Aretha Franklin

Songwriter: Luther Dixon Willie Denson

Producer: John Hammond

[Verse]
It's been a blue holiday since you've been gone
Oh darling, won't you hurry, hurry home
It's been a blue, a blue holiday, and I'm all alone
My dear, I need your love to keep, to keep me warm

[Bridge]
I cry when I hear the chapel bells ring
And sometimes I cry all through the night
Won't you please come home
And make my, make my holiday right

[Outro]
It's been a blue, oh, yes it has, it's been a blue holiday
And I'm all alone
My dear, I need your love, your love to keep me, keep me warm
It's been a blue, yeah
Oh, been blue since you, since you've been gone, yeah, yeah

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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