Posted on 08/18/2018 5:47:31 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Anyone who needs a reminder about how good Aretha was at the keyboard should watch this performance from the Fillmore, 1971:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOXKr7wh1Ac
That’s part 1, there’s a 2nd part with more jamming with Brother Ray and Billy Preston.
Okay, got it. What a great scene. Right along with the Ray Charles and John Lee Hooker scenes. That movie was just a movie back in ‘79 but you look back and realize it was epic history. Those were amazing people.
Yeah. Maxwell Street. Thanks.
It's sad remembering that once upon a time you could turn on the radio and hear real music. Nat King Cole was mainstream. Even Aretha had her crossover hits from the R&B world.
Paul Joseph Watson has a great commentary on current popular music.
RESPECT by Otis Redding
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3JGJXmpKGXY
“Respect” is a song written and originally released by American recording artist Otis Redding in 1965.
The song became a 1967 hit and signature song for R&B singer Aretha Franklin.
The music in the two versions is significantly different, and through a few changes in the lyrics, the stories told by the songs have a different flavor.
Redding’s version is a plea from a desperate man, who will give his woman anything she wants. He won’t care if she does him wrong, as long as he gets his due respect when he brings money home.[1]
However, Franklin’s version is a declaration from a strong, confident woman, who knows that she has everything her man wants. She never does him wrong, and demands his “respect”.[2] Franklin’s version adds the “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” chorus and the backup singers’ refrain of “Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me...”.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respect_(song)
I didn't hear anything particularly special about her keyboard playing.
I am old enough to remember my elders listening to stations that played a little of everything. My favorite aunt was a real square who was into Lawrence Welk, but also liked Elvis Presley; I can still remember remember being in her kitchen and hearing Nat King Cole on the radio. My parents' record collection (for the big RCA console stereo they bought around '61 or '62) reflected the eclectic radio of those days: Ray Charles and Johnny Mathis were there along with Frank Sinatra, Johnny Horton, Keely Smith, Les Elgart, Johnny Cash...
Alas, 'twas back before all the mergers, takeovers and the ability to own more than a few media outlets. "Deregulation?" More like a license to monopolize.
At 14 years old back in 1974 I started running the music at a local skating rink. I used to hang out there after hours blasting a lot of their old records while my friends were smoking pot and listening to zeppelin. There was no such thing as auto tune back then. Those artists could really sing. Didn’t need 21 tracks of background instruments either. I’m glad those days built in me a love and appreciation for a diverse selection of music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip_pjb5_fgA
I love that ending when she gets lured into the Pink Cadillac ....
She winks knowingly at the viewer.....like saying “I’m up to no good with this guy in this car.”
one of the all time great scenes in any musical ever ... equal to any great scene in the Music Man ...
Very informative video piece. I feel vindicated for my inability to listen to new music for longer than 10 seconds. And the wide acceptance of the homogenized music now has some reasonable explanations. Thanks
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