Classic Track: “Don’t Play That Song [[You Lied),” Aretha Franklin

[soulster]

And now for something different:

http://www.mixonline.com/news/classic-tracks/classic-track-don-t-play-song-you-lied-aretha-franklin/367589

[funkcity]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE0CVraUvFQ

Here it is. She is so good, the perfect piano backing, and the perfectly syncopated and stylized vocal. This stuff is so terrific! And I contend would sell again today.

[luke]

Thanks. Amazing. She sells this song. Caroline isn't singing backup is she? Couldn't quite see singer on left. I think she was doing her own album at the time.

[soulster]

Here's a comment I found particularly interesting:


"The only time I remember him sort of jumping on me—and I think this was on an Aretha mix—was when I was putting a rough mix up and he came over and took all the faders with one arm and slapped them all down to zero. He said, ‘When you mix, I want to see 70 percent modulation of the drums on the left, and I want to see 70 percent modulation of the bass on the right.’“He wanted to see 70 percent on the meters of nothing but bass and drums, and whatever was left, that’s what you can do with guitars and vocals, but he had to hear those drums and bass way out front. That was such a big part of Atlantic’s R&B sound.”
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