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The Official Aretha Franklin Thread

I guess Columbia must have forgotten that Soul Sister and Take It Like You Give It were released, but fortunately all of the songs from those albums are going to be in the box set.


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I've heard some of her Columbia stuff and it's pretty good, but as she herself has stated, it wasn't until her Atlantic years that she had free reign to be herself. She has stated that Atlantic "put me in front of a piano and let me go" (or something to this effect). It is nice to see Columbia releasing this set though. Now all we need is a complete Atlantic/Arista collection.

"Complete on Columbia" box set:

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Aretha Franklin's New Album Arriving May 3

"Aretha: A Woman Falling Out of Love," the 38th studio album from Aretha Franklin, will be available exclusively at Walmart stores and Walmart.com beginning May 3. The 12-track album, which features first single "How Long I've Waited," is Franklin's first release since undergoing surgery last December.
 
Aretha Franklin Hints at Biopic Director, Says Voice in Film Will Be Hers

AAretha Franklin's biopic is "still moving, and we're moving towards closing" according to the Queen of Soul.

"We are still hammering things out, all of the different financial aspects," Franklin tells Billboard.com, adding that the film "will be a chronological depiction of my advent from Detroit to New York as a young, aspiring singer... It's going to be pretty straight-up. People who have followed my career from A to Z, they already know some of the things, but there will be other things that are not known."

Franklin says a director is in place but that, "I don't want to use his name until it's on the dotted line." However, she added, "I can tell you that he's had several blockbusters in the last five to 10 years. Go back to the movie 'Ray.'" She did not, however, say whether she meant Taylor Hackford, that film's director, writer and co-producer.

As for a star, Franklin says she's "still thinking between several ladies" and is also going to take the director's list into account. "There's some people who don't have as big a name as other people, but they definitely have the fit and the ability to pull it off," she explains. But her top choice remains Halle Berry, although the Academy Award winner has expressed reservations about having to sing. "I told her, 'No, no one ever expected you to sing, Halle. I never thought of you as a singer,'" Franklin notes. In fact, she promises, the film will feature her own voice and recordings primarily.

"A lot of movies come out where it's the original artist and their songs are lip-sung to," Franklin explains. "That is how it would turn out if it's Halle. If not, if for instance it's Jennifer Hudson, she might sing one or two, but the rest would still be my original records. We're definitely going to use the original records. I may re-record some things, too."

The film is one of a number of projects Franklin is working on since recovering from unspecified surgery back in December. She's planning to hit the studio again in January to record a follow-up to this year's "Aretha: A Woman Falling Out of Love," for a summer 2012 release. "It'll be lots of originals and some of the best duos that I can come up with, and the best creative ideas," she promises. It will also come out on her own Aretha's Records label, which will issue an album in September by her son Eddie, who guests on "A Woman Falling Out of Love."

"I really like being on this side of the fence as well," Franklin says of the label. "It's something more but not a lot more -- nothing I can't handle. I was able to step into that posture pretty easily."

Franklin had a "wonderful" time recording "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" for Tony Bennett's upcoming "Duets II" album and plans to perform the song with him on Sept. 18 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. She's anticipating a "tremendous... absolutely historical moment" when she performs at the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial on Aug. 28, and she's "thrilled" to be receiving the Society of Singers' Legend Award, though she won't be at the ceremony on Sept. 19 in California.

And, of course, the Queen his happy that folks are noticing how good she looks since recovering from surgery. "I'm watching my diet now, really watching it," she acknowledges. "I'm very disciplined now where my diet is concerned -- more water, more walking. I now work out three times a week, either on the track or the treadmill as well. I love food but, you know, food doesn't exactly love you when you overeat. So you've got to be more disciplined.

And, Franklin adds, her singing is benefiting from the new regimen since she returned to performing live in the spring.

"It's better for my maintenance in terms of my energy and my lasting power," she says. "I'm closing stronger, even stronger than ever. And I'm just loving it. My energy, everything is just great. The performances, the reviews, everything has been absolutely smashing. I'm having a really good time."

http://www.billboard.com/#/news/aretha-franklin-hints-at-biopic-director-1005324202.story
 
Long Live the Queen: Aretha Franklin Thrills in Live Return



Eight months after rumors spread that the Queen was dying, Aretha Franklin -- the Queen of Soul -- proved to a hometown crowd that she's very much alive and well.

