She was serious about her music and singing. Maybe she understood what it meant to have such a gift she had and to bring it to the audiene aka ppl...

What a marvelous moment, not only President Obama had tears in his eyes all her true friends were the same.

Me too; in fact, tears came to my eyes... just with the first few notes of the piano! Have heard that song played a lot over the last few days, as you can imagine, but that performance of it was the most moving, by far.

Top quality fidelity....

Yes. Yes. Yes the Queen was known to take care of business. I know she is taking care of that business with the angelic choir.

Such a rarity nowadays. I noticed it too. She pretty much refused any credit and had to jump to add the others on the song like “it wasn’t me!”

theonick2 ....and that's how it should be...that's why we are here! 😇

JuliaWills IT WAS DEFINITELY PRICELESS..SHE ABSOLUTELY ADORED HER!😢

Really enjoyed reading CK's biography. She went through a lot and emerged with strength and compassion for herself and others.

JuliaWills me too, she was so elated😆

AMEN🙌🙌🙌

She also transcended age and generations. My grandmother and I have very different taste in music but Franklin had something for everyone. My grandmother said that her version of the standard, Skylark, is one of the best she's heard. There is no hint of R&B or gospel in it, which shows her versatility. She can move between genres seamlessly.

Aretha Franklin's 1963 recording of Skylark. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oK6Jd8SXudjUfYk.html&app=desktop

These phony comments are funny.

Amen

Loud Neighbor Productions well said

All she did was transition and go to heaven. We aren’t our bodies we are our souls. Our bodies are just our shells like our avatars. We exist in eternal heaven forever. This is just a temporary experience a temp stop for all of us just to experience this until we get to heaven

Carol King Co-authored Natural Woman

PhillyRoja Yes, thank you Carole !!!!

Yes..

Jaye Williams 😆

sandy mcmichen great post so many kind words you said

Music and real talent always unites all people. We have this great legacy of songs and live performances she has left for us. In these troubling times we all need the music of the great Queen of Soul. God bless Aretha Franklin.

Great parents!!!!!!!

Carole King may have written the Songs but they wouldn't have been classics if Aretha, The Drifters, The Chiffons, The Shirelles, hadn't spun their magic.

All of it came together for the good of everyone...what legends and a class performance by all the musical genius. Aretha gave praise to Carol for her allowing her to sing that song.

Seriously? Carole King is a genius and her own recordings of these songs are on one of the biggest selling albums of all time.

Oh absolutely it's just there was a time in the not too distant past that nobody cared about who wrote the song, they were more interested in who sang it. Oh did you ever see Grace Of My Heart which was loosely based on Carole King's Life, it's really good.

laminage Yes actually. Years ago. Actually not even who sung it. Whose name was on the album. See Darlene Love.

agree been crying since Monday my birthday praying so hard please Aretha but I knew hospice

I cried also.

Jane Guarnera Great words, Thanks....

Talk about crying...me too...and yes, I thought about my Mom while I was doing it...

Yes me to I cried watching and listen to her sing ..because it was a flashback of my late mom my Queen as well. My mom was curvy and same skin tone and back then she would change up in her big wigs as well. And she would always sing to us while she was in kitchen cooking.. I miss her dearly she passed at age of 70 yrs old. 11 yrs old. Rest in paradise my Queen.. love you more..

Jeffrey Hancock very touching words

Your comment has moved me to tears.

That's beautiful.

Beautiful

Well stated and beautiful.

No one said you were smart.

Tribble, my fave too, especially when you know the back story (Vietnam War).

Thanks GedSoft, this is something that I didn't know. The song however, does have a personal relevance for me.

Personal personal relevance? Tourets?

Tribble Booth. Get ready I'm coming to get them all lol.

watch it everyday

And she played by ear - as Aretha never learned how to read music. Quite amazing. The first song she learned on the piano was 'Canadian Sunset'.

That's exactly what I was thinking too. Her first album was gospel music that she recorded live when she was about 14.

