Aretha Franklin...what did she do "wrong"

Clive Davis is a human turd.

he is very old

a turd with grey hair then

he's utterly loathsome

has new bio been discussed somewhere?

Hmmmm, maybe on the "Good Books about Music" thread, but not sure. How is it? Have only read about it...http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/books/respect-tells-aretha-franklins-life-story.html

me too

A.F. has always sounded like "a piece of work," at book length this wd probably depress me.

There's a playlist (waiting for me). I compiled twenty-five of my favorite Aretha tunes and performances.

Nice to see "get it right" on there, great tune

Very nice.

Yes, although anytime I see a list of Aretha songs I am reminded in my head of the time I saw Aretha in NYC at Radio City Music Hall sometime in the 1990s. A fan kept yelling very loudly through the whole show "do "The House that Jack Built""....Alas, she did not do it, or acknowledge that fan. At the time I was not that familiar with that song, whose version by Aretha made it to #2 on the US r'n'b chart in 1968, but later I did and it is now a fave of mine.

Nice to see "get it right" on there, great tune

― Inspired by an argument in the Stereogum comment section (brimstead

better realized than "Jump To It" imo

Y'all need to watch this if you haven't:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHsnZT7Z2yQ

Yes, although anytime I see a list of Aretha songs I am reminded in my head of the time I saw Aretha in NYC at Radio City Music Hall sometime in the 1990s. A fan kept yelling very loudly through the whole show "do "The House that Jack Built""....Alas, she did not do it, or acknowledge that fan. At the time I was not that familiar with that song, whose version by Aretha made it to #2 on the US r'n'b chart in 1968, but later I did and it is now a fave of mine

I saw Aretha at Radio City around 2008 and she did very few of her '60s hits, like maybe two. That surprised me, I didn't know that that's her MO. She did, however, let her son come out and do a long rap number (my friend's nickname for him = MC Ill Advised)

An Aretha gig I saw at a big outdoor place was kinda like that, but when I saw her in 2008 do a special MLK Holiday gig at the Kennedy Center in DC with old school civil rights folks in the audience and Cicely Tyson, she played piano and did more '60s material.