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Thread started 10/13/11 5:00am

rialb

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Aretha Franklin-How to Murder Your Wife

From 1964:

I could do without the vanilla backing vocals but this is a nice little gem.

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Reply #1 posted 10/13/11 5:03am

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eek Never heard this before.

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #2 posted 10/13/11 5:15am

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It's fairly obscure. It's on the Take a Look: Aretha Franklin Complete on Columbia box set.

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Reply #3 posted 10/13/11 8:14am

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WTF @ song title and her pic together lol its hilarious.

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Reply #4 posted 10/13/11 11:28am

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Could be the theme song for an Audrey Hepburn movie. smile

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #5 posted 10/13/11 1:39pm

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Wow! I wonder what kind of of a reaction she would get if she threw that little ditty into her live concert repetoire? lol

"It's not nice to fuck with K.B.! All you haters will see!" - Kitbradley
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Reply #6 posted 10/13/11 2:03pm

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Aretha sounds exquisite but this sounds like a Dionne Warwick song that she turned down. lol

YES!! It does sound like a Audrey Hepburn movie lol lol lol

[Edited 10/13/11 14:04pm]

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Reply #7 posted 10/13/11 2:21pm

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The arrangement has a vague 'singing cowboy' clip clop vibe, similar to this Sam Cooke song.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #8 posted 10/13/11 2:33pm

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According the the liner notes the song was originally intended for an album titled A Bit of Soul. That album was never released and the songs intended for it were released as singles or crept out on compilation albums.

Supposedly it was featured in the film of the same name:

http://www.imdb.com/video...463996185/

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