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Aretha Franklin dies
« on: August 16, 2018, 03:31:16 PM »
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Re: Aretha Franklin dies
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2018, 03:58:52 PM »
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« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2018, 04:25:42 PM »
Very sad. One of the first singles I ever bough was "Band of Gold" (Her version of the Freda Payne hit) duetted with the Gospel icon Leon Pattillo. I've loved her voice ever since.
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« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2018, 04:26:24 PM »
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Re: Aretha Franklin dies
« Reply #4 on: August 16, 2018, 04:29:48 PM »
Quote from: Anchorman on August 16, 2018, 04:25:42 PM
Very sad. One of the first singles I ever bought was "Band of Gold"...I've loved her voice ever since.
Isn't Band Of Gold as a single sung by Freda Payne?
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Re: Aretha Franklin dies
« Reply #5 on: August 16, 2018, 04:34:56 PM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on August 16, 2018, 04:29:48 PM
Isn't Band Of Gold as a single sung by Freda Payne?
 



Yep.
I expanded my post - I realised I should have explained.
I was going through a black Gospel phase and liked Leon Pattillo - and bought a single of him duetting with her from Tower records (those were the days)
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Re: Aretha Franklin dies
« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2018, 04:42:30 PM »
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Re: Aretha Franklin dies
« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2018, 04:42:48 PM »
Expected, but sad nonetheless - what a voice she had. My favourite of hers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsMGHzOQrps
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« Reply #8 on: August 16, 2018, 04:44:50 PM »
Pancreatic cancer is so horrible because it is usually silent until it is advanced. Terrible thing.
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"for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."

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« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2018, 09:29:41 PM »
One of my favourite singers. To me, the raw emotion and rhythm she engendered was what soul music is all about. She sang with sincerity and she moved me.
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« Reply #11 on: August 17, 2018, 07:50:46 AM »
Amongst many links posted by people in my timelines yesterday from Aretha, I liked this which is her duetting with Curtis Mayfield after he was paralysed from the neck down.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhuXw-g3M8g&feature=youtu.be
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Re: Aretha Franklin dies
« Reply #12 on: August 17, 2018, 09:52:33 AM »
I'd note that if anyone has had their interest piqued by tributes to Aretha Franklin of the music and civil rights history, Stuart Cosgrove's books Detroit 67, and Memphis 68 are great.
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« Reply #13 on: August 17, 2018, 02:16:15 PM »
Aretha Franklin covers Leonard Cohen


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtWooeofe_k
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« Reply #14 on: August 17, 2018, 02:44:26 PM »
A sensational version of "Precious Lord". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVMeRULuUB4
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Re: Aretha Franklin dies
« Reply #15 on: August 18, 2018, 12:54:20 PM »
Article in the Times says that Aretha Franklin had 2 children by 2 different fathers by 14 because 'many gospels singers had a penchant for casual sex'. Ffs!



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