deeper Love" (track from the Greatest Hits: 1980–1994 album)	Nominated
1999	Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female	"A Rose Is Still a Rose" (track from the A Rose Is Still A Rose album)	Nominated
	Best R&B Album (first awarded in 1995)	A Rose Is Still a Rose	Nominated
2000	Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal	"Don't Waste Your Time" (duet with Mary J. Blige on the latter's Mary album)	Nominated
2004	Best R&B Album	So Damn Happy	Nominated
	Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance	"Wonderful" (track from the So Damn Happy album)	Won
2006	Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance	"A House Is Not a Home" (track from the So Amazing: An All-Star Tribute to Luther Vandross album)	Won
2008	Best Gospel Performance	"Never Gonna Break My Faith" (duet with Mary J. Blige) (track from the Bobby film's soundtrack) (tied with The Clark Sisters for "Blessed & Highly Favored")	Won
2011	Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals	"You've Got a Friend" (duet with Ronald Isley on his Mr. I album)	Nominated

Grammy Special Awards --- Aretha Louise Franklin

Aretha Franklin awards and nominations

Franklin at the White House after being honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, November 9, 2005 (alongside Robert Conquest, left, and Alan Greenspan)
Awards and nominations
Totals
Awards won	28
Nominations	32

Grammy Special Awards

 

Year	Award	Result
1991	Legend Award	Won
1994	Lifetime Achievement Award	Won
2008	MusiCares Person of the Year	Won

Filmography ---- Aretha Franklin

 

 

• 1972: Black Rodeo (documentary)
• 1980: The Blues Brothers (as Mrs. Murphy)
• 1990: Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (documentary)
• 1998: Blues Brothers 2000 (as Mrs. Murphy)
• 2003: Tom Dowd & the Language of Music (documentary)
• 2012: The Zen of Bennett (documentary)
• 2013: Muscle Shoals (documentary)

Aretha Louise Franklin------Music Albums

Studio Albums

• Aretha: With The Ray Bryant Combo (1961)
• The Electrifying Aretha Franklin (1962)
• The Tender, the Moving, the Swinging Aretha Franklin (1962)
• Laughing on the Outside (1963)
• Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington (1964)
• Runnin' Out of Fools (1964)
• Yeah!!! (1965)
• Soul Sister (1966)
• Take It Like You Give It (1967)
• I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967)
• Aretha Arrives (1967)
• Lady Soul (1968)
• Aretha Now (1968)
• Soul '69 (1969)
• Soft and Beautiful (1969)
• This Girl's in Love with You (1970)
• Spirit in the Dark (1970)
• Young, Gifted and Black (1972)
• Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky) (1973)
• Let Me in Your Life (1974)
• With Everything I Feel in Me (1974)
• You (1975)
• Sweet Passion (1977)
• Almighty Fire (1978)
• La Diva (1979)
• Aretha (1980)
• Love All the Hurt Away (1981)
• Jump to It (1982)
• Get It Right (1983)
• Who's Zoomin' Who? (1985)
• Aretha (1986)
• Through the Storm (1989)
• What You See Is What You Sweat (1991)
• A Rose Is Still a Rose (1998)
• So Damn Happy (2003)
• This Christmas, Aretha (2008)
• Aretha: A Woman Falling Out of Love (2011)
• Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics (2014)

Aretha Franklin's Honorary Degrees

Honorary Degrees

Franklin received honorary degrees from Harvard University and New York 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 Case Western Reserve University 2011 and Wayne State University in 1990 and an honorary Doctor of Law degree by Bethune–Cookman University in 1975.

We Will Miss You.....Aretha Louise Franklin

Aretha Franklin
Franklin in 1968
Born	Aretha Louise Franklin March 25, 1942 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Died	August 16, 2018 (aged 76) Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Occupation	Singer pianist
Years active	1956–2017
Home town	Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Spouse(s)	Ted White (m. 1961; div. 1969) Glynn Turman (m. 1978; div. 1984)
Children	4
Parent(s)	Clarence LaVaughn Franklin Barbara Siggers Franklin
Relatives	Erma Franklin (sister) Carolyn Franklin (sister) Cecil Franklin (brother)
Awards	Aretha Franklin's awards
Musical career
Genres	Soul R&B pop gospel jazz
Instruments	Vocals piano
Labels	J.V.B Columbia Atlantic Arista RCA
Website	arethafranklin.net
Signature

Smokey Robinson

Full Of Closure

Today Show

Rock Of Ages ----- New Bethel Baptist Church-----Detroit, Michigan

The Blues Brothers

I Say A Little Prayer

CNN

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Ever Changing Times

60 Minutes

Carole King and Rev. AL Sharpton Remembers Queen of Soul

Obama's Inaugration