Let’s focus tonight’s cover story on the Queen of Soul, the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and ROll Hall Of Fame, and tomorrow’s birthday girl, Aretha Franklin. From Respect to Chain Of Fools, covers of some of her greatest hits, her lesser known tracks, and some great soul covers by the woman herself.
48 minutes | 
Featuring:
| Title | Artist | Album | Original Artist | |||
| 1 |  |
Respect | Otis Redding | The Ultimate Otis Redding | Otis Redding |   |
| 2 |  |
I Say A Little Prayer | The Bosshoss | Let’s Go Rodeo Radio | Bacharach/David/Dionne Warwick/Aretha Franklin | |
| 3 |  |
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman | Me First & The Gimme Gimmes | Take A Break | Aretha Franklin | |
| 4 |  |
You’ll Lose a Good Thing | Madness | The Dangermen Sessions, Volume One | Aretha Franklin | |
| 5 |  |
Try A Little Tenderness | Aretha Franklin | Love Songs | Otis Redding | |
| 6 |  |
Do Right Woman | Little Birdy | Like A Version 5 | Aretha Franklin | |
| 7 |  |
Think | Joan Osborne | How Sweet It Is | Aretha Franklin | |
| 8 |  |
Bridge Over Troubled Water | Aretha Franklin | Cosmosonica | Simon & Garfunkel | |
| 9 |  |
Chain of Fools | Eva Cassidy | Somewhere | Aretha Franklin | |
| 10 |  |
Ain’t Nobody (Gonna Turn Me Around) | Edwin McCain | Nobody’s Fault But Mine | Aretha Franklin | |
| 11 |  |
Sisters are Doin’ It for Themselves | Lions Gate Chorus | Glow | Aretha Franklin/Eurythmics | |
| 12 |  |
Respect | The Wolfgang Press | Everything Is Beautiful / A Retrospective 1983-1995 | Otis Redding | |
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I’d to make note of this article: http://forums.ledzeppelin.com/index.php?/topic/15472-aretha-franklin-the-columbia-box-set/
Aretha’s entire output, plus extras, from her years on Columbia Records, 1960-1966, is being released very soon. Try a Little Tenderness she originally covered in 1962 for her LP The Tender, the Moving, the Swinging Aretha Franklin.
The article also notes a common mistake: “Born in Memphis but raised in Detroit, Franklin is often misidentified as a “Motown” singer…She was neighbors and a “sandbox friend” with Smokey Robinson in Detroit’s north end, and she knew Gordy, but Franklin was never a Motown artist.” She moved from Columbia to Atlantic, where she had her greatest success, then to Arista, but never Motown.
Bridge over Troubled Water was originally on her Aretha Live at Fillmore West on Atlantic.
BTW, great show. Excluding QoS and Otis, the best piece was Sisters!
brilliant. such a great show. i was listening to the Aretha Live at Fillmore West just the other day. such a great album. and then you played Bridge Over Troubled Water cut from that, a song i was never an extreme fan of until i heard Aretha cover it. good stuff.
No Commitments? I know you prefer to play covers that take the song in a new direction, but many of the ones you did choose also are similar to the original.
Me First & the Gimme Gimmes released a “Go Down Under” EP where they cover Australian artists, including INXS, Rick Springfield, Olivia Newton-John, Air Supply, etc that came out in December 2010.
you’ll lose a good thing was not an aretha original – it was by the great, great, great barbara lynn – wrote her own, black, southern, played guitar left
Peter is right; Barbara Lynn’s You’ll Lose A Good Thing went to #8 on the pop charts and #1 on the soul charts in 1962. Aretha’s version came out in 1964. Lynn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAnSyQA_fT4
The other clip I linked to was a live recording; this, I presume, is the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x4AZHDT-4A
Brian – You inspired a blogpost:
http://www.rogerogreen.com/2011/04/20/song-history-youll-lose-a-good-thing/