The album also includes her cover of a classic rock song.

Today marks 56 years since “The Greatest Singer of All Time” released one of her signature albums. It was also on this day, ...

Friday marks 44 years since “Jump to It” first appeared on the Billboard Hot 100, debuting at No. 83. For the week of Aug. 21 ...

Aretha Franklin’s album “Amazing Grace” sold more than two million copies, becoming the best-selling gospel album of all time. She recorded it over two days in 1972 at the New Temple Missionary ...

In 1961, Aretha Franklin released Aretha, her debut record. Although the album didn’t produce any big hits, it was the beginning of a career that would make Franklin one of the most respected and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In addition to being a maternal figure to Hudson, the Memphis-born icon has long been the Queen of Soul to music lovers around the ...

On January 22, 1968, Aretha Franklin released “Lady Soul.” Credit: Photo courtesy of All Music. Aretha Franklin has long been considered the “Queen of Soul” and her Detroit upbringing has always kept ...

There is a good chance that as you read this, you can’t name an Aretha Franklin album. Sure, you know the hits — "Respect," "Chain of Fools," "Rock Steady," "Spanish Harlem" and so many more — that ...