Aretha Franklin – Respect

“Respect” by Aretha Franklin from the album I Never Loved A Man The Way I Loved You (1967) Charted: #1 in US and #10 in UK.
Otis Redding wrote this and originally recorded it in 1965, with his version hitting #35 in the US.

Franklin’s cover is by far the best-known version, but this was an important song for Otis Redding. It was just his second Top 40 hit, following “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now),” and it helped establish Redding on mainstream radio. Otis also performed the song at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967; this was a defining performance for the singer, who died in a plane crash six months later.

It was Aretha’s idea to cover this song. She came up with the arrangement, added the “sock it to me” lines, and played piano on the track. Her sister Carolyn, who sang backup on the album, also helped work up the song.

Aretha recorded this in New York City with the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, a group of four studio musicians who also played sessions in Nashville and Muscle Shoals, Alabama before starting their own Muscle Shoals Sound Studios. This was one of their first, and most famous recordings. They went on to work with Wilson Pickett, Paul Simon, Bob Seger and The Staple Singers.

In the line, “Take care, TCB” (often misheard as “TCP”), “TCB” means “Taking Care of Business.” Elvis Presley appropriated the phrase a few years later, using it on jewelry and calling his band “The TCB Band.”

Aretha’s line, “Sock it to me,” became a catch phrase on the TV show Laugh In in the ’70s. The line was also used in the song “Come On Sock It To Me” by the soul singer Syl Johnson, also in 1967.

This line is often heard as a sexual reference, but Aretha denies this. “There was nothing sexual about that,” she told Rolling Stone in 2014.

Embed

Copy and paste this HTML code into your webpage to embed.

Aretha Franklin - Respect.

Aretha Franklin - Respect 02:58

“Respect” este o melodia care a fost cântată (și compusă) inițial de Otis Redding în 1965. Melodia a devenit hit în 1967 și unul din cântecele marcante pentru Aretha Franklin. Cele două versiuni sânt diferite, și au câteva versuri modificate.

Versiunea Arethei Franklin a stat două săptămâni pe locul unu la Billboard Pop Singles și opt săptămâni pe locul unu în topul Billboard Black Singles.

Melodia este de pe albumul ei din 1967, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You.

Visits: 0