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Aretha Franklin’s Queen Diva Magnet $2.00 This magnet pays tribute to the greatest diva of them all, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin….

Duets II $9.89 DUETS II is the follow-up to Tony Bennett’s multi-platinum CD, DUETS, which was released in conjunction with Tony’s 80th birthday in 2006. DUETS won three Grammy Awards and was the singer’s best selling album to date. Now the legendary performer celebrates a milestone 85th birthday with the release of DUETS II. The singer has completed recording with Lady Gaga and Aretha Franklin, adding to a cele…

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Waiting To Exhale: Original Soundtrack Album $5.75 No Description Available.Genre: Soundtracks & ScoresMedia Format: Compact DiskRating: Release Date: 14-NOV-1995…

Blues Brothers [VHS] $2.89 After building up the duo’s popularity through popular recordings and several performances on Saturday Night Live, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd–as “legendary” Chicago blues brothers Jake and Elwood Blues–took their act to the big screen in this action-packed hit from 1980. As Jake and Elwood struggle to reunite their old band and save the Chicago orphanage where they were raised, they wreak enou…

The Temps & The Tops Never before has there been a video packed with so much explosive excitement. All of the biggies are here “I Can’t Help Myself”, “Baby I Need Your Lovin’”, “Reach OUt and I”ll Be There”, “My Girl”, “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” – it just doesn’t stop!…

The Blues Brothers [VHS] $2.98 After building up the duo’s popularity through popular recordings and several performances on Saturday Night Live, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd–as “legendary” Chicago blues brothers Jake and Elwood Blues–took their act to the big screen in this action-packed hit from 1980. As Jake and Elwood struggle to reunite their old band and save the Chicago orphanage where they were raised, they wreak enou…

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The Blues Brothers [Blu-ray] $14.25 After building up the duo’s popularity through popular recordings and several performances on Saturday Night Live, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd–as “legendary” Chicago blues brothers Jake and Elwood Blues–took their act to the big screen in this action-packed hit from 1980. As Jake and Elwood struggle to reunite their old band and save the Chicago orphanage where they were raised, they wreak …

A Change Is Gonna Come $27.39 . . . extraordinarily far-reaching. . . . highly accessible. – Notes No one has written this way about music in a long, long time. Lucid, insightful, with real spiritual, political, intellectual, and emotional grasp of the whole picture. A book about why music matters, and how, and to whom. -Dave Marsh, author of Louie, Louie and Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story This book is urgently needed: a comprehensive look at the various forms of black popular music, both as music and as seen in a larger social context. No one can do this better than Craig Werner. -Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University Werner has mastered the extremely difficult art of writing about music as both an aesthetic and social force that conveys, implies, symbolizes, and represents ideas as well as emotion, but without reducing its complexities and ambiguities to merely didactic categories. – African American Review A Change Is Gonna Come is the story of more than four decades of enormously influential black music, from the hopeful, angry refrains of the Freedom movement, to the slick pop of Motown; from the disco inferno to the Million Man March; from Woodstock’s Summer of Love to the war in Vietnam and the race riots that inspired Marvin Gaye to write What’s Going On. Originally published in 1998, A Change Is Gonna Come drew the attention of scholars and general readers alike. This new edition, featuring four new and updated chapters, will reintroduce Werner’s seminal study of black music to a new generation of readers. Craig Werner is Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, and author of many books, including Playing the Changes: From Afro-Modernism to the Jazz Impulse and Up Around the Bend: An Oral History of Creedence Clearwater Revival. His most recent book is Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of

A Thousand Honey Creeks Later Thousand Honey Creeks Later Thousand Honey Creeks Later Thousand Honey Creeks Later Thousand Honey C: My Life in Music $95.83 Preston Love’s resume reads like a Who’s Who of American music: member of the Count Basie Band during its heyday in the forties, studio musician in Los Angeles, cohort of Jo Jones, Lester Young, Ray Charles, and Dizzy Gillespie, and back-up player for Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder. In a distinctive and passionate voice, Love chronicles not only the famous personalities, but also the forgotten geniuses, and the little known world of the territory bands, tirelessly performing in outposts like St. Cloud, Minnesota, Guthrie, Oklahoma, and Honey Creek, Iowa. Love’s story highlights significant facets of African American history: the central importance of the family in musical development, institutional racism in American popular culture, and the interracial nature of the music world, providing an important view into the evolution of jazz and the Motown sound.

