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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Aretha Franklin:
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Aretha Franklin:
🎵 Day Dreaminghttps://open.spotify.com/track/7L4G39PVgMfaeHRyi1ML7y
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6G4PaS9BNkIuGqMo44rbfZ🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
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#Soul is een muziekstijl die in de jaren #50s en #60s ontstond uit #rhythmandblues en #gospel muziek bij de Afro-Amerikaanse bevolking in het zuiden van de Verenigde Staten. Hoofdvertegenwoordigers waren #raycharles #samcooke #jamesbrown #ArethaFranklin en #steviewonder Bij #soul figureert veelal een zanger(es) met ondersteuning van achtergrondzang en een band met ritmesectie, koperblazers en saxofoons.
Ook te horen tijdens de uitzendingen van https://stepupzorgradio.nl
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#TopArtists #TheBeatles #ElvisPresley #HerbAlpertandtheTijuanaBrass #GloriaEstefan #JohnWilliams #HallAndOates #Madonna #FleetwoodMac #EltonJohn #NeilDiamond #CaroleKing #JamesTaylor #RodStewart #ArethaFranklin #BarbraStreisand #BillyJoel #Commodores #Eagles #HenryMancini #HueyLewisAndTheNews 🪩+🤸🏻+🎶+
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#TopArtists #TheBeatles #ElvisPresley #HerbAlpertandtheTijuanaBrass #GloriaEstefan #JohnWilliams #HallAndOates #Madonna #FleetwoodMac #EltonJohn #NeilDiamond #CaroleKing #JamesTaylor #RodStewart #ArethaFranklin #BarbraStreisand #BillyJoel #Commodores #Eagles #HenryMancini #HueyLewisAndTheNews 🪩+🤸🏻+🎶+
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#TopArtists #TheBeatles #ElvisPresley #HerbAlpertandtheTijuanaBrass #GloriaEstefan #JohnWilliams #HallAndOates #Madonna #FleetwoodMac #EltonJohn #NeilDiamond #CaroleKing #JamesTaylor #RodStewart #ArethaFranklin #BarbraStreisand #BillyJoel #Commodores #Eagles #HenryMancini #HueyLewisAndTheNews 🪩+🤸🏻+🎶+
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#TopArtists #TheBeatles #ElvisPresley #HerbAlpertandtheTijuanaBrass #GloriaEstefan #JohnWilliams #HallAndOates #Madonna #FleetwoodMac #EltonJohn #NeilDiamond #CaroleKing #JamesTaylor #RodStewart #ArethaFranklin #BarbraStreisand #BillyJoel #Commodores #Eagles #HenryMancini #HueyLewisAndTheNews 🪩+🤸🏻+🎶+
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#TopArtists #TheBeatles #ElvisPresley #HerbAlpertandtheTijuanaBrass #GloriaEstefan #JohnWilliams #HallAndOates #Madonna #FleetwoodMac #EltonJohn #NeilDiamond #CaroleKing #JamesTaylor #RodStewart #ArethaFranklin #BarbraStreisand #BillyJoel #Commodores #Eagles #HenryMancini #HueyLewisAndTheNews 🪩+🤸🏻+🎶+
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(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone 🍼
#ArethaFranklin
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I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) 🏥
#ArethaFranklin #GeorgeMichael
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Hi Mastodon,
I’d like to reintroduce myself and introduce my album “A Cufflink-Wearing Guy”.
I write songs and over the past 6 years roughly, I’ve collected 10 from about 100 to be recorded, mixed and mastered. As of today, those 10 songs are available to listen to at bandcamp as the album “A Cufflink-Wearing Guy” (https://alastairleonard.bandcamp.com/album/a-cufflink-wearing-guy)
There are songs about fleeting marketplace romances (Sunflowers), and going in search of your life’s purpose (Desert Rose). There are other songs about taking the easy road and waking up late (Mid-Morning Guy) and the housing crisis in Australia (Yoshino Removals). There are even more songs — about bad haircuts (West Coast Haircut) and the disappearance of the bees (Honey Bee). The title track follows a pair of cufflinks given to me as a young man and their trajectory through the following decades. All the lyrics are up there so you can read along while listening if that’s your preference.
