Artist	Song
Otis Redding	Respect
from The Very Best of Otis Redding (2007)
Carole King	(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
from Tapestry (1998)
Stevie Wonder	Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)
from At the Close of a Century (1999)
Dionne Warwick	I Say a Little Prayer
from The Dionne Warwick Collection: Her All-Time Greatest Hits (2005)
Dan Penn	Do Right Woman Do Right Man
from Do Right Man (2010)
Ben E. King	Spanish Harlem
from Spanish Harlem (2005)
Simon & Garfunkel	Bridge Over Troubled Water
from The Best of Simon & Garfunkel (1999)
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell	You're All I Need to Get By
from Gold: Marvin Gaye (2005)
The Rolling Stones	Jumpin' Jack Flash
from Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) [Remastered] (2005)
Ben E. King	Don't Play That Song (You Lied)
from Rhino Hi-Five: Ben E. King - EP (2006)
Sam Cooke	You Send Me
from The Man Who Invented Soul (2000)
Don Covay	Seesaw (Single Version)
from See Saw (2005)
The Band	The Weight
from The Band: Greatest Hits (2000)
Elton John	Border Song
from Elton John: Greatest Hits (1992)
Dusty Springfield	Son of a Preacher Man
from Dusty In Memphis (Deluxe Edition) (2007)

Comment:

These original tunes may share their title and melody with some of your favorite Aretha tracks, but that’s where the resemblance stops. Aretha won her “Respect” by turning the beat around and, like syrup over hotcakes, pouring on a series of sexy subplots. But Otis was there first, not singing the song so much as [i]possessing[/i] it, never really asking for “Respect” so much as [i]demanding[/i] it. While Dionne Warwick’s “I Say a Little Prayer” is a pop-perfect masterpiece, its storytelling charm sweet cream in your coffee, Aretha serves her version up black, no sugar. In something of a switch, Carole King recorded her self-penned “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” years [i]after[/i] Aretha’s version — a version that’s nothing short of monumental; Carole, on the other hand, dials it down for intimacy, inviting us into her music room on a rainy day, and singing us the song, naturally, at the piano. No, no one did ’em quite like Aretha, but as you’ll soon discover, the Stones, Elton John, Ben E. King, and so many others did ’em every bit as good.

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