Aretha Franklin by Mark Bego

Author:Mark Bego
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781620871690
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2012-06-16T16:00:00+00:00

Three subsequent singles from this LP made it into the Top Thirty, making this the most hit-filled studio album of her career. The singles and their highest chart figures are as follows, “Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves” (Number Eighteen pop), “Another Night” (Number Nine R&B), and “Ain’t Nobody Ever Loved You” (Number Thirty R&B). This was also Aretha’s first album to be released simultaneously on compact disc.

According to Clive Davis, the success of the Who’s Zoomin’ Who? album was the result of a constant building process that had begun in 1980. “It was a growing familiarity as to what we were doing together,” he explains. “We had a nice hit with ‘United Together.’ We tried duets with George Benson with ‘Love All the Hurt Away.’ ‘Jump to It” was a giant hit [that] went Number One on the dance charts. We won Grammys, we got up to the Gold, and then we took the big step. After Luther and the two albums we did with him, I then introduced her to Narada. She didn’t know who Narada was, and it led to the successful albums we’ve had with him. The material kept getting better, and the association with Narada worked beautifully. So it built up to that—her first Platinum album ever in her career.”

In addition to her multiple triumphs on the record charts, it was also a year of accolades and awards for “Dr. Aretha.” The succession of laudatory festivities kicked into high gear when the State of Michigan saluted her twenty-fifth year in show business by declaring her voice a “natural resource.” In a ceremony on the steps of the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing, May 23, 1985, was officially proclaimed Aretha Franklin Appreciation Day.

Dressed in a wide-brimmed red hat, a very smart white suit, and a red fox fur piece draped over her shoulder, Aretha looked every inch an elegant international superstar. “I’m especially delighted with the idea of making my voice a Natural Resource of Michigan—being that I am a Michigan girl at heart,” Aretha announced to the huge crowd of officials, fans, and press gathered at the capitol.

Presiding over the event, Governor James J. Blanchard spoke of Franklin’s attributes: “Anyone who has had a radio on, or a record player, or followed entertainment, or lived in Michigan, or cares about soul, knows the name Aretha Franklin,” he said. “She has more awards and Grammys than anyone we know who has won elections.”

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