“Do Right Woman Do Right Man” by Aretha Franklin

Chips Moman and Dan Penn wrote "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man", and Aretha Franklin made it famous on her 1967 Atlantic album I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, with Jerry Wexler producing. She started it at Rick Hall's FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, right after the title song, but the session fell apart: her husband and manager Ted White took offence at something trumpeter Ken Laxton said, Hall's attempt to smooth it over at the motel ended in a fight, and by morning Franklin and White were gone with the song unfinished.

On the finished record Franklin plays piano too, with Tommy Cogbill on bass, Roger Hawkins on drums, Carolyn Franklin on backing vocals and Arif Mardin recording. Rolling Stone later ranked it 476th among the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

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