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Thread started 03/25/09 10:08am

graecophilos

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Which Stevie songs did Aretha cover?

Did she at all? Of course she did "Until You..." but was there anymore?

I could imagine her doing Love's In Need, Evil, Maybe My Baby, Ribbon in The Sky and Blame It On the Sun. Well, I can imagine her doing almost anything by SW! smile
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Reply #1 posted 03/25/09 11:04am

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I'm not aware of anymore. If I'm not mistaken, the only reason she redid UYCBTM, was because her producer played her the track and thought it was great for her.
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Reply #2 posted 03/25/09 11:59am

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daPrettyman said:

I'm not aware of anymore. If I'm not mistaken, the only reason she redid UYCBTM, was because her producer played her the track and thought it was great for her.


too sad. Honestly, shouldn't she have sung a Stevie classic instead Touch My Body?
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Reply #3 posted 03/25/09 12:32pm

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graecophilos said:

daPrettyman said:

I'm not aware of anymore. If I'm not mistaken, the only reason she redid UYCBTM, was because her producer played her the track and thought it was great for her.


too sad. Honestly, shouldn't she have sung a Stevie classic instead Touch My Body?

I think she did the "Touch My Body" as a joke/for fun. She only sang the chorus (from my understanding).
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She did "I Love Every Little Thing About You" on her WITH EVERYTHING I FEEL IN ME album in 1974.
Regarding "Until You Come Back To Me", Stevie called Aretha and told her to send someone down to get the tape, because he had one for her.
In concert she has done "All Is Fair In Love" and has done "Isn't She Lovely" with The Four Tops live. She and Stevie have jammed on "Freeway Of Love" two times live and they jammed on "Until You Come Back To Me" at the Lady of Soul Awards in 2005 in LA, and they jammed in 1977 at the Jazz Fest in New Orleans on "Rock With You" (from the SPARKLE) album.
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She did "I Love Every Little Thing About You" on her WITH EVERYTHING I FEEL IN ME album in 1974.
Regarding "Until You Come Back To Me", Stevie called Aretha and told her to send someone down to get the tape, because he had one for her.
In concert she has done "All Is Fair In Love" and has done "Isn't She Lovely" with The Four Tops live. She and Stevie have jammed on "Freeway Of Love" two times live and they jammed on "Until You Come Back To Me" at the Lady of Soul Awards in 2005 in LA, and they jammed in 1977 at the Jazz Fest in New Orleans on "Rock With You" (from the SPARKLE) album.

I could have sworn that Stevie's version was released, but didn't do anything. Then Arif arranged it for her. We need to call Stevie tomorrow on his show and verify. smile
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daPrettyman said:

RnBAmbassador said:

She did "I Love Every Little Thing About You" on her WITH EVERYTHING I FEEL IN ME album in 1974.
Regarding "Until You Come Back To Me", Stevie called Aretha and told her to send someone down to get the tape, because he had one for her.
In concert she has done "All Is Fair In Love" and has done "Isn't She Lovely" with The Four Tops live. She and Stevie have jammed on "Freeway Of Love" two times live and they jammed on "Until You Come Back To Me" at the Lady of Soul Awards in 2005 in LA, and they jammed in 1977 at the Jazz Fest in New Orleans on "Rock With You" (from the SPARKLE) album.

I could have sworn that Stevie's version was released, but didn't do anything. Then Arif arranged it for her. We need to call Stevie tomorrow on his show and verify. smile

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Stevie Wonder had indeed recorded the song earlier, but it was never released until 1977 on his anthology album LOOKING BACK. Aretha's version came out in 1974.
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Reply #7 posted 03/25/09 5:13pm

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daPrettyman said:

RnBAmbassador said:

She did "I Love Every Little Thing About You" on her WITH EVERYTHING I FEEL IN ME album in 1974.
Regarding "Until You Come Back To Me", Stevie called Aretha and told her to send someone down to get the tape, because he had one for her.
In concert she has done "All Is Fair In Love" and has done "Isn't She Lovely" with The Four Tops live. She and Stevie have jammed on "Freeway Of Love" two times live and they jammed on "Until You Come Back To Me" at the Lady of Soul Awards in 2005 in LA, and they jammed in 1977 at the Jazz Fest in New Orleans on "Rock With You" (from the SPARKLE) album.

I could have sworn that Stevie's version was released, but didn't do anything. Then Arif arranged it for her. We need to call Stevie tomorrow on his show and verify. smile


Stevie recorded it in 1966 but either he didn't wanna release it or Motown didn't release it (the label had control of him at the time) so I'm going for the latter. Luckily for Stevie, after gaining control, he had the power to do what he wanted and he was supposed to give it to Gladys but there was some miscommunication and he ended up giving it to Aretha. Gladys still gets on Stevie for that, lol.
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Timmy84 said:

daPrettyman said:


I could have sworn that Stevie's version was released, but didn't do anything. Then Arif arranged it for her. We need to call Stevie tomorrow on his show and verify. smile


Stevie recorded it in 1966 but either he didn't wanna release it or Motown didn't release it (the label had control of him at the time) so I'm going for the latter. Luckily for Stevie, after gaining control, he had the power to do what he wanted and he was supposed to give it to Gladys but there was some miscommunication and he ended up giving it to Aretha. Gladys still gets on Stevie for that, lol.

Ok, that makes the picture even clearer. U r so smart, Timmy biggrin
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Reply #9 posted 03/25/09 5:29pm

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Stevie recorded it in 1966 but either he didn't wanna release it or Motown didn't release it (the label had control of him at the time) so I'm going for the latter. Luckily for Stevie, after gaining control, he had the power to do what he wanted and he was supposed to give it to Gladys but there was some miscommunication and he ended up giving it to Aretha. Gladys still gets on Stevie for that, lol.

Ok, that makes the picture even clearer. U r so smart, Timmy biggrin


Thanks. lol

I'm the Motown philosopher, plus I'm a history freak anyways so trivia like this is good for my nerdy ass. lol
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Reply #10 posted 03/26/09 6:45am

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Timmy84 said:

daPrettyman said:


Ok, that makes the picture even clearer. U r so smart, Timmy biggrin


Thanks. lol

I'm the Motown philosopher, plus I'm a history freak anyways so trivia like this is good for my nerdy ass. lol

U couldn't be that nerdy. You like Prince. lol
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Timmy84 said:



Thanks. lol

I'm the Motown philosopher, plus I'm a history freak anyways so trivia like this is good for my nerdy ass. lol

U couldn't be that nerdy. You like Prince. lol


Well OK, you got me there. razz
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