The music is roughly what I’d call indie-pop including jangly guitars numbers and piano ballads but there are forays into country twang, latin percussion, and doof. Some of my influences include #jeffreylewis #bjork #davidberman #cassandrajenkins #dangelo #leonardcohen #hopesandovalandthewarminventions #lucindawilliams #jenslekman #jonathanrichman #ninasimone #arethafranklin #pixies #thecure #thefieldmice #thesundays #thelemonheads #themagneticfields #tmbg #thegobetweens #motown
Attention is a commodity these days and I don’t expect too many people will hear the record; but if you do feel inclined to listen and can find a moment, I hope you find something joyful in these songs. Creating A Cufflink-Wearing Guy has been a labour of love. Mostly love, a little labour. Until next time, keep looking on the bright side. Thanks for reading. AL
#songs #song #music #indie #indiepop #pop #songwriter #acufflinkwearingguy #alastairleonard #introduction #reintroduction #album #newalbum #record
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Hi Mastodon,
I’d like to reintroduce myself and introduce my album “A Cufflink-Wearing Guy”.
I write songs and over the past 6 years roughly, I’ve collected 10 from about 100 to be recorded, mixed and mastered. As of today, those 10 songs are available to listen to at bandcamp as the album “A Cufflink-Wearing Guy” (https://alastairleonard.bandcamp.com/album/a-cufflink-wearing-guy)
There are songs about fleeting marketplace romances (Sunflowers), and going in search of your life’s purpose (Desert Rose). There are other songs about taking the easy road and waking up late (Mid-Morning Guy) and the housing crisis in Australia (Yoshino Removals). There are even more songs — about bad haircuts (West Coast Haircut) and the disappearance of the bees (Honey Bee). The title track follows a pair of cufflinks given to me as a young man and their trajectory through the following decades. All the lyrics are up there so you can read along while listening if that’s your preference.
The music is roughly what I’d call indie-pop including jangly guitars numbers and piano ballads but there are forays into country twang, latin percussion, and doof. Some of my influences include #jeffreylewis #bjork #davidberman #cassandrajenkins #dangelo #leonardcohen #hopesandovalandthewarminventions #lucindawilliams #jenslekman #jonathanrichman #ninasimone #arethafranklin #pixies #thecure #thefieldmice #thesundays #thelemonheads #themagneticfields #tmbg #thegobetweens #motown
Attention is a commodity these days and I don’t expect too many people will hear the record; but if you do feel inclined to listen and can find a moment, I hope you find something joyful in these songs. Creating A Cufflink-Wearing Guy has been a labour of love. Mostly love, a little labour. Until next time, keep looking on the bright side. Thanks for reading. AL
#songs #song #music #indie #indiepop #pop #songwriter #acufflinkwearingguy #alastairleonard #introduction #reintroduction #album #newalbum #record
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Hi Mastodon,
I’d like to reintroduce myself and introduce my album “A Cufflink-Wearing Guy”.
I write songs and over the past 6 years roughly, I’ve collected 10 from about 100 to be recorded, mixed and mastered. As of today, those 10 songs are available to listen to at bandcamp as the album “A Cufflink-Wearing Guy” (https://alastairleonard.bandcamp.com/album/a-cufflink-wearing-guy)
There are songs about fleeting marketplace romances (Sunflowers), and going in search of your life’s purpose (Desert Rose). There are other songs about taking the easy road and waking up late (Mid-Morning Guy) and the housing crisis in Australia (Yoshino Removals). There are even more songs — about bad haircuts (West Coast Haircut) and the disappearance of the bees (Honey Bee). The title track follows a pair of cufflinks given to me as a young man and their trajectory through the following decades. All the lyrics are up there so you can read along while listening if that’s your preference.
The music is roughly what I’d call indie-pop including jangly guitars numbers and piano ballads but there are forays into country twang, latin percussion, and doof. Some of my influences include #jeffreylewis #bjork #davidberman #cassandrajenkins #dangelo #leonardcohen #hopesandovalandthewarminventions #lucindawilliams #jenslekman #jonathanrichman #ninasimone #arethafranklin #pixies #thecure #thefieldmice #thesundays #thelemonheads #themagneticfields #tmbg #thegobetweens #motown
Attention is a commodity these days and I don’t expect too many people will hear the record; but if you do feel inclined to listen and can find a moment, I hope you find something joyful in these songs. Creating A Cufflink-Wearing Guy has been a labour of love. Mostly love, a little labour. Until next time, keep looking on the bright side. Thanks for reading. AL
#songs #song #music #indie #indiepop #pop #songwriter #acufflinkwearingguy #alastairleonard #introduction #reintroduction #album #newalbum #record
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Hi Mastodon,
I’d like to reintroduce myself and introduce my album “A Cufflink-Wearing Guy”.
