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Stax Records is an American record company, originally based in Memphis, Tennessee. Founded in 1957 as Satellite Records, the label changed its name to Stax Records in September 1961. [2] It also shared its operations with sister label Volt Records. Stax was influential in the creation of Southern soul and Memphis soul music.
In January 1967, Jerry Wexler brought Aretha Franklin, then in her mid-20s, to Muscle Shoals for her first session for Atlantic. [18] During this first session with the Swampers, "I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You", Franklin's husband at the time, Ted White, who had been cordial at first, became belligerent. White had secretly been sharing ...
The Stax Museum of American Soul Music is a museum located in Memphis, Tennessee, at 926 East McLemore Avenue, the original location of Stax Records.Stax launched and supported the careers of artists such as Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, the Staple Singers, Sam & Dave, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, Wilson Pickett, Albert King, William Bell, Eddie Floyd, Jean Knight, Mable ...
Aretha Franklin covered the song on her 1981 album Love All the Hurt Away; the Queen of Soul's rendition earned an eleventh career Grammy Award. It won for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. [citation needed] B.B. King and Eric Clapton included it on their 2000 collaborative album Riding with the King.
"Respect" is a song written and performed by American soul singer-songwriter Otis Redding, and later rearranged by Aretha Franklin. It was released in 1965 as a single from Redding's third album Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul and became a crossover hit for Redding.
'Queen of Soul' Aretha Franklin has passed away at the age of 76, following reports that she was 'gravely ill' with cancer.
(The following post contains SPOILERS for the Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect”) The new Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect” shows the Queen of Soul grappling with fame, fortune, finding the ...
Aretha Franklin credits FAME as the place her career turned around, and Etta James recorded hit album "Tell Mama" there. [10] The Stax label's most successful artist of the 1960s, Otis Redding, was influenced by fellow Georgia native Little Richard and the more cosmopolitan sounds of Mississippi-born Sam Cooke.