When she sat down at that piano during the "You Make Me Feel like a Natural Woman" performance, I got chills. She had that coat on and was ready to work. She didn't come to perform like other artists. She came to work.
Me too; in fact, tears came to my eyes... just with the first few notes of the piano! Have heard that song played a lot over the last few days, as you can imagine, but that performance of it was the most moving, by far.
That Night, that song and overall performance, the expression by Carole..., priceless, tears, joy, esthetic, goosebumps, Memories. Thank you for that Carole King and thank YOU Aretha Franklin 🙏.
I love me some Carol King. What an amazing song writer and singer she is. Thanks to Jerry and she for writing Natural Woman and for sharing it with Ms. Franklin!
Carole King never does interviews and even Al Sharpton was very mellow during this interview. Only the memory of Aretha Franklin can bring solemn peace over your spirit. I keep saying she had a conversation with the microphone and stage. Its as if no one else was in the audience except her and the microphone. She was so comfortable with her skill and talent.
Carole King may have written the Songs but they wouldn't have been classics if Aretha, The Drifters, The Chiffons, The Shirelles, hadn't spun their magic.
All of it came together for the good of everyone...what legends and a class performance by all the musical genius. Aretha gave praise to Carol for her allowing her to sing that song.
Oh absolutely it's just there was a time in the not too distant past that nobody cared about who wrote the song, they were more interested in who sang it. Oh did you ever see Grace Of My Heart which was loosely based on Carole King's Life, it's really good.
All she did was transition and go to heaven. We aren’t our bodies we are our souls. Our bodies are just our shells like our avatars. We exist in eternal heaven forever. This is just a temporary experience a temp stop for all of us just to experience this until we get to heaven
Growing up in the 60's I had the privilege of listening to Ms.Franklin sing all her greatest hits....so many come to mind that make me smile. Her songs transcended the racial barriers that were so prevalent back then....her voice gave hope to all who listened.....her personal beliefs gave us all hope that one day we all would rise above the aggression and hatred. What a voice indeed! Rest in peace Ms.Franklin.....as long as I am able to walk this earth I will carry your songs and message with me in my heart....please, when you get to your place in the heavens could you tell my mom that I am ok and still believe? That the inspiration and strength that both you and her instilled in me have not gone to waste? On a lighter note: People, can you imagine the show that is going on up there???? My goodness, what with all the superstars that have passed over the years?? Next time you hear the skies rumble fear not, for it is not thunder from a storm, but the thunder of so many talented voices coming together to put on a show for the ages! Oh to be there.....maybe one day, just maybe......
I have a music library of 678 of my favourite songs, comprising rock music, jazz music, heavy metal, country and western, classical, Cajun etc. And the one record that I have played more times than any other, is Aretha Franklin's "I say a Little Prayer." God bless you Aretha, and thanks for bringing the sunshine into to my life.
I haven't wept like this since my mama died...She sang the riptide of being female during our times and did so exquisitely. I will genuinely be as grateful to her as to the many women who inspired me to be the best of myself. There were some phenomenal women performers during my time; Aretha Franklin was the best.
Yes me to I cried watching and listen to her sing ..because it was a flashback of my late mom my Queen as well. My mom was curvy and same skin tone and back then she would change up in her big wigs as well. And she would always sing to us while she was in kitchen cooking.. I miss her dearly she passed at age of 70 yrs old. 11 yrs old. Rest in paradise my Queen.. love you more..
1967 small teachers college in N,orth ,Carolina mountains. Not one black student. My roommate ask if I had heard Areatha Franklin. I was into Motown at the time. Areatha became my favorite and I am 71 now! 90 percent of the performers we.followed were black. I truly believe they helped bring us together. I was not raised in a racist family so it didn't matter what color a person was. I knew great talent when I heard it!I have had black friends shocked that we listened to those artists back then and now. It was a great time!
Music and real talent always unites all people. We have this great legacy of songs and live performances she has left for us. In these troubling times we all need the music of the great Queen of Soul. God bless Aretha Franklin.
Aretha was a gift to everyone. Not just to America, not just for one colour, race, gender. A gift to the world for which we will all forever be grateful.
She also transcended age and generations. My grandmother and I have very different taste in music but Franklin had something for everyone. My grandmother said that her version of the standard, Skylark, is one of the best she's heard. There is no hint of R&B or gospel in it, which shows her versatility. She can move between genres seamlessly.
Since Ms Franklin passed I have been obsessed with knowing everything about her. Her voice reminds of my mother, who passed away in 2000, and the good old days. She was so soulful. She is truly the queen of soul. I will probably listen to her music for days, I can't get enough. She was classy, loved and respected.
God speed, Aretha. Thank you for teaching me a woman should have R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Loved that you were always keeping snippets of news, science, recipes, etc...and having the people around you get informed. We will miss you ❤✌⚘
Her music ranges over 6 decades. My favorite female vocalist (and maybe favorite vocalist, period) of all time. Her music is eternal and it will always live inside of us: )
This was a very beautiful interview Carol King is just so humble, and it just had me feeling like I wanted too cry. Because some of us think and feel white people do not like us or want us to be successful but as we see this is clearly not the case here. Thanks to Carol King and Al Sharpeton this was great ..
I saw that video, where Aretha sits at the Piano and mrs King went "nuts" and I thought, who is that fantastic Lady...now I know, what a lovely Lady....she is just WOW
There is something about the simplicity of the instrumentals and lyrics during this timeframe that really highlighted the beauty of the voices. I love the music from this time and Aretha will always be the vessel that delivered the most phenomenal performances of those times. She was impeccable! Six decades of incredible music in so many genres. Thanks so much for filling our sports with song Aretha. RIP.