Ali (Explicit Version) $12.62 1. The World’s Greatest by R. Kelly 2. Fight by Alicia K eys 3. Hold On by R. Kelly 4. A Change Is Gonna Come by Al Green 5. Ain’t No Way by Aretha Franklin 6. Sometimes by Bilal 7. 20 Dollars by Angie Stone 8. For Your Precious Love by Truth Hurts 9. Bring It On Home To Me by David Elliot 10. The Greatest by Everlast 11. Mistreated by Shawn Kane 12. Tomorrow by Salif Keita 13. All Along The Watchtower by The Watchtower Four 14. Odessa by Martin Tillman 15. See The Sun by Lisa Gerrard And Pieter Bourke

Andy Warhol $38.23 Count Basie, Tchaikovsky, Aretha Franklin, Lou Reed, Diana Ross, John Lennon, and the Rolling Stones all had their music promoted by Andy Warhol”s record covers. This catalogue raisonn???? reproduces the fifty covers, front and back, designed over four decades that bear Warhol”s unmistakable imprint. It also includes over 100 additional illustrations, featuring related works by Warhol, photographs of performances as well as documentary images identifying his visual sources. Paul Mar????chal explores Warhol”s creative process, his relationship with artists and his fascination with all kinds of music. The range of music represented through these record covers, from jazz to classical, and from rock to soul, reveals the breadth of Warhol”s musical tastes and his extraordinary ability to combine his artistic vision with the music and the recording artist.

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Aretha Franklin $35 Profiles the life and career of the queen of soul.

Aretha Franklin $33.25 Aretha Franklin is known as the Queen of Soul. From her gospel roots to the top of the pop charts, her career has been nothing short of fantastic. Readers will enjoy learning more about the woman who demands respect!

Aretha Franklin Fine Art Vintage Concert Handbill From Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA Mar 05, 1971 $25 Fine Art limited edition vintage concert Handbill of Aretha Franklin show at Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA Mar 05, 1971. Also featured: King Curtis and the Kingpins, Tower of Power, James Anderson, Sunburst, Jim Marshall Designed by: David Singer The handbill was only printed once before the concert and presents a calendar of upcoming Bill Graham events on the reverse. It measures 4 5/8 x 7 . n nThere were also some pre-concert double-sized postcard mailers printed that were conjoined with the BG271 image (see BG271/272). They measure 7 x 9 1/4 .

Aretha Franklin Fine Art Vintage Concert Poster From Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, CA Feb 27, 1971 $215 Fine Art limited edition vintage concert Poster of Aretha Franklin show at Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, CA Feb 27, 1971. Also featured: King Curtis and the Kingpins, Cold Blood, Tower of Power, Jim Marshall Designed by: David Singer The 1st printing poster (see BG272) has a hot pink rectangle at the bottom of the poster in which the concert and ticket outlet information is located. It measures 14 x 21 and was printed before the concert. n nThe 1st printing A variant is differentiated by its white rectangle in which the concert and ticket outlet information is located. It measures 13 15/16 x 21 and was also printed before the concert.

Aretha Franklin Fine Art Vintage Concert Poster From Honolulu International Center, Honolulu, HI Nov 09, 1968 $315 Fine Art limited edition vintage concert Poster of Aretha Franklin show at Honolulu International Center, Honolulu, HI Nov 09, 1968.

Aretha Franklin: greatest Hits $21.98 This 2-CD set is the only Aretha collection to incorporate both her legendary Atlantic hits and her more pop-oriented Arista work of the 80s/90s, ranging from Respect to A Rose Is Still A Rose, passing through Rock Steady, Chain Of Fools, Freeway Of Love, What A Fool Believes and the hit duets with Annie Lennox, George Michael, George Michael and more. 41 tracks.

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Aretha Franklin:still A Rose $18.98 Aretha Franklin:still A Rose

Backstage Pass: The Fillmore $39.99 The name Fillmore Auditorium is synonymous with rock music played in the most intimate, club-sized surroundings in the U.S. This is the first-ever, in-depth book – replete with historic art and photos – about the iconic original Fillmore Auditoriums in San Francisco and New York City, as well as their successors. Among rock”s greats who have performed at one or more of the Fillmores include Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Tom Petty, John Fogarty, the Who, Pink Floyd, and the Doors. Prominent other-than-rock musicians including Willie Nelson, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Muddy Waters, Miles Davis, and dozens more were just as proud to have played the Fillmore. The Fillmore venue was first made famous by promoter Bill Graham, and – nearly 45 years later – is still the place for classic rock, light shows, and psychedelic concert posters.

Black Eden $19.95 Black Eden chronicles the history of Idlewild, one of the many American black communities founded during the aftermath of the Civil War. As Michigan’s most popular black resort, Idlewild functioned as a gathering place for African Americans and, more important, as a touchstone of black identity and culture. Benjamin C. Wilson and Lewis Walker examine Idlewild’s significance within a historical context, as well as the town’s revitalization efforts and the need for comprehensive planning in future development. In a segregated America, Idlewild became a place where black audiences could see rising black entertainers. Profusely illustrated with photos from the authors’ personal collections, Black Eden provides a lengthy discussion about the crucial role that Idlewild played in the careers of such artists as Louis Armstrong, B. B. King, Sammy Davis Jr., Jackie Wilson, Aretha Franklin, and Della Reese. Fundamentally, the book explores issues involved in living in a segregated society, and the consequences of the civil rights movement, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and subsequent integration, and integration vs. racial solidarity. The authors ask: Did integration kill Idlewild? but suggest that other factors contributed to its decline.

