Written by Aretha and released as a single in advance of her landmark Young, Gifted and Black LP, this #2 R&B hit featured Donny Hathaway on keyboards.
For several years I’ve tried mightily to piece together an Aretha playlist of outtakes and hard-to-find recordings by her. My greatest discovery was learning that thirty years or so ago there was a release on CD of the live SOUL TRAIN moment where she and Smokey Robinson spontaneously duet on Smokey's “Ooo Baby Baby.” TIME/LIFE (?!) released it and other live recordings from Soul Train, but it hasn’t been available for forever. It cost me $50 on eBay and was completely worth it.
Now I find that it’s being released again soon (maybe already) as part of a large collection of Aretha recordings. The video of the two performing on Soul Train is available on YouTube, of course, but watching it only makes you wish that Aretha's comment to Smokey “We should’ve been a duo!” had been fully realized.
There’s never too much to say about Aretha.
For several years I’ve tried mightily to piece together an Aretha playlist of outtakes and hard-to-find recordings by her. My greatest discovery was learning that thirty years or so ago there was a release on CD of the live SOUL TRAIN moment where she and Smokey Robinson spontaneously duet on Smokey's “Ooo Baby Baby.” TIME/LIFE (?!) released it and other live recordings from Soul Train, but it hasn’t been available for forever. It cost me $50 on eBay and was completely worth it.
Now I find that it’s being released again soon (maybe already) as part of a large collection of Aretha recordings. The video of the two performing on Soul Train is available on YouTube, of course, but watching it only makes you wish that Aretha's comment to Smokey “We should’ve been a duo!” had been fully realized.