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We Celebrate The Life of Aretha Franklin Tribute Show · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: morning everybody. You are listening to the voice, come on
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  Speaker 1: a radio show, borl borl boy. I can't even tell
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  Speaker 1: you man um. I've been doing some thinking and you know,
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  Speaker 1: just coming off vacation, I was really had some time
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  Speaker 1: to sit out and and you know, just recharge myself
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  Speaker 1: and and just think about a lot of things and
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  Speaker 1: and and really spend some time with my wife and
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  Speaker 1: her and I, you know, just recommitted ourselves and and
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  Speaker 1: and just went over a lot of things. Just had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of long talks. You know. Communication is the key,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And I'm a guy and I suffered with
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  Speaker 1: that as to do a lot of guys. I think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of women, uh say that they have a
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  Speaker 1: communication problem with the men. I'm no different. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I can write a book all day, but I still
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  Speaker 1: I am a man. I'm wired a certain way. It's
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  Speaker 1: not making excuses, it's just it's certain things that we
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  Speaker 1: have to pay attention to, especially when it comes to women,
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  Speaker 1: because of the way we're wired. And we were just
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  Speaker 1: sitting out there talking and having some conversations, and one
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  Speaker 1: of the things that I wanted to mention today to
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  Speaker 1: you as one of the principles of success being grateful
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  Speaker 1: at all times. It's difficult to do. Being grateful at
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  Speaker 1: all times. It's very difficult to do. I I find
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  Speaker 1: that to be true with myself. Now there are others
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  Speaker 1: that might be able to do it, but just just
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  Speaker 1: from talking and listening and and and and living and learning,
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  Speaker 1: being grateful at all times is difficult to do. But
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  Speaker 1: it's necessary because us. It's it's it's such an act
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  Speaker 1: of faith in knowing that no matter what's going on,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be all right. And it's hard to
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  Speaker 1: see that when things are not going in your favor,
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  Speaker 1: when things have turned so dramatically the other way, and
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  Speaker 1: it seems as though you're the only one in the
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  Speaker 1: situation where you're involved with other people, or someone got
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  Speaker 1: an accusation against you falsely, or somebody trying to do
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  Speaker 1: something to you unjustifiably, whatever the case may be. When
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  Speaker 1: it's happening to you, it does appear to you that, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my goodness, man, this is horribly one sided. So it
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  Speaker 1: is difficult. It's hard to do to be grateful at
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  Speaker 1: all times, but it's so necessary and I just I
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  Speaker 1: just want to point out a couple of things to you.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, the difficulty in being grateful in the
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  Speaker 1: hard times is that number one, the present circumstances. Oftentimes
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  Speaker 1: it's just so pressing and so overwhelming that a lot
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  Speaker 1: of your energy is devoted to trying to come up
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  Speaker 1: with the solution for that, or trying to muster the
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  Speaker 1: strength to whether the storm, or trying to just brace
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  Speaker 1: yourself to try to get through it, and in doing that,
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  Speaker 1: you don't It's hard to be grateful. It's hard to
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  Speaker 1: be grateful in pain, and I know it is. But
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  Speaker 1: but here is the trick for me, this is what
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  Speaker 1: I've had to learn how to do, and I I
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  Speaker 1: guess it takes practice to get here. It's not nothing
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  Speaker 1: you can just start doing right away. You got to
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  Speaker 1: practice it in small increments to really get it. What
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  Speaker 1: I've always had to say to myself and what I've
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  Speaker 1: learned to say to myself is this is happening to
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  Speaker 1: me because God is working me through something. This is
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  Speaker 1: happening to me because there's some form of tests that
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  Speaker 1: I have to pass in order to graduate to the
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  Speaker 1: next grade, and that in order to be allowed to
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  Speaker 1: move to the next level. This is happening to me
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  Speaker 1: because there's something I need to purge my life, of
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  Speaker 1: my body, of my spirit, of something's purging in me.
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  Speaker 1: And when you purge something, it's it's painful. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's like a person getting off drugs. The withdrawal is agonizing.
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  Speaker 1: I've been told and every documentary I've ever watched it
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  Speaker 1: it's an agonizing process to go cold turkey, to withdraw,
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  Speaker 1: to pull away after you've been doing something so long.
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  Speaker 1: And so I know that this process is tough when
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  Speaker 1: you're going through some pain, But when you're purging your system,
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  Speaker 1: when you when you're when you're having to pass a test,
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  Speaker 1: when you're about to make when when you're being made
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  Speaker 1: ready for the next level, that moment right in there,
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  Speaker 1: in realizing that that's what's happening, that's where you find
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  Speaker 1: the gratitude. That's where I found the gratitude. I hope
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  Speaker 1: I'm explaining this correctly. I'm gonna keep trying until I
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  Speaker 1: get it. But that's where you find the gratitude. The
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  Speaker 1: second part of it is is that God has never
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  Speaker 1: left me and all the things I've done, in all
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  Speaker 1: the mistakes I've made, all the lies I've told, all
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  Speaker 1: the situations I've gotten myself into from being greedy and
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  Speaker 1: wanting too much for me at the expense sometimes of
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  Speaker 1: other people, not doing it deliberately or in a vindictive way,
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  Speaker 1: because I've never had that spirit. I'm not a vindictive
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  Speaker 1: or mean person, but sometimes in my life, in wanting
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  Speaker 1: to do what I wanted to do, I didn't totally
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  Speaker 1: weigh out the cause and effect of the other person.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, can't just be real with you with that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how many times we had all done that. Look,
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  Speaker 1: don't don't make you a bad person. You know, good
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  Speaker 1: people do bad things all the time. I just happened
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  Speaker 1: to have come to the realization that unknowingly and and
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  Speaker 1: and not and not with malice intent towards a person.
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  Speaker 1: I've I've heard people looking at something I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: do without really looking at what the cause and effect
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  Speaker 1: would be on the other person. So in doing some
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  Speaker 1: of these things, I've created situations for myself. But God,
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  Speaker 1: through his grace and mercy, has allowed me to even
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  Speaker 1: get beyond that. So what I'm saying that God has
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  Speaker 1: never left me in spite of myself. He's always gotten
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  Speaker 1: me through. So that's the other part of it, to
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  Speaker 1: see that no matter what you're going through, you've got
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  Speaker 1: to understand that God has always gotten you through it, now,
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  Speaker 1: hasn't it. Now that may not be the way you
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  Speaker 1: wanted or the way you liked, But guess what, you
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  Speaker 1: can't do wrong and not pay for that. Now that
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  Speaker 1: that's not how this works, that's never going to be
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  Speaker 1: the case. But the great thing about God is he
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  Speaker 1: fires warning shots at us all the time. He gives
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  Speaker 1: us an opportunity to stop. You know, He don't fully
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  Speaker 1: punish us right away every time we do something wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Now does it? You know eventually you're going to get
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  Speaker 1: caught doing whatever it is you're doing you do understand that,
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  Speaker 1: don't you. But the first time, that close call, that
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  Speaker 1: was a warning shot for you to stop. Look, I
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  Speaker 1: know you're not perfect. I know we all sent us
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  Speaker 1: down here, so I know you're gonna make mistakes. One time.
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  Speaker 1: I know you was looking at her when you wasn't
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  Speaker 1: supposed to. I know you said something to him when
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  Speaker 1: you wasn't supposed you. I know you got with her
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  Speaker 1: when you know you wasn't supposed to. And I know
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  Speaker 1: you got with him when you know you wasn't supposed to.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: fire warning shot, and maybe you'll slow your roll this time.
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  Speaker 1: But we keep on, don't see. See See that's what happens.
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  Speaker 1: See we just keep on and then the next thing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we get caught. Now, old Lord, have mercy,
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  Speaker 1: I won't out of this. Yeah, well see you didn't
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  Speaker 1: dug this hole pretty deep, and he gonna get you out.
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  Speaker 1: But there's some things that's got to go down now
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  Speaker 1: because you didn't pay attention to the warning shot. See,
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  Speaker 1: had you stopped the first time, you felt bad about
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  Speaker 1: it and said you wasn't gonna do it no more.
