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...look like the Angels: radiant blondes, whose age gravitated between 18 and 24 or so, men in seersucker pants (it was spring), and madras. It was also the only concert I'd ever seen end before 9:30. Anyway, Carole, whose version of "Natural Woman" was two-thirds of Aretha's, which was all I was asking at the time, is back possibly the biggest woman, in terms of sales, in modern music history, and I can't help thinking she's got a mouth full of molasses...
...Blues" Joe Turner. In the 1960s, his firm introduced Sonny and Cher, more recently Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and Roberta Flack as well as rock groups like Led Zeppelin and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Also hired young singer released by Columbia Records, turned her into Soul Empress Aretha Franklin. Sold his lively, swinging company in 1967 to firm that eventually became Warner Communications for $18 million, but continued to run it. Lives with wife Mica in Manhattan town house in which living room and bedroom each occupy an entire floor, also has estate in Southampton, Long Island. Throws...
...ARETHA FRANKLIN: AMAZING GRACE (Atlantic, 2 LPs). The high priestess of soul returns memorably to the gospel style in which she started...
...RADIO can help you make it through some pretty tough times. When I'm tired enough, I can get behind anything on WRKO. The Stones, the Who, and the Faces are great sure, but so are the Honey Cone, Aretha Franklin, the Osmonds, Glen Campbell in his better moments, Chicago, Stevie Wonder, Tommy James, Joe South, maybe even the Carpenters, if it's late at night and you're someplace on the Ohio Turnpike eighty miles short of Cleveland. To be certain, most of it is stupid, but it's not supposed to be smart. It's supposed to make...
...Erma Franklin, Aretha's sister...