SONG.REVIEWS
Where Judy Collins made 'Amazing Grace' smaller to get it out of the church, Aretha Franklin went the other way — stretching the hymn to nearly eleven minutes in front of a Los Angeles congregation and turning it into the definitive gospel reading of the song.
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IngaRose isn't a person, and her breakout single doesn't pretend otherwise — a warm, well-built self-love anthem that scores better than it should for being honest about what it is.
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Greatest of All Time!Otis Redding recorded his most famous song three days before his death in a plane crash, and it became the only posthumous single ever to reach No. 1 on the Hot 100 -- a record he never lived to see.
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Greatest of All Time!Throwback Thursday, 1968: Motown rejected this record twice and buried it on an album. Radio DJs overruled the label and made it the biggest single Motown had ever had.
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Al Green opened his 1982 album Precious Lord with the hymn and won the 1983 Grammy for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional -- while critics split on whether the album's bright, pop-leaning arrangements suit songs this old.
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