so I heard that song and always loved it....Aretha sang it like nobody else could...Carole King, whose solo career reached the stratosphere, wrote the lovely music and Gerry Goffin wrote the lyrics...Goffin just died at age 75....
"(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" is a 1967 single released by American soul singer Aretha Franklin on the Atlantic label. The record was a big hit for Franklin, reaching number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, and became a standard song for her. Franklin included a live recording on the album "Aretha in Paris" (1968).
Co-written by the celebrated writing-producing team of Carole King and Gerry Goffin, the song was inspired by Atlantic Records co-owner and producer Jerry Wexler. As recounted in his autobiography, Wexler, a student of African-American musical culture, had been mulling over the concept of the "natural man", when he drove by King on the streets of New York. He shouted out to her he wanted a "natural woman" song for Franklin's next album. In thanks, Goffin and King granted Wexler a co-writing credit. The personnel on the original recording included Melvin Lastie on cornet, King Curtis and Charlie Chalmers on tenor sax,Willie Bridges on baritone sax, Spooner Oldham on piano, Jimmy Johnson on guitar, Tommy Cogbill on bass and Gene Chrisman on drums
that must have been an interesting session, hearing that song come to life, to vinyl back in the days when music was an art, a means of communication like no other..
and the folks involved in these song, the writing, performing, production were...well, I don't know where they got their chops, but they sure got 'em! genuis
and the Goffin/King song list is amazing...simply amazing..some songs you wouldn't associate with them like the Byrds "Wasn't Born to Follow"....
thank you Goffin and King..
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