The Queen of Soul, her music was the music of my young days, the sixties, So emotive then and now. Carol King wrote so many of the tunes I loved. I had the wonderful experience of seeing Ms King in concert on my twenty first birthday, still a vivid memory, I just had my seventieth birthday and I’m still rocking the music. 💕💕💕💕💕💕
I don't know why he kept saying Aretha Franklin was a singer for 50 years, when she first said that she was a singing recording artist beginning in 1956. So that would be 62 years that she was a recording singer.
Joshua McCool You are very right. Aretha Franklin, my mom, and many other gospel singers like, Sam Cooke, Mahalia Jackson, the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi and Alabama, the Mighty Clouds of Joy, the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Swanie Cortet, the Jordanairs, Aretha Franklin's father, Rev. C. L. Franklin, recorded great church sermons, and so many others recording great gospel singers, were singing together in concerts around the country and abroad. They all used to sing together in national baptist conventions up In Chicago during the earlier days and before I was born. Those gospel singers used battle it out singing as contestants against each other, groups, soloists, and cortets, Aretha Franklin's first husband, Ted White, was not a good man.
I think he was referring to the fact that she officially entered the business singing secular music 50 years ago. I was 50 years ago she was conferred the title Queen of Soul for her soaring 5 octave soulful voice.
IT shouldn't have started there just because Aretha Franklin was duded the Queen of Soul for only the music she did in r&b, jazz, and whatever. Listen, she was a big star and was well known throughout the recording industry and throughout the world, when she was a very famous gossip singers, along with the biggest gossip great singers in the history of music. When Aretha Franklin is only recognized for just those 50, that takes from the 12 that she was a spectacular world well known gossip great throughout the world of gossip music for which totally, she was a recording star for 62. Give the queen her props, and don't try to take from her for what she has branded in the world history books. Hail to The Queen, Aretha Franklin. That is like say, if a person has went to school, and went on to college, although that person has been educated in the field of education. But they are only being recognized for one part of their education and not everything they have achieved in their field of education. That person must and should be recognized for all they have accomplished, just like Aretha Franklin should too, no matter if she sang gossip for 12 years and crossed over to r&b, jazz, and other music during her time of recording, and she did.
Just to put things into perspective, Carole King is actually a month older than Aretha in this interview after she died. =( You never know when your time is up. Some people live into their 60's. Some into their 70s, and some into their 80's & 90's and even into their 100's PLUS. Some die before they're even born; it's a weird life we live. Try to enjoy it. Side note: my granddad was in his mid-70's, one day climbing up a12 ft. ladder to get the ripest fruit from our avocado tree, and 3 months later he was gone from brain cancer.
Wow, what a great interview to the Queen of Soul, there will never be another. I remember hearing "Respect" when I was a little girl for the first time playing in the front yard! I said, wow that voice! I was a true fan at that point! I loved Aretha Franklin, and my condolences go to her family and the fan family who loved her so. She is with the Lord now resting in Perfect Peace! Amen.
For the ones that we really, really love our singers, composers and interpreters..we thank you thank everyone for appreciating our expressions of emotions that mean so much! so much..
I love Carole King and her music. She loved Aretha Franklin and she was so excited to see her sing it the same event when President Obama cried. Carole is a gifted songwriter and singer. I have her old Album album Tapestry. I know she’s hurting as we all are for the loss of a legend, The Queen Aretha Franklin. I hope the Queen know how much she’s loved and already missed I want to go say goodbye. This is a very special lady that has been through so much and you could hear it in the bluesy guttural raw sounds she emitted with a gorgeous mezzo soprano voice I will never forget her as long as I live. I hope she’s at peace and no more pain. I love you Lady Soul, The Queen.
ITS REALLY BROUGHT ME TO TEARS .... I PLAY PIANO SINCE I WAS 6 , FOR 24 YEARNS SHE WAS MY MOM'S FAVORITE ARTIST MADE HER BECAME A MUSIC TEACHER . SINCE WE ARE FROM A MUSLIM ARABIAN SOCIETY THE WHOLE IDEA OF MUSIC WASN'T SO ACCEPTABLE MOSTLY CONSIDERING AS A SHAMEFUL NOT RESPECTABLE INTEREST IT TAKES COURAGE TO WALK THROUGH THIS WAY. STRONG ENOUGH TO HANDLE SOME DISCRIMINATION, RUDE JUDGMENTAL PEOPLE ... SEEING MUSIC UNITS US ALL NO MATTER WHERE WE CAME FROM , RACE , RELIGION ... REMOVE WALLS BETWEEN CULTURES, DIFFERENCES ... SPREADING LOVE, JOY , PEACE INTO WORLD SUFFERING FROM HATE , LIES & DESPAIR :( ... R.I.P #ARETHA FRANKLIN .... YOU Will ALWAYS BE ALIVE IN OUR HEARTS THROUGH YOUR HONORABLE LEGACY 😔🙏🏼 From #KUWAIT with love ... ⭐️🌷🇰🇼
Carole King is hands down one of the most incredible songwriter!!! I don’t think a lot of people know of all of her songs but they are many and so many artists have recorded them.❤️
I humbly salute...The Queen of soul...What was and now will remain in our soul. One of a kind. From the church to the nations. What a jewel a diamond and a pearl. The voice and her sound wondered. It journey down through many generations of our life's. We all can say...Thank you God for allowing us to be so fulfilled and favored with one of the best...The Honorable and Queen Aretha Franklin...Amazing Grace....P. Karen L. O🙏🌹💐🌷🌷💐🌹
I do not have a television so in my sadness I have turned to you tube..to see these great souls talk about my favorite artist of all time..the one and only Aretha Franklin..beautiful video
Hey these kids that want to be singers, IJS watch and learn. That women did so much. If they only knew what time that was when she started her success. You couldnt get no better than that.It was OBSTACLES at that time and she STILL made it!! One of a KInd!! One Love, RIP... By the way, its interesting that we have 30 thumbs down, WTH is that about?