I write songs and over the past 6 years roughly, I’ve collected 10 from about 100 to be recorded, mixed and mastered. As of today, those 10 songs are available to listen to at bandcamp as the album “A Cufflink-Wearing Guy” (https://alastairleonard.bandcamp.com/album/a-cufflink-wearing-guy)
There are songs about fleeting marketplace romances (Sunflowers), and going in search of your life’s purpose (Desert Rose). There are other songs about taking the easy road and waking up late (Mid-Morning Guy) and the housing crisis in Australia (Yoshino Removals). There are even more songs — about bad haircuts (West Coast Haircut) and the disappearance of the bees (Honey Bee). The title track follows a pair of cufflinks given to me as a young man and their trajectory through the following decades. All the lyrics are up there so you can read along while listening if that’s your preference.
The music is roughly what I’d call indie-pop including jangly guitars numbers and piano ballads but there are forays into country twang, latin percussion, and doof. Some of my influences include #jeffreylewis #bjork #davidberman #cassandrajenkins #dangelo #leonardcohen #hopesandovalandthewarminventions #lucindawilliams #jenslekman #jonathanrichman #ninasimone #arethafranklin #pixies #thecure #thefieldmice #thesundays #thelemonheads #themagneticfields #tmbg #thegobetweens #motown
Attention is a commodity these days and I don’t expect too many people will hear the record; but if you do feel inclined to listen and can find a moment, I hope you find something joyful in these songs. Creating A Cufflink-Wearing Guy has been a labour of love. Mostly love, a little labour. Until next time, keep looking on the bright side. Thanks for reading. AL
#songs #song #music #indie #indiepop #pop #songwriter #acufflinkwearingguy #alastairleonard #introduction #reintroduction #album #newalbum #record
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Hi Mastodon,
I’d like to reintroduce myself and introduce my album “A Cufflink-Wearing Guy”.
I write songs and over the past 6 years roughly, I’ve collected 10 from about 100 to be recorded, mixed and mastered. As of today, those 10 songs are available to listen to at bandcamp as the album “A Cufflink-Wearing Guy” (https://alastairleonard.bandcamp.com/album/a-cufflink-wearing-guy)
There are songs about fleeting marketplace romances (Sunflowers), and going in search of your life’s purpose (Desert Rose). There are other songs about taking the easy road and waking up late (Mid-Morning Guy) and the housing crisis in Australia (Yoshino Removals). There are even more songs — about bad haircuts (West Coast Haircut) and the disappearance of the bees (Honey Bee). The title track follows a pair of cufflinks given to me as a young man and their trajectory through the following decades. All the lyrics are up there so you can read along while listening if that’s your preference.
The music is roughly what I’d call indie-pop including jangly guitars numbers and piano ballads but there are forays into country twang, latin percussion, and doof. Some of my influences include #jeffreylewis #bjork #davidberman #cassandrajenkins #dangelo #leonardcohen #hopesandovalandthewarminventions #lucindawilliams #jenslekman #jonathanrichman #ninasimone #arethafranklin #pixies #thecure #thefieldmice #thesundays #thelemonheads #themagneticfields #tmbg #thegobetweens #motown
Attention is a commodity these days and I don’t expect too many people will hear the record; but if you do feel inclined to listen and can find a moment, I hope you find something joyful in these songs. Creating A Cufflink-Wearing Guy has been a labour of love. Mostly love, a little labour. Until next time, keep looking on the bright side. Thanks for reading. AL
#songs #song #music #indie #indiepop #pop #songwriter #acufflinkwearingguy #alastairleonard #introduction #reintroduction #album #newalbum #record
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Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do) 🎨
#ArethaFranklin
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Bridge Over Troubled Water 🌉
#ArethaFranklin
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Mary, Don't You Weep 🙌
#ArethaFranklin
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"Freeway of Love" is a song by American singer #ArethaFranklin. It was written by #JeffreyCohen and #NaradaMichaelWalden and produced by the latter for Franklin's thirtieth studio album, #WhosZoominWho (1985). The song features a notable contribution from #ClarenceClemons, the saxophonist from #BruceSpringsteen’'s #EStreetBand. #Sylvester, #MarthaWash, and #JeanieTracy provided backup vocals on "Freeway of Love". Released as the album's lead single on June 5, 1985.
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"Freeway of Love" is a song by American singer #ArethaFranklin. It was written by #JeffreyCohen and #NaradaMichaelWalden and produced by the latter for Franklin's thirtieth studio album, #WhosZoominWho (1985). The song features a notable contribution from #ClarenceClemons, the saxophonist from #BruceSpringsteen’'s #EStreetBand. #Sylvester, #MarthaWash, and #JeanieTracy provided backup vocals on "Freeway of Love". Released as the album's lead single on June 5, 1985.