Blues Brothers 2000 Dts/ $6.75 Eighteen years after the Brothers’ original mission from God, Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) is getting out of prison and discovering that much has changed in the time he’s been away. His partner Jack is gone, his band is no longer together and the orphanage where he grew up has been demolished. Elwood soon realizes that he must embark on a whole new mission to reassemble the old band — this time with the help of a soulful bartender (John Goodman) — compete at Queen Moussette’s (Erykah Badu) Battle of the Bands and set a wayward orphan named Buster on the path to redemption. In the midst of the mayhem, he’s got to prove to the police that there’s magic in the music… and a mysterious method behind the Blues Brothers’ madness. Special appearances by B.B. King, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Johnny Lang, Blues Traveler, Eric Clapton and many more. It’s an action-packed comedy with lots of Rhythm and Blues.

Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music $22.11 Boogaloo–the synonym of choice among the cognoscenti for rhythm and blues–is a stylish and profound meditation on the art, influence, and commerce of black American popular music. At once deeply knowing and keenly observant, Arthur Kempton reveals the tensions between the sacred and the profane at the heart of soul music, and the complex centrality of Aframericans in the evolution of our mass musical culture. What that culture is all about, who owns it, and who gets paid–these are issues of moment in his epic narrative. Kempton brilliantly traces the interconnections among a century’s worth of signal personalities, events, and achievements: from Thomas A. Dorsey, the so-called Father of Gospel Music, whose career ( Got to Know How to Work Your Show ) sheds light on Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin, and James Brown, among others, to the rise of that handsome Negro lad, Sam Cooke (perhaps the greatest of soul singers) and his definitive crossover dreams; from Berry Gordy Jr.’s infatuation with Doris Day and his sharp business plan to capture and exploit the sounds of young America through Motown ( It’s What’s in the Grooves That Counts ) to the founding of Stax Records and Memphis Soul by a white farm kid who grew up dreaming of being a country fiddler; from the visionary funk of George Clinton to the ascendancy of hip hop ( Sharecropping in Wonderland ), the murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, and the story of Death Row Records. Boogaloo is a monumental work, informed by a rare fierceness of intellect, which debunks many a myth and canard about our popular music heritage even as it enlarges our understanding of its quintessence.

Celebration Of Black Music In $64.33 Featuring Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Little Richard, George Clinton, and Otis Redding, among others, the Say It Loud! A Celebration Of Black Music In America single disc includes 20 performances by legends who figure prominently in the story of black music in America. Most closely mirroring the documentary series, this collection includes tracks found on the boxed set as well as additional songs not included on the boxed set.

Chain of Fools CD – Alfred Publishing – 00-33008 $28.75 Alfred Music Publishing is the world s largest educational music publisher. Alfred produces educational #44; reference #44; pop #44; and performance materials for teachers #44; students #44; professionals #44; and hobbyists spanning every musical instrument #44; style #44; and difficulty level. Oh #44; baby! Aretha Franklin move on over! Greg apos;s arrangement is just as funky and full as can be. Great solo feature #44; too.

Chronicles Of King Curtis $15.89 Chronicles of King Curtis is an historical account of the life and times of the greatest saxophone player in rock and roll. King Curtis was a musical renaissance man: a multiple-saxophonist, performer, composer, arranger, producer, band leader for himself and Aretha Franklin, session man, talent scout, publisher, vocalist, guitarist and businessman. His impact on saxophonists was colossal. His style was riveting, his tone rich, his playing passionate. His versatility extended to jazz, blues, funk, R&B, soul, country, spirituals and pop. A master craftsman who blew a funnel of funk like the world never heard, his volcanic streams of sound created a whirlwind. He mentored musicians yet fastidiously studied melody, harmony, and theory. He was on a spiritual quest while simultaneously trapped in a material world. He tapped into a reservoir of soul and blew his top. This book for the first time presents an overview of this incredible musician.

Collection Of His Greatest Hits $8.98 Kenneth Babyface Edmonds is one of the most celebrated musical figures of his generation. As a songwriter, producer, and performer, he is a multiple Grammy Award winner who has been responsible for hundreds of R&B and Pop Hits. Babyface has written and produced for Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill, TLC, Toni Braxton, Boyz II Men, Aretha Franklin, Brandy, Mary J. Blige and Patti La Belle, to name a few. This album is a collection of the best and most popular songs from his multi-platinum albums, all available for the first time on one disc. Also included are two of his newest solo recordings, destined to become his next greatest hits, and a previously unavailable live duet version of Change The World with Eric Clapton on vocals and guitar.