Bless your heart Carole King your excitement for Aretha’s interpretation of this song brings me to tears. Bless your precious heart Carole🙏🏽 Miracles and Blessings on you💕
Do some actual research into what cancer is, if it was easy to cure it would be cured by now and consigned to the history books. every cancer requires a unique form of treatment, many cancers are fully curable, many others have an extremely high percentage of cure if dicovered in time, the minority are to dangerous to be cured by current research because of the effects on the body being too damaging or lethal. 40 or 50 years ago most people who got any form of cancer had a very low chance of survival, it was a death sentence. Now the majority of cancer sufferers are cured and survive. Cancer, is not a virus or disease, it is a bodily condition that goes out of control.
Let me put a point on this as simply as I can as a scientist working on cancer. Imagine one protein can have a tumor promoting function in one type of cancer and a tumor suppressing function in another. Imagine that that protein acts on and with thousands of other proteins. pulling that one protein out of the web in one cell means you’re likely doing that to other cells in the body as well. Now imagine that cells talk to each other. We’re talking trillions upon trillions upon trillions of connections here.
She had talent not many singers embrace.Her music with her accomplishments for women stand forever as long as time stands in legacyof the late Singer.Her legacy of the times shall travel ! RIP ETHREA.
Loved her music as a child in the 60's, will love her always!! I saw her perform in a 2 hour concert, 6 years ago in Atlantic City. The energy throughout was of great magnitude as well as her talent & spirituality. God's angel now.
I can't stop playing this song. Am so addicted to listening. It's like as if those lyrics are coming right from the bottom of my fragile heart. I feel like a natural woman over and over again.
I really like the way when Carol King jump up and was soooo excired when Aretha Franklin was singing YOU MADE ME FEEL LIKE A NATURAL WOMEN at the WHITE HOUSE. Carol King Expression was (priceless ) to me.
Carole King’s reaction during the Kennedy ceremony where Aretha sang natural woman was unforgettable. African-Americans felt the same way Carole did whenever Aretha graced the stage with that gift she had...that voice! The unforgettable, once in a lifetime...Ms. Franklin.
To be honest, I've never been a big fan of this song even tho it's one of Aretha's biggest hits. I'm more drawn to the lesser known songs: "Never Loved A Man the Way I Loved You" "Chain of Fools" (Aretha's reading isn't intelligible---you'd have to look at the lyric sheet to hear what's she's singing), and "Until You Come Back to Me". Lester Holt of NBC Nightly News played a gorgeous song by Aretha called "Angel" in his tribute. I was sobbing like a baby, "Angel" is one of her most beautiful songs ever!! Luv Carole King too, so humble in spite of her lofty accomplishments (she's the same age as Aretha---76 yrs old).
With all due respect, I just wish that during her illness, her last days that all this would have been going on, let the person see all the outpouring of love before they die (though she got it yhhh) but I mean all the hype that's going on right now about her... RIP Queen!
I think there was an out pour of love and well wishes for her. Especially when they said she was declining. But now the media has made her the main focus; rightfully so😄
Oh, she knew. People would say she was egotistical. But she wasn't. They didn't like the fact that she knew her own worth. She also realized what she meant to people. She had heard that almost her entire life. She knew how she affected people and how she made them feel. That was her power. That's what made her Aretha 💗
And, she may have wanted her final days to be with and for her family. She had given so much of her time to the public. This was a very private matter. And she was, first and foremost, a mother and grandmother. She left the wanted to: surrounded by people she loved and that loved her. That's all anyone could ask for.
Very nice interview. Carol King very kind, humble and gracious. Aretha- What a lovely lady with an amazing voice. She will be greatly missed. As a great woman of faith, no doubt she would appreciate scripture...and one day soon " no more tears, nor pain, nor sorrow or death" Revelation 21:3,4 because "our enemy, death" will be conquered once and for all - 1 Corinthians 15:26, and that is when "the meek shall inherit the Earth" Matthew 5:5 and all wickedness will be removed - Psalms 37:9-11 and then we will see all our dead loved ones again. Show less
Dear ms. Franklin you are in a class by yourself. There will never be another . May you rest now with God. Thank you for your gift of your music. May God Bless you .
Queen Aretha Franklin was naturally gifted and she stood firmly in that God given gift. We the fans, consumes her music should be honored to live in a time where we were able to witness her greatness before she transcended. She could have sang the phone book and it would have been a hit. Carole King humble, graced and loved, your writing and music transcends and trust when I tell you Carole King you are a legend. Carole King and Al Sharpton great interview.
Wow, just watching this....when Aretha sat down at the Piano and started to sing.... It shook me..... Aretha’s voice is akin to Norman Rockwell’s photos of capturing the quintessential American Life... Name the era or event and since the 1960s Aretha Franklin’s music has been a “blanket” of comfort and solace for some of America’s most troubling times....Words can’t describe the degree in which she will be missed...
