I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

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But hearing the difference between those more restrained performances and these early Atlantic albums is like someone flipping on a light switch. And at least some of the credit can go to producer Jerry Wexler and those simpatico musicians. And, as you can see, a well-reasoned, fact-based argument puts my nitpickery to shame—as it should. Because what am I doing?

I'm complaining about the Muscle Shoals contingent not being nearly as good as the Stax contingent, which, when you get right down to it, is like comparing fudge to fudge with nuts—they both taste awesome. Unless you are allergic to nuts.

A lot gets made out of certain artists "opening the door", for a bunch of other artists to make it big. Recently, I've heard some mumbling about how Adele's success is somehow tied to Amy Winehouse "opening the door" for her, although I'm still trying to figure out that correlation. But be that as it may, do you think it would be safe to say that is was Franklin who kicked down the door in the first place and forced the criterati to take notice of the fairer sex?

You know, you may be on to something there, Mendelsohn. Prior to Aretha Franklin, critics were less likely to view female pop musicians as artists in their own right. Perhaps it's thanks to her jazzish years at Columbia that she was distanced from, say, her Motown contemporaries and given a chance to be considered as something more than a singer. Maybe it's she combines the unbridled ecstasy of gospel with the control of jazz.

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Either way, the impact is undeniable. When you're hearing a singer with as much power as Aretha, it's hard not to think you're in the presence of something truly special. Sort of like how feel when you watch Corky Sherwood. Well into her 30s, silent film star Mary Pickford was the waif-iest waif in film history, and the number of convincing variations she wrung on this theme is remarkable.

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William Welllman has made elegant use of shadows to convey serious issues before, and uses them in silent film You Never Know Women with a flourish. Popmatters is wholly independently owned and operated. If you want a do right, all day woman, look no further than the 81st Most Acclaimed Album of All-Time, a landmark soul serenade from Aretha Franklin. Aretha Franklin Soul Counterbalance.

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Kaz James Remixes Tall Heights' "The Deep End" premiere Australian producer Kaz James gives the song by the electro-folk outfit a deep house makeover, turning into a guaranteed floor-filler. The 70 Best Albums of Despite her religious upbringing, she had two children by the age of 16, who were left to be raised by their grandmother when their mother left to seek a better life in New York. It would be almost another ten years before she found the recognition she deserved and worked so hard for.

She was massively in debt when she parted company with her previous record label, Colombia, and signed to Atlantic in It was producer Jerry Wexler that transformed the still-young hopeful into what she became and remains to be today, the Queen of Soul.

Franklin said herself of this period: The girl from Detroit brought the church into the forefront of mainstream music. It features some of her best known songs including her first Billboard number one pop hit and number ten in the UK.

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Despite only making it to number two in the charts and with total album sales of only , at the time, it put Aretha up there with the daddies of soul - Otis, Ray Charles, Al Green, Marvin Gaye. They were invited to Atlantic Studios in New York to complete the album. There were many other covers on the albm: There are also songs by the unheralded Henry Glover , and Ronnie Shannon.

The more you look into it, the more interesting this album —which is already stellar on the surface— becomes. Cooke had died just months before. In the book Singles: Simms says he was promised credit, which he never received. At any rate, Aretha had heard the song. Still, commercial success had been avoiding her, and she began working into her sets the challenge of taking on an Otis Redding song. The end of her contract with Columbia, and her pushing herself at the piano would result in the definitive version of the song.

The backup singers to lively up her version with ad-libbed colloquials: In the late 60s the civil rights struggle was at a boiling point.

In in Birmingham , just miles from Muscle Shoals four girls had been murdered in a church bombing. The Ku Klux Klan was a very real terrorist threat to life down south. People, especially black women, were fed up, and wanted respect. Aretha was here to offer it, along with an anthem. If you listen closely to both versions it becomes a feminist anthem with the change of one word.

It would later become a hit for Ray Charles in The timing of the song makes it seem as if the band is inter-connected by a network of mycellium rather than musical know-how.

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