![]() ![]() We could list the umpteen awards and accolades with which the song has been recognised (two Grammys and a Hall of Fame spot, a place in the National Recording Registry, a Song of the Century), talk up its chart-topping status in the US or US Gold and UK Platinum sales.īut none of that compares to the visceral, empowering thrill of just pressing play and turning it up to maximum volume. ![]() That R-E-S-P-E-C-T and TCB refrain was all Aretha, as was the "sock it to me". With some minor lyrical tweaks and massive musical ones, Aretha didn't just make 'Respect' her own, she made it impossible not to think of her version as the absolutely definitive, Platonic ideal of the song. OTHER WORKS BY STEVIE TURNER A House Without Windows Lily: A Short Story No Sex Please, I'm Menopausal For the Sake of a Child A Rather Unusual Romance The. Written and originally recorded by Otis Redding, the song was a pretty decent sized hit from his Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul album in 1965. Erin Mason, divorced and with two teenage sons, finds her world falling apart when shes diagnosed with. It faced some tough competition, but it wasn't going to be anything else, was it? Faction romance based partly on my own experience. ![]() ![]() Aretha Franklin - Respect (Official Lyric Video) ![]()
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