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Aretha Now
Aretha Franklin · 1968 · Track 1
Details
TonalidadA
Compás4/4
Tempo74 BPM
Duración2:19
ÁlbumAretha Now
Año1968
ISRCUSAT20801206
Fun facts
Aretha Franklin recorded "Think" in 1968, as part of her album *Aretha Now*. The song reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, being her seventh top 10 hit in the United States. It also reached number 1 on the Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles, her sixth single to achieve that chart-topping success. Later, the same song was re-recorded in the Atlantic Records studio in New York, for the soundtrack of *The Blues Brothers* (1980), and again in 1989 for the album *Through the Storm*.
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The story behind
Aretha Franklin recorded "Think" at the Atlantic studio in 1968, as a single from the album Aretha Now. The song reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles. Franklin's voice has an energy that moves, as if the song were thinking aloud. The lyrics speak of a complicated relationship, with a force that is felt in every note.
She re-recorded the song in 1989 for the album Through the Storm, with Arif Mardin and his son Joe. She also used it in the soundtrack of The Blues Brothers, where she had to do several takes because she wasn't used to lip-syncing. The film version is longer, at 3:15, and features the choir of her sister Carolyn and her cousin Brenda Corbett.
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