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=Fire From The Streets =

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media type="youtube" key="-xALiBgzPzE&hl=en" height="355" width="425" Aretha Franklin - Respect

Timeline: 1965: Watts section of Los Angelas exploded in violence for six days, leaving 34 persons dead 1966: Disgruntled African-Americans 1967: African-American veteran Danny Thomas was killed by white thugs



She is known to the music world as "The Queen of Soul" and is affectionately called "Sister Ree" by her fans. She is renowned for her soul recordings but is also adept at jazz, rock, blues, pop, gospel, and even opera. She is widely acclaimed for her passionate, soulful vocal style, which is aided by a massive and powerful vocal range. Franklin was born on March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee to the Rev. C. L. Franklin, a Baptist minister, and Barbara Siggers Franklin. Aretha's parents had a troubled relationship and they separated when Aretha was six. Siggers died of a heart attack when Franklin was ten. By the age of fourteen, she signed a record deal with Checker Records, where her father recorded his sermons and gospel vocal recordings and issued The Gospel Soul of Aretha Franklin in 1956.



According to the website of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (where he was inducted in 1989), Redding's name is "synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the black experience in America. In 1960, Redding began touring the South with Johnny Jenkins and The Pinetoppers, primarily as the group's driver. That same year he made his first recordings, "She's All Right" and "Shout Bamalama" with this group under the name "Otis and The Shooters". Redding, his manager, the pilot, and four members of his backup band, The Bar-Kays, were killed when his chartered plane crashed into Lake Monona in Madison, Wisconsin, on December 10, 1967. The two remaining Bar-Kays were Ben Cauley and James Alexander. Cauley was the only person aboard Redding's plane to survive the crash.

media type="youtube" key="wzrXc68gNjQ&hl=en" height="355" width="425" Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay



Commonly referred to as "The Godfather of Soul," "King of Funk," and "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business", was a two-time Grammy Award-winning and mutiple Grammy Award-nominated American entertainer recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music. He was renowned for his shouting vocals, feverish dancing and unique rhythmic style. Brown was a pivotal force in the evolution of gospel and rhythm and blues into soul and funk. On December 25, 2006, Brown died at approximately from congestive heart failure resulting from complications of pneumonia, with his agent Frank Copsidas and his friend Charles Bobbit at his bedside.

media type="youtube" key="IWcNiebYGuo&hl=en" height="355" width="425" James Brown - I Feel Good (Live)