Come Away With Me $10.98 Come Away With Me blends elements of jazz, soul, country, and folk-pop in a warm, unselfconscious amalgam, and erases musical boundaries in the process. Norah Jones, on vocals, piano and Wurlitzer electric piano, is backed seamlessly by a skilled supporting cast. The adroit and understated production is by Arif Mardin, the veteran producer/arranger of landmark recordings by Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, Laura Nyro, Roberta Flack, and Willie Nelson, to name a few.STUDIO NOTES: The record is comprised of material recorded in May 2001 with producer Craig Street, and in August 2001 with producer Arif Mardin. Reflecting on the studio sessions Norah says, I feel like this record is a pretty full expression of where I am now. It’s music of mine, and many of my friends. Also some jazz standards and covers. The environnment was great. I felt very comfortable with all the musicians. It was a real collaborative effort. It felt like we were making a record in my living room. Most of it was recorded pretty much live, with extra guitar and voice overdubs here and there. I don’t know if it can be classified as jazz really, or pop music. Hopefully it can be appreciated by fans of both. It has lots of different elements. In the end though, it’s all about the songs. I think they’re all very strong songs. I’m very lucky to have friends who are great songwriters. The originals ended up being the bulk of the album. A few of them are mine, but Jesse and Lee contributed greatly as well.

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Four Tops 50th Anniversary Concert $19.99 The year was 1954, and four Detroit high school students met at a friend’s birthday party. They started to sing… and popular music has never been the same since. Now, 50 years later, The Four Tops are still doing it better than anyone else – live on stage at the famed Detroit Opera House, along with some very special guests in an amazing song-filled tribute. These legends of soul music are joined by hosts Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson, Aretha Franklin, Paul Rodgers, Mary Wilson and many others for hit after unbelievable hit. The show reaches its electrifying and emotional climax with the return to the stage of the legendary Levi Stubbs. For any fan of music, this is a performance to remember!SONGS: Main Street (Four Tops) giBaby I Need Your Lovin’ (Four Tops) giSomething About You (Ashford & Simpson) giMy Girl (Four Tops) giAre You Man Enough (Four Tops) giIndestructible (Dennis Edwards and the Temptations Review and Four Tops) giI’ll Turn To Stone (Dennis Edwards and the Temptations Review) giAsk The Lonely (Four Tops) giRiver Deep Mountain High (Mary Wilson and Four Tops) giAin’t No Woman (Four Tops) giAlways and Forever (Four Tops) giI Can’t Help Myself {Sugar Pie} (Four Tops) giThe Four Of Us (Four Tops) giLove Music (Paul Rodgers) giLoving You Is Sweeter Than Ever (Paul Rodgers and Four Tops) giI Want To Make It Up To You (Aretha Franklin with Theo Peoples) giI Believe In You and Me (Aretha Franklin, Four Tops, and a special appearance by Levi Stubbs) giMedley: Bernadette, Same Old Song, Just Walk Away Renee, Reach Out I’ll Be There, Standing In The Shadows of Love ((Four Tops) giBaby I Need Your Lovin’ (Four Tops and Guests) System Requirements:Running Time 101 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE

Generation Nation 0406 $17.99 With Generation Nation, Republic of Strings – fiddle master Darol Anger, guitarist extraordinaire Scott Nygaard and young phenoms Rushad Eggleston (cello) and Brittany Haas (fiddle) – manage with graceful wit and energy the difficult task of both looking back at the New Acoustic Music Anger helped to pioneer and looking forward to the infusion of a new generation of musicians. Drawing from a dazzling array of sources – from Scandinavian string bands to Ornette Coleman to Aretha Franklin to the group’s own members – it’s a set that documents an unprecedented intergenerational exchange with compelling musical textures, elegant solos and guest vocals from a stunningly diverse group of guests.

Gospel Keyboard Styles $12.99 This book digs into the authentic gospel stylings associated with great artists such as Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin. The first part of the book deals with the 3/4 or Slow Gospel style (used in the song Amazing Grace, for example), showing the harmonic techniques needed to create the real gospel sound on the piano. The second part focuses on the 4/4 or Fast Gospel style, where gospel harmonies are combined with up-tempo rhythms and syncopations to create exciting results (such as in Paul Simon”s song Gone at Last ). The techniques covered in this book will help you lead your congregation at the piano, and will inject new ideas into your rock, R&B and funk playing.