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  Speaker 1: The situation wouldn't be as critical, but because we don't stop,
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  Speaker 1: and we go again. But God always for gils. He
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  Speaker 1: always allows us to get back up again. He always
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  Speaker 1: gives us mercy. He always gives us his grace. He
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  Speaker 1: always does that. I love music. I just take to
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  Speaker 1: it like conductor Water. I love music. Ladies and gentlemen, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I have your attention. Please. Today we are paying tribute
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  Speaker 1: to the Queen, the Queen of Soul, the Great Aretha Franklin.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're gonna play her music. Today, we will be
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  Speaker 1: celebrating her life, her legacy, what she was, what she
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  Speaker 1: meant to so many. Um, this is gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: great thing. You know, it's not gonna be a lot
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  Speaker 1: of sadness here. You know, this is a celebration of
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  Speaker 1: her life or what she was to so many. So
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  Speaker 1: today it's gonna be a great show today, Ladies, y'all
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  Speaker 1: on board with that? Oh? Absolutely? You know. We love
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  Speaker 1: the queen. We loved her, We absolutely loved her, and
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  Speaker 1: she deserves the best tribute anyone can give her because
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  Speaker 1: she gave us so much with her she did. Today,
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  Speaker 1: as mentioned, we're celebrating the Queen, the Queen of Soul,
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  Speaker 1: Aretha Franklin. We'll be back right after this. She is
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  Speaker 1: one of the greatest female singers to ever live. She's
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  Speaker 1: a legend in her own right. She's been through so
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  Speaker 1: much and now I think it's about times she finally
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  Speaker 1: gets a new darling. Shandy Darling, You shandy darling, You
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  Speaker 1: shandy Hones you do Honey, you do, Hony, you do well?
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  Speaker 1: You thro on me jolly? You feel me, baby? You
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  Speaker 1: you feel me honest? Honeish you do Moneish and Bircht.
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  Speaker 1: Don't clive that youah chip up Sam, I'm don't many.
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  Speaker 1: Please take me up? You see me die? You send me? Now?
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  Speaker 1: Are you shil me? Hon? If you do honest? You did?
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  Speaker 1: You know? You did you do? You do? Not see me?
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  Speaker 1: You send me? Sy you seen? Yeah? Yes, sah yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Good baby. You're listening to Harvey Morning Show. Well today people,
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  Speaker 1: our hearts are heavy as we lost the Queen of soul,
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  Speaker 1: Aretha Franklin. Miss Franklin, of course, was born in Memphis, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: back in nineteen forty two. She began singing in church
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  Speaker 1: before recording her first gospel album at the age of
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  Speaker 1: just fourteen years Yeah. After ten modestly successful albums, She
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  Speaker 1: shifted to R and B and became the Queen of soul. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Her six R and B chart toppers included the nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty seven pop number one hit respect R E s
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  Speaker 1: P E c T. Find Out what It means to Me?
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  Speaker 1: That's right. She had the top twenty on the pop
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  Speaker 1: chart two dozen times. Areta one eighteen count them eighteen
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  Speaker 1: grammys over her career, plus two honorary Grammys. She was
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  Speaker 1: the first female solo artist that was ever inducted into
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  Speaker 1: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She performed, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: She performed at the presidential inaugurations of Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton,
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  Speaker 1: and of course Barack Obama. That yes, that You'll never
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  Speaker 1: forget that that had Remember when Ellen wore the hat
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  Speaker 1: on her show the following day. That was funny. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Mrs Areta was married and divorced twice. She was survived
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  Speaker 1: by four sons. And all morning long, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: play Aretha Franklin songs. And boy did she have some hits.
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  Speaker 1: Man Steve, and she had some hits. What's your favorite?
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  Speaker 1: Uh huh? I ain't because you love them all? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was so many. It was no freeway of love. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I was later in her career, remember daydreaming, daydreaming, you
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  Speaker 1: know what? Saw my mom's jump to it? Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: remember loved what about call Me? I Love You? She
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  Speaker 1: had so many hits. I mean she she truly earned
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  Speaker 1: her title and wore her title as the Queen. Well
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  Speaker 1: her voice don't yeah greatest, I agree, because she could
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  Speaker 1: sing anything, any thing, opera, gospel, country, rock, soul, of course,
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  Speaker 1: goes on and on. Yeah wow, And she loves she
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  Speaker 1: loved you, Steve Harvey. She did. She was such a fan.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah read yeah, all right, we're going back right now.
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  Speaker 1: Just let's hit it, girl, you know, let me tell
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  Speaker 1: him Carlo Carlo's favorite song. Put this song on right here,
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  Speaker 1: and Carla Ferrell loses her mind. Rock steady baby, That's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what it is. Who sings lyrics like that, genius
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  Speaker 1: the Queen. Baby. We're gonna go to the phone, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you tell us what the Queen of
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  Speaker 1: Soul meant to you? All your favorite read the Franklin
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  Speaker 1: song memory Anything call us eight seven seven twenty nine,
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  Speaker 1: Steve eight seven seven twenty nine, Steve. That's so, let's
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  Speaker 1: move your hi stops and take her off while you
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  Speaker 1: moving us right Saturday, Let's call this one last. What
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  Speaker 1: is my shap come seting fu sha God saith with
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  Speaker 1: the people from side side. Just just slip down in
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  Speaker 1: your car and take right right, said it right, staid,
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  Speaker 1: Let's saw the song that backer was. It's a fucking
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  Speaker 1: old and it's after its about to do. It's be
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  Speaker 1: rush blush, stay sucking about it for the last life.
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  Speaker 1: Ut in out about to suck. All good? All right, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: Uh here we go. Hey, who is this Hi? This
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  Speaker 1: is calf Um? What are you calling from? Los Angeles?
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  Speaker 1: All right, look, we're celebrating the life of the Queen
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  Speaker 1: of Soul. We're gonna let you do it on you
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  Speaker 1: and y'all tell us, tell us what Queen meant to you? Um.
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  Speaker 1: My dad introduced me to the Queen and one of
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  Speaker 1: the first albums we listened to I was probably ten
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  Speaker 1: years old, and he said, this is what music is
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  Speaker 1: supposed to sound like. She makes you feel something. That's
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  Speaker 1: how my dad and I bonded was over music. And
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  Speaker 1: so he was right. She made me feel lots of
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  Speaker 1: things and she was with me through the good in
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  Speaker 1: the past. All right, we are celebrating the life, the music,
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  Speaker 1: and the legacy of the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be back right after this. You're listening to Steve
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  Speaker 1: Hardy Morning Show. If you guys are just waking up,
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  Speaker 1: our hearts are heavy this morning. Um, we lost the
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  Speaker 1: Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. Uh So, all morning long,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to do a tribute to her music and
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  Speaker 1: her legacy because it will live forever, and it will
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  Speaker 1: live here on the Steve Harvey Morning Show. We all
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  Speaker 1: loved Aretha, all loved her. Her first number one hit
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  Speaker 1: on the pop chart back in n was Respect. Today
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  Speaker 1: we are paying tribute to the Queen, Queen of soul.
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  Speaker 1: What you what you need? Just just just a little
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  Speaker 1: bit wrong, Oh my mask, just a little bit blame,
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit a hole, just a little death,
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit. I'm not to give it, oh
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  Speaker 1: my money and get turned hun it to give me
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  Speaker 1: my promise. When you gotta tell Lester, just a j
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  Speaker 1: just a joint, just a little day, just a little
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  Speaker 1: and oh you kissing? Guess what who asked not lot me?
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  Speaker 1: Me asked the easy taj just to live. Everyone knows respect.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if you weren't born back then. You
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  Speaker 1: weren't born yet everyone knows what respect is and who
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  Speaker 1: sang it Junior, Yeah, I'm talking to you. Respect is
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  Speaker 1: a song that will become her signature tune uh and
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  Speaker 1: over the next six years, she cracked the top twenty
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  Speaker 1: two dozen times with songs as diverse as a sultry
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  Speaker 1: Chain of Fools and the Churry Chain, Church Baby, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Come Chain a Fool, or and the Powerful Ballot Natural
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  Speaker 1: Woman looking out all the Morning Rain. I used to
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  Speaker 1: feel so and inspired, and when I knew I had
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  Speaker 1: to face another day God and dame to feel so
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  Speaker 1: tired before the day. I'm mad you, I'm for so unkind.
