With no singles, "Amazing Grace" sold more than 2 million copies, Franklin's biggest seller to date. The result of those recordings was a double album that completely transformed gospel music. Recorded live over two nights in January 1972 at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in the Watts section of Los Angeles, Franklin re-interpreted a dozen or so traditional gospel songs with a full choir and band. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," The Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds," and Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On," was her 1972 opus, "Amazing Grace."įranklin biographer Aaron Cohen said she never recorded anything better before or after "Amazing Grace." Which is a testament to the Queen.īut the greatest album Franklin ever recorded, worthy of mention alongside The Beatles' "Sgt. So while 1967's "I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You" and 1968's "Lady Soul" and "Aretha Now!" each cracked the Top 3 on the pop charts, in retrospect they all now read like greatest hits albums because they were so good. (She had eight albums top the R&B charts, and another four that peaked in R&B at No. But the truth is, Franklin never had a No.
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