Whew chile, the tears! It’s footage from 1968, so it’s short, grainy and the audio isn’t the best. Aretha Franklin Performs At Martin Luther King’s Memorial Service (1968), “Precious Lord”
And when that choir came in for the finale ?…what’s not to love?! She left the crowd in a standing ovation.Ĥ. She made “I Dreamed A Dream” from the Broadway musical Les Miserables sound like a hand-waving, testimony-sharing gospel solo, despite all those white people and those stringed instruments. We all remember when she strolled to the stage in that, now infamous, hat and gave us a reason to love “America.” But let’s go a little further back, remember her when she sang for President Bill Clinton’s inauguration.
Let’s just go ahead and call her the inauguration slayer. Aretha Franklin Performs At Bill Clinton’s Inauguration (1993), “I Dreamed A Dream” Now, our list of Aretha Franklin’s all-time top performances and after watching these….you’ll remember EXACTLY why we’re calling her the greatest of all time.ĥ.
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