"with ""Son of a Preacher Man"". Wexler liked the song and recorded it with Aretha Franklin, but then decided that it did not fit with her other songs and passed the song on to Dusty Springfield for her album ""Dusty in Memphis"". The song was recorded by Franklin's older sister Erma, who included it on her 1969 Brunswick album ""Soul Sister"". Not till after hearing Springfield's version did Franklin reconsider; when she did release the song herself, including it on her 1970 album, ""This Girl's in Love with You"", her version charted only as a less popular a-side of the"
"Hurley and Wilkins were asked by Jerry Wexler to write a song for Aretha Franklin. Remembering that Aretha's father was a preacher, as Wilkins' grandfather had been, they quickly came up with the song ""Son of a Preacher Man"". Wexler liked the song and recorded it with Aretha Franklin, but her version was not released and Wexler passed the song on to Dusty Springfield for her album ""Dusty in Memphis"". Released as a single in 1968, Springfield's version reached number 9 on the UK singles chart and number 10 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. In 1993, the song was sampled"
"in mono. ""Son of a Preacher Man"" was to be the last Top Ten chart hit for Springfield for almost 20 years, till she teamed up with Pet Shop Boys for the single ""What Have I Done to Deserve This?"" in 1987. In 1967, while working at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, songwriters John Hurley and Ronnie Wilkins, who had recently had a hit with ""Love of the Common People"", were asked by Jerry Wexler to write a song for Aretha Franklin. Remembering the fact that Franklin's father was a preacher, as Wilkins's grandfather had been, Hurley and Wilkins quickly came up"
"Son of a Preacher Man (Nancy Wilson album) Son of a Preacher Man is a studio album by Nancy Wilson, released on Capitol Records in 1969. It was produced by David Cavanaugh, with arrangements and conducting by Jimmy Jones, Phil Wright, and Joe Parnello. Like other Wilson albums from the same time period, it features a combination of vocal jazz, soul, blues, and popular music, but it also contains songs by country artists Hank Cochran, Roger Miller, and Bobby Russell. AllMusic calls ""Son of a Preacher Man"" a ""soulful, sexy collection,"" with ""percolating grooves [that] capture the singer at her"
"began in 1963 with the upbeat pop hit, ""I Only Want to Be with You"". Among the hits that followed were ""Wishin' and Hopin' "" (1964), ""I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself"" (1964), ""You Don't Have to Say You Love Me"" (1966), and ""Son of a Preacher Man"" (1968). As a fan of US soul music, she brought many little-known soul singers to the attention of a wider UK record-buying audience by hosting the first national TV performance of many top-selling Motown artists beginning in 1965. Partly owing to these efforts, a year later she eventually became"
"listed among the greatest albums of all time by ""Rolling Stone"", and in polls by VH1 artists, ""New Musical Express"" readers, and Channel 4 viewers. In November 1968 the lead single from the album, ""Son of a Preacher Man"", was issued. It was written by John Hurley and Ronnie Wilkins. It reached No. 10 on the UK, US and international singles charts. Its best results in continental Europe were No. 10 on the Austrian charts and No. 3 on the Swiss charts. It was the 96th most popular song of 1969 in the US. It earned Springfield a nomination for"
"the US and UK Top 10 hit ""Son of a Preacher Man""). Despite several promotional television and radio appearances and glowing reviews from the press, the single only spent one week in the UK Top 40 and only four weeks total on the chart. The song was issued specifically for the British market and would not be issued in America until the release of ""The Dusty Springfield Anthology"" in 1997. ""Spooky"" is a cover of the Classics IV hit and was recorded in January 1968 but left unused for almost three years until it featured as the b-side to this"
