Stephen Colbert aired a clip the other night of Aretha singing at the Kennedy Center Honors for Carole King that he hosted. Nice.
One must always remember all those songs that Carole wrote that other people made famous.
I think Carole had a hit with Natural Woman, too, didn’t she? I was watching a documentary about Carole just the other day and somebody mentioned that the lyrics to that song were written by Gerry Goffin. It’s just such a great song, with great lyrics. When my soul was in the lost and found, you came along to claim it. sigh.
It was originally written for [Aretha]((You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman). Later Carole put her own version on Tapestry. The album was a big hit, her version of the song not so much. It got some airplay on “album-oriented” FM stations.
Thanks, that’s interesting. A lot of the Goffin/King songs were for others in the 60s, weren’t they, and Tapestry came out in 1970 or around then? Carole’s version of “will you still love me tomorrow” came out after the Shirelles had a hit with it, didn’t it? (sorry, I could look all this up, I’m just waffling).
To me, “Natural Woman” is Aretha’s song. Other songs, I can appreciate more other artists’ versions, but not that one.
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How does she not have a Will?
when you have timeless music that will never die you forget these things.
When I was in the limo on the way to the church to get married (to Andy L), one of the songs on the radio was “Like a Natural Woman”. It’s one of my favorites.
The funeral sounds kind of lit – Farrakhan on the dais next to Sharpton and Clinton, and the bishop fondled Ariana Grande’s breast.
He also made an inappropriate comment that until that day he thought ‘Ariana Grande’ was a new item on the Taco Bell menu. She didn’t look pleased. That thing dragged on for six hours or more. I don’t know how anybody can sit for that long without having permanent tailbone issues.
Many of them did not stay sitting all the way through, the service got people up and moving more than once.
But yeah, what was *that *all about…
He’ll never get over Ariana Grande.
Culture, I’m guessing.
I’m pretty sure I saw one of those cartoon dotted lines going from Clinton’s eyes to Grande’s ass.
I only saw some snippets on the nightly news, but what I did see had Clinton talking while she was singing, which I thought was a bit rude.
The video of Ariana Grande’s song had a strip club vibe to it with the men seated behind her.
Aretha Franklin thought of herself as “the girl next door”. This doesn’t strike me as a funeral for “the girl next door”. The whole thing begs the question: who was the producer/director of the funeral.
She might have seen *herself *as the girl next door. She might have never stopped being the girl next door, in her heart.
But to the community gathered for the Service, she was very much, and very undisputedly, the Queen. The girl next door who rose to be Queen. *Their *Queen. And not the sort of queen for whom you have a somber, staid, straitlaced ceremony but the sort for whom you let emotion take over.
(Um, no, Reverend Bishop, not THAT emotion…)
Uh huh. If you’re popular then you’re not entitled to a dignified funeral? I’m not following the logic of that at all.
her family must have approved the “lineup”, what they wanted to send their mum off.
Hopefully they don’t fight over the DVD rights.