Day 28: Aretha Franklin, The Long…Road | 30-Day Song Challenge 🎶

Listening to her stunning rendition of “The Long and Winding Road” on Day 28 of the 30-Day Song Challenge, there’ll never be another Aretha Franklin. 

Embracing the trendiness of social media, The Musical Hype unleashes its own, month-long version of the 30-Day Song Challenge.

Day 28 Prompt: A song by an artist whose voice you love

Aretha Franklin is one of my absolute favorite musicians of all-time. Her voice – nothing short of amazing, angelic, anointed, heaven-sent – you catch my drift! Because Day 28 of the 30-Day Song Challenge requires me to select a song by an artist whose voice I love, I went with ‘The Queen of Soul.’ I was incredibly saddened when the “Respect” icon passed away in 2018 at the age of 76. 

With such a rich catalogue of music, interestingly, some of Franklins’s best songs are actually covers.  Of course, Franklin could sing absolutely any- and everything, so, that’s not surprising when you consider her vocal gifts.

She made her 1972 cover of The Beatles’ classic, “The Long and Winding Road,” truly her own. While The Beatles own the definitive version, Franklin adds mad deep, southern soul, completely transforming it.  It’s one of many gems on an album filled with awesome covers, Young, Gifted and Black (1972).  “The Long and Winding Road” previously appeared on my ‘in remembrance’ playlist, 10 Favorite Soul Classics by Aretha Franklin.

Aretha Franklin • Young, Gifted and Black • Atlantic • 1972

Day 28: Aretha Franklin, “The Long and Winding Road” (30-Day Song Challenge) 🎶 [Photo Credits: Brent Faulkner, The Musical Hype, Pixabay, Pexels]