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"Freeway of Love" is a song by American singer #ArethaFranklin. It was written by #JeffreyCohen and #NaradaMichaelWalden and produced by the latter for Franklin's thirtieth studio album, #WhosZoominWho (1985). The song features a notable contribution from #ClarenceClemons, the saxophonist from #BruceSpringsteen’'s #EStreetBand. #Sylvester, #MarthaWash, and #JeanieTracy provided backup vocals on "Freeway of Love". Released as the album's lead single on June 5, 1985.
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"Freeway of Love" is a song by American singer #ArethaFranklin. It was written by #JeffreyCohen and #NaradaMichaelWalden and produced by the latter for Franklin's thirtieth studio album, #WhosZoominWho (1985). The song features a notable contribution from #ClarenceClemons, the saxophonist from #BruceSpringsteen’'s #EStreetBand. #Sylvester, #MarthaWash, and #JeanieTracy provided backup vocals on "Freeway of Love". Released as the album's lead single on June 5, 1985.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip_pjb5_fgA -
"Freeway of Love" is a song by American singer #ArethaFranklin. It was written by #JeffreyCohen and #NaradaMichaelWalden and produced by the latter for Franklin's thirtieth studio album, #WhosZoominWho (1985). The song features a notable contribution from #ClarenceClemons, the saxophonist from #BruceSpringsteen’'s #EStreetBand. #Sylvester, #MarthaWash, and #JeanieTracy provided backup vocals on "Freeway of Love". Released as the album's lead single on June 5, 1985.
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Watched Respect last night. We both really loved it. Jennifer Hudson plays the part excellently.
Aretha Franklin is referred to as The Queen Of Soul but for me she is the woman who told women to demand respect, both in relationships and in life. 👏💪
Thoroughly recommend if you've not already seen it.
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"Baby I Love You" is a popular song by #RAndB singer #ArethaFranklin. The only single release from her #ArethaArrives album in 1967, the song was a huge hit, peaking at number 4 on the #Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart and spending two weeks at number-one on the #HotRhythmAndBluesSingles chart. In the UK, the song rose to number 39 in August 1967, spending four weeks on the chart. It was featured in #MartinScorsese's 1990 film #Goodfellas.
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On Apr 29, 1967: #ArethaFranklin releases her single "Respect" (written by #OtisRedding), Billboard Song of the Year 1967.
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“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.”*…
Images of Rastus Robot in an issue of Radio-Craft magazine from 1931… which might be the same thing?
As more and more folks are fearing obsolescence (if not, indeed, subjugation) by emerging technology, Matthew Wills reminds us that this fear– especially as embodied in androids– has a long (and dark) history here in the U.S…
Our word “robot” comes from Karel Čapek’s 1921 play R.U.R. In it, historian of robots Dustin A. Abnet explains, Čapek repurposed the Czech word for “drudgery” or “servitude” to refer to the artificial workers produced by the play’s Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum’s Universal Robots) company. [See also here.] Created from synthetic organic material, and thus more android than mechanical, these worker-roboti ultimately overthrow their human masters.
The play was a sensation in Europe, and then a year later, in America, though something was lost in translation. Čapek used robots to criticize soulless Fordism—the “standardization and regimentation” of American capitalism—and hence the US’s political and cultural power in Europe and around the world. (Other Europeans would conceive of the robot in the same way, notably director Fritz Lang and screenwriter Thea von Harbou in the 1927 German film Metropolis.)
But a funny thing happened to these robotic symbols of American capitalism by the mid-twentieth century. They were Americanized by American capitalism. Americans, as Abnet notes, “turned a figure that initially rebelled against the dehumanizing effects of Fordism into a tamed electro-mechanical slave holding aloft a global empire of consumerism.”
Nowhere was this more literal than in the Westinghouse Electric Company’s “simple remotely controlled mechanical men and women” used to advertise the company’s products from 1927 to 1940. “Technology did not have to run amok, Westinghouse’s robots suggested; it could instead become a tamed slave that empowered each individual consumer to become his or her own master.” In the American context, where the language of master and slave was rooted in racism, Westinghouse “connected robots to romanticized white myths about slavery.”
“Americans had always racialized robot-like creations,” continues Abnet, citing the first American automaton (a caricature of a Native American) and the “grotesque minstrel-like caricatures of Black and Asian bodies” that made up automatons in the late nineteenth century.
Westinghouse’s creations, named Herbert Televox, Karina Van Televox, Telelux, Rastus, Willie Vocalite, and Elektro, were promoted as docile domestic workers. Abnet quotes the New York Times’ science and technology editor extolling the benefits of the first of these “mechanical slaves” in 1927: “it obeys without the usual human arguing, impudence or procrastination.”
