By the time album closer comes on (a cover of Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come”) you have been rebirthed by fire and come to worship at the altar of the Queen of Soul. Feelgood (Love Is A Serious Business)” and the garage-soul rocker “Save Me” (hints of Them’s “Gloria” on this one).
Throughout the album Franklin is at times gritty and soft, adding a subtle sexiness on tunes like “Dr. The b-side to the title track, “Do Right Woman – Do Right Man” was also a hit with its gentle plea for fidelity and loving. The title track has Franklin lamenting how much in love she is with a liar and a cheat and it’s a powerful combination of gospel and R&B about love in spite of betrayal. “Respect,” written by Otis Redding, became her first number one pop hit, a feminist anthem that demanded respect from her man for all that she does for him. Recorded at Fame Studio in Muscle Shoals and Atlantic’s New York Studios with a flown-in Muscle Shoals rhythm section, I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You was released in 1967 and with it Aretha Franklin finally proved she was indeed the star everyone thought her capable of becoming. No matter what he was singing, Sam Cooke brought a soulful delivery that connected with teenage and adult audiences of all races.Īretha Franklin: I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You It’s a polished effort, combining fun upbeat tracks with emotional ballads and closing with an Appalachian traditional. Ain’t That Good News includes a mix of Cooke originals and covers, the most popular of which are “Another Saturday Night,” “Good Times,” “(Ain’t That) Good News,” and “A Change Is Gonna Come,” an anthem for the civil rights movement. Having recently negotiated a new contract with RCA, Cooke had more control in choosing the music he recorded and which backing musicians to use this control results in one of his most critically acclaimed albums and signaling a more mature direction. He had a voice that was both warm and rough smooth enough to sing Irving Berlin to bring in pop fans and hard enough to rock listeners with dance numbers like “Another Saturday Night.” Ain’t That Good News (1964) was the last studio album released before he died. Often credited as the inventor of soul music, Sam Cooke was already well-known in gospel music before embarking on a career in R&B and pop. To quote the opening lines of one of my favorite classic soul songs by Arthur Conley (co-written with Otis Redding): “Do you like good music? That sweet soul music?” If so, here are 10 classic soul records you absolutely need to hear. And there’s nothing like listening to a classic soul record where you can literally feel how deeply the singers are connected with the songs they’re singing, how the rhythm sections keep time with the melody, helping it stay down-home or lifting it up sky high. As vinyl consumers, our interest in analog is a reflection of our interest in authentic connections with music. In addition to artists are the fans themselves. Revivalists like Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings and Leon Bridges are keeping traditional soul alive and other genres like hip-hop and pop are doing their best to pay homage to their soul influences. Over the last several years there has been a renewed interest in classic soul. By the '60s there were more distinct regional sounds like Southern and Memphis soul and Chicago soul with those differences inspired by record labels like Stax, Atlantic, Chess, and Motown (Detroit soul).
It began in the '50s with artists like Sam Cooke and James Brown. It is born from the spirit and the secular, having an emphasis on vocalists and making use of a traditional call-and-response between the lead singer and chorus, but instead of strictly spiritual themes, it melds those themes with desire and heartbreak. Soul music combines elements from R&B and African-American gospel music.
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