Aretha Franklin

Songwriter: Aretha Franklin Avery Parrish Buddy Feyne Quincy Jones Robert Bruce

[Verse]
You want to feel something so sweet and funky
Boy, you can feel it, feel it floating through your soul
The sooner you show up, baby
The sooner you'll have a groove of me to hold on, hold on
But you gotta come and see me, baby
Cause what I got is too much for me to send to you
I want you, would you come on and see me, baby
Because what I, what I got is too much for me to send to you
Now, what I'm going to do is hold it right here on hot ice
Mister, can you pay the price of the postage to you
It was okay yesterday baby, well it ought a be just right tonight
Oh, it was okay yesterday, baby, it ought a be just right
Just right tonight
Cause what I got is called the good stuff
Baby, have you got a good appetite? Yeah

[Bridge]
How long, baby, how long, baby, how long, baby
How long baby, how long, how long, baby, baby, how long
Just how long you going to take?

[Outro]
Somebody just slapped me with a nasty gym shoe
You ought a not be so okay with it
Yeah, put it on me, throw me all the way out in the alley
How long, baby, how long, how long?
I need you, I need you, I need you, baby
I, I, yeah, how long, how long, baby, how long, baby
How long, how, how?

Aretha Franklin is both a 20th and 21st century musical and cultural icon known simply by her first Aretha. She is the reigning and undisputed “Queen Of Soul” with a legacy that spans five decades. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Aretha began her career singing gospel at her father, minister C. L. Franklin’s church as a child. In 1960, at the age of 18, Aretha embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records with modest success.

After moving to Atlantic Records in 1967, she released a steady string of US top ten hits through 1973 including “Spanish Harlem”, “Chain Of Fools”, “Baby I Love You”, “Since You’ve Been Gone”, “Daydreaming”, “The House That Jack Built”, “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", ”Think“ and her first chart-topper “Respect” – a song that also won Aretha her first of 18 Grammys. During this time, several of her songs were also successful overseas.

By the mid-70s, Aretha’s commercial success waned and she left Atlantic for Clive Davis' Arista Records in 1980. Her 1982 song “Jump to It,” returned her to the top 40 for the first time in six years. 1985’s Who’s Zoomin' Who? got her back into the top 10 twice with its title track and “Freeway Of Love”. Four more songs reached the top 40 through 1986.

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