Rastus, Westinghouse’s Great Depression-era robot, was the most overtly racialized of these corporate robot slaves. Rastus was modeled on a minstrel show character: “black rubber ‘skin,’ overalls, a white shirt, and a pail hat.” In addition, “the robot had a ‘rich, baritone voice’ that would have been read as unmistakably black.” While “all of Westinghouse’s other robots told jokes…Rastus and its blackness were themselves the joke.”
In 1930, Westinghouse’s President explicitly expressed the prevailing white romanticism of slavery. In the company’s Electric Journal, he argued that without the exploitation of the “muscles of others,” there could be “no art, literature, science, leisure, or comfort for anyone.” Rastus’s “tamed black body,” stresses Abnet, “underscored the larger rhetoric of slavery that shaped the fantasy the company offered white consumers.”
“Ultimately, Westinghouse’s robots were not just about more efficiently accomplishing work or ensuring greater leisure time; they were a symbol that deployed racialized slavery in ways that could reassure white Americans of their own freedom, their own mastery over both technology and the bodies of others.”
Čapek’s robots had successfully rebelled, killing all but one human. In America, that couldn’t happen, at least according to the corporations selling the robot idea. But fear of a robot rebellion, like the fear of slave rebellion before the Civil War, remained. Abnet notes that the “most common robot story in American science fiction during the 1920s and 1930s told a story of white men, using their cunning, strength, and willpower to restore their authority over the robots who should be their slaves.” Movies, especially science fiction serials, often told the same story.
A century after R.U.R. and forty years after The Terminator, the uneasiness engendered by robots (and their droid, cyborg, replicant, and AI cousins) persists, reflecting longstanding concerns about labor, autonomy, and power…
Early automatons in the US evolved from symbols of revolt into racialized figures tied to labor and the legacy of slavery: “How America Racialized the Robot,” from @jstordaily.bsky.social.
* Erich Fromm, The Sane Society
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As we move on, we might recall that it was on this date in 1967 that Aretha Franklin’s up-tempo cover of Otis Redding’s “Respect” enter the Billboard Hot 100. It rose steadily over the next several weeks, hitting #1 in June, where it stayed for two weeks and won Franklin two Grammy Awards at the 1968 ceremony, including the first of eight consecutive Grammys for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. An R&B classic, it has also become a protest anthem, thanks to its connections to both the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the second-wave feminist movement of the 1970s.
https://youtu.be/v4f22xl6Bvg?si=yn-pPhxjVoWgsA8k
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Somehow I didn’t know that Booker T. & the M.G.’s is what I needed to hear right now. Thank goodness Apple Music did.
And the station built upon their cover of “Michelle” is genuinely restoring my soul.
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Somehow I didn’t know that Booker T. & the M.G.’s is what I needed to hear right now. Thank goodness Apple Music did.
And the station built upon their cover of “Michelle” is genuinely restoring my soul.
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Somehow I didn’t know that Booker T. & the M.G.’s is what I needed to hear right now. Thank goodness Apple Music did.
And the station built upon their cover of “Michelle” is genuinely restoring my soul.
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I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) ☎️
#ArethaFranklin #GeorgeMichael
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Aretha Franklin:
🎵 Thinkhttps://enrythm.bandcamp.com/track/aretha-franklin-think-enrythm-remix
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https://www.europesays.com/es/461332/ Diez músicas recuperan los himnos de la lucha feminista | Cultura #AmyWinehouse #ArethaFranklin #Conciertos #Cultura #Entertainment #Entretenimiento #ES #España #Feminismo #GirlBand #Música #PrincipadoDeAsturias #Spain
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"Spanish Harlem" is a song recorded by #BenEKing in 1960 for #AtcoRecords. It was written by Jerry Leiber and #PhilSpector and produced by #JerryLeiberAndMikeStoller. "Spanish Harlem" was King's first hit away from #TheDrifters, peaking at number 10 on #Billboard's pop chart, and number 15 on the rhythm and blues chart. The song has been covered by a number of artists including #ArethaFranklin, whose version reached number two on Billboard's pop chart.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CillianMurphysLimitedEdition
Aretha Franklin:
🎵 Baby, Baby, Baby -
"Respect" is a song recorded by American singer #ArethaFranklin. It is a cover of a #songOriginallyWrittenAndRecorded by #OtisRedding, and which Franklin rearranged and reshaped to give the perspective of a woman as opposed to Redding's male perspective. The music in the two versions is significantly different.
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🎶 #TransSisters are #DoingIT for #Themselves...!
#ToTheTuneOf...
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#Eurythmics feat. #ArethaFranklin: Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves (Remastered)
