Great Singers In the Studio and Behind the Scenes

A pre-fame Aretha Franklin cutting tracks for Columbia Records in New York, 1961. She made eight records for the label before leaving for Atlantic — where she recorded "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" in 1967. "I cherish the albums we made," said John Hammond, her A&R man at Columbia. "But Columbia was a white company that misunderstood her genius."

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