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  Speaker 1: You are the key to my piece of man was
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  Speaker 1: you make you feel like a nancal woman. When my
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  Speaker 1: show was in the Lost and Found, you came along
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  Speaker 1: to claim it. I didn't know just what was wrong
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  Speaker 1: with me until your kids helped me name it. Now
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  Speaker 1: I'm no long adoun fall with what I'm leaving for
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  Speaker 1: and he is my making happy. I don't need to
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  Speaker 1: do for because you that did you. You may feel
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  Speaker 1: like anachal woe one woman, Oh baby, what you've done
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  Speaker 1: to me? What you've done to me. You make me
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  Speaker 1: feel so good in hide, cut inside and just wanna
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  Speaker 1: be walla close to you. You make me feel so
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  Speaker 1: loud you like you ain't make me you have been,
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  Speaker 1: feel like a man, You roll a woman wom You
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  Speaker 1: make me hand like annual a woman? Come on you
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  Speaker 1: may yeah, you make me Yes, you make me feel
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  Speaker 1: like a knack mamma. You had the background. All right, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: listen up, We're gonna go to the phones. Uh, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna let you tell us what the Queen of Soul
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  Speaker 1: meant to you or your favorite read the Franklin song
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  Speaker 1: Memory Anything call Us eight seven seven twenty nine. Steve
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  Speaker 1: eight seven seven twenty nine, Steve. All right, y'all, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: here we go. Hey, who is this? Hi? I just
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  Speaker 1: wanted to comments on Aresa Franklin. I have some five
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  Speaker 1: Memories of Earth. In six she had a fund raiser
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  Speaker 1: for Jesse Jackson and I was working working with the
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  Speaker 1: catering company and I was able to go to her
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  Speaker 1: house to help serve the food stuff. It was fantasy
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  Speaker 1: I started two years ago. She was just amazing person.
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  Speaker 1: She asked me some birthday cakes and stuff. It was
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  Speaker 1: really nice. I'm really nice I met today, very testy
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  Speaker 1: Hill is a lot of more and Jesse Jackson. So
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  Speaker 1: that's my five memory of Aretha Franklin. She is the
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  Speaker 1: Queen a soul and always will be the Queen of soul.
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  Speaker 1: I uh, look, we're celebrating the life of the Queen
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  Speaker 1: of soul. We're gonna let you do it on you
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  Speaker 1: and y'all tell us, tell us what queen meant to you? Hey,
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  Speaker 1: who is this? Send it out my condulecence to the
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  Speaker 1: Franklin family. And I love that you guys are doing
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  Speaker 1: this tribute miss contribute to her. I grew up listening
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  Speaker 1: to Areta as a very young woman in the city
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  Speaker 1: at Detroit, and I've always loved Missrea ree and we're
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  Speaker 1: truly going to miss her. Tell us what queen meant
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  Speaker 1: to you? That's one of the best fingers of all
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  Speaker 1: that nobody can imitate her or close to Aretha Franklin.
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  Speaker 1: She reminds me, I lost my grandmother. It will be
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: fourteen twelve other married and got to be twelve years
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: um this December, and um she was I right, she
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  Speaker 1: was everything to our family. And it just seems like
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  Speaker 1: certain people are just not supposed to die Katie Penegrams,
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  Speaker 1: Luther's Angel's, Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin. I was raised
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  Speaker 1: on that music. So it's really really sad. Today we're
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  Speaker 1: celebrating the music, the life, and the legacy of the
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  Speaker 1: Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. We're offering our prayers and
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: our condolences to the entire Franklin family. Steve Harvey Nation,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: we are all hurting this morning, but we're going to
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: celebrate Aretha Franklin, her life and her legacy. As we mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: she was and will always be the Queen of Soul.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, we'll have more of the Steve Harvey Morning
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Show right after this. You're listening to the Steve Harvey
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Morning Show. Well, today we have truly, truly, truly lost
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: a great one. Uh. If you're just waking up, we
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: are saddened to say that the Queen of Soul, Aretha
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  Speaker 1: Franklin UM, has passed away. And Steve, can you just
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: tell us. We know that you all had a special bond,
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  Speaker 1: So Steve tell us about the time one of the
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  Speaker 1: times you met Aretha Um the n A B A.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was naturally a b jal Association Black journalists.
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  Speaker 1: I think she was performing at one of the events
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  Speaker 1: and uh, we were backed. It was sort of funny
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  Speaker 1: because Aretha needed when she performed. She liked the adda
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  Speaker 1: be off. Oh yeah, and uh it was already a
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: little warm in the in the black journalists was already hot.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Riva came in there and said, cut whatever air. They
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: cut that as off brought them siss in the health
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  Speaker 1: started reacting and makeup. They was looking good though them
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: sisters were strong. They held it together. Came out there
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: and saying, because this read. As soon as she left,
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  Speaker 1: you've seen the black people trying to cut that because
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: there was real respectful wreathing. They let your queen, man,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: she said. Soon as wreathing got through, saying and saying
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: her tail off too, thought her messument this woman's voice man,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: And as soon as she got through them people trying
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: to cut that. Man. But she was always kind to me.
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  Speaker 1: She always said beautiful stuff to me. I just love you, Steve.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: You're just doing so much. Oh I watch you on
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: that show Family Few, I'd be sitting up laughing. You know,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: just remember stuff like that. I like talking about people
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: in positive ways, you know, because you know, I mean look,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: we're all gonna leave him some sooner, some later. But
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: we're all pulling up out of here. And I just
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: think about my terms and my life in terms of
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: my longevity, man, And you know, I probably I didn't
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: had more time than I got left, that's for sure.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna live another sixty years. I'm not gonna
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: be a hundred and twenty. I don't even got to around.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do one on phone. Check out. Three more years.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna gonna punch you out. Kids by the end. Yeah,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: your grandkids, more grandkids. That's what I'm hoping for. If
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: I could see Winton's grandkids, great grandfather, huh. If I
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: could see Winton's grandkids, you'll be good. I'm gonna push
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: the button. Yeah, Winter is my youngest. So one let's
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: say went to have a kid in ten years and
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: then twenty years later that would be thirty is from
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: now I'll be ninety. I could see his son that
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: I go on in. Okay, I just want to see it,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: that little boy at Yeah, that's how I'm gonna do it.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: You gotta worked out. I'm just that's what I'm going
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: to the Lord with. Okay, alright, so um, more stars
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: and more celebrities. Thank you for that, Steve. We're all
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: talking about what Aretha Franklin means to them. We'll talk
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: about it as well. We'll continue talking about it this morning.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Sho minnicame. I'm too young to let you know just
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: where I'm from from. Oh, but you will see. It's
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: just a man. My love is shore. I make him man.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Get everybody around safe some time I'm not it's wrong
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: side my money. I love the can't with me? Here's
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: loving wasting? Oh yeah, people get stay. I'm giving it here,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: don't know, give some sort of here. Yes, I am man,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: intellection of blow so much love, see so much for
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: my tear dream and the only lay in my dream?
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Why so I wrote the sunny room moments. Do country
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: tell me what it needs? I want to go man
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: ever better around, sleep some time? Nothing wrong? All right?
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: I like the cans of ways is love? Always want
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: you to have a bag my love. I want you. Hello,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: you're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Hey, listen up,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: welcome back. Today. We are paying tribute to the Queen,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: the Queen of Soul. We're gonna go to the phone
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you tell us what the Queen of
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  Speaker 1: Soul meant to you or your favorite h read the
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  Speaker 1: Franklin song memory anything call us eight seven seven nine,
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  Speaker 1: Steve eight seven seven nine Steve. All right, y'all, Uh,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: here we go. Hey, who is this? What's up? Steve? Man?