Joshua McCool You are very right. Aretha Franklin, my mom, and many other gospel singers like, Sam Cooke, Mahalia Jackson, the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi and Alabama, the Mighty Clouds of Joy, the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Swanie Cortet, the Jordanairs, Aretha Franklin's father, Rev. C. L. Franklin, recorded great church sermons, and so many others recording great gospel singers, were singing together in concerts around the country and abroad. They all used to sing together in national baptist conventions up In Chicago during the earlier days and before I was born. Those gospel singers used battle it out singing as contestants against each other, groups, soloists, and cortets, Aretha Franklin's first husband, Ted White, was not a good man.

I think he was referring to the fact that she officially entered the business singing secular music 50 years ago. I was 50 years ago she was conferred the title Queen of Soul for her soaring 5 octave soulful voice.

IT shouldn't have started there just because Aretha Franklin was duded the Queen of Soul for only the music she did in r&b, jazz, and whatever. Listen, she was a big star and was well known throughout the recording industry and throughout the world, when she was a very famous gossip singers, along with the biggest gossip great singers in the history of music. When Aretha Franklin is only recognized for just those 50, that takes from the 12 that she was a spectacular world well known gossip great throughout the world of gossip music for which totally, she was a recording star for 62. Give the queen her props, and don't try to take from her for what she has branded in the world history books. Hail to The Queen, Aretha Franklin. That is like say, if a person has went to school, and went on to college, although that person has been educated in the field of education. But they are only being recognized for one part of their education and not everything they have achieved in their field of education. That person must and should be recognized for all they have accomplished, just like Aretha Franklin should too, no matter if she sang gossip for 12 years and crossed over to r&b, jazz, and other music during her time of recording, and she did.

Clarissa Gafoor Agreed!!!

Ever Ever Ever, she was the best.

She just went to a higher throne.

TheLadyOfSoul502 Wow! That’s beautifully said.... Thank you! 🙏🏻

agree she was the GOAT

she's pretty AMAZING! ♡

Na

Yes, we do!

I'm loving this last year 2017 from puppet show on #agt2017

I don't

Tapestry is an album that everyone should have in their collection/playlist no matter what your favourite music genre is.

luvvinallmusik 57. A FUKTARD dislikes this!!

#trumpist dislike it

I wonder if this is an index of bots set to automatically down vote msnbc ?

They have no heart or feelings. Sad.

It wasn't about Al Sharpton--This was an honor for the Queen Of Soul. It should be left at that.

Do some actual research into what cancer is, if it was easy to cure it would be cured by now and consigned to the history books. every cancer requires a unique form of treatment, many cancers are fully curable, many others have an extremely high percentage of cure if dicovered in time, the minority are to dangerous to be cured by current research because of the effects on the body being too damaging or lethal. 40 or 50 years ago most people who got any form of cancer had a very low chance of survival, it was a death sentence. Now the majority of cancer sufferers are cured and survive. Cancer, is not a virus or disease, it is a bodily condition that goes out of control.

Let me put a point on this as simply as I can as a scientist working on cancer. Imagine one protein can have a tumor promoting function in one type of cancer and a tumor suppressing function in another. Imagine that that protein acts on and with thousands of other proteins. pulling that one protein out of the web in one cell means you’re likely doing that to other cells in the body as well. Now imagine that cells talk to each other. We’re talking trillions upon trillions upon trillions of connections here.

Scientists mmm let's see nothing but getting free money

makeitha smith so says the person using technology to espouse these views.

Angela bel putting the money in their pockets.......

I only heard Carole once and she seems to have a good voice.

She is Incredible as a Songwriter, that´s her gift.

Julie Thompson true so true

Julie Thompson. Amen

Julie Thompson yes thank you Zeus.

Julie Thompson and im thankful God loaned her to us here on earth.

Facts

agree

I think there was an out pour of love and well wishes for her. Especially when they said she was declining. But now the media has made her the main focus; rightfully so😄

Oh, she knew. People would say she was egotistical. But she wasn't. They didn't like the fact that she knew her own worth. She also realized what she meant to people. She had heard that almost her entire life. She knew how she affected people and how she made them feel. That was her power. That's what made her Aretha 💗

And, she may have wanted her final days to be with and for her family. She had given so much of her time to the public. This was a very private matter. And she was, first and foremost, a mother and grandmother. She left the wanted to: surrounded by people she loved and that loved her. That's all anyone could ask for.

She was the original DIVA...No one will ever dethrone the Queen of Soul...

Yes she does

Yes she did