Aretha Franklin by BarkerC

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Runner(s)-Up:

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Quiz Description

Given clues, name the following related to the life and works of Aretha Franklin.

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Questions:

Though she moved to Detroit shortly before her fifth birthday, Franklin was born in this Tennessee city, long associated with R&B and soul music.

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Memphis

While travelling with the Soul Stirrers during her career as a gospel singer, Franklin developed a crush on this member of the group, a pioneering soul singer who died at the age of 33 in 1964.

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Sam Cooke

Franklin had a great deal of live success while signed to Columbia, but made her national breakthrough when she signed with this label and traveled to Muscle Shoals, Alabama to record at FAME Studios.

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Atlantic Records

Franklin's signature song, "Respect", was written and originally released in 1965 by this Georgia-born artist, and featured Booker T. Jones, Isaac Hayes, Steve Cropper, and Donald "Duck" Dunn among others playing on the track.

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Otis Redding

One key difference on "Respect" between the original and Franklin's version is the addition of what four word refrain repeated by the backup singers just after Aretha asks that you "take out TCB". The phrase will later take on hilarious political ramifications a year later from its use on television.

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Sock It To Me

One of Franklin's biggest hits was "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", which was co-written by Gerry Goffin, Jerry Wexler, and this artist, who made it the final track on her 1971 album which has sold over 25 million copies since its release.

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Carole King

This November 1967 Franklin single, dealing with a woman's realization of her place in her man's personal hierarchy, is notable as it, like "All Along the Watchtower", is completely written in the natural minor scale.

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Chain of Fools

Franklin made a notable appearance as a luncheonette owner, married to Matt "Guitar" Murphy in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. Which of her classic songs did she perform, complete with a group of backup singing waitresses in the film?

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Think

On her 1985 album, the excellently named Who's Zoomin' Who?, Franklin scored her first platinum album, based on the strength of the title track and this song, wherein Franklin goes cruising on the titular road with the "wind against our back" "in a pink Cadillac".

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Freeway of Love

During the late 1980s, Franklin provided the vocals for the theme song of this NBC sitcom during seasons 2-5 before being replaced by Boyz II Men in season 6.

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A Different World

What patriotic song, with lyrics by Samuel Francis Smith, did Franklin perform (while wearing her much discussed church hat) at the 2009 presidential inauguration?

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America (or My Country, 'Tis of Thee)

In October 2014, Franklin became the first woman to have 100 songs on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with the success of her cover of what Adele song?

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Rolling in the Deep