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  Speaker 1: This is Uncle Charlie. Say. Man. I woke up yesterday
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: morning to some awful news man that the Queen Retha Franklin,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Queen of Soul passed on. Man it is and had me.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: I was open so discombobulated man all the morning. Man,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: it's just at all right now. And I'm just gonna
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: miss her a lot, not only just the vocals. You know,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: she taught us all how to sing, you know. And
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: if she's the best that ever touched the microphone, hands down, female, male,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. She's just he's the greatest man. She could
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  Speaker 1: do anything with a voice. And I gonna miss her
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  Speaker 1: a lot. I'm gonna miss singing at the birthday parties.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna miss comparing diamond rings or whether you
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: know you couldn't go around her with a ring that
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: she thought it was bigger than hers. So you know,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: we used to laugh about that. So if if she
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: knew I was gonna have a ring that was bigger,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: she would bring it. She would wear I think the ring.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: So but it was she you couldn't outdo her periods.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Just so I was like, I'm gonna miss that, man,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: just she's just an awesome woman. She asked me to
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: do a record for her, and so the guys that
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: I had working on the record sounded like, um, what
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: was that movie? Uh, Sparkle? It sounded like Sparkle. Because
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: I was just so upset, and I didn't send a
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: record because, you know, searching for a record for for
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: a record for her, just like she had done every
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: kind of sound, every kind of vibe, every kind of
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: flavor that's known to her vocals. It just whatever you
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: came up with it, it's just gonna sound like something
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: she had already had not already done before. And so
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: I just couldn't come up with it. I was, you know, anyway, man,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna miss her a lot. I'm gonna miss her
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: coming to the shows. You know, she always would pop
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: up every time I'm in Detroit. She would always, uh
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: come to the shows. Man, I love you. Read the
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  Speaker 1: Franklin I'm gonna, truly, truly miss you and God bless
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: the family. I love you all. I gotta go, man,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: I'm too emotional. Detroit and the rest of the country,
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  Speaker 1: all morning long, we are saluting the Queen of Soul,
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  Speaker 1: Aretha Franklin, the greatest singer of all time. We'll be
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: back at thirty four after the hour you're listening to
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Well today, people, our hearts
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: are heavy as we lost the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Miss Franklin, of course, was born in Memphis, Tennessee, back
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: in nineteen forty two. She began singing in church before
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: recording her first gospel album at the age of just
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: fourteen years Uh yeah. After ten modestly successful albums, she
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: shifted to R and B and became the Queen of Soul. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Her six R and B chart toppers included the nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty seven pop number one hit respect our sp e
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  Speaker 1: c t fin know what it means to me? That's right.
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  Speaker 1: She hit the top twenty on the pop chart two
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  Speaker 1: dozen times, Areta one eighteen grammys over her career, plus
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: two honorary Grammys. She was the first female solo artist
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  Speaker 1: that was ever inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: of Fame. She performed, Yes, she performed at the presidential
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: inaugurations of Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and of course Barack Obama.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: That hat, Yes, that You'll never forget that hat. That hat.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Remember when Ellen wore the hat on her show the
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: following day. That was funny. Yes, Mr Areta was married
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: and divorced twice. She was survived by four sons. And
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: all morning long, we're going to play Aretha Franklin songs.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: And boy did she have some hints sweet guy. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm away and speaking thing and I'll say, say listen,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: I do and I said away out and game a
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: little too to be all I'm just missing man, baby
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: get so they just say, day you bitten to the
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  Speaker 1: Uh listen up, We're gonna go to the phones. Uh
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  Speaker 1: Collins eight seven seven twenty nine. Steve eight seven seven
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  Speaker 1: All right cha? Who is this? Hi, Steve? This is
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  Speaker 1: Marla gif. I was in Detroit at the same time
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  Speaker 1: Areta was, but I didn't really get to know her,
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: which I'm so sorry about. But I did get to
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: meet her later out here in Los Angeles, and of
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: course she's a phenomenal artist and phenomenal person. I mean
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: you immediately know areto the moment you hear her voice.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have to make that transition. I'm sorry she
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: made her at this time, but perhaps it was time.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: And of course she's never gone because her music will
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: live forever with all of us. We will always know
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  Speaker 1: a reata when you have that kind of gift and
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: last forever. So thank you for doing a little tribute
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: to A. But I appreciate it, and I love you.
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  Speaker 1: Every time I've seen you, You've been so gracious to me.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: I love you, and one day I'll be on your
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: show talking to you. Honey. Anyway, have a blessed to
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: day and a blessed life. Keep doing what you're doing
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: because you're doing great. Thank you, Bye bye. You're listening
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Our hearts are heavy
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: this morning. We lost the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Uh So, all morning long, we're going to do a
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: tribute to her music and her legacy because it will
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: live forever, and it will live here on the Steve
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Harvey Morning Show. We all loved Aretha, all loved her.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: We're gonna go to the phones. Good morning, Steve, this
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: is revenew Shops and and I wanted to share with
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: you as we all celebrate the life of Aretha Franklin,
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: that h Aretha Franklin was not only the ultimate UH
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: singa and vocalist of all times, she was a real
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  Speaker 1: civil rights activist. She used to tell me about how
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  Speaker 1: her father, Reverend Cel Franklin, who was the preeminent preacher
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: of his generation, was the partners with Dr King and
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: Martin Luther King Market in Detroit. And first did that
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  Speaker 1: I have a dream speech in Detroit in June nineteen
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: sixty three before going to Washington doing it at the
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three March on Washington. And she telled me
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: ramal and sixty seven. Dr King last year, Uh, he
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: couldn't make payroll a lot because a lot of donors
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: had stopped giving money to his organization because he had
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: come out against the war in Vietnam. And I went
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: on the road and did eleven cities with Hart Bellafonte
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: to raise money to cover Dr King's payroll when I
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: was a young artist. And then from there all the
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: way through her career. He was the Mandela Free Mandela movement.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Stevie wanted to getting the doctor King holiday. She would
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: always mend a presence. And then when I started becoming known.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: She knew me when I was a boy preacher. She
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: was about thirteen fourteen years older me, but her father's
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: come freach at the church. So as I grew she said,
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: you know, I know who you are, and I'm gonna
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: help you. And she would she come to my events.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: She would send us check. I remember one time she
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: uh sent me a check to NASHNAS network and I saw,
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: if you want to say that, I said, you know,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: miss Franklin, I was so uh taken aback that you
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: send me the check. I framed it. She's a boy
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: even put there in the bank for I moved all
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: the money out that account. She said, you have a
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: copy of the check, framed the copy. I mean she
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: was like that. But legacy was that she never was
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: disconnected from her community. She was never one that lost
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: her authenticity no start and made her too big for
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: her not to stay grounded. You could be the tallest
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: tree in the music forest as long as you were
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: connected to your roots. That besides your height. And I
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: learned that from her she'd liked to cook, and she'd
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: laughed and talked. I would always go to birthday part
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: She was all the way real and regal at the
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: same time. She was real and she was regal, and
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: she appreciated people that never forgot their roots and would
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: take a stand when she had sel Franklin's daughter took
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: a stand and started singing R and B. Some of
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: the trick folks criticized then in the Rhythm and Bruce
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: where they criticized because she'd always put a gospel song
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: in her show. She never uh in any way wavered.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: She had this internal strength that she would do things
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: because you felt it was right. So we've lost the
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: greatest female vocals of all time, but also a great
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: freedom fighter. And I've lost a dear friend. The world
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: will never have another Reatha Franklin. And I know she
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: stood for what's right. And let me say this, Steve,
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of that in you. Uh here we go, Hey,
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: who is this? Hey, Steves Keith Sweat? Uh My condoles
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: is definitely goes out to the family of Mississia Franklin.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: She was definitely a pioneer open doors for so many people,
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: I mean musically, and just really was. It was definitely
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: a class that. I mean, I remember readA back in
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: the day with I used to walk down it, you know,
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: being from Harlem, I used to walk down the streets
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: for Harleman look on the power sign and it would
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: say I read the Franklin performance tonight. Huh and uh
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Ily the line all the way around the corner, you know,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: seventh Favenue landing that you know, it would go as
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: far back as that. So for me, I know, we've
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: lost someone that you know, it has been a inspiration too,
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: and and and someone who has opened many doors for
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: people like Mary J. Blige to be honestly of the world,
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: and just the list goes on and on and on,
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: and she would be truly truly missed. Uh. She was
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: definitely one who said standards for so many people today
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: in this R and B game and this music game period.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: And you know that was at the time whether the
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: pop music was R and B music. So I mean,
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: just her legacy expands from generations upon generations, so you know,
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: she would be truly truly mess man. I just remember
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: um one time when I met her, I was working
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: at w g C I in Chicago. Yes, and she
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: she she gave a concert and the radio show radio
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: station hosted the concert, and afterwards we got a chance
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: to go up and meet a Aretha Franklin. Oh my god,
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: you up. You had to walk up these stairs, You
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: had to wait. You talk about waiting in line here
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: at the Gucci store, Steve off the air, You talked
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: about that, but we I didn't care about. I didn't
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: care how long the line was to wait to see Aretha.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: And when when when it finally came to be my turn,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: they opened the door. I took a deep breath and
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: there she was sitting there like the queen that she is,
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: And it was really like meeting the Queen. I mean really,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: I felt I did everything but Curtsey, I did everything.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: I did everything but that. We're gonna go to the phone.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Steve. Anthony Hamilton's yeah, man, Aretha was a
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: big injoint on my music, just her delivery and the
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: passion she had. I remember one time I was supposed
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: to had done us a tribute to her, singing her song,
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: and she requested that not only I sing, but that
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: I sing my own music. She wanted me to sing Charlene,
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: you can't let go, and Uh, I was like, wow,
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: here it is for her, but she understands the importance
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: of an artist being an artists and delivering their own songs.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: So it was really touching to know that she wanted that.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: And uh, you know, back when I was like really young,
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: about seven and eight, I'm so used to hearing just gospel,
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: and my family was playing this music that felt like gospel.
