Aretha Franklin

...Sister #1" is more than a worthy substitute. Frahm and Katz focus primarily on Franklin's time with Atlantic Records, where she arguably did the signature work of her 40-years-plus career. The co-leaders understand that as with Ray...

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...American music as the founder of Atlantic Records, a label that popularized the gritty R&B of Ray Charles, the classic soul of Aretha Franklin and the British rock of the Rolling Stones, died Dec. 14 at New York Presbyterian...

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...song named "I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face" being B-side. The single was released long before Aretha achieved her future stardom after joining Atlantic Records. It remains one of the rarest of her records. The song was never...

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...introduced by film clips that showed her in her stage-stomping '60s heyday. This time, she was slowly escorted to center stage and maintained a more majestic presence. Dressed in a bright red gown, black fur-trimmed coat and white pearls, she...

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...the Rolling Stones and going into a coma. As well as Led Zeppelin and the Stones, Ertegun and his Atlantic Records helped launched the careers of acts ranging from Ray Charles to Aretha Franklin. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1923.

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...career, Utley worked with the house band for Atlantic Records in Miami, Florida's Criteria Studios backing performers such as Aretha Franklin, Jerry Jeff Walker, and the Allman Brothers and in California playing with Rita Coolidge and Kris...

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Ertegun _ who counted Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and the Rolling Stones among the stars signed to his label _ died on Dec. 14 at age 83, days after falling and suffering a head injury at a Rolling Stones concert in New York City. He...

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...Your Life and Choice plus Alisha Warren's song "Touch Me" all on RCA Records. Eddie Gordon also edited the UK Radio Version of the Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston hit record It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be giving the US...

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...record producer who coined R & B Former music producer and Atlantic records executive Jerry Wexler and Aretha Franklin celebrated the gold record status of Franklin's ''Spanish Harlem'' recording in 1971. (Popsie Randolph/Atlantic...

In this article: Jerry Wexler, Ray Charles, David Ritz, Atlantic, Ahmet Ertegun, Wilson Pickett, R&B, Bob Dylan, and Atlantic Records