1974 Aretha Franklin – Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing (US:#47)
“Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing” is a 1968 single released by American R&B/soul duo Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, on the Tamla label in 1968.
Aretha Franklin remade “Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing” for her 1974 album Let Me in Your Life. It was issued as the album’s third hit single that August. Franklin’s version radically re-invents the upbeat Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell original as a deep soul ballad which Jon Landau of Rolling Stone dismissed as “misconceived (done too slowly)”. Billboard described it as being highlighted by “extremely powerful vocals.” “Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing” reached #6 on the Billboard Soul chart and #47 on the Hot 100 that fall. It won Franklin the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance Grammy for 1974 marking Franklin’s eighth total and consecutive win in that category and her last such win until the Grammys for 1981.
Album
Let Me In Your Life is the twentieth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, Released on February 25, 1974 by Atlantic Records. This was one of Aretha’s top-selling Atlantic Records albums. The album hit #1 on Billboard’s R&B albums chart and reached #14 on Billboard’s main album chart, missing the Gold standard by a […]
Musicians
| Bass | Stanley Clarke |
| Drums | Rick Marotta |
| Guitar | David Spinozza |
| Keyboards | Bob James |
| Keyboards | Donny Hathaway |
| Percussion | Ralph MacDonald |
| Background Vocals | Cissy Houston |
| Background Vocals | Judy Clay |
| Background Vocals | Myrna Smith |
| Background Vocals | Sylvia Shemwell |
| Vocals | Aretha Franklin |
Produced By
Aretha Franklin
Arif Mardin
Jerry Wexler
Songwriters
Nickolas Ashford
Valerie Simpson
Charts
US:#47
UK:# –