King of Rock & Roll, Elvis Presley, died on 8/16/77. The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, died on 8/16/18. In 1977, I was a 13 year old kid getting ready for 9th grade. I'd come home from a sweltering HOT summers day at band practice & it was ALL over the news. I couldn't understand why people were in tears over an entertainer as I was just a kid. I'm 54 years old now & remember hearing Aretha's music from the 70's-90's. I was at work Thursday morning when my Fiance' texted me & said Aretha had passed away. It felt like a family member had died as you KNEW a legend was gone for ever. Maybe that's what people felt like in 1977 when Elvis died. I wonder if Aretha's family will turn her house into a museum (similar to Graceland). I've played "Jump to It" a LOT these past few days - it takes me back to the summer of 1982 - what a good year that was! I've also played "Natural Woman" a LOT, but the best version is the one from the Kennedy Center Honors where Aretha sang for Carole King - powerful & emotional moment for sure! 8/19/18 @ 9:38A.
I got emotional. Too as Carole king. ..As an Ecuadorean women in America for 40 yrs. .. I got to listen so much music and my all time favorite are Gospel and Pop. ..
When she sat down at that piano during the "You Make Me Feel like a Natural Woman" performance, I got chills. She had that coat on and was ready to work. She didn't come to perform like other artists. She came to work.
She was serious about her music and singing. Maybe she understood what it meant to have such a gift she had and to bring it to the audiene aka ppl...
What a marvelous moment, not only President Obama had tears in his eyes all her true friends were the same.
Me too; in fact, tears came to my eyes... just with the first few notes of the piano! Have heard that song played a lot over the last few days, as you can imagine, but that performance of it was the most moving, by far.
Top quality fidelity....
Yes. Yes. Yes the Queen was known to take care of business. I know she is taking care of that business with the angelic choir.
Carol King has a real and "Natural" love for everyone. We love you Carol King!
That Night, that song and overall performance, the expression by Carole..., priceless, tears, joy, esthetic, goosebumps, Memories. Thank you for that Carole King and thank YOU Aretha Franklin 🙏.
RIP, Aretha. Thank you, Al and Carole for this interview.
Carole King is such a humble graceful woman, she praises people EASILY.
Such a rarity nowadays. I noticed it too. She pretty much refused any credit and had to jump to add the others on the song like “it wasn’t me!”
theonick2 ....and that's how it should be...that's why we are here! 😇
JuliaWills IT WAS DEFINITELY PRICELESS..SHE ABSOLUTELY ADORED HER!😢
Really enjoyed reading CK's biography. She went through a lot and emerged with strength and compassion for herself and others.
JuliaWills me too, she was so elated😆
Aretha Franklin and Carole King two of the best voices to ever grace the stage
I love me some Carol King. What an amazing song writer and singer she is. Thanks to Jerry and she for writing Natural Woman and for sharing it with Ms. Franklin!
Carol King Co-authored Natural Woman
PhillyRoja
Yes, thank you Carole !!!!
Yes..
Watching from Australia RIP the Queen of Soul always had our RESPECT 😓😓😓😓
Cheers
Deb
Carole King never does interviews and even Al Sharpton was very mellow during this interview. Only the memory of Aretha Franklin can bring solemn peace over your spirit. I keep saying she had a conversation with the microphone and stage. Its as if no one else was in the audience except her and the microphone. She was so comfortable with her skill and talent.
Aretha God had a tear today . Because he finally got you home. Bless you and your family what a gift to world is your voice and soul. Thank you
Carol King you are a legend of song and spirit. Thank you
Carole King may have written the Songs but they wouldn't have been classics if Aretha, The Drifters, The Chiffons, The Shirelles, hadn't spun their magic.
All of it came together for the good of everyone...what legends and a class performance by all the musical genius. Aretha gave praise to Carol for her allowing her to sing that song.
Seriously? Carole King is a genius and her own recordings of these songs are on one of the biggest selling albums of all time.
Oh absolutely it's just there was a time in the not too distant past that nobody cared about who wrote the song, they were more interested in who sang it. Oh did you ever see Grace Of My Heart which was loosely based on Carole King's Life, it's really good.
laminage Yes actually. Years ago. Actually not even who sung it. Whose name was on the album. See Darlene Love.
Her heartbeat stopped but her soul will shine forever
Loud Neighbor Productions well said
All she did was transition and go to heaven. We aren’t our bodies we are our souls. Our bodies are just our shells like our avatars. We exist in eternal heaven forever. This is just a temporary experience a temp stop for all of us just to experience this until we get to heaven
Growing up in the 60's I had the privilege of listening to Ms.Franklin sing all her greatest hits....so many come to mind that make me smile. Her songs transcended the racial barriers that were so prevalent back then....her voice gave hope to all who listened.....her personal beliefs gave us all hope that one day we all would rise above the aggression and hatred. What a voice indeed! Rest in peace Ms.Franklin.....as long as I am able to walk this earth I will carry your songs and message with me in my heart....please, when you get to your place in the heavens could you tell my mom that I am ok and still believe? That the inspiration and strength that both you and her instilled in me have not gone to waste? On a lighter note: People, can you imagine the show that is going on up there???? My goodness, what with all the superstars that have passed over the years?? Next time you hear the skies rumble fear not, for it is not thunder from a storm, but the thunder of so many talented voices coming together to put on a show for the ages! Oh to be there.....maybe one day, just maybe......