"60 songs. She continued to put much of herself into her songs throughout her career, inspiring other female country singers to record risky material as well. Loretta Lynn was one of her followers in this sense, when she recorded ""Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)"" in 1967. Dolly Parton's 1968 recording ""Just Because I'm a Woman"", like ""Honky Tonk Angels"", questioned the male-female double-standard. Wells entered the 1960s on top with songs like ""Heartbreak U.S.A."" and ""Day into Night"". ""Heartbreak USA"" peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and became her third and final"
"1968 that her son, who was fighting in the Vietnam War, would be killed in battle, which came true. Her son, U.S. Army Corporal James Van Howard, would be reported killed in action by the U.S. Department of Defense on October 31, 1968. ""My Son"" was a top 15 country hit in 1969. Howard was also an accomplished songwriter. In 1966, she wrote the Kitty Wells hit ""It's All Over But the Crying"", and in 1970 she wrote the Bill Anderson hit ""Love Is a Sometimes Thing"". Together, Bill and Jan wrote the 1970 Connie Smith hit ""I Never Once"
"2013, SoulMusic Records released a digitally remastered version of the album, paired with Hurt So Bad, another Wilson record from the same time period. Son of a Preacher Man (Nancy Wilson album) Son of a Preacher Man is a studio album by Nancy Wilson, released on Capitol Records in 1969. It was produced by David Cavanaugh, with arrangements and conducting by Jimmy Jones, Phil Wright, and Joe Parnello. Like other Wilson albums from the same time period, it features a combination of vocal jazz, soul, blues, and popular music, but it also contains songs by country artists Hank Cochran, Roger"
"States in 1967, sold over 1 million copies, and received a gold disc. She had two other songs make the US Top 40: 1968's ""The Lesson"" and 1969's ""With Pen in Hand"". Around this time, Dean Martin called her ""the best girl singer in the business"". Carr had 10 singles that made the US pop charts and 13 albums that made the US pop-album charts. In 1968 she taped six specials for London Weekend TV. She appeared on various television programs, such as ABC's ""The Bing Crosby Show"" in the 1964–1965 season. In 1970, she was named ""Woman of the"
"Preacher Man ""Preacher Man"" is a song recorded by English girl group Bananarama. It appears on the group's fifth studio album ""Pop Life"" and was released as the album's second single. The track was co-written and produced by Youth with additional production and remix by Shep Pettibone. ""Tripping on Your Love"" had been originally slated as the second single from the album, and some promotional singles of the song were sent to radio stations in late 1990. Around this time, group member Sara Dallin contracted meningitis, which delayed the release of the single some months. When she recovered, London Records"
"Doris Troy Doris Troy (born Doris Elaine Higginsen; January 6, 1937 – February 16, 2004) was an American R&B singer and songwriter, known to her many fans as ""Mama Soul"". Her biggest hit was ""Just One Look"", a top 10 hit in 1963. She was born as Doris Elaine Higginsen, in the Bronx, the daughter of a Barbadian Pentecostal minister. She later took her grandmother's name and grew up as Doris Payne. Her parents disapproved of ""subversive"" forms of music like rhythm & blues, so she cut her teeth singing in her father's choir. She was working as an usherette"
"record also reached number two on the Adult Contemporary singles chart. It made Sister Janet the first Roman Catholic nun to have a hit record in the United States since Jeanine Deckers, the Singing Nun, hit #1 with ""Dominique"" in late 1963. It also became the only song to hit the Top 10, whose entire lyrical content originated from the words of the Bible. More specifically, it is the only Top 10 hit whose lyrics were attributed to Jesus Christ. Mead was nominated for a Grammy for Best Inspirational Performance (although she lost to Elvis Presley's ""How Great Thou Art"")"
"Lorene Mann Lorene Mann (born Lillian Lorene Mann; January 4, 1937 – May 24, 2013) was an American country music singer and songwriter. She is known for her duets with Justin Tubb and Archie Campbell. Mann was born January 4, 1937 in Huntland, Tennessee, as the youngest of ten children. After moving to Nashville, Tennessee in 1956, Mann wrote ""Left to Right"", a top 10 hit by Kitty Wells in 1960. She also wrote ""Don't Go Near the Indians"" by Rex Allen (#4, 1962), ""Something Precious"" by Skeeter Davis (#23, 1962), and ""My Wife's House"" by Jerry Wallace (#9, 1974)."
