1960s Aretha Franklin

1960s Aretha Franklin

Update: 2023-11-05
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T-M-G-T-P-O-D! Find out what it means this week! We're going way back into the era of bright light variety specials to talk the Queen of Soul. It's 1960s ARETHA FRANKLIN week!

The guys discuss Aretha’s intense upbringing amid the civil rights movement and on the black gospel circuit before watching a 1964 Steve Allen clip that captures her jazzy Columbia Record's era. Aretha crushes with Respect and Chain of Fools on a crazy time-capsule variety special called Woody Allen Looks at 1967. Plus her 1968 and 1970 appearances on variety shows hosted by Sammy Davis Jr. and Tom Jones, featuring duets with each.

Want to watch along with us? Check out the links below for the performances discussed this week!

Lover Come Back to Me/Rock a Bye Your Baby/Won't be Long/Skylark/Evil Gal Blues, 5/19/64 on The New Steve Allen Show

Do Right Woman, 11/1/67 on The Merv Griffin Show

Respect/Chain of Fools (14:03 mark), 12/27/67 on Kraft Hall Music Presents Woody Allen Looks at 1967

Say a Little Prayer for You/Come Back Baby/Medley with Sammy Davis Jr. (Think, Respect, What'd I Say) (33:04 mark), 11/2/68 on The Hollywood Palace with Sammy Davis Jr.

Say a Little Prayer for You/It's Not Unusual/Seesaw with Tom Jones/Spirit in the Dark with Tom Jones, 10/9/70 on This is Tom Jones


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