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Aretha Franklin is set to release a new album titled Jewels In the Crown: All Star Duets with The Queen. Other artists appearing alongside Aretha will be Keith Richards, Whitney Houston, Annie Lennox, George Michael, Mariah Carey, Frank Sinatra, Mary J Blige, John Legend and Fantasia. The album hits stores on November 13th.
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The following year Franklin and Vandross collaborated again on the disappointing Get It Right. But in 1985, Franklin's sound was commercialized into a glossy pop sound as she experienced her first-ever Platinum-certified album, Who's Zoomin' Who?. Yielding smash hits like the Motown-influenced "Freeway of Love", the title track, and her duet with rock duo The Eurythmics, "Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves", the album became the first Platinum certification of Aretha's entire career, reintroducing her sound to a younger generation of fans. In 1986, Franklin did nearly as well with an album simply titled Aretha which yielded her first number-one pop single in two decades with the George Michael duet, "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)". The album is noteworthy for the striking cover which was Andy Warhol's last work before his death. Other hits included her cover of The Rolling Stones' "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and the girl group-inspired "Jimmy Lee". When Aretha was taken out of print, it had sold over 9,000,000 copies.
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In 1981, Arista released "Love All the Hurt Away" with production by Mardin, with Aretha Franklin co-producing two cuts. Aside from the titled track, a Top-10 R&B hit with George Benson, the album ... featured versions of The Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want," Diana Ross' "It's My Turn" and Aretha's sizzling reading of Sam & Dave's "Hold On (I'm Comin')," which garnered Aretha her eleventh Grammy Award.
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The third Aretha catalog exploitation of the fall is the first from Sony/BMG, which has long since deleted the Eighties and Nineties Aretha albums where half of its sixteen tracks first appeared, and it's ... the best. But this isn't to accuse it of coherence or anything.
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The Seventies brought continued success to Franklin. In the early years of that decade, she released such critically acclaimed albums as Spirit in the Dark (1970); Young, Gifted and Black (1972); Live at Fillmore West (1971); and Amazing Grace. The first two of these tapped into themes of black pride and feminine empowerment, while the latter - a double album that found her accompanied by James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir - brought her back to the church.
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The same could be said for Franklin, who gave up smoking a few years back and whose force-of-nature voice is as rich as ever. And she's winning over new generations of fans. VH1, BET and the youth-oriented The Box all have the Rose video in heavy rotation. The album is already generating critical buzz, including a four-star review from Rolling Stone.
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