"Parton, who went on to become one of country music's leading female stars. Parton said later she had a hard time replacing Norma because she was so loved by country fans. That year, her single, ""Heaven Help the Working Girl"" (an early feminist song) was a Top 20 hit, the last one of her career. Despite a lack of major country hits, her albums continued to sell, like 1967's ""Jackson Ain't a Very Big Town"", which peaked at number 11 on the Top Country Albums list. Norma Jean (singer) Norma Jean Beasler (born January 30, 1938), better known as Norma"
"a top 10 single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart while serving as a nun. Sister Luc-Gabrielle (Jeanine Deckers) AKA Sœur Sourire and The Singing Nun, had a Number 1 pop hit in 1963 with ""Dominique"". Mead also taught music at Saint Aloysius College where the music video for ""The Lord's Prayer"" was filmed. Mead still does visit Saint Aloysius to teach the junior school students basic music. Mead formed a rock band simply called ""The Rock Band"" when she was 17 to provide music for the weekly Mass at her local church. She studied piano at the Adelaide Conservatorium"
"Mitty Collier Mitty Lene Collier (born June 21, 1941) is an American church pastor, gospel singer and former rhythm and blues singer. She had a number of successful records in the 1960s, of which probably the best known is ""I Had A Talk With My Man"". Mitty Collier was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the seventh child of Rufus and Gertrude Collier, and attended Western-Olin High School, Alabama A & M College and Miles College where she majored in English. She began singing in church as a teenager, and toured with gospel groups, the Hayes Ensemble and the Lloyd Reese Singers,"
"of the black gospel church to pop music with their call-and-response records. Recorded primarily at Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, from 1965 through 1968, these included ""Soul Man,"" ""Hold On, I'm Comin',"" ""You Don't Know Like I Know,"" ""I Thank You,"" ""When Something is Wrong with My Baby,"" ""Wrap It Up,"" and many other Southern Soul classics. Except for Aretha Franklin, no soul act during Sam & Dave's Stax years (1965–1968) had more consistent R&B chart success, including 10 consecutive top 20 singles and 3 consecutive top 10 LPs. Their crossover charts appeal (13 straight appearances and 2 top 10"
"leading performer of soul ballads."" The most important female soul singer to emerge was Aretha Franklin, originally a gospel singer who began to make secular recordings in 1960 but whose career was later revitalised by her recordings for Atlantic. Her 1967 recordings, such as ""I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)"", ""Respect"" (originally sung by Otis Redding), and ""Do Right Woman, Do Right Man"" (written by Chips Moman and Dan Penn), were significant and commercially successful productions. Soul music dominated the U.S. African-American music charts in the 1960s, and many recordings crossed over into the pop charts"
"children were growing up. Often the children were criticized because of who their father was. An enduring image from popular music is presented in the hit song ""Son of a Preacher Man,"" a ballad of young love remembered, places the minister's son as a ""sweet-talkin' son of a preacher man"", who is possibly more sensitive to women and thus able to emotionally reach the girl who claims that, ""The only one who could ever reach me/Was the son of a preacher man/The only boy who could ever teach me/Was the son of a preacher man."" Versions of the recording from"
"on the country singles chart, while its flip side (""Tiny Blue Transistor Radio"") went to #25 on the same chart. All of Smith's singles released between 1965 and 1968 reached the top 10 on the ""Billboard"" country songs chart, including ""If I Talk to Him"", ""Ain't Had No Lovin'"", and ""Cincinnati, Ohio"". By 1969 Smith felt highly pressured from her career and cut back on promoting singles. Smith's chart success slightly declined because of this, with songs like ""Ribbon of Darkness"" (1969) and ""Louisiana Man"" (1970) only reaching the top 20. Other singles continued to peak within the top 10"
"The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp ""The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp"" is a song written by Dallas Frazier. The song tells the story of a woman with 14 children who is abandoned by her worthless alcoholic husband and turns to prostitution to support her large family. It was a hit for O. C. Smith, who recorded it at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals in 1968. His single spent 15 weeks in the UK Singles Chart between June and August 1968, including three weeks at No 2. In the US the single spent 14 weeks on the Billboard chart peaking"
"recount the human costs of the Vietnam War. In the latter half of the decade, although she still worked within the confines of honky tonk, her sound became more personal, varied, and ambitious, particularly lyrically. Beginning with 1966's Number 1 hit in Cash Box, ""You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)"", Lynn began writing songs with a feminist viewpoint, which was unheard of in country music. This song made Lynn the first country female recording artist to pen a No. 1 hit. In 1967 Lynn reached No. 1 with ""Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)"". ""Don't"
