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While working on this week's cover story about Soul Singer Aretha Franklin, the members of TIME'S music staff were impressed by the fact that "soul" can be found-or its absence noted-in individuals far removed from the world of music. Cover Writer Chris Porterfield, Senior Editor Jesse Birnbaum, Reporter Virginia Page and Researchers Molly Bowditch and Rosemarie Tauris Zadikov concocted their own soulful list along with a matching roster from Straight City. Their "Arbitrary Guide to Soul" runs along with the cover, and readers who detect notable omissions are invited to send in their...
...power, lyricism and ecstatic anguish, soul is a chunky, 5-ft. 5-in. girl of 26 named Aretha Franklin singing from the stage of a packed Philharmonic Hall in Manhattan. She leans her head back, forehead gleaming with perspiration, features twisted by her intensity, and her voice?plangent and supple?pierces the hall...
...first mellow chords rippled from the organ and piano, Aretha stepped out of the robed choir that was massed on tiers behind the altar. Moving in front of a lectern, she closed her eyes and sang: "Precious Lord, take my hand ..." The congregation nodded or swayed gently in their seats. "Sing it!" they cried, clapping hands. "Amen, amen!" Her melodic lines curved out in steadily rising arcs as she let her spirit dictate variations on the lyrics, finally straining upward in pure soul...
LADY SOUL (Atlantic). When ex-Gospel Singer Aretha Franklin sings the blues, they are likely to pour forth wild, bright and triumphant. Aretha's big voice soars and loops and knifes through a swinging rock combo as she sings her own hit, Since You've Been Gone, and her sister
Other songwriters besides Jim Webb have reeled off a string of hit records, including two that won Grammy awards in the same year. Others have been asked to compose-and sometimes arrange and conduct-for such top singers as Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin and Glen Campbell. Others have formed their own publishing and production firms and boosted their annual income to $350,000. But for the others, such achievement has usually filled out a lifetime. Jim Webb has done it all in 18 months. Now one of the hot test talents in pop music...