Genre

Soul

9.2
Aretha Franklin

Amazing Grace

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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6.3
IngaRose

Celebrate Me

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!
Marvin Gaye

I Heard It Through the Grapevine

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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