Jeffrey Hancock very touching words
Your comment has moved me to tears.
That's beautiful.
Beautiful
Well stated and beautiful.
I have a music library of 678 of my favourite songs, comprising rock music, jazz music, heavy metal, country and western, classical, Cajun etc. And the one record that I have played more times than any other, is Aretha Franklin's "I say a Little Prayer."
God bless you Aretha, and thanks for bringing the sunshine into to my life.
No one said you were smart.
Tribble, my fave too, especially when you know the back story (Vietnam War).
Thanks GedSoft, this is something that I didn't know. The song however, does have a personal relevance for me.
Personal personal relevance? Tourets?
Tribble Booth. Get ready I'm coming to get them all lol.
Carole King thank for co-wrote beautiful song. Thank you Aretha Franklin for sing beautiful song R.I.P: Al thanks for this inverview.
I haven't wept like this since my mama died...She sang the riptide of being female during our times and did so exquisitely. I will genuinely be as grateful to her as to the many women who inspired me to be the best of myself. There were some phenomenal women performers during my time; Aretha Franklin was the best.
agree been crying since Monday my birthday praying so hard please
Aretha but I knew hospice
I cried also.
Jane Guarnera Great words, Thanks....
Talk about crying...me too...and yes, I thought about my Mom while I was doing it...
Yes me to I cried watching and listen to her sing ..because it was a flashback of my late mom my Queen as well. My mom was curvy and same skin tone and back then she would change up in her big wigs as well. And she would always sing to us while she was in kitchen cooking.. I miss her dearly she passed at age of 70 yrs old. 11 yrs old. Rest in paradise my Queen.. love you more..
Carol King is an amazing singer & song writer!! R.I.P. "Queen of Soul"
Jaye Williams 😆
1967 small teachers college in N,orth ,Carolina mountains. Not one black student. My roommate ask if I had heard Areatha Franklin. I was into Motown at the time. Areatha became my favorite and I am 71 now! 90 percent of the performers we.followed were black. I truly believe they helped bring us together. I was not raised in a racist family so it didn't matter what color a person was. I knew great talent when I heard it!I have had black friends shocked that we listened to those artists back then and now. It was a great time!
sandy mcmichen great post so many kind words you said
Music and real talent always unites all people. We have this great legacy of songs and live performances she has left for us. In these troubling times we all need the music of the great Queen of Soul. God bless Aretha Franklin.
Great parents!!!!!!!
Aretha was a gift to everyone. Not just to America, not just for one colour, race, gender. A gift to the world for which we will all forever be grateful.
AMEN🙌🙌🙌
She also transcended age and generations. My grandmother and I have very different taste in music but Franklin had something for everyone. My grandmother said that her version of the standard, Skylark, is one of the best she's heard. There is no hint of R&B or gospel in it, which shows her versatility. She can move between genres seamlessly.
Aretha Franklin's 1963 recording of Skylark. th-cam.com/video/jHYDafTrpMU/w-d-xo.html&app=desktop
These phony comments are funny.
Amen
Aretha and Carole, just the best of the best. There's nothing more to say.
RIP Queen and thanks for your music.
Since Ms Franklin passed I have been obsessed with knowing everything about her. Her voice reminds of my mother, who passed away in 2000, and the good old days. She was so soulful. She is truly the queen of soul. I will probably listen to her music for days, I can't get enough. She was classy, loved and respected.
Wonderful tribute to a remarkable lady. Rest easy Queen of Soul! You will be missed.
Carole King, too, is a natural treasure. Her music was the soundtrack of my young adult life.
Heaven is having a funky good time! She at home with her dad and sisters now!! RIP Aretha!
That woman played the piano like no other. How talented she was God will day well done😘
And she played by ear - as Aretha never learned how to read music. Quite amazing. The first song she learned on the piano was 'Canadian Sunset'.
....Our Queen will never die and Will Live Forever....
She just went to a higher throne.
TheLadyOfSoul502
Wow! That’s beautifully said.... Thank you! 🙏🏻
God speed, Aretha. Thank you for teaching me a woman should have R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Loved that you were always keeping snippets of news, science, recipes, etc...and having the people around you get informed. We will miss you
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I thoroughly enjoyed this interview! Rise in Power, Aretha Franklin! Ase...
Her music ranges over 6 decades. My favorite female vocalist (and maybe favorite vocalist, period) of all time. Her music is eternal and it will always live inside of us: )
This was a very beautiful interview Carol King is just so humble, and it just had me feeling like I wanted too cry. Because some of us think and feel white people do not like us or want us to be successful but as we see this is clearly not the case here. Thanks to Carol King and Al Sharpeton this was great ..
Miss Franklin - no one like her - ever - simply the best
Clarissa Gafoor Agreed!!!
Ever Ever Ever, she was the best.
Our “Queen of soul” is gone but never will be forgotten!!
I saw that video, where Aretha sits at the Piano and mrs King went "nuts" and I thought, who is that fantastic Lady...now I know, what a lovely Lady....she is just WOW
There is something about the simplicity of the instrumentals and lyrics during this timeframe that really highlighted the beauty of the voices. I love the music from this time and Aretha will always be the vessel that delivered the most phenomenal performances of those times. She was impeccable! Six decades of incredible music in so many genres. Thanks so much for filling our sports with song Aretha. RIP.
I love Carole King. Tapresty was my very first album I bough in the early 70's. So far away🎹 🎼.......Aretha Frankin. RIP Queen of Soul.
