I Say a Little Prayer

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Aretha Now

Aretha Franklin · 1968 · Track 2

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Duración3:36

ÁlbumAretha Now

Año1968

ISRCUSAT20801207

Fun facts

Dionne Warwick recorded I Say a Little Prayer in 1967, and the song climbed to number four on the Billboard Hot 100. On the R&B chart, it reached number eight. A year later, Aretha Franklin covered it and brought it to the top ten. The lyrics speak of asking for something small, but with a lot of faith. It's a song that feels in the soul, as if you were asking for something you only need a little of.

The story behind

Aretha Franklin sings I Say a Little Prayer with a voice that seems to come from the deepest place. The song is a subtle prayer, a request made in a whisper, as if it were a secret shared with the world. The lyrics speak of asking for something, but not with desperation, but with a calm that seems to come from years of practice. Aretha's voice makes it feel like a promise, a promise that repeats itself like a mantra. The melody is soft, but no less powerful. It is a song recorded in 1966, but it sounds as if it has been there all along, waiting for someone to listen. The song was originally recorded by Dionne Warwick, but it is Aretha who turns it into something more. It is a song that repeats, that is recorded many times, but always in a different form, as if each interpretation were a new way of asking for something.

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