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 syr …

Church Aretha is pure Aretha - not Aretha aiming for the charts, but Aretha doing what's come naturally since she was a girl in her father's congregation. And if there's such a thing as a healthy heart …

In 1960 Columbia Records had a plan: turn teenage Aretha Franklin into a middle-of-the-road star like Diahann Carroll or Barbra Streisand. The plan didn't work. Aretha was destined to be Aretha, and fr …