The Queen of Soul, her music was the music of my young days, the sixties, So emotive then and now. Carol King wrote so many of the tunes I loved. I had the wonderful experience of seeing Ms King in concert on my twenty first birthday, still a vivid memory, I just had my seventieth birthday and I’m still rocking the music. 💕💕💕💕💕💕
agree she was the GOAT
I don't know why he kept saying Aretha Franklin was a singer for 50 years, when she first said that she was a singing recording artist beginning in 1956. So that would be 62 years that she was a recording singer.
That's exactly what I was thinking too. Her first album was gospel music that she recorded live when she was about 14.
Joshua McCool You are very right. Aretha Franklin, my mom, and many other gospel singers like, Sam Cooke, Mahalia Jackson, the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi and Alabama, the Mighty Clouds of Joy, the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Swanie Cortet, the Jordanairs, Aretha Franklin's father, Rev. C. L. Franklin, recorded great church sermons, and so many others recording great gospel singers, were singing together in concerts around the country and abroad. They all used to sing together in national baptist conventions up In Chicago during the earlier days and before I was born. Those gospel singers used battle it out singing as contestants against each other, groups, soloists, and cortets, Aretha Franklin's first husband, Ted White, was not a good man.
I think he was referring to the fact that she officially entered the business singing secular music 50 years ago. I was 50 years ago she was conferred the title Queen of Soul for her soaring 5 octave soulful voice.
IT shouldn't have started there just because Aretha Franklin was duded the Queen of Soul for only the music she did in r&b, jazz, and whatever. Listen, she was a big star and was well known throughout the recording industry and throughout the world, when she was a very famous gossip singers, along with the biggest gossip great singers in the history of music. When Aretha Franklin is only recognized for just those 50, that takes from the 12 that she was a spectacular world well known gossip great throughout the world of gossip music for which totally, she was a recording star for 62. Give the queen her props, and don't try to take from her for what she has branded in the world history books. Hail to The Queen, Aretha Franklin. That is like say, if a person has went to school, and went on to college, although that person has been educated in the field of education. But they are only being recognized for one part of their education and not everything they have achieved in their field of education. That person must and should be recognized for all they have accomplished, just like Aretha Franklin should too, no matter if she sang gossip for 12 years and crossed over to r&b, jazz, and other music during her time of recording, and she did.
Just to put things into perspective, Carole King is actually a month older than Aretha in this interview after she died. =( You never know when your time is up. Some people live into their 60's. Some into their 70s, and some into their 80's & 90's and even into their 100's PLUS. Some die before they're even born; it's a weird life we live. Try to enjoy it.
Side note: my granddad was in his mid-70's, one day climbing up a12 ft. ladder to get the ripest fruit from our avocado tree, and 3 months later he was gone from brain cancer.
we love you carole king.
she's pretty AMAZING! ♡
Na
Yes, we do!
I'm loving this last year 2017 from puppet show on #agt2017
I don't
Ms. Franklin an awesome artist may she rest in perfect peace*
Wow, what a great interview to the Queen of Soul, there will never be another. I remember hearing "Respect" when I was a little girl for the first time playing in the front yard! I said, wow that voice! I was a true fan at that point! I loved Aretha Franklin, and my condolences go to her family and the fan family who loved her so. She is with the Lord now resting in Perfect Peace! Amen.
For the ones that we really, really love our singers, composers and interpreters..we thank you thank everyone for appreciating our expressions of emotions that mean so much! so much..
I’ll never forget the day Aretha sang Natural Woman.
watch it everyday
Good Journey Miss Franklin AROHA from New Zealand
She was such a beautiful soul! RIP Ms. Franklin!
I love Carole King and her music. She loved Aretha Franklin and she was so excited to see her sing it the same event when President Obama cried. Carole is a gifted songwriter and singer. I have her old Album album Tapestry. I know she’s hurting as we all are for the loss of a legend, The Queen Aretha Franklin. I hope the Queen know how much she’s loved and already missed I want to go say goodbye. This is a very special lady that has been through so much and you could hear it in the bluesy guttural raw sounds she emitted with a gorgeous mezzo soprano voice I will never forget her as long as I live. I hope she’s at peace and no more pain. I love you Lady Soul, The Queen.
ITS REALLY BROUGHT ME TO TEARS .... I PLAY PIANO SINCE I WAS 6 , FOR 24 YEARNS
SHE WAS MY MOM'S FAVORITE ARTIST MADE HER BECAME A MUSIC TEACHER .
SINCE WE ARE FROM A MUSLIM ARABIAN SOCIETY THE WHOLE IDEA OF MUSIC WASN'T
SO ACCEPTABLE MOSTLY CONSIDERING AS A SHAMEFUL NOT RESPECTABLE INTEREST
IT TAKES COURAGE TO WALK THROUGH THIS WAY. STRONG ENOUGH TO HANDLE SOME
DISCRIMINATION, RUDE JUDGMENTAL PEOPLE ...
SEEING MUSIC UNITS US ALL NO MATTER WHERE WE CAME FROM , RACE , RELIGION ...
REMOVE WALLS BETWEEN CULTURES, DIFFERENCES ... SPREADING LOVE, JOY , PEACE
INTO WORLD SUFFERING FROM HATE , LIES & DESPAIR :( ...
R.I.P #ARETHA FRANKLIN ....
