Music Review: Aretha Franklin - Knew You Were Waiting: The Best of Aretha Franklin 1980-1998

Reportedly, it was at a show in 1965 when a master of ceremonies gave Aretha Franklin a tiara and dubbed her "the queen of soul." Ironically, Franklin hadn't yet enjoyed the success to support that title. From 1960 to 1966, she had languished on Columbia Records, a label that saw her more in the mold of a Billie Holiday jazz stylist than who she truly was.

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