Mid-1965. New York City. The sixth floor of 799 Seventh Avenue, Columbia Records headquarters. Columbia is in the middle of a move. The label’s parent company, CBS, has finished its new building on Sixth Avenue and the word has come down from above: no clutter.
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For casual listeners and die-hard “get me in the pit” music fans, Lyrically explores the inspiration and meaning behind memorable songs. Through artist interviews and interpretations, the poetry of these lyrics is analysed with insight and facts.
Aretha Franklin first heard Otis Redding's "Respect" on the radio in 1965 and immediately knew she could do something different with it. She spent a year and a half working out the arrangement at home on her piano. On Valentine's Day 1967, she walked into Atlantic Records' New York studio with the arrangement already in her head, sat down at the piano, and made the song hers in one session. Wexler played the tape to Redding before release. He broke out into a wide smile. Redding later admitted from the Monterey Pop Festival stage that she had taken his song.
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