Today when I pulled up to the parking area in front of my gym, Planet Fitness, I had the window down in my car. WXPN 88.5 was playing R E S P E C T by Aretha Franklin and I was surprised to hear all the other radios in the parking lot were playing Aretha too! At first I thought we all had the same radio station on, but then I got into the gym and saw on CNN that Aretha Franklin, aged 76, was dead after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer.
R E S P E C T find out what it means to me!
The song was originally written b Otis Redding, another favorite of mine (Try a Little Tenderness still makes me cry) in 1965 two years after I graduated from high school, and became a hit for Aretha Franklin in 1967, the year I got married and turned 21 and the year Otis Redding died in a plane crash.
Last night I watched the 5 hour documentary about Woodstock and thought about all the stars of that event who are now gone: Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Jerry Garcia and also I contemplated our youth and beauty gone like a season.
My car isn't working very well at present, or I would go to Albert Music Hall in Watertown this Saturday night and celebrate the long life of music. However, I will be a guest in the car of a friend for a lecture on Lewis and Clark at the Cherry Hill Library that evening instead.
Happy Trails - PEACE ☮ LOVE 💗 AND 🙏 RESPECT
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