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: But I heard the lyrics you make me feel like
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: a natural woman, and I was blown away. I was
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: just like, how could it not be gospel if it
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: makes me feel like that? And from then on, I
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: was just really drawn to learn more, to feel more,
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: and they experienced more of that sound and Areta had
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: it consistently. It's a big miss, but Hers, I can
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: see a live on through my kids and the legendary
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: Aretha Franklin will always be around. Coming up. We are
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: celebrating the life, the music, and the legacy of the
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: Queen of soul, Aretha Franklin. Let's go back, Let's go back,
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: and let's go on the way back when but didn't
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: even know you. You couldn't have been too much Montange
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: just tip that you ain't not be tuk in the great,
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: but they don't change too much. Time to see what
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: you're gonna be and not a thing say think about
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: what you're trying to do to be a think think
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: that you're being that to sadly agree with seeing read up, read,
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: read up, reading, think back, interview. What's gonna change? I'm
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: bad if you keep doing things. I don't think about
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: much time do you're listening to the Steve Show today,
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: we're celebrating the music, the life, and the legacy of
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. We're offering our prayers
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  Speaker 1: and our condolences to the entire Franklin family. Steve Harvey Nation.
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  Speaker 1: We are all hurting this morning, but we're going to
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: celebrate Aretha Franklin, her life and her legacy. As we mentioned,
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: she was and will always be the Queen of Soul.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to play all of your favorite to read
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  Speaker 1: the Franklin song she had so many, and we're going
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: to talk to the people this morning, play our favorite
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  Speaker 1: interview moments from the Queen. You you deal vision and
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  Speaker 1: why I got your parents? Don't know what you're doing?
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  Speaker 1: What you must be living? Right? Yeah, we got some
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  Speaker 1: places to see. I'm a lady, shut me in. It
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  Speaker 1: ain't saying jeker riding out my shame. Ain't see the
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  Speaker 1: traffic moving away you slew chop lad go go free
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  Speaker 1: love these games back. We are on a real way
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  Speaker 1: from love and think. Can't we feel way? Love gets
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  Speaker 1: a bag on a free way? No, I think you'll
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  Speaker 1: be money every side we've got not some time. We
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  Speaker 1: can't quit two we get to us side a h ah,
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  Speaker 1: your fails. We keep from one who lose a fine
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  Speaker 1: do think of my gay you the tradics mo ween,
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  Speaker 1: the show go on. Now our feet we're going running
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  Speaker 1: on the feeling love my pink hat and that We're
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  Speaker 1: going running on the feel feel love pink. Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: So drop the top, baby, screwise on him to it.
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  Speaker 1: It's spending over street. Listen up, We're gonna go to
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  Speaker 1: the phone. Call us eight seven seven twenty nine Steve
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  Speaker 1: A seven seven Who is this? Stay stevens Maslo? How
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  Speaker 1: are you? Good morning? It's a tragic loss, one of
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  Speaker 1: the eighth wonders of the world, which her voice is um.
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  Speaker 1: Former President Obama stated in his message about her, I've
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  Speaker 1: been following her for a while. I got to meet
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  Speaker 1: her at the Borgata in and eight she came to
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  Speaker 1: see me perform. Almost lost my mind. I couldn't believe
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  Speaker 1: that in the audience, you know, she was she was
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  Speaker 1: like four rows. And I actually said in the audience,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I want to get really X rated, guys,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, Miss Franklin's in the audience, and she
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  Speaker 1: was like, go ahead, so do what you got to do.
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  Speaker 1: She was like going ahead, you know. She her hands
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  Speaker 1: were up and she was like, just say say what
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  Speaker 1: you want, you know, and we got a chance to
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  Speaker 1: talk backstage, we took photos. She was like, baby, your
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: eyes are tired of you, okay, And I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: just for me. It was the beginning of a friendship
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  Speaker 1: and a connection that I never thought would ever come
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  Speaker 1: my way. I mean, I've been listening to her because
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  Speaker 1: I was born. I know pretty much every song. So
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  Speaker 1: it's three days ago when everyone got news about you
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  Speaker 1: know that that she was. She was kind of in
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  Speaker 1: a critical state. You know. All I did was player
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  Speaker 1: records over and over again, each prayer, for every meal.
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  Speaker 1: She was always there and you know, to wake up today.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy because I really I actually have her phone
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  Speaker 1: number frames when she gave it to me. You know,
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  Speaker 1: she wrote re Re, which was definitely was her nickname,
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  Speaker 1: and it's hanging about. The first black and white photo
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  Speaker 1: I've ever gotten. I was gifted by my manager and
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: best friend, John D. Was the grandson of John D. Hammond,
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  Speaker 1: who signed her to Columbia and also signed Billie Holiday.
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  Speaker 1: So that's like the first piece of art I've ever had,
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  Speaker 1: photographic that's on a frame. Everything. It's in the studio.
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  Speaker 1: And when I got the news, I walked in and
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  Speaker 1: up in at that photo. Right next to that photo
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  Speaker 1: was her signature and her phone number, you know, and
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: it was like written on a envelope. I'm hard figured
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  Speaker 1: it out, you know what I mean, Like this is
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  Speaker 1: like precious thing and it's just you know, the last
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  Speaker 1: time I saw her was I saw her last performance
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: at Elton John's fiftieth anniversary for his Foundation for HIV,
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  Speaker 1: and I watched him play the piano and sing like
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  Speaker 1: there would no tomorrow. And who would have known that
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: a few months later that that would be the case. So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we all would be so lucky to even
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  Speaker 1: do one fourth or one twelfth of what she's done
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  Speaker 1: for the world through her voice and through her music.
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  Speaker 1: And he was grateful that God gave me the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to actually need her and to celebrate her and to
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  Speaker 1: tell her just just what an impact she has not
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  Speaker 1: only on me, but on everyone that's her song. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for letting me calling today to be part of
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: this tribute to her it and uh you know, of course,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: you know Steve Harvey and when he's a mass and
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  Speaker 1: done to keep the tradition of soul music going and
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: encouragement and self esteeming all people that he always brings.
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  Speaker 1: It's just great to get a chance to with him
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  Speaker 1: about saying through him, you know, so, thank you guys
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  Speaker 1: for having me. And I'm wishing that you know, we
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  Speaker 1: keep her alive. We keep her alive through her songs,
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  Speaker 1: all the things that she did to make this world
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  Speaker 1: so beautiful with her music. We miss you. All right,
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  Speaker 1: We'll be back with more of the Steve Harvey Morning
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  Speaker 1: Show right after this. You're listening to Harvey Morning Show.
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  Speaker 1: Many of the Atlantic artists, Ruth Brown and Laverne Baker,
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  Speaker 1: the Drifters, the Clover's, Benny King, uh you name it,
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  Speaker 1: they want Atlantic and particularly Ruth Brown, some of the
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  Speaker 1: artists I think that personified night a certain style of
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  Speaker 1: music yesterday and carried it on to its present. Me.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Steve, as you know, a lot of stars,
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  Speaker 1: celebrities and singers love and of course respect the Queen
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  Speaker 1: of Soul. Here's Smoky Robinson telling us about the first
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  Speaker 1: time he heard a Wreatha Franklin sing. The first time
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  Speaker 1: I heard to read the thing. She was probably about
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  Speaker 1: six years old. Her brother, Cecil, was one of my
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: closest friends, and he had taken me to their house
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: for the first time when they moved into the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: We go in and I hear somebody in the next
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  Speaker 1: room playing the piano and singing. And I know it's
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  Speaker 1: a kid singing because I can tell by the way
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  Speaker 1: the boy sounds. But the kid is singing, singing, And
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  Speaker 1: I go in there and its Areatha. She's playing the
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  Speaker 1: piano and singing. And the only difference in what she
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  Speaker 1: was doing and what she does know is that she
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  Speaker 1: was smaller. That's it. Also country music star Faith Hill
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  Speaker 1: love the Queen of Soul. A couple of years later,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: back at the Grammys, just came off of my performance.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: I'm in my dressing room changing and my tour manager
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  Speaker 1: comes in. He goes, hey, come to the door and
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: there's somebody I want you to meet, and she standing
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  Speaker 1: there at the door. I started crying. I couldn't stop
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: touching her. It was the weird she was talking to
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  Speaker 1: me as if she were my child I was. I
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  Speaker 1: was just rubbing her face, and I was rubbing her shoulder,
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  Speaker 1: and I was crying, and it was totally out of control. Um.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Shaka Khan on Aretha Franklin. Take a listen. If
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  Speaker 1: it weren't for Aretha, none of us should be happening,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. In a way, she liberated
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: black women to speak their minds. Donnie McClerkin loved the
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  Speaker 1: Queen of Soul. He talked about the Aretha Franklin's influence
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  Speaker 1: on the church. I feel that soul music, or so
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  Speaker 1: artists like Aretha Franklin and Donnie Hathaway to be in
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  Speaker 1: particular the reason why there's music sounded the way it
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  Speaker 1: is because of that influence. I believe that's really all
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  Speaker 1: that I am. It's really all that I know. My
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  Speaker 1: adult life kind of is the paint, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: finishing touches, But most of the house and the foundation
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  Speaker 1: is is church period. Now here's something unlikely legendary group
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: The Beach Boys. Yeah, the Beach Boys, Mike Love. Mike Love,
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  Speaker 1: The Beach Boys said Aretha Franklin was the greatest singer
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  Speaker 1: of all times. It's one of the greatest of all time.
