To be honest, people often make a misperception that Aretha didn't have any soul on Columbia but that's real inaccurate. It was just that Atlantic touched more on her blues-gospel roots than Columbia did but Aretha seemed real comfortable doing pop music.

This is a great one.

It goes hand & hand with the original by Ms Dee Dee Warwick, love both versions equally.

Harlepolis said:

It goes hand & hand with the original by Ms Dee Dee Warwick, love both versions equally.

Talk about someone who never got the stardom she deserved! Sure she was respected as an original soul vocalist but I guess she didn't mind it herself... she did leave with some classics (especially "Foolish Girl").

Timmy84 said:

silverchild said:

Timmy84 said:

To be honest, people often make a misperception that Aretha didn't have any soul on Columbia but that's real inaccurate. It was just that Atlantic touched more on her blues-gospel roots than Columbia did but Aretha seemed real comfortable doing pop music.

This is a great one.

Exactly. People kill me when they say that Aretha didn't get her midas touch until she moved to Atlantic. Certainly she touched upon more of her deep blues-gospel roots on Atlantic, but her Columbia years are in fact just as golden as her Atlantic years. Cuts like this prove that Aretha was comfortable with her pop-soul side.

Oddest thing of Aretha's story is that once she left Atlantic for Arista, she fully embraced her pop-soul side 100%. But she still had some pop-soul classics on Atlantic (like "I Say a Little Prayer" for instance).

Timmy84 said:

silverchild said:

Timmy84 said:

Oddest thing of Aretha's story is that once she left Atlantic for Arista, she fully embraced her pop-soul side 100%. But she still had some pop-soul classics on Atlantic (like "I Say a Little Prayer" for instance).

Yep. Great point!

Yeah people also seem to forget that while she didn't have pop hits like Dionne at the same time she did, Aretha was considered to be mightly popular during her Columbia reign, first for doing pop standards, then for doing jazz (I think she was on Downbeat's top artists list the first two years of her career) and then she was embraced for her interpretations of pop hits prior to her finally leaving Columbia. So she had a good reputation before she finally got the hits in Atlantic. Also she had another great reputation as a gospel act as a child. Hell people were already calling her a legend by 1972, 1973, '74.