Word: aretha
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Franken critiqued former Class Day speakers, a mix that included Aretha Franklin and Mother Theresa...
Jones grew up in Dallas listening to her mother's Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles records. (She won't discuss the circumstances of her parents' relationship, but she emphasizes that Shankar had a very small role in her upbringing; at one point, Jones and Shankar went 10 years without contact.) She discovered singing while attending the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (Erykah Badu and trumpeter Roy Hargrove are also alums) and pursued jazz piano at the University of North Texas. After her sophomore year, she took a summer sublet in New York City, where...
...Aretha Franklin begins singing “Rescue Me” on the radio as McClary jokes to his coworkers, “You all ready to come in at eight in the morning tomorrow...
...Deep Is the Ocean?"). Then a Berlin associate let megaphone man Rudy Vallee perform it on his radio show. The song was a #1 hit for George Olsen and awarded top-10 perches to versions by Connee Boswell and Ozzie Nelson?s band. In her pop-diva phase, Aretha Franklin had a minor flurry with her single of the song in 1963 - 31 years later...
...beyond--whom Ertegun discovered and set free as prime mover of Atlantic Records. Just as impressive is the tale of a son of the Turkish ambassador to the U.S. who fell in love with black music and co-founded a label that helped Ray Charles, Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin redefine American pop. The terrific photos in this handsome, 8-lb. tome induce a vivid synesthesia: looking at Ertegun's artists, you can hear, on the jukebox of your memory, the raw, transcendent music they created...