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  Speaker 1: She's like classic and she deserves all the respect she
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  Speaker 1: can get. She's got a great set of pipes. There's
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  Speaker 1: no question about it. Let me tell you, it's the
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  Speaker 1: same music. The Beach Boys knew Aretha Franklin, just like
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: they knew you know, Chicago, any other group, any Beetles. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they knew Yo lovers friend feeling friend? Fair? So you
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  Speaker 1: lovers friend, who are feeling free? Boy? They remade that
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  Speaker 1: temptation jam Well, Steve, Yeah, that was great. Say looking
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  Speaker 1: for you? Oh my, I wake up, amaka make up
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  Speaker 1: selling pred for you. I'm comb in my hand now
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  Speaker 1: in one bit. One has to win when I say
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  Speaker 1: a little pred for you, whatever whatever you say in
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  Speaker 1: my heart, and I will love you forever and I
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  Speaker 1: never whichever one or how I'm coming to go again.
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  Speaker 1: Sent the spend to l where I just would on
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  Speaker 1: let me I breakball, b I'm for the bust. What why? Alright?
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  Speaker 1: It up? Thinking if you ever got just stick time
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  Speaker 1: and from my call me bread time break just say
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  Speaker 1: bread for you, however I ever be the same my
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  Speaker 1: heart and I will love you forever. I never we
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  Speaker 1: have re bot or how I love him? Took out
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  Speaker 1: and look out again that how it was fair to
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  Speaker 1: live when I you would only mean heart break for me.
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  Speaker 1: Believe whatever I bade this day my heart and I
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  Speaker 1: will love it forever. Never would never born or hour
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  Speaker 1: I love it. Took outa get to gotta get us
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  Speaker 1: how it was fed to live where I just would
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  Speaker 1: only mean heart break for me, my daughter, Believe me
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  Speaker 1: me me, there is no please love me you I'm
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  Speaker 1: in love with. It's my friend. It's my friend. Of thing,
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  Speaker 1: that's my friend. Say you love me too, AND's my friend.
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  Speaker 1: That's my prod. That's my friend. Whoever saying I will
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  Speaker 1: love him forever and whatever wept or how I love
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  Speaker 1: it together together get my power my spad to live
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  Speaker 1: when I wouldn't let me, I'd break for me. By me,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna believe me, believe me for me there is now.
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  Speaker 1: This is my friend. It's my friend. That's all goods.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: That's my band. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Today,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: we're celebrating the music, the life, and the legacy of
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. We're offering our prayers
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: and our condolences to the entire Franklin family. Steve Harvey Nation,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: we are all hurting this morning, but we're going to
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: celebrate Aretha Franklin, her life and her legacy. As we mentioned,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: she was and will always be the Queen of Soul.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: We're going to play all of your favorite to reread
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: the Franklin song she had so many, and we're going
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: to talk to the people this morning place in our
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: favorite interview moments from the don't trouble the water. I
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  Speaker 1: won't git along? Why don't you? Why don't you let
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  Speaker 1: it be steal water? Runde yes, And I know that,
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, if you want any when your water, when
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  Speaker 1: you're street, when he even f s confort a b
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  Speaker 1: and war, We'll been done. Is d love you love
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  Speaker 1: does all travel water to a wall? Water? I will
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  Speaker 1: leave me sill soon say love. Your time is cone
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  Speaker 1: to shine all to your room. Low see very look
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  Speaker 1: right up a love trouble water. We have let now
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  Speaker 1: a breve trow over water. A la chan cha cha
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  Speaker 1: ch cha cha cha cha change ain't cha cha't sa
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  Speaker 1: chain't cha chaboo? Bye bye you. I thought you are
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  Speaker 1: the lame by. I'll have to link in the chain. Getty,
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  Speaker 1: where you wold me? I ain't nothing but your food
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  Speaker 1: cat treating with me, treating me frugl chach ain't cha
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  Speaker 1: cha cha cha boo. Yeah, I's got to leave to
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  Speaker 1: my being chap the stream. You're to me eating my
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  Speaker 1: father saying come on, my doctor said, take it eat
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  Speaker 1: how much even much too strong? I'm at it too.
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  Speaker 1: You'll change change change changing chan chan changing, change change
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  Speaker 1: it chanchange chan, change your shame? What what time the ta?
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  Speaker 1: Today we are paying tribute to the Queen of soul.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us what the Queen of Soul meant to you
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  Speaker 1: or your favorite read the Franklin song memory anything call us?
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  Speaker 1: Eight seven nine Steve, uh, here we go? Hey? Who
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  Speaker 1: is this? Hey? Brother? Steve A Landa Yilanda Adams. I
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  Speaker 1: know you know who I am, and I am overwhelmed
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  Speaker 1: number one. Um. I've been trying to find the words
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: to describe how I feel right now, knowing that we
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  Speaker 1: won't have the beautiful Miss Areta Franklin with us, uh
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: any longer. To me, she was a great mentor. She
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  Speaker 1: taught me so many things about the business, what to do,
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  Speaker 1: what not to do, and she was one of the
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  Speaker 1: most giving women I know. You know, she always would
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  Speaker 1: send flowers just on g P. You know, I told
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  Speaker 1: somebody that already. You know, you get home from a
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: trip or whatever, and you see these beautiful flowers, and
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  Speaker 1: you know it has to be from one of two people,
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: Tyler Perry or read the Franklin. And you know, she
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  Speaker 1: was just to me, she's just the epitome of a queen.
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  Speaker 1: And that is why she's called the Queen of soul.
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  Speaker 1: And I know you have a whole lot more people
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  Speaker 1: to talk to, but she embodied to me the excellence
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  Speaker 1: of combining all music genres. She could sing gospel, she
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  Speaker 1: could sing R and B, she could sing pop, she
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  Speaker 1: can sing opera, country and western, you name it, she
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  Speaker 1: could do it. And so we're really gonna miss her.
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  Speaker 1: I loved her so much, still love her. We've been
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: praying for the family, been in touch with the family,
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  Speaker 1: and uh it's pretty hard on them right now, So
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  Speaker 1: keep them in your prayers. Okay. I love you all
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  Speaker 1: so much you're listening. You couldn Steve Harvey Morning Show
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  Speaker 1: shop shoot shot mint same. I'm too young to let
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  Speaker 1: you know just where I'm come from. Oh but you
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  Speaker 1: will see. There's just a man. My love is shot
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  Speaker 1: when I make him made everybody around safe some time
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  Speaker 1: I'm not. It's wrong side my blame money. I like
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  Speaker 1: the count away we have app Here's what I've wi
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  Speaker 1: sen Yeah, people get up to stand. I'm giving it here.
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  Speaker 1: Let him know he so Sun, Hi, Yes, I am
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  Speaker 1: there intruction below so much love us sit so much
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  Speaker 1: for a tear dream? Are they all day in my dream? Why? So?
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  Speaker 1: I wrote the Sun's Buddy roll and things do? Country
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  Speaker 1: can tell me what I do? I want to go back.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody around sleep so nothing. Ang's all right. I like
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  Speaker 1: the counts of ways we have. Our phone is loving
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  Speaker 1: always my own and long love. Keep understand stop. I
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  Speaker 1: should want you to have a bab love my love.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to love alone. Yeah, yeah, I love.