The 69-year-old Franklin was in robust voice and ebullient good humor throughout her hour-and-50-minute concert on Thursday (Aug. 25) at the DTE Energy Music Theatre in suburban Detroit, putting to rest all those dire health reports after unspecified surgery in December. Cheered on by fellow Motor City diva Anita Baker, who sat in the third row next to Detroit City Council President Charles Pugh, Franklin delivered a 14-song survey of her career, from her spiritual roots ("I Came to Lift Him Up," "Ain't No Way," Juanita Bynum's "One Night With the King") through the key hits ("Respect," "Chain of Fools") and "How Long I've Been Waiting" from her latest album, "Aretha: A Woman Falling Out of Love."

And her expansive, gospel-ized take on Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" was showstoppingly epic.

Franklin opened the set in tribute mode -- though not to any of the music luminaries (Jerry Lieber, Frank DiLeo and Motown luminaries Nick Ashford and Esther Gordy Edwards) who passed away during the week. Instead she entered with an upbeat rendition of fellow Detroiter Jackie Wilson's "Higher and Higher" before paying homage to Curtis Mayfield with "Giving Him Something He Can Feel" and Luther Vandross with "Get It Right," a 1983 hit he co-wrote for Franklin. She also made mention during the show of her father, the Rev. C.L. Franklin, and her late sisters Erma and Carolyn.

Franklin told the story about Stevie Wonder writing "Until You Come Back to Me" for her before performing that tune and gave some props to her son, Eddie, who was sitting in the crowd and to her grandson Jordan an aspiring contemporary R&B rapper/singer who performed a pair of his songs during Franklin's lone outfit change.

Franklin was due to perform at this weekend's unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial on Aug. 28, which has been canceled due to impending weather. She'll perform with Tony Bennett on Sept. 18 at New York's Metropolitan Opera -- she sings "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" with him on Bennett's upcoming "Duets II" -- and has shows booked in October St. Louis, Durrham, N.C., and Nashville.

She'll also be hosting a gospel concert featuring Bynum, Karen Clark Sheard and others on Oct. 28 at her father's New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, and Franklin plans to attend but not perform at the Nov. 5 tribute concert honoring her the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 16th annual American Music Masters series.

http://www.billboard.com/#/news/long-live-the-queen-aretha-franklin-thrills-1005330362.story
 
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoIef4QTIhg&feature=related[/ame]

Go straight to 3:05 for the real laughs.
 
Aretha Franklin Honors Whitney Houston at Radio City Concert

Aretha Franklin was thankful to be alive and was thinking about lost friends, among them Whitney Houston.

Hours after she canceled an appearance at Houston's funeral because of spasms in her legs, the "Queen of Soul" (the "undisputed" Queen, the capacity audience was reminded by the show's announcer) was quick on her feet, feisty in voice and sentimental and sassy in spirit at Radio City Music Hall on Saturday night. It was the latest stop on a "greatest hits" tour featuring old favorites and, since Houston's shocking death a week ago, a tribute to the fallen singer. Franklin is close to Houston's family, and she said Houston called her "Aunt Ree."

Franklin herself was rumored a year ago to be mortally ill, hospitalized with an undisclosed illness and asking her fans worldwide to pray for her health. On Saturday, the 69-year-old looked young enough to joke about a man who had mistaken her for being in her 50s. She danced and shimmied, kicked off her heels and paced the stage barefoot, and even smirked and gave herself a couple of satisfied pats on the rear.


he looked back over a 50-year career and those who helped her along. Franklin praised the late Luther Vandross as she kicked off the R&B hit he co-wrote for her, "Get It Right." She introduced her most heartbreaking ballad, "Ain't No Way," with a brief word about her sister and the song's composer, Carolyn Franklin, who died in 1988. She sang the title from the classic Motown anthem of devotion, "You're All I Need To Get By," and two giant flat screens on opposite sides of the stage flashed a picture of one of the writers, Nick Ashford, who died last summer. Franklin then called out to Ashford's widow and songwriting partner, Valerie Simpson, among several friends and family members in attendance.

