8/04/2008

Aretha Franklin

See previous post: http://missdelite3.blogspot.com/2008/07/amazing-gracearetha-franklin.html

The Shoop Shoop Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAueAEO8Abk

Night Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTXpXO6jQHg

Chain of Fools
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK-g4ye7nmI

Respect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6C83lwwxJ8

(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbYOKKyz3Qg

I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDoO9s73jV0

I Say A Little Prayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STKkWj2WpWM

Don't Play That Song For Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAa8vwmeewU

Until You Come Back to Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDtWm4rRaq8

Call Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlPtCv66LVg&feature=related

I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)
w/George Michael
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuU0cJ_iW8w

O Happy Day
w/Mavis Staples
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvlEOldamEw

Precious Lord
(she's 14 yrs old)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgTnA9FseWw&feature=related

Aretha Franklin is the second most honored female singer in Grammy history (after Alison Krauss). She has won twenty Grammy Awards, which includes the Living Legend Grammy and the Lifetime Achievement Grammy. Aretha won eight consecutive awards between 1968 and 1975,during which time the category of Best Female R&B Vocal Performance was nicknamed "The Aretha Award".

Franklin has had a total of twenty number-one singles on the Billboard R&B Singles Chart. Two of them became #1 hit songs on the Billboard Hot 100 as well, "Respect" in the 1960s and her 1980s duet with George Michael, "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)".

(Wikipedia)