Aretha Franklin

When love leaves & breaks your heart
Your dreams simply fall apart
You see a world sad & blue
So unfamiliar to you
You look for lips that you once kissed
But they're lost in mist
Oh oh oh oh it's funny
How nothing seems quite so clear
When you're looking through a tear
The face in the crowd
You see is her face
All seems to fade in the shade of her glory
And you wait for the chance
To catch another glance
But she really wasn't there
Her words linger in your ear
Goodbye is all that you can hear
It couldn't happen to you
But all at once love is through
It's funny
How nothing seems clear
When you're looking through a tear

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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