Interesting note: Aretha wrote this song with her second husband Glynn Turman.

love it Timmy!!!

DirtyChris said:

love it Timmy!!!

Thanks Chris.

Timmy84 said:

Interesting note: Aretha wrote this song with her second husband Glynn Turman.

Ow wow, as a pretty big Aretha fan never heard this tune.. LOVE IT [Itunes right now]

Timmy84 said:

Interesting note: Aretha wrote this song with her second husband Glynn Turman.

This came from the very underrated and under appreciated ALMIGHTY FIRE album that was produced by Curtis Mayfield. Most of the tunes had origibally written for a project for Aretha's younger sister Carolyn.

Atlantic was hoping that Mayfield could return Aretha to the great success of the SPARKLE album after the failure of SWEET PASSION, even though it had the #1 R&B hit single "Break It To Me Gently".

ALMIGHTY FIRE was one of Arethat's most soulful offerings during her tenure with Atlantic - it was all-out singing with no attempts to popenize it. Unfortunately Franklin and Mayfield had fights in the studio and the end result contained less of what the producer's vision was, and more of Franklin's.

It contained no hit singles, and the "I'm Your Speed" song was done by Aretha, and had no Mayfield involvement.

Many years later, the same formula would be repeated at Arista as Franklin and Vandross sparred in the studio over the same sort of thing - a producer trying to Lady Soul how to sing. Their first venture JUMP TO IT, went without a hitch, but the GET IT RIGHT album was where the very messy alterccation occurred.

BTW anyone looking for these titles on cd format or iTunes, you will be searcing in vein. Aretha Franklin owns all of her master recordings from 1974 forward from her Atlantic years, and she has not made licensing deals with any entity to manufacture cds or digital downloads for 1974's WITH EVERYTHING I FEEL IN ME,

1975's YOU, 1977's SWEET PASSION, 1978's ALMIGHTY FIRE and 1979's LA DIVA albums and all sessions leftover from the years 1974 thru 1979.

SPARKLE came out in 1976, but was owned by WB Music because it was the soundtrack representative of the movie of the same name, even though the actresses did not want to lip-sync to Aretha vocals, so the leads were re-cut for the movie only.

Aretha did agree to license "Break It To Me Gently" and "Mr. D.J. (5 For The D.J.)" for the QUEEN OF SOUL box set.

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Timmy84 said:

Interesting note: Aretha wrote this song with her second husband Glynn Turman.

This came from the very underrated and under appreciated ALMIGHTY FIRE album that was produced by Curtis Mayfield. Most of the tunes had origibally written for a project for Aretha's younger sister Carolyn.

Atlantic was hoping that Mayfield could return Aretha to the great success of the SPARKLE album after the failure of SWEET PASSION, even though it had the #1 R&B hit single "Break It To Me Gently".

ALMIGHTY FIRE was one of Arethat's most soulful offerings during her tenure with Atlantic - it was all-out singing with no attempts to popenize it. Unfortunately Franklin and Mayfield had fights in the studio and the end result contained less of what the producer's vision was, and more of Franklin's.

It contained no hit singles, and the "I'm Your Speed" song was done by Aretha, and had no Mayfield involvement.

Many years later, the same formula would be repeated at Arista as Franklin and Vandross sparred in the studio over the same sort of thing - a producer trying to Lady Soul how to sing. Their first venture JUMP TO IT, went without a hitch, but the GET IT RIGHT album was where the very messy alterccation occurred.

BTW anyone looking for these titles on cd format or iTunes, you will be searcing in vein. Aretha Franklin owns all of her master recordings from 1974 forward from her Atlantic years, and she has not made licensing deals with any entity to manufacture cds or digital downloads for 1974's WITH EVERYTHING I FEEL IN ME,

1975's YOU, 1977's SWEET PASSION, 1978's ALMIGHTY FIRE and 1979's LA DIVA albums and all sessions leftover from the years 1974 thru 1979.

SPARKLE came out in 1976, but was owned by WB Music because it was the soundtrack representative of the movie of the same name, even though the actresses did not want to lip-sync to Aretha vocals, so the leads were re-cut for the movie only.

Aretha did agree to license "Break It To Me Gently" and "Mr. D.J. (5 For The D.J.)" for the QUEEN OF SOUL box set.

Yeah I knew about the Curtis Mayfield mess. I think these albums won't be out until Aretha passes away, which probably won't be anytime soon.

wow interesting read about Ree vs. Curt...

I knew about the Luther thing

but not about this, wow!

I had no idea the albums mentioned

were not available, or re-issued

thank God for "cisum ycarip"

I owned all of those at some point on vinyl

except for WEIFIM

YOU is probably my favorite Aretha album ever

next to Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of The Sky)