Aretha FRANKLIN - "When You Get Right Down To It" (1974)

[geoedgrav]

The Undisputed QUEEN OF SOUL. I LOVE HER !!!!!!!

[quickmajik1000]

Hey this is a very difficult version to find anywhere and I thank you for sharing. Would you please consider uploading Aretha's version (from the same LP) of "You'll Never Get to Heaven if You Break My Heart." Again many thanks

[winning4231]

2:20~ great.

[iluvmyboba]

I love Aretha Franklin!!!!!

[TheStreakedWall]

This sounds like a lot of self-indulgent noise. WAY too much reverb...I'm gonna need to go listen to Marvin Gaye's "Save The Children" or LaBelle's "Lady Marmalade" just to cleanse the palate after this...

[TheQueenAretha]

@TheStreakedWall Really Labelle?! I ain't even gonna go there ,and you talk about self-indulgent noise!

[TheStreakedWall]

@desirataj I don't see the big deal in Aretha Franklin, personally. For me, Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight, Ronnie Dyson and Stevie Wonder are way more vital, way more important...but to each their own. If you or others reply to this, let me know what your favorite Aretha song is...I'd like to listen to what an Aretha fan considers her best song. I am willing to have my prejudices confronted, and changed, if need be. :)

[sibun7]

@TheStreakedWall, Aretha has 38 studio albums/CDs. I do not believe there is just one best song by Aretha. Infact, my favorite song changes almost on a weekly basis. You have the Aretha from Columbia Records who had UNMATCHED control of her voice in songs such as Skylark and People. You have the Aretha Franklin from the late 60's who could sing songs such as As Good To Me and Come Back Baby almost in there ENTIRETY in her upper range.

[sibun7]

@TheStreakedWall, You have the Aretha Franklin from the 70's who sung with such passion, conviction and sensuality in songs such as Day Dreaming, MacArthur Park and Oh Me Oh My that she continuously amazed her audiences leaving them wondering what she would do next. You have the Aretha Franklin in the 80's who could lend her voice to pop mush such as Freeway of Love and Hold On I'm Coming and turn them into Grammy Winning hits.

[sibun7]

@TheStreakedWall, Aretha was one of the voices of the Civil Rights Movement. She has sang for three presidents that I know of; Carter, Clinton and Obama and was even award the Presidential Metal of Freedom by George W. Bush. She is listed by Roll Stone as the best singer of the Rock and Roll era and the 9th most important artist overall. She has written million selling hits and when you listen to her songs, please know that its her you hear playing the piano and she belts out a tone.

[TheStreakedWall]

@desirataj I think this arrangement is just lame, period...that extra little electric piano riff (:49-53) is pure 70's mellow cheese fluff, ala The Partridge Family. I cut my teeth on the far superior and more soulful Delfonics version...and recently heard the spinetinglingly awesome Ronnie Dyson version, which outshines them all, IMO. (continued)

[DCFunBud]

Perhaps her greatest song, when you get right down to it.

[AvlDao]

That's odd that Aretha released two albums in 1974 just 9 months apart; the earlier LP had the huge hit, Until You Come Back To Me, with Jerry Wexler producing along with Arif Mardin. Back in the day, it was rare to release LPs less than 12 months apart.

This cover is interesting...sounds like Ree was experimenting musically.

[kell7wlt]

KOOL.

[TheQueenAretha]

Actually back in the day singers would release multiple albums every few months in one years.

[iknowdasright]

Actually it's not odd at all. Back then it was quite common for more than one album to be released in one year. Several of Aretha's albums have same year release. She had 2 in '67, 3 in '68, 2 in 69, 2 in '70 - although one of those was a greatest hits LP, and 2 in '72.

[1990soulman]

@iknowdasright I wish they could do that now days I get tired of listening to the same cd for a yr or two ol Lord sometimes three yrs maybe five...."runs to room screaming"

[nesofine]

Phyllis Hyman did make a song called"WHEN YOU GET RIGHT DOWN TO IT".

[meatlman99]

Wow this brings back memories. However, it was during this period that we longed for the old Aretha...it was to much instrumentation compared to her late 60s early 70s. I remember people discussing how Aretha had gone hollywood and they longed for her to have a miserable love life so she could sing those gritty love songs. It was during this time that Natalie Cole started tearing up the charts to. The voice is exceptional but the material was not what the hardcore soul survivors wanted.

[popetzm]

that album cover is sexy, i can picture this on playboy magazine, reading , an interview with aretha why she sings & what she does to keep that sexy body, playboy magazine would've had major sales i believe back n da day if this pic was on the front cover of playboy

[Tolapuk]

No I'm not mate!!!! I know what I like haha...AND I LIKE THE SECOND HALF OF THIS SONG OK?

[uncletrickey]

your right! by the way, she jams in the second half! lol

[Tolapuk]

yep, love the jam ;-)

[TheDoghouseRiley]

I've always liked this version. I've had it on tape since 1974. It's only recently that I've found it on YouTube. Thanks for that.

I think the orchestration is superb.

Aretha is "Soul's; 'Miss Perfect Pitch' (Jazz's Sarah Vaughan) her phrasing too is superb and makes this rather bland song worth a listen.

[uncletrickey]

Bland song??? I don't think so. While the great Aretha Franklin put her spin on this song, you obviously have no feel for the meaning of this song. If you couldn't get anything out of the versions by the Delfonics, Ronnie Dyson, Brandi Wells, and others, then you missed the magic of this song. How sad for you! Too bad!

[kittycream7]

No she didn't; that's an original for Phyllis. Was written by a different set of writers. Meow

KittyCream7

[kittycream7]

No- both songs are originals- Ree didn't cover Phyliis's and Phyllis didn't cover Ree's at all! Meow

KittyCream7

[SoulSir]

Same, "title" but different songs. Right?

[kittycream7]

Yes. Meow

KittyCream7

[SoulSir]

Thanks for clarifying it 4 me..!

[yaskam]

Thanks for your comments!

[TheQueenAretha]

I disagree. This is an amazing cover by Aretha.

[jayluvin76]

this is one of my favorite aretha remake..thanks for making my day!!!

[popetzm]

I was about 4 when this album came out & the men reaction to the album cover, they were like aretha is naked, i remember looking at the album cover & my uncle took the album from me & said boy whatcha doing looking at that stuff you too young & he put the album where i could'nt reach it

[DCFunBud]

"With Everything I Feel in Me" and "Let Me in your Life" are my favorite Aretha albums. My roommate and I (two gay white men) played them constantly at art school in Minneapolis in the late 1970s. After so many years of searching for the CD, I have finally given up. I even wrote Atlantic asking them to release it on CD! (I got a postcard thanking me for my feedback.) Thank you so much for putting this on You Tube.

[TheQueenAretha]

Love this song, Aretha could sing the life into any song she had.

[ShangoJamal]

WITH EVERYTHING I FEEL... is the one album that I did not have as a child,

so admittedly, I do not Know this song.

How wonderful to be able to visit your channel and learn my lessons well.

Thank you Teacher!

[yaskam]

You know! guy. It's just a pleasure to share with others fans Aretha's music.

[cammicty]

@ShangoJamal Robert Dyson, sung it first, beautiful by both of them.

[cammicty]

@ShangoJamal Love this song, it was first recorded by the Late Ronnie Dyson, a Beautiful song.

[paulotomaso]

youre doing it again.

this is in my top 3 favorite albums she ever did.

and of everything yet to be released on cd, this is the one im most hoping for.

[yaskam]

You're welcome, guy.