"are intended to honor blacks who, through consistency and longevity, have inspired others and have achieved success in their chosen professions or careers. The Preacher's Wife (soundtrack) The Preacher's Wife: Original Soundtrack Album is the soundtrack to the 1996 film of the same name and features songs performed by Whitney Houston, who also stars in the film. It is the best-selling gospel album of all time, and has sold an estimated 6 million copies worldwide. The lead single, ""I Believe in You and Me"" (a cover of The Four Tops classic), became a top five hit in the U.S. and"
"""If I Kiss You (Will You Go Away)"", the following year. It peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard country chart. It was followed by another Top 5 hit, ""Promises, Promises"", from an album of the same name, which would also spawn a second Top 10 hit, ""No Another Time"", in 1968. Then she released ""Mother May I"", a Top 25 duet that she recorded with her mother. (The elder Anderson also achieved success as a country artist around the same time, achieving two Top 10 hits—""Mama Spank"" (1966) and a trio with Bobby Bare and Norma Jean, ""The Game"
"Aretha Franklin Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter, civil rights activist, actress, and pianist. Franklin began her career as a child singing gospel at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, where her father C. L. Franklin was minister. At the age of 18, she embarked on a secular career recording for Columbia Records. However, she achieved only modest success. She found acclaim and commercial success after signing with Atlantic Records in 1966. Hit songs such as ""Respect"", ""Chain of Fools"", ""Think"", ""(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman"", ""I Never Loved"
"Norma Jean (singer) Norma Jean Beasler (born January 30, 1938), better known as Norma Jean, is an American country music singer who was a member of ""The Porter Wagoner Show"" from 1961–1967. She had 13 country singles in ""Billboard""s Country Top 40 between 1963 and 1968, recorded twenty albums for RCA Victor between 1964 and 1973, received two Grammy nominations, and was a Grand Ole Opry member for a number of years. Norma Jean Beasler was born January 30, 1938 in Wellston, Oklahoma, and grew up admiring country singer Kitty Wells, whom she considers her biggest influence. She got her"
"Roszetta Johnson Roszetta Johnson (c 1942 – 24 March 2011), later Roszetta Johnson Scovil, was an American soul and gospel singer. She recorded for several labels during and after the 1960s, and was often credited as Rozetta Johnson. Her most successful record was ""A Woman's Way"", which reached the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1970. She was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and grew up singing in her local church choir. She joined a gospel vocal group, the Violet Harmonettes, and after her parents separated moved to Birmingham, and then McIntosh, Alabama. She began singing in the 1960s at the 401 Club"
"received the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 2001. International readers and viewers polls list the record among the one hundred greatest albums of all time. The LP's standout track ""Son of a Preacher Man"" was an international Top 10 hit in 1969. The Box Tops recorded Wayne Carson Thompson's ""The Letter"". Though under two minutes in length, it was an international hit in late 1967, reaching Billboard's number-one position and remaining there for four weeks. The record, produced by Dan Penn, sold over four million copies and received two Grammy Awards nominations. Their single ""Cry Like a Baby"" was"
"it was always her most requested and popular number. Riley titled her 1980 autobiography ""From Harper Valley to the Mountain Top"", and released a gospel album in 1981 with the same title. The single's jump from 81 to 7 in its second week on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in late August 1968 is the decade's highest climb into that chart's Top Ten. Riley recorded a sequel song, ""Return to Harper Valley"", in 1984 (also written by Hall) but it was not a commercial success. In the sequel, Riley sings as Mrs. Johnson (instead of her daughter, as in the original)."
"Lady Soul Lady Soul is the twelfth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, Released on January 22, 1968, by Atlantic Records. The album was her second R&B chart-topper, the follow-up to ""Aretha Arrives"" and included some of her biggest hit singles, ""Chain of Fools"" (#2 Pop), and ""(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman"" (#8 Pop), and ""(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone"" (#5 Pop). It eventually sold over a million copies in the United States alone. The album was reissued on Rhino Records in a deluxe edition in 1995. ""Lady Soul"" peaked at #1, #2 and"
"market, scoring 18 singles in the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 from 1964 to 1970 including six in the top 20. The music press considers her an iconic figure of the Swinging Sixties. Quentin Tarantino caused a revival of interest in her music in 1994 by including ""Son of a Preacher Man"" in the ""Pulp Fiction"" soundtrack, which sold over three million copies. In that same year, in the documentary, ""Dusty Springfield: Full Circle"", guests of her 1965 ""Sound of Motown"" show credited Springfield's efforts with popularising US soul music in the UK. In 2008, country/blues singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne recorded a tribute"