Great Singers of the Twentieth Century $20.95 Amongst the thousands of popular singers who graced the concert halls, night clubs and record charts in the twentieth century, a handful have risen to become the greats of their craft. This book rashly identifies the twenty best singers of the century, describes their lives, and analyzes the technical elements of their art. The chosen ones represent almost every aspect of their trade: vaudeville, jazz, stage and screen, pop, rock, country and western, folk, R&B, gospel and cabaret. The 20 singers, in chronological order of their birth, are Al Jolson, Ethel Waters, Mabel Mercer, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Vera Lynn, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Etta James, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, and Chico Buarque.

HAL LEONARD 50 Years of Soul Songbook – HL 14037674 $19.99 Hal Leonard’s 50 Years of Soul, a compilation of soul and soul-influenced music, ranging from such classics as Stand by Me and Marvin Gaye’s Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) to some surprising modern gems like Portishead’s Glory Box and Duffy’s Mercy. In the late 1950s black American music started to fuse the spiritual passion of gospel singing with the gritty sexual drive of rhythm ‘n’ blues. The result was called soul, Ray Charles was its early pioneer, and so this year-by-year soul collection kicks off with his classic 1959 call-and-response song, What’d I Say. James Brown, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke and Aretha Franklin all carried soul into the golden period of the 1960s and from then on the genre would be a permanent fixture in the international pop music landscape. So. get ready to enjoy 50 years of pure soul, the electrifying musical hybrid that never went out of fashion!

Hallelujah Side $10.18 It had been a Second Coming sky all day, which meant they might be in heaven by this evening. So begins the story of Roxanne Fish, daughter of Sister Zelda Fish and Pastor Winston Fish of the First Assembly of God Church of Ames, Iowa. The Fishes’ older daughter, Colleen, wants no part of their exuberant faith, but Roxy longs to be saved even as she fears her sinful desires, such as marrying Elvis Presley when she grows up. If she grows up. Roxy lives in a world populated by demons who follow her around whispering God doesn’t like you and sinners who fortunately are easy to identify by their makeup and knowledge of television programs. Her soul’s journey through this wicked world to her own particular salvation — with an assist from the Queen of Soul herself, Aretha Franklin — is unforgettable.

Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall Ofamerican Soul $124.3 Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, and Curtis Mayfield provided the soundtrack to the political and social revolutions of mid-20th century America. This is the story of their lives and music and their lasting contributions to American culture.

How to Make Black America Better $11.95 From the Publisher: How to Make Black America Better opens with Tavis Smiley’s twelve challenges to the African-American community. Among the issues that Smiley addresses are getting black Americans to think black first, insisting that black Americans including those in entertainment and the media consider the consequences of their actions with regard tot he black community, and encouraging African Americans to put family first.At the heart of the book is a collection of original essays contributed by such celebrated figures as Iyanla Vanzant, Aretha Franklin, Cornel West, Susan Taylor, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Dr. Dre, Nikki Giovanni, Al Sharpton, and Shaquille O’Neal. Ranging from one to four pags in length, each of these essays addresses vital issues in the African-American community, from affirmative action to black-on-black crime, political power to economic independence, race relations to family life, and much more.Finally, at the back of the book Smiley has included a high-powered selection of excerpts and highlights from the national symposium he organized in Los Angeles on the eve of the Democratic National Convention entitled Advocacy in the Next Millennium: New Paradigms for Progress, featuring such luminaries as Marian Wright Edelman, Johnnetta Cole, Kweisi Mfume, Maxine Waters, and Henry Louis Gates.

I Am Not the Same Girl: Renewed $13.99 I Am Not The Same Girl: Renewed is the life story of Stacy Lattisaw. As a young Rhythm and Blues (R&B) singer, she completed a total of 12 albums and toured with Michael Jackson and the Jacksons. She traveled the world as a singer and shared the stage with artists such as Aretha Franklin, Natalie Cole, Teddy Pendergrass, Stephanie Mills, Johnny Gill, and a host of others. As she began to mature in age and mind, her desires began to change and she cried out to God and asked him to fill the void in her life. Soon after Stacy walked away from the secular music world and dedicated her life to the Lord. Today she is renewed and walking in the destiny that God has set for her life.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You $17.99 The album that earned soul legend Aretha Franklin her first major hits, I Never Loved A Man the Way I Loved You was a pop and soul music milestone. Apart from its status as a hit record, the album also had a much wider cultural impact. By early 1967, when the album was released, the Civil Rights movement was well underway; Aretha’s music gave it its theme song. And the single Respect became a passionate call to arms for the burgeoning feminist movement. Dobkin has unearthed a wonderful story of the creation of an album that goes far beyond anything that’s been written about The Queen of Soul before. With scores of fresh interviews–including ones with the session musicians from Muscle Shoals who recorded with Aretha– I Never Loved A Man the Way I Love You is the story of a great artistic achievement. It’s also a biography of a star who is both more complex and determined than her modern image as a diva indicates.

