The Originals © by Arnold Rypens - DO RIGHT WOMAN, DO RIGHT MAN

Artist: Aretha Franklin
Author: Dan Penn/Chips Moman
Label: Atlantic
Year: 1967

B-side of I Never Loved A Man and finished in New York with a couple of Muscle Shoals Swampers flown over. There was a Sandy Posey master recorded for Chips Moman four days before Aretha's but it remained unreleased. Posey was the secretary of Moman's American Studio.

Covers:

1967:: Sweet Inspirations
1967:: Oscar Toney Jr.
1967:: William Bell
1967:: Etta James
1968:: Otis Clay
1968:: Billy Vera & Judy Clay
1968:: Joe Tex
1969:: Dionne Warwick
1969:: Flying Burrito Brothers
1969:: Cher [recorded at MSS and released on album 3614 Jackson Highway, which is the adress of this Muscle Shoals studio]
1969:: Delaney & Bonnie
1970:: Brenda Lee
1971:: Joan Baez
1971:: Barbara Mandrell [top 20 C&W]
1972:: Joe Cocker
1972:: Esther Phillips
1972:: Ian Matthews
1973:: Lulu
1974:: Kitty Wells
1976:: Billie Jo Spears
1977:: Elkie Brooks
1978:: Phoebe Snow
1981:: Barbara Dickson
1983:: Willie Nelson
1985:: Johnny Adams
1991:: Commitments [vocal: Niamh Kavanagh]
1993:: Marva Wright
1994:: Dan Penn [author]
1994:: Maceo Parker
1994:: Whitney Houston
1996:: Chonita Turner
1998:: Beverley Knight
1999:: Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham
2003:: Sinéad O'Connor
2003:: Sheryl Crow & Willie Nelson
2014:: Martina McBride
2021:: Jennifer Hudson

Penn & Moman also cowrote The Dark End Of The Street (see there). On page 263-64 of his autobiography The Man From Muscle Shoals (2015 - Heritage Builders), FAME labelboss Rick Hall explains in detail what really caused Aretha Franklin's refusal to ever set foot again in that studio.

DO RIGHT WOMAN, DO RIGHT MAN

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