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Recorded at The New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan 1956.
ARETHA GOSPEL is the collection of recordings (originally recorded for the JVB label) made by Aretha Franklin as a teenager in her father's church, New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit.
Recorded at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit in 1956, this album affords a rare view of Aretha Franklin's early years as a gospel singer. Only 14 years old when she sang these gospel standards, her voice had that "wail" that would make her world-famous in the mid-1960s with secular songs like "Respect" and "I Never Loved A Man (The Way That I Love You)."
In her teenage years, Aretha learned her (vocal) lessons in the church, giving her voice a firm foundation (and tradition) to build upon. These recordings have no studio polish at all, though the recording quality is very listenable. Throughout, Aretha is urged on vocally by the church crowd, and their encouragments clearly inspire the singer. This album is the closest thing we have to a "time machine" that will enable us go back in time to investigate the origins of one the classic American singers.
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