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  Speaker 1: I gave you. What's you really need something? Yeah? You're
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  Speaker 1: listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Well today people,
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  Speaker 1: our hearts are heavy as we lost the Queen of Soul,
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  Speaker 1: Aretha Franklin, Miss Franklin, of course, was born in Memphis, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: back in two She began singing in church before recording
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  Speaker 1: her first gospel album at the age of just fourteen
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  Speaker 1: years Uh yeah. After ten modestly successful albums, she shifted
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  Speaker 1: to R and B and became the Queen of soul. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Her six R and B chart toppers included the nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty seven pop number one hit respect r E s
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  Speaker 1: P e c T. Find Out what it means to
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  Speaker 1: Me That's right. She had the top twenty on the
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  Speaker 1: pop chart two dozen times, a reata one eighteen countum
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  Speaker 1: eighteen Grammys over her career, plus two honorary Grammys. She
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  Speaker 1: was the first female solo artist that was ever inducted
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  Speaker 1: into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She performed Yes.
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  Speaker 1: She performed at the presidential inaugurations of Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton,
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  Speaker 1: and of course Barack Obama. That yes, that You'll never
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  Speaker 1: forget that that hat. Remember when Ellen wore the hat
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  Speaker 1: on her show the following day. That was funny. Yah h.
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  Speaker 1: Mr Aretha was married and divorced twice. She was survived
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  Speaker 1: by four sons and all morning long, We're going to
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  Speaker 1: play Aretha Franklin songs, and boy did she have some hits, man, Steve,
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  Speaker 1: and she had some hits. What's your favorite? Huh? I
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  Speaker 1: ain't because you love them all? Yeah, it was so many,
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  Speaker 1: it was no freeway of love. Yeah. I was later
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  Speaker 1: in her career for daydreaming, daydreaming you know what? Saw
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  Speaker 1: my mom's jump to it? Oh yeah, remember that? I
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  Speaker 1: loved what about call Me? I Love you? She had
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  Speaker 1: so many hits, I mean she she truly earned her
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  Speaker 1: title and wore her title as the Queen Well her
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  Speaker 1: voice don't Yeah, greatest singer of all I agree for
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  Speaker 1: because you can sing anything anything, opera, gospel, country, rock, soul,
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  Speaker 1: of course, goes on and on. Yeah. Wow, and she
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  Speaker 1: loves she loved you, Steve Harvey, she did. She was
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  Speaker 1: such a fan. Yeah read yeah, all right, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: right now. Just let's hit it girl, you know, let
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  Speaker 1: me tell him Carlo Carlo's favorite song. Put this song
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  Speaker 1: on right here, and Carla Ferrell loses her mind. Rock
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  Speaker 1: steady baby, that's called this exactly what it is? Who
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  Speaker 1: sings lyrics like that? Genius? The Queen Baby Roster every yes, best,
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  Speaker 1: thank you? Who bad? Just what I'm feel that's not
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  Speaker 1: songs I can't want. Let's move your hips to the
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  Speaker 1: from sad side. Let's just car and take her off
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  Speaker 1: while you're moving rusted right Saturday, Let's call this song
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  Speaker 1: and sad one from left right? What is I might be?
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  Speaker 1: Sha come setting rush, I'm setting with the people from
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  Speaker 1: side side st Just slip down in your car and
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  Speaker 1: take right right, said it right, steady, Let's star the
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  Speaker 1: song that fater on. It's a fucking hold I feelings.
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  Speaker 1: It's just about to its full. I started da Rudy
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  Speaker 1: blue Ena, sucking about for left life? What it is about?
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  Speaker 1: Sucking about? Scaring thing frost? All right, y'all, Uh, here
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  Speaker 1: we go. Hey, who is this Hi? This is calf Um.
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  Speaker 1: What are you calling from? Los Angeles? All right, look,
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  Speaker 1: we're celebrating the life of the Queen of Soul. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna let you do it on you and y'all tell us,
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: tell us what Queen meant to you? Um. My dad
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  Speaker 1: introduced me to The Queen and one of the first
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: albums we listened to I was probably ten years old,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, this is what music is supposed to
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  Speaker 1: sound like. She makes you feel something. That's how my
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  Speaker 1: dad and I bonded was over music, and so he
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  Speaker 1: was right. She made me feel lots of things, and
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: she was with me through the good in the past.
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  Speaker 1: We are celebrating the life, the music, and the legacy
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  Speaker 1: of the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. We'll be back
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  Speaker 1: right after this. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
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  Speaker 1: Today we are paying tribute to the Queen, the Queen
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  Speaker 1: of Soul. All right, Steve, As you know, a lot
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: of stars, celebrities and singers love and of course respect
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  Speaker 1: the Queen of Soul. We're gonna go to the phone.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you tell us what the Queen of
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  Speaker 1: Soul meant to you. All your favorite read the Franklin
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  Speaker 1: song Memory Anything Callinus eight seven seven twenty nine. Steve
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  Speaker 1: eight seven seven twenty nine. All right, y'all, Uh, here
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: we go. Hey, who is this? Hey? Steve Tyler Perry
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  Speaker 1: here man. I wish I was calling on a better occasion,
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: but you know, just celebrating Areta. I gotta tell you,
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  Speaker 1: I was at one of the last performances that she
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: did at the Kennedy Center Islands. I was there honoring
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  Speaker 1: Rich Franklin. I was sitting up in the balcony with
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  Speaker 1: Barack Obama and Michelle, and he turned to me and
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: he after she finishing in Natural Woman and bringing the
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  Speaker 1: house down, he turns to me and said, that's why
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: she's the Queen of soul. And I never forgot that
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: and the reason she's the Queen of souls because not
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  Speaker 1: only she had this incredible voice, but she knows that
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  Speaker 1: she knew how to use it. She knew how to
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  Speaker 1: use it to make us feel good, to have us
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  Speaker 1: make abies, to take us to church. I mean, she
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: sung us through assassinations and celebration. So Areta is gonna
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: be miss man. And I posted this thing yesterday. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: the Prince, the Princess, the King, and the Queen, Prince, Whitney, Michael,
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  Speaker 1: and Areta all gone. So I don't know where music
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  Speaker 1: is headed now, man, but but I'm glad they left
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: us with such incredible uh direction, and then such an
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: incredible blueprint on what and how to do. And I'm
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: just hoping that more thingers take a listen to these
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: legends and bring us that kind of music, because that's
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: what we missed. So God bless her and her family.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: I want to thank her for being a close friend
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: to me, and just every time she saw me. She
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: loved talking. We love talking. She loved talking about the
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: halves and have not sense how much she loved as
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: she loved madea and just I mean it was just
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: really really great. And I got chance to talk to her,
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: you know, when I found out she was ill, and
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: they had her in good spirits, laughing and so on
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: and so forth. So my prayers are with her. God
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: bless you, God, bless you. See from what you're doing,
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: what you want, what you need to do. You know
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: what I got it too, all my basket spoil and
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: hespect we can just a little bit day, baby, just
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: letting that whole just a little bit its up, just
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. I ain't gonna do your phone, Why
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  Speaker 1: are you gonna? I ain't gonna do wrong, oh my mask.
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  Speaker 1: Just a little bit, baby, just a little bit at hoole,
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit, just a little bit to get it,
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  Speaker 1: oh my getting turned hun it to give me my
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: promise when you get Lester, just jester, just a joint,
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  Speaker 1: just a little dad, just let you kissing. And guess
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  Speaker 1: what who so gives my pa wants up to give
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  Speaker 1: me some where damn baby, when the tom it just
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  Speaker 1: get along. Just when he asked me easy tree, but
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: my body meats from me. He has me easy, Trea,
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: drink of j c jy site story. All right, we'll
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  Speaker 1: be back with more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show
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  Speaker 1: right after this. You're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show. Hey,
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: listen up, welcome back. Today. We are paying tribute to
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: the Queen, the Queen of Soul. We're gonna go to
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: the phones. Uh, I'm gonna let you tell us what
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: the Queen of Soul meant to you. All your favorite
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: read the Franklin song Memory Anything call Us eight seven
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  Speaker 1: seven twenty nine Steve eight seven seven twenty ninety. All right, y'all, Uh,
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: here we go. Hey, who is this? Yes, this is
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  Speaker 1: Greg Matthis the judge, And yeah, I'm saddened to hear
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  Speaker 1: the loss of my friend Aretha Franklin. I was just
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  Speaker 1: in communication with her a couple of weeks ago, and
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: her spirits were up so much so that she wanted
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: to vacation. And I knew that, you know, she could
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: not do so. And she said, let's go on another trip, Greg,
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  Speaker 1: And I said sure, Sis three And of course now
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  Speaker 1: we know of her demise, but one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that many people did not know about is that she
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  Speaker 1: played a significant role and continues to in changing America.
