Aretha Franklin

Songwriter: Jeffrey Cohen Preston Glass Walter Afanasieff

Producer: Narada Michael Walden

[Verse 1]
Here in my book of memories
Each page remembers you and me
Running in the rain, laughing in the sunshine
We used to share our kisses and dreams
Now you've gone to some distant shore
What happened to the boy next door?
Wherever you are I wonder if you'd cherish
The special joys we shared yesterday

[Chorus]
Do you still remember?
Do you still recall? (Recall)
Memories so tender
Didn't we have something after all?
Do you still remember?

[Verse 2]
Come here, and let me breathe you in
Ooh, you have haven't lost that same old grin
I know what you want and I'll confess to one thing
It's never been as good as it was then

[Chorus]
Do you still remember?
Do you still recall? (Recall)
Memories so tender
Didn't we have something after all? Ooh

[Bridge]
Why we fought each other?
I will never know
But I can´t seem to shake the past
If we had another chance to make it go
I wonder could we make it last?
Oh

[Chorus]
Do you still remember?
Do you still recall?
Memories so tender (Oh, so tender)
Didn't we have something after all?
(I'm so glad that you stopped by last night, baby)
Do you still remember?
(Oh yeah, yes, I am, yeah)
Do you still recall? (Still recall)
Memories so tender
(Ooh, ooh, you're so good to me, boy)
Didn't we have something after all?
(Yeah)
Do you still remember?
Do you still recall? (Still recall)
(Come on, come on, come on, come on with your come on, baby)
Memories so tender
(You know we had it all)

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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