Released: November 16, 1964

Songwriter: Larry Harrison Jimmy Williams

Producer: Clyde Otis

[Verse 1]
My love has no beginning, my love has no end
No front, no back, and my love won't bend
And I'm in the middle, lost in a spin

[Chorus]
Loving you
And you don't know, you don't know, you don't know, you don't know
You don't know how glad I am

[Verse 2]
My love has no bottom, my love has no top
My love won't rise, and my love won't drop
And I'm in the middle, and I can't stop

[Chorus]
Loving you
And you don't know, you don't know, you don't know
You don't know how glad I am

[Bridge]
I wish I were a poet, so that I could express
What I, what I'd like to say
I wish I were an artist, so that I could paint a picture
Of how I feel (How I feel), see what I feel (What I feel) today

[Verse 3]
My love has no walls on either side
That makes my love wider than wide
And I'm in the middle, and I can't hide

[Outro]
Loving you
And you don't know, you couldn't, you don't know
You couldn't, you don't know just how glad I am
And you don't know, you don't know, you don't know, you don't know
How glad I am

Aretha Franklin

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.