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Written by: Chips Moman, Dan Penn
Produced by: Jerry Wexler
Released: March '67 on Atlantic
Charts: 11 weeks
Top spot: No. 9

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."

Appears on: I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (Rhino)

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