Infinita $12.46 On his new album, Infinita, guitarist and composer Lawson Rollins, member of the acclaimed Latin guitar group Young & Rollins, offers 11 tracks of richly-textured, internationally-inspired original music supported by an ensemble of some of the most accomplished and internationally recognized musicians in their fields. Throughout Infinita, Rollins melds an eclectic mix of Latin and Middle Eastern musical influences with his virtuoso, Spanish-tinged guitar style, creating a lush musical tapestry that pushes the boundaries of world music.Infinita features the legendary Brazilian singer Flora Purim and percussion superstar Airto Moreira, as well as Persian-American producer and musician Shahin Shahida of the Billboard chart-topping group Shahin & Sepehr, multi-platinum-selling producer Dominic Camardella (Ottmar Liebert, Flora Purim), Grammy winning violinist Charlie Bisharat, Azerbaijani folk instrument virtuoso Imamyar Hassanov, Afghan vocal and harmonium master Humayun Khan, percussionist and drummer Davo Bryant of the Ottmar Liebert band, veteran trumpet player Jeff Elliot (Aretha Franklin, Doc Severinson band), bassist Randy Tico (Strunz & Farah, Flora Purim), and Pejman Hadadi, the world-renowned master of the Persian ‘tombak’ drum.

Jerry Jemmott – Blues And Rhythm And Blues Bass Technique $17.95 Jerry Jemmott wrote the book on R&B bass, and here it is! This book/CD pack examines Jerry”s personal philosophy of music and teaches the secrets to mastering blues, soul and funk bass. Includes a CD with new compositions that demonstrate the techniques he used with legendary performers such as Aretha Franklin, King Curtis, B.B. King and Freddie King. Includes note-for-note transcriptions, comprehensive perfor-mance notes, an in-depth bio, and rare photos.

KOSS Tony Bennett Signature Edition Headphone TBSE1 $149 The Lady Is A Tramp with Lady Gaga : One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) John Mayer : Body And Soul Amy Winehouse : Don’t Get Around Much Anymore Michael Bubl : Blue Velvet k.d. lang : How Do You Keep The Music Playing Aretha Franklin : The Girl I Love Sheryl Crow : On The Sunny Side Of The Street Willie Nelson : Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) Queen Latifah : Speak Low Norah Jones : This Is All I Ask Josh Groban : Watch What Happens Natalie Cole : Stranger In Paradise Andrea Bocelli : The Way You Look Tonight Faith Hill : Yesterday I Heard The Rain Alejandro Sanz : It Had To Be You Carrie Underwood : When Do The Bells Ring For Me Mariah CareyThe Tony Bennett Signature Stereophone captures the essence of Tony Bennett and Koss by creating a stereophone with the style and sophistication the two are known for.

Knock On The Sky $9.76 Sisters are doing it for themselves, Aretha Franklin and Annie Lennox sang a while back, and nowhere in today’s music is this more true than with SHeDAISY, three Utah-born siblings, Kristyn, Kelsi and Kassidy Osborn–who’ve harmonized together their whole lives and worked the past dozen years in Nashville to become the artistic force behind the groundbreaking new release, Knock On The Sky. Kristyn wrote or co-wrote every track on the very personal second album, which SHeDAISY co-produced with the returning Dan Huff. In fourteen compelling tracks, the album tells the story of a woman’s search for self, the fragility of the female ego, coming to terms with her own sexuality, free agency, the euphoria of new love, love that is unattainable, life’s seductive highs and destructive lows, regret, revenge and remorse. Preventing the mood from becoming too somber, though, is that indomitable SHeDAISY spirit. Musically, the Osborne sisters demonstrate that as a group they’ve absorbed a wide range of influences from their female forbears, from the gospel-tinged belting of Aretha and Annie, to the blood-kin harmonies of the Judds, the poignant pop of Karen Carpenter, and the rockin’ Wilson sisters of Heart, to the homespun sass of classic Dolly Parton and the acerbic wit of Bette Midler. Summarizing SHeDAISY’s goal for Knock On The Sky, Kristyn says, We like to think of each song as a mini-movie. It needs to be entertaining, whether it makes you feel emotional or whether it makes you want to dance or whether it makes you want to call your mom and say thank you. While Kelsi and Kassidy nod their heads in agreement, she adds, We want you to ve able to picture things while you’re listening. And the only way to do that is for us to paint it sonically with every single song. Let’s hope that SHeDAISY’s Osborn sisters never run out of paint!