YOU Will ALWAYS BE ALIVE IN OUR HEARTS THROUGH YOUR HONORABLE LEGACY 😔🙏🏼
From #KUWAIT with love ... ⭐️🌷🇰🇼
Excellent interview! Love Carole King! Rest in Paradise Queen Aretha.
Carole King is hands down one of the most incredible songwriter!!! I don’t think a lot of people know of all of her songs but they are many and so many artists have recorded them.❤️
Tapestry is an album that everyone should have in their collection/playlist no matter what your favourite music genre is.
God called her home! Well Done my good and faithful servant! RIP to the "Queen Of Soul!"
Nobody could perform that song like the QUEEN.God inspired the writer just for Aretha!!🌹🏵️ 👏👏👏👏
Carole King you are so loved!!
This was wonderful... 😪
Awesome writer Jerry and Carole .....and R.I.P queen 👸 of soul and brilliant singer Aretha Franklin 🕊💕💕💕
Watching Carole's reaction to Aretha sitting down at the piano is just beautiful. So much mutual respect and love for music.
I humbly salute...The Queen of soul...What was and now will remain in our soul. One of a kind. From the church to the nations. What a jewel a diamond and a pearl. The voice and her sound wondered. It journey down through many generations of our life's. We all can say...Thank you God for allowing us to be so fulfilled and favored with one of the best...The Honorable and Queen Aretha Franklin...Amazing Grace....P. Karen L. O🙏🌹💐🌷🌷💐🌹
I do not have a television so in my sadness I have turned to you tube..to see these great souls talk about my favorite artist of all time..the one and only Aretha Franklin..beautiful video
The most celebrated, most iconic, most revered female artist/singer ever in history. She is singing in heaven now with the Angels!!!
Hey these kids that want to be singers, IJS watch and learn. That women did so much. If they only knew what time that was when she started her success. You couldnt get no better than that.It was OBSTACLES at that time and she STILL made it!! One of a KInd!! One Love, RIP... By the way, its interesting that we have 30 thumbs down, WTH is that about?
Who dislikes this? That's sad. Smh
luvvinallmusik 57. A FUKTARD dislikes this!!
#trumpist dislike it
I wonder if this is an index of bots set to automatically down vote msnbc ?
They have no heart or feelings. Sad.
It wasn't about Al Sharpton--This was an honor for the Queen Of Soul. It should be left at that.
Bless your heart Carole King your excitement for Aretha’s interpretation of this song brings me to tears. Bless your precious heart Carole🙏🏽 Miracles and Blessings on you💕
Cancer is always the cause 😭 dam cancer what are the scientists doing
Do some actual research into what cancer is, if it was easy to cure it would be cured by now and consigned to the history books. every cancer requires a unique form of treatment, many cancers are fully curable, many others have an extremely high percentage of cure if dicovered in time, the minority are to dangerous to be cured by current research because of the effects on the body being too damaging or lethal.
40 or 50 years ago most people who got any form of cancer had a very low chance of survival, it was a death sentence. Now the majority of cancer sufferers are cured and survive. Cancer, is not a virus or disease, it is a bodily condition that goes out of control.
Let me put a point on this as simply as I can as a scientist working on cancer. Imagine one protein can have a tumor promoting function in one type of cancer and a tumor suppressing function in another. Imagine that that protein acts on and with thousands of other proteins. pulling that one protein out of the web in one cell means you’re likely doing that to other cells in the body as well. Now imagine that cells talk to each other. We’re talking trillions upon trillions upon trillions of connections here.
Scientists mmm let's see nothing but getting free money
makeitha smith so says the person using technology to espouse these views.
Angela bel putting the money in their pockets.......
I thought Carole King was going to come out of that box. She was so excited and emotional throughout that whole performance. R.I.P. Queen of Soul
Carole King is such an underrated gem!
I only heard Carole once and she seems to have a good voice.
She is Incredible as a Songwriter, that´s her gift.
She had talent not many singers embrace.Her music with her accomplishments for women stand forever as long as time stands in legacyof the late Singer.Her legacy of the times shall travel ! RIP ETHREA.
I love me some Carole King! Tapestry album is a classic!!! What a wonderful interview!! RIP Queen of Soul 💗
We love Aretha & Carol!, the best of America expressed in word and song. You can't "make" it great, it either is or it isn't.
Fabulous interview. Thank you.
thoroughly enjoyed this interview
G.O.A.T. Rip Aretha another angel has left us
She was God's instrument on this Earth.
Loved her music as a child in the 60's, will love her always!!
I saw her perform in a 2 hour concert, 6 years ago in Atlantic City.
The energy throughout was of great magnitude as well as her talent
& spirituality. God's angel now.
Carole King is a LIVING LEGEND!
I can't stop playing this song. Am so addicted to listening. It's like as if those lyrics are coming right from the bottom of my fragile heart. I feel like a natural woman over and over again.
I really like the way when Carol King jump up and was soooo excired when Aretha Franklin was singing YOU MADE ME FEEL LIKE A NATURAL WOMEN at the WHITE HOUSE. Carol King Expression was (priceless ) to me.
This country didn't produce Aretha... God did.
Julie Thompson true so true
Julie Thompson. Amen
Julie Thompson yes thank you Zeus.
Julie Thompson and im thankful God loaned her to us here on earth.
Facts
Carole King’s reaction during the Kennedy ceremony where Aretha sang natural woman was unforgettable. African-Americans felt the same way Carole did whenever Aretha graced the stage with that gift she had...that voice! The unforgettable, once in a lifetime...Ms. Franklin.
