Artist
Aretha Franklin
RS500_rank
473
Length
3:13
BPM
131.4
Released Year
2002
Genre Era
Genre
Key
F#m
Produced By
Jerry Wexler
Released Info
March '67 on Atlantic
Chart Weeks
11 weeks
Chart Top
No. 9
Musicbrainz ID
30a72497-1b13-58b1-9af0-55a23d5838ac
Song Note Source
Rolling Stone 500
Song of Day Date
Written By
Chips Moman, Dan Penn
Album
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You<br/>(Rhino)
Song Status
Franklin went AWOL on producer Wexler after she took off from a 1967 recording session at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, leaving him with an incomplete version of this simmering R&B ballad. A few weeks later, Franklin resurfaced at Atlantic Studios in New York to lay down her lead vocal. The result, as Wexler put it, was "perfection."