So Damn Happy is the thirty-fifth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin. Her first studio album in five years, it included the Grammy Award-winning track “Wonderful”, the single co written and produced by G SYIER Hawkins Brown, and Ron “Amen-Ra” Lawrence, his very first project with the Queen of Soul was a grand slam. […]
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 […]
“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. […]
“I’m In Love” is a 1968 song written by Bobby Womack. The song was first recorded by Wilson Pickett which gave him a top-ten R&B hit on Billboard’s chart in 1968. The version to achieve the most success came in 1974, when Aretha Franklin released it as a single. Her version hit #1 on Billboard’s […]
“Until You Come Back To Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do)” is a song written by Morris Broadnax, Clarence Paul, and Stevie Wonder. The song was originally recorded by Stevie Wonder in 1967, but his version was not released as a single and did not appear on an album until 1977’s anthology Looking Back. The […]
Through the Storm is the thirty-fifth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, released on Arista Records in the spring of 1989. Despite the number 16 Billboard Hot 100 hit title track (a duet with Elton John), the album was not a commercial success; it reached number 55 on the Billboard 200. Selling approximately 225,000 […]
“Through The Storm” is a single by Aretha Franklin and Elton John from Aretha’s album Through The Storm, released in 1989. It peaked #16 in the US Billboard Charts and #41 in the UK Charts. Musicians Bass (synthesizer) Walter Afanasieff Drums (programming) Walter Afanasieff Guitar Corrado Rustici Keyboards Walter Afanasieff Synthesizer Ren Klyce Background Vocals […]
“It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be” is a duet recorded between Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston, and appeared on Franklin’s 1989 album Through the Storm. The original album version was produced by Narada Michael Walden and the “re-mix” version was produced by Teddy Riley. It was released as a single in June […]
“Freeway of Love” is a song by American singer Aretha Franklin. It was written by Jeffrey Cohen and Narada Michael Walden and produced by the latter for her thirtieth studio album Who’s Zoomin’ Who? (1985). The song features a notable contribution from Clarence Clemons, the saxophonist from Bruce Springsteen’’s E Street Band. Sylvester and Jeanie […]
“Who’s Zoomin’ Who” is a song performed by American singer Aretha Franklin. It was written by Franklin, Preston Glass, and Narada Michael Walden for her 1985 album of the same name, with production overseen by Walden. Released as the follow-up single to Franklin’s chart-topping smash “Freeway of Love”, it reached the number 7 the US […]