To be honest, I've never been a big fan of this song even tho it's one of Aretha's biggest hits. I'm more drawn to the lesser known songs: "Never Loved A Man the Way I Loved You" "Chain of Fools" (Aretha's reading isn't intelligible---you'd have to look at the lyric sheet to hear what's she's singing), and "Until You Come Back to Me".
Lester Holt of NBC Nightly News played a gorgeous song by Aretha called "Angel" in his tribute. I was sobbing like a baby, "Angel" is one of her most beautiful songs ever!!
Luv Carole King too, so humble in spite of her lofty accomplishments (she's the same age as Aretha---76 yrs old).
That clip really captures a special beauty of American spirit and culture. God bless Aretha !
At around 8:30 mins Carole King tells that Aretha Franklin lifted the song it was about (A natural woman) to the next level.
With all due respect, I just wish that during her illness, her last days that all this would have been going on, let the person see all the outpouring of love before they die (though she got it yhhh) but I mean all the hype that's going on right now about her... RIP Queen!
agree
I think there was an out pour of love and well wishes for her. Especially when they said she was declining. But now the media has made her the main focus; rightfully so😄
Oh, she knew. People would say she was egotistical. But she wasn't. They didn't like the fact that she knew her own worth. She also realized what she meant to people. She had heard that almost her entire life. She knew how she affected people and how she made them feel. That was her power. That's what made her Aretha 💗
And, she may have wanted her final days to be with and for her family. She had given so much of her time to the public. This was a very private matter. And she was, first and foremost, a mother and grandmother. She left the wanted to: surrounded by people she loved and that loved her. That's all anyone could ask for.
She was the original DIVA...No one will ever dethrone the Queen of Soul...
"You could FEEL Aretha" and that is the absolute key to Aretha. She sang and I could feel her. Love You, Aretha
Yes she does
Yes she did
Very nice interview. Carol King very kind, humble and gracious. Aretha- What a lovely lady with an amazing voice. She will be greatly missed. As a great woman of faith, no doubt she would appreciate scripture...and one day soon " no more tears, nor pain, nor sorrow or death" Revelation 21:3,4 because
"our enemy, death" will be conquered once and for all - 1 Corinthians 15:26, and that is when "the meek shall inherit the Earth" Matthew 5:5 and all wickedness will be removed - Psalms 37:9-11 and then we will see all our dead loved ones again.
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aretha franklin the tributes just keep coming
Dear ms. Franklin you are in a class by yourself. There will never be another . May you rest now with God. Thank you for your gift of your music. May God Bless you .
Queen Aretha Franklin was naturally gifted and she stood firmly in that God given gift. We the fans, consumes her music should be honored to live in a time where we were able to witness her greatness before she transcended. She could have sang the phone book and it would have been a hit. Carole King humble, graced and loved, your writing and music transcends and trust when I tell you Carole King you are a legend. Carole King and Al Sharpton great interview.
I read Carole's book on my Nook App. I loved it!!!
The true greatness of America is the collaboration of the gifts, talents and contributions of All of her people without coercion.
Wow, just watching this....when Aretha sat down at the Piano and started to sing.... It shook me.....
Aretha’s voice is akin to Norman Rockwell’s photos of capturing the quintessential American Life...
Name the era or event and since the 1960s Aretha Franklin’s music has been a “blanket” of comfort and solace for some of America’s most troubling times....Words can’t describe the degree in which she will be missed...
What a voice no one will ever match Aretha Franklin is is truly the Queen of soul God speed to her and may her family be watched ove God bless
MRS Aretha Franklin was an icon great interview with Carol king n the Rev Sharpton
May her soul Rest In Peace she hd a lovely voice
King of Rock & Roll, Elvis Presley, died on 8/16/77. The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, died on 8/16/18.
In 1977, I was a 13 year old kid getting ready for 9th grade. I'd come home from a sweltering HOT summers day at band practice & it was ALL over the news. I couldn't understand why people were in tears over an entertainer as I was just a kid.
I'm 54 years old now & remember hearing Aretha's music from the 70's-90's. I was at work Thursday morning when my Fiance' texted me & said Aretha had passed away. It felt like a family member had died as you KNEW a legend was gone for ever. Maybe that's what people felt like in 1977 when Elvis died.
I wonder if Aretha's family will turn her house into a museum (similar to Graceland).
I've played "Jump to It" a LOT these past few days - it takes me back to the summer of 1982 - what a good year that was! I've also played "Natural Woman" a LOT, but the best version is the one from the Kennedy Center Honors where Aretha sang for Carole King - powerful & emotional moment for sure! 8/19/18 @ 9:38A.
🌻💗R💗I💗P💗🌻The QUEEN OF Soul BEAUTIFUL voice 🌻🌻🌻💛🌻🌻💥🌻🌻💛🌻💥🌻🌻💛🌻🌻💛🌻🌻💛👑🕯
Ali Velshi does a wonderful job interviewing. We lost a beautiful strong woman. What a voice. What a woman. So glad I grew up with her.
I thought Carole and Rev Al look great together in discussing the late and great " Queen Of Soul" Aretha Franklin!
I got emotional. Too as Carole king. ..As an Ecuadorean women in America for 40 yrs. .. I got to listen so much music and my all time favorite are Gospel and Pop. ..
I saw ARETHA at radio city music hall in gorgeous canary yellow dress and it was amazing🕯🕯🦁🎶
Carole King had another of her songs at the funeral, You’ve Got A Friend.