Laffapalooza Vol 02 $11.01 Live from Atlanta, Jamie Foxx hosts this hilarious series of comedy specials. Watch some of the newest, hottest comic talent in action in the series that’s sure to keep you laughing from start to finish! The Players include: Chris Thomas: Earned widespread recognition for uncanny comedic impersonations of Muhammad Ali, Ronald Reagan, Jesse Jackson, Mike Tyson, Orson Welles and Frank Sinatra. Comedy club circuit includes New York’s Catch a Rising Star and Los Angeles’ The Comedy Store. Warm-up comedian for Aretha Franklin, legendary balladeer Luther Vandross and the incomparable Anita Baker; T.K. Kirkland: Gold comedy album, From Back in the Day: The Best of Laff. Guest appearances on Mad Sports, BET’s Comic View and Showtime at the Apollo ; Corey Holcomb: TV appearances include The Tonight Show, Mad TV and Def Comedy Jam ; David Alan Grier: Stuart Little and Angels in the Outfield to How to Get the Man’s Foot Outta Your Ass. In Living Color regularly appeared on Life with Bonnie and DAG, and made numerous guest appearances on a wide variety of shows. Mike Epps: The remake of The Honeymooners starring Mike Epps and Cedric the Entertainer. Friday After Next and All About the Benjamins! Major role in the recent hit film, The Fighting Temptations; John Witherspoon: Soul Plane, Friday After Next, Ladies Man and Next Friday. Jamie Foxx: Redemption: The Tookie Williams Story, Collateral, Unchain My Heart: The Ray Charles Story and The Sexpert; recent critical acclaim in the hit films Ali and Any Given Sunday.

Live At Filmore West $10.02 Aretha Franklin’s legendary live set at the famed late ’60s/early ’70s rock venue! Recorded in 1971, soul’s First Lady connects with the love crowd with scorching versions of her own hits as well as pop/rock covers. Includes a simmering duet with Ray Charles on Spirit in the Dark.

Michael George-Ladies and Gentlemen-Best of George Michael $14.98 A compilation of all of George Michael’s U.S. videos, including a promotional documentary about the making of his video with Mary J. Blige. Songs include Outside , Fastlove , Spinning The Wheel , Freedom 90 , Killer/Papa Was A Rolling Stone , Too Funky , Faith , I Want Your Sex , Jesus To A Child , Waltz Away Dreaming , Father Figure , Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me , Kissing A Fool , I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) [with Aretha Franklin], Somebody To Love , Monkey , One More Try , Star People 97 , I Can’t Make You Love Me , A Different Corner , You Have Been Loved and Careless Whisper.

Michael George-Twenty Five $19.98 This 2 DVD set is a 25 year retrospective of George Michael’s career. Included are tracks with Wham!, Aretha Franklin, Sir Elton John, Mary J. Blige, and Whitney Houston.

Midnight Mover $24.95 Bobby Womack is a legend–a phenomenally gifted singer, songwriter, and guitarist with 40 albums and 30 million record sales to his name. A protege of Sam Cooke, Womack wrote classics that include Lookin’ for a Love and It’s All Over Now (a smash-hit for the Rolling Stones). Their success helped make him a star, but ongoing battles with drugs and the record industry nearly destroyed him. Behind his music lies a life scorched by tragedy, beginning with his impoverished childhood in Cleveland, to his years touring and recording with the greats–including James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Eric Clapton, and Elvis Presley–and through the years of drugs, partying, and riotous abuse, this is the authentic voice of a major soul artist.

Music Grooves $204.84 A collaboration between two of the most interesting voices in ethnomusicology, this volume explores two powerful themes: the groove of firsthand experience and participation in music and the groove of musical mediation and commodification through recordings. A number of the authors’ most important essays, all revised and updated, are introduced and framed by dialogues that supply additional context, introduce retrospective concerns, and reveal connections. This format signals the authors’ desire for a more reflexive, experimental discourse on music and society and invites readers to join their conversations. Music Grooves ranges from jazz, blues, polka, soul, rock, world beat, rap, karaoke, and other familiar genres to major scholarly debates in music theory, ethnomusicology, and popular culture studies. The authors develop and create links between the fields of ethnomusicology and popular culture studies and relate the contents of musics from America, Greece, Cuba, Africa, and Papua New Guinea to artists as diverse as James Brown, Aretha Franklin, L’il Wally Jagiello, Bo Diddley, Walt Solek, Madonna, Paul Simon, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and Billie Holiday. Keil and Feld offer a fascinating view of the shaping of central ideas and terms in ethnomusicology such as engendered feeling, interpretive moves, participatory discrepancies, iconicity of style, people’s music, schizophonia, and lift-up-over sounding. From Keil’s critique of Leonard Meyer’s musicological approach to Feld’s recent work on world beat, this volume covers an array of vital issues in media studies, musicology and ethnomusicology, popular culture, anthropology, and sociology. It willinterest anyone concerned with the nature and meaning of music in the modern world.