Houston's turn came during the second half of the roughly 100-minute concert, after Franklin had changed from a glittery green and silver caftan into a caftan of white and gold, and settled behind the piano and sketched out the words and melody to "I Will Always Love You." Softening Houston's all-time power ballad into a light, gospel reverie, Franklin paused to acknowledge the "homegoing" of "Nippy," Houston's nickname: More formally, "Miss Whitney Elizabeth Houston."

"She was a very fine young lady" and "one of the best, greatest singers," said Franklin, breaking back and forth between melody and spoken word, behind song and sermon. "She was giving, gave so much of herself."

"God bless you, Nippy," she concluded. "We'll always remember."

But no one, Houston included, has displaced Franklin at the top. No one would dare. Backed by a sprawl of percussionists, horns, keyboards, singers and dancers, she has absorbed and mastered so many styles, from pop and gospel to soul and jazz, that she can hold entire traditions within a single song. And she remains fearless about shaking up standards. Her breakthrough smash from 1967, "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" was changed from a smoldering ballad into a bluesy vamp. Franklin worked in a few digs about womanizing into the otherwise despondent "Ain't No Way" and stretched and scatted the words to "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman."

She had come to celebrate, to sell (Franklin urged the crowd, twice, to go to Walmart and buy her latest record) and to heal. "I hope that there's something I will sing, or I have sung, that will lift all of our heavy hearts today," she said near the beginning of the show.

The answer was obvious, especially after the closing numbers: an explosive "Spirit in the Dark," with Franklin leading the charge on piano; and the essential finale, "Respect," with a cameo from the Rev. Al Sharpton, who pulled off some James Brown strides, and even a few nimble steps from the Queen herself, whose heart and legs seemed to have lightened as she left the stage.

Tribute to Whitney - I will always love you - Aretha Franklin @ RadioCity NYC 02/17/12

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http://www.billboard.com/news#/events/aretha-franklin-honors-whitney-houston-at-1006232152.story
 
bet miketlow will be excited since he's such a big fan.

Aretha Franklin To Reunite With Clive Davis For New Album

Aretha Franklin has a lot more than her 70th birthday to celebrate: She's reuniting with one of her musical mentors, Clive Davis, for a new album.

In an interview at her swanky birthday party on Saturday, Franklin said she and Davis, who helped engineer her comeback in the 1980s, would be working on new music.

"I have re-signed with Clive Davis, so I'm recording with Clive again," said Franklin of the music mogul, who is associated with Sony Music Entertainment.

Franklin said that after Davis' birthday next month, "we're going to sit together and decide what it is we're going to record."

http://www.billboard.com/#/news/aretha-franklin-to-reunite-with-clive-davis-1006577152.story
 
Re: Aretha

Interesting. I am not a fan of her voice but it would interesting to hear some of her remakes if in fact she does this.
 
Re: Aretha

Aretha is really amazing. Look forward to listening to the new music and see what she does with those songs.
 
"American singer and musician Aretha Franklin, who received an honorary degree at Harvard University's 2014 Commencement, opened the Morning Exercises in Tercentenary Theatre with a rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as she sang and played piano."

 
At her best I think she is my fave female singer probably ever! Love her late '60s-early '70s tone and clear-as-a-bell high notes. Her voice combined sweetness and power. Oh so much power!

"Lady Soul" is my fave solo female album probably :). It's classic! Every single song I love and I only have like five albums TOTAL I can say that about.

After a certain time (in the 70s I guess) she kinda lost it for me musically, so I'm really only interested in late 60s-early 70s from her mostly, though "Sisters Are Doin it For Themselves" and "I Knew You Were Waiting For Me" in the 80s are really good, fun tracks :).

I enjoy her performances at '98 Diva's Live concert too. She kinda rolled back the clock for those and seemed to sing better than she had for the rest of the mid-80s-90s (at least for me). She was even belting (like, fully belting! and not just falsetto-ing) some notes that I thought she couldn't hit anymore at that stage.

Anyway I love Aretha Franklin. For me she only had a small musical peak, but what a peak it was. It's better to have a few years of awesomeness than a decades career of mediocrity.
 
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