ARETHA FRANKLIN I NEVER LOVED A MAN VERY RARE WHITE LABEL PROMO LP IN MONO SOUL
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EXTREMELY RARE PROMO COPY FROM 1967 - 47 YEARS AGO!
COVER IS IN VG+ CONDITION WITH SOME WEAR AND TEAR.
THE WHITE LABEL PROMO VINYL IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH SOME LIGHT SURFACE SCRATCHES AND PRESSURE MARKS FROM STORAGE.
THIS VERY EARLY PRESSING DOES NOT INCLUDE A STICKER HYPING "RESPECT" BECAUSE IT HAD YET TO BECOME A HIT!
Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler first heard of Aretha Franklin through a 1956 recording of "Precious Lord." Louise Bishop, wife of DJ Jimmy Bishop, recommended the singer to Atlantic. She signed with the label during the fall of 1966. Franklin's husband/manager Ted White asked songwriter Ronnie Shannon to write a song for his wife. Shannon let his imagination run wild, settling on an idea for a bluesy number that had a woman expressing the way she felt about her man. Recorded at Rick Hall's Fame Recording Studios with members of the Muscle Shoals rhythm section, "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" began to slowly pick up radio play in several markets including selling thousands of records during a Chicago snowstorm (an identifying mark of a hit record if there ever was one). By the following spring of 1967, the million-selling single had parked at number one R&B for seven weeks, while going to number nine pop. Its flipside, "Do Right Woman Do Right Man," charted number 37 R&B. The gold I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You LP also yielded the gold single "Respect" and "Dr. Feelgood."
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