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THE QUEEN OF SOUL TO RELEASE “ARETHA FRANKLIN SINGS THE GREAT DIVA CLASSICS” OCTOBER 21!
September 30th, 2014 | Add a Comment
NEW YORK, USA (AP) —
Aretha Franklin is showing some R-E-S-P-E-C-T to her fellow divas: The Queen of Soul will release an album October 21 covering classic songs from other female singers.
Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics will include songs such as Gladys Knight’s Midnight Train to Georgia, Barbra Streisand’s People and Whitney Houston’s I’m Every Woman.
The most contemporary track is a reworking of Adele’s colossal hit Rolling In the Deep, which is the first single off the album. It will be available digitally Monday, when the 72-year-old will also perform the song on Late Night with David Letterman.
Great Diva Classics reunites Franklin with longtime collaborator Clive Davis.
“I mean, it is great,” he said in an interview. “For her to do all these songs, it’s very exciting.”
Kenneth ‘Babyface’ Edmonds and Andre 3000 are among the album’s producers. Other songs covered by Franklin include the Supremes’ You Keep Me Hangin’ On, Alicia Keys’ No One and Dinah Washington’s Teach Me Tonight. The icon’s version of Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive will incorporate some of Destiny Child’s Survivor.
The opening track is Etta James’ signature song, At Last, and Franklin closes the 10-track set with Sinead O’Connor’s Nothing Compares 2 U.
Filed under: GUEST RUNDOWNS · Tags: Alicia Keys, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Steisand, Clive Davis, David Letterman, Dinah Washington, Etta James, Gladys Knight, Gloria Gaynor, Whitney Houston
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