This is why she was called "the Queen of Soul".

On an acoustic piano, there are always three pedals: 1. Right Pedal: Sustain or Damper Pedal The sustain pedal, or the damper pedal, serves to extend the sound of the notes you are playing. Whatever notes you are playing at the time you press the sustain pedal will be held out and reverberate until you let up on the pedal. 2. Middle Pedal: Bass Sustain, Mute Pedal or Sostenuto The function of the middle pedal on acoustic pianos varies depending on whether the piano is a grand or an upright. On most grand pianos, the middle pedal is what is known as the sostenuto pedal, which is a variation on the sustain pedal. Occasionally a professional upright piano may have a sostenuto pedal but this is rare. When you press the sostenuto, whatever notes you played will be sustained, and any notes layered on top of that will not be sustained. On upright pianos, the middle pedal either functions as a sustain pedal specifically for bass notes or, for uprights out of Europe and Asia, a “mute” pedal. Pressing the mute pedal and moving it to the left causes a felt strip to lower itself between the hammers and the strings inside of the piano and make all of the notes extremely quiet and muted. This function is mostly for practice purposes. 3. Left Pedal: Soft Pedal The soft pedal does what the name implies. Any notes that you play as you hold down the soft pedal will be softened and more modest in expression. This pedal can be used for specific phrases of a song and then released when not needed.

I love this performance!!! Some people forget how talented of a pianist she was!! Young Mariah Carey also did an incredible version of this...

MAJ, Aretha was a mezzo soprano in her prime, which is already higher register voice. Yet, her full rich bottoms in later years were so good, you tend to forget that her natural or chest voice was pretty high.

Depending on the age of the piano, some have 2 or 3 pedals e.g. Soft, Sostenuto and Sustain. Sustain is mostly used as it holds the note(s) longer. Those of us with a keyboard will purchase one pedal usually the sustain pedal.

This is Aretha at her best. Listen to her sing "It hurts like hell" live on the Rolanda Watt show

As to your question at 8:10 about who in 1508 was a great singer, one answer would be Antoine de Longueval. He was a French singer and composer of the Renaissance. A contemporary of Josquin des Prez, he was singing master of the French royal chapel under King Francis I, and was important in the history of the polyphonic setting of the Passion. In 1502, he joined the chapel of Philibert II, Duke of Savoy, at a salary half again higher than any other singer. His high pay indicates the respect he was accorded as a musician. In 1507, he is listed as a member of the group of private musicians of the French King, Louis XII. In 1515, King Francis I of France promoted him to maître de chapelle (singing master) of the royal chapel. Longueval was further honored by being made a canon of Notre Dame de Paris. His colleague at the chapelle royale, Pierre Moulu, pays tribute to Longueval in his "musicians' motet" Mater floreat (from a manuscript presented to Lorenzo II de’ Medici at his wedding in 1518), giving first and longest place to Longueval among the musicians honored in the motet.

This is a real gem.

If you want to hear her vocal supremacy and why she was the greatest, listen and react to 'Good to me as I am to you,' off the Lady Soul album - and 'Sit down and cry.' You will hear an intensity and ferocity of voice which is quite simply unmatched.

This is a good song, I liked Mariah Carey's version also.

The Queen of Soul, listen to Bridge over Trouble water.

Maaaan you need to get into Aretha’s 80s booger sugar deepcuts: Jump To It, It’s Just Your Love, It’s My Turn, You Can’t Always Get What You Want, What A Fool Believes- half of those are covers but still worth reacting to!

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You should react to Mariah’s version

Please! react to A Colors Show James Vickery - Until Morning

At 3:42 to 3:49, you have a very wrong idea about women singers of the 1920s! You need to hear some of the blues belters of the 1920s like Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Mamie Smith. Here is a link to a KZfaq video of Bessie Smith's 1923 recording of "Down Hearted Blues" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/arWSktaIl8WWiqs.html Bessie Smith, hailed as "The Empress of the Blues," in particular influenced Billie Holiday and Mahalia Jackson who influenced Aretha Franklin. In 1970 Janis Joplin and Juanita Green bought a headstone for the unmarked grave of Bessie Smith, who died in 1937. The engraving on the headstone reads "The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing." The producer, writer, and critic John Hammond is credited with discovering Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Aretha Franklin, among several other legendary singers and musicians. John Hammond said in an interview, "Aretha is really one of the fascinating stories, because at that time [1960] I was sort of living in the past, you know. I was saying, gee there’s never been another singer like Billie Holiday or Bessie Smith, whom I had recorded in the early days...So one day a songwriter named Curtis Lewis came in with a demo of about five of his tunes. The third tune was a thing called “Today I Sing the Blues,” and it was just this girl on piano. And I screamed! I said for Chrissakes who is this?" Of course it was Aretha Franklin.