Music Of Aretha Franklin $21.7 Music Of Aretha Franklin

Musicares Person of the Year: Neil Young, Paul Simon, Sting, Bono, Billy Joel, Brian Wilson, Phil Collins, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt $42.87 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher”s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Neil Young, Paul Simon, Sting, Bono, Billy Joel, Brian Wilson, Phil Collins, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Aretha Franklin, Neil Diamond, Stevie Wonder, Gloria Estefan, Luciano Pavarotti, Quincy Jones, Elton John, Tony Bennett, Natalie Cole, David Crosby, Don Henley. Excerpt: Aretha Franklin Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as The Queen of Soul . Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock, blues, pop, R

No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America $21.06 In a vibrant and passionate exploration of the twentieth-century civil rights and black power eras in American history, Waldo Martin uses cultural politics as a lens through which to understand the African-American freedom struggle. In black culture, argues Martin, we see the debate over the profound tension at the core of black identity: the duality of being at once both American and African. And in the transformative postwar period, the intersection between culture and politics became increasingly central to the African-American fight for equality. In freedom songs, in the exuberance of an Aretha Franklin concert, in Faith Ringgold’s exploration of race and sexuality, the personal and social became the political. Martin explores the place of black culture in this vision and examines the multiple ways in which various forms of expressive culture and African-American cultural figures influenced consciousness and helped effect social action. From the music of John Coltrane and James Brown to the visual art of Jacob Lawrence and Betye Saar to the dance movements of Alvin Ailey and Arthur Mitchell, Martin discusses how, why, and with what consequences culture became a critical battle site in the freedom struggle. And in a fascinating epilogue, he draws the thread of black cultural politics into today’s hip-hop culture. This engaging book brings a new perspective to the civil rights and black power eras, while illuminating the broader history of American and global freedom struggles.

Obama B-Moment in History-Inauguration of Barack Obama $14.98 On January 20th, 2009, millions witnessed the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of The United States. Now relive one of the most extraordinary events in American history as ABC News presents highlights of the entire day’s coverage anchored by Charles Gibson, Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos from the Newseum above Pennsylvania Avenue and reported by the network’s team of correspondents throughout Washington DC. These are the once-in-a-lifetime moments of unity, pride and hope that captured the heart and soul of our nation and the world.The Commemorative DVD includes:- The Oath of Office and Inaugural Speech in their entirety- The recitation by Elizabeth Alexander and benediction from Dr. Joseph Lowery- Aretha Franklin’s performance of My Country Tis’ of Thee – Former President George W. Bush’s helicopter departure- President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama walking the parade route- President Obama and the First Lady attending an Inaugural Ball, an event that includes Robin Robert’s exclusive first interview with President Obama and President-elect Obama’s initial speech of the evening

Phenomenal Ruthie Foster $9.5 Superlatives are rare in album titles, and for good reason: unless you’re a living legend or a legend-in-the-making like the Man in Black (1958′s The Fabulous Johnny Cash) or the Queen of Soul (1962′s The Electrifying Aretha Franklin), you’re all but begging for a crash course in humility. So if you’re going to stick a word like phenomenal in front of your name on a record cover, you damn well better have the goods to back it up. Those are some big shoes! laughs Ruthie Foster, who, just for the record, is really one of the most humble and down-to-earth artists you could ever meet, phenomenal or otherwise. She admits to initially having quite a few reservations about calling her fifth album The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster, crediting both her producer, noted Austin-based swamp music guitarist Malcolm Papa Mali Welbourne, and her label, Houston’s Blue Corn Records, for making that particular gutsy call. As for how they came up with it, well…just give it a listen, and you’ll understand. The big shoes just fit – so much so, that calling this particular record by this particular woman at this particular time in her life and career anything but phenomenal would be akin to false advertising.

Playlist:very Best Of Aretha Franklin $5.19 Playlist:very Best Of Aretha Franklin

Randb Super Hits for Female Singers $28.51 Whether you”re a karaoke singer or preparing for an audition, the Pro Vocal series is for you. The book contains the lyrics, melody, and chord symbols for eight hit songs. The CD contains demos for listening and separate backing tracks so you can sing along. The CD is playable on any CD, but it is also enhanced for PC and Mac computer users so you can adjust the recording to any pitch without changing the tempo! Perfect for home rehearsal, parties, auditions, corporate events, and gigs without a backup band. This volume includes 8 classic R&B standards: Baby Love (The Supremes) * Dancing in the Street (Martha & The Vandellas) * I”m So Excited (Pointer Sisters) * Lady Marmalade (Patty LaBelle) * Midnight Train to Georgia (Gladys Knight & The Pips) * Rescue Me (Fontella Bass) * Respect (Aretha Franklin) * What”s Love Got to Do with It (Tina Turner).

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