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  Speaker 1: Um her father raised her in the civil rights movement.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, C. L. Franklin a towering figure in the
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  Speaker 1: civil rights movement. In fact, she traveled with Dr King
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  Speaker 1: Um or Luther King in concerts that benefited the f
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: e l C and the civil rights movement. Indeed, they
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  Speaker 1: did a tour of eleven cities to raise money. And
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  Speaker 1: also I was praised to work with her in Detroit
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: and the city we're both from. We've worked in the
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: community there together for some twenty years or more. And
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: she was a great woman, more than just the greatest
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  Speaker 1: vocalist of all times, which she was, but she was
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: also dedicated to her community and help change the world
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: with her efforts and civil rights and social justice. And
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: one of the other things that I think people should
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: know is that she was very cultivated and very intelligent
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  Speaker 1: and aware of all current affairs. We sit and talk
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: about the political affairs of the day, we would disagree
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  Speaker 1: on many of them, uh, And I found it very
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: impressive that she kept up on many of the issues,
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: very few entertainers might be informed on or might seek
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: to involve themselves. As you know, she introduced one of
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  Speaker 1: the greatest or She brought to us one of the
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: greatest performances of any White House inauguration. And we've been
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: blessed and will continue to be blessed for years and
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: with that performance and with the symbolism that goes along
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: with that. And she was just a great woman to
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: a vocalists of all times and a great humanitarian who
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: helped change America, Detroit and the rest of the country.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: All morning long, we are saluting the Queen of soul,
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: Aretha Franklin. A Steve and everybody, This is a Lonnie Love.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all know I'm from Detroit, and you know Aretha Franklin.
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  Speaker 1: She was our queen. I know she was everybody's queen,
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: but when it came to the city of Detroit, Aretha
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  Speaker 1: was Detroit. Um. I can remember my mom's and everybody
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: listening to her. She's always active in the church and
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: her dad's church. We would go to her dad's church,
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: we would hear her singing and she was just the joy. Um.
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: Even though she's gone, we still have her music, especially
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: her gospel music. And that's the influence that I will
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: always have. That's the vision of her that I will
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: always have. And I just want to say I love you, Aretha,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for representing Detroit. He made us proud.
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: Thanks guys. All right, coming up our last break of
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: the day, we're going to close out the show. You're
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: listening to the Steve Harvey. Well, Steve, we've called upon
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: the world and the Steve Harvey Nations. And now we
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: have a special guest. She is Detroit and Philly Radio legend,
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: Miss Frankie Darcel. Good morning, Steve, Carla Shirley, Tommy, Good
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: morning Jr. Um Like Steve, Wow, we were just talking
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: about Aretha the other day and and you know, I
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: found it interesting across my mind when you said the
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  Speaker 1: other day that God's will will be done. What a
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: legacy we're all gonna make our transition, Steve. You know,
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: we've got a birthdate and a death date and in
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: that middle there there's that dash. What a life to
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: rehash of Aretha Franklin. You know, she could have lived
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: anywhere on the globe, and she chose to continue to
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: live here in the city of Detroit. And of course
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: our hearts are heavy. We pray for her family. Um.
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: And nothing like losing a parent and to lose you know,
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: your mom. So we pray for her children, uh and
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: her family and extended family. She is the queen of soul.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: But Steve, you know I would share with you as
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  Speaker 1: well that not only was she the Queen of soul,
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: but the work that her father C. L. Franklin did
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  Speaker 1: on behalf of not only the citizens of the City
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: of truth, Detroit, but around the world and working with
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: Dr King and others, she too was a part of
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: that civil rights movement. Now that we think about her
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: life to rehash, we think about who a Aretha Franklin
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: really was not only the queen of soul. And I
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: said the other day, Um, she's the Queen of soul
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  Speaker 1: to the world, but she's also family um uh to us.
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: You know, she will be missed, but she hasn't left
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: just a huge example of what our young artists should be,
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  Speaker 1: how they could tap into her greatness um, and of
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: course her her her legacy that she leaves uh here
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: in the city of Detroit. And you know what, Steve,
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: thank you as well. Everybody's talking about her passing, but
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: just the way that you're doing, um what you're doing
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: and celebrating her life, her loves and her legacy. So
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: you know, on behalf of the city. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: just thank you for telling the world what they already knew,
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: but reminding them this morning. Tell y'all something about Aretha Franklin. Man,
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: you know, this is a farewell. Missy Elliott says something
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: really smart she was after she sent her prayers up.
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: She said, refer back to my text, and Miss Elliot
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: had text that we've got to take time out to
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  Speaker 1: honor these legends while they live in So to the
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: Queen of Soul who was such a fan of mine
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: and our fan of hers. And you know we've talked
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: many times. And in case you're young and millennial, I
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: don't care, I don't care who you are. You should
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: know who Aretha franklisis. So just let me help you
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: understand treasure, see a national treasure. She is the Queen
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 1: of Soul, just like James Brown was the Godfather of Soul.
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  Speaker 1: Mr Queen of Soul. But do you understand that if
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: it was no Aretha Franklin, there would be no Mary J. Blincke,
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: that there would be no Anita Baker, that there would
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: be no Quitney. Do you know that there would be
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: no error Kaba dude. There would be no Jail Scott.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: That would be no Vivian Green. That would be no Beyonce,
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  Speaker 1: that would be no Layla half Away. There would be
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: no Yolanda Adams. That would not be no Kim Barell.
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: That would be no Shaka Khan. I can go down
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: the list. There would be no emotions. I'm telling you,
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: and all these girls I'm naming to you can't sane.
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: And you know where they got it from from the
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: Queen of soul. Her daddy was all that up in Detroit.
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: You now listen to me. There are other icons in
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: this world still living. Patti LaBelle, still Hill, Gladys Night,
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: still Hill. But do you understand, Dana Ross. Let let
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: me let me, let me just get you to understand
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: what we're really talking about. We're just talking about sheer
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: greatness at the rawest level. Take all the technology out,
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: and all these people I just named, you can still
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: flat out saying now if your name is on this list,
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: I just forgot. There are some names I probably forgotten.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: You know, some some great female vocals out there, Shot
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: Days and and dog Oh Lord have mercies, you know,
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: Faith Evans. You know it's some girls out here that
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: I left off the list. And it wasn't to show
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: you in disrespect at all. I'm just telling you Fantasia
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: can give her career to reform. But I'll tell you
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: what Fantasier tell you that because they got it. See
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: Eric got it, they got it. Janet Jackson would not
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: exist without Aretha Franklin. I just saw Beyonce live, and
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: Beyonce right now the greatest living female artists in terms
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: of showmanship and singing the whole package. I've never seen
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: a more talented person than Beyonce. Now, now, when you
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: started talking about singing, hold up, now, we got to
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: get on over here, started talking about Aretha frank You
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: gotta get over here. You gotta start talking about what
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: need to Baker. You gotta get over here and talk
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: about later half away and that girl was saying, man,
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: but you got to talk all gladdess and Patty and
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: and and and the diva of all divas, din I
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: got what Missy said, and Missy right, So I just
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: want her family if they're listening up in Detroit. When
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: it come to flat out flat out singing what y'all
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: y'all don't even know. I don't even know. If you
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: understand Skip the technology didn't have You can't reproduce the
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 1: sound like you know. But they had a simple snare drum,
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: they had real horn section violins. But her voice though, Lord,
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: Lord have mercy, you don't know, asked the emotion. They'll
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: tell you. The emotions are telling. Breatha Frankly, it's one
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: of the greatest artists to have ever lived. Her career
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: spanned over six decades than get out of here. Sixty years.
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 1: She had made more hits than most of these people
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: on this list and produce soul. I'm just turning you
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: flat out now and to sustain for the length of time.
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: And we're still because nobody all get the title Queen
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: of soul. Nobody nobody ever as us right, and we
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: have to thank our parents too, because they're the ones
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: that made us know who Aretha Franklin was. Yes, Yes, Yes,
• 1:42:21
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