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Fire, five ago today. now, expecting the gospel choir to sing the change going to come. originally sung by sam cookein cooke in 1963 originally sung by sam ....
# don t hang around # it s been a long # a long time coming # but i know, a change gonna come # oh, yes it will # then i go to my brother # and i say, brother, help me please sings the century gospel choir. there is singing a company william and kate leave the multi faith memorial service at the base of grenfell tower. and you can see the duchess of cambridge with her arms ....
But what we remember most is that amazing voice, a voice unlike any other that we could all sing too even if none of us could sing like aretha franklin. it combined so many elements of her and of america. she was of detroit, wasn t part of motown but is as good or better than any of the motown singers. she came out of the church, the gospel choir of her father, the reverend c.l. franklin. she could combine gospel with rock and soul. and even opera. she could do it all. that s why she s so much more than an image. and i was so struck by learning something i have not known, she was first of all, she played the piano. her mother was a pianist. she played the piano from childhood. one of her childhood friends saying when she was 5 years old she was on the keyboard. she went and enrolled in julliard in the late 90s because she wanted to refine her ....
Ariana grande. david maranis, this is everything she might have expected or hoped for. an interesting thing is that even ariana grande, no one can sing like aretha franklin, so as wonderful as these tributes are, the best would be if aretha were singing herself. absolutely. but you re right, everything about this service is what aretha would want, from the pink cadillacs to the people giving these speeches to the burial at woodlawn cemetery where her father and sisters are buried. all of it is of a piece. and the family had such deep roots there, in the church, in music, and in civil rights, david. yes, very much so. her father, the reverend clarence levon franklin, came up ....
End and i m going to love you forever. [ applause ] the great smokey robinson, aretha franklin s oldest childhood friend, he was 8, she was 5 when they met. as david maranis was just saying, he was a great friend of her older brother, so they grew up in the neighborhood together, david. yes, sweet smokey robinson. there are so many wonderful musicians who came out of that same neighborhood. some of the four tops, the miracles. just an incredible group of singers and performers. and aretha was the best of them all. and ron mott, outside the church, are people still coming in, or are all the seats filled? because this service is going to go on for hours. reporter: well, it s going to go on for hours, and i was just ....