Everyone
knows about Aretha, of course, but she also had two younger sisters with
musical inclinations. Erma Franklin hit the charts in late 1967 with “Piece Of
My Heart”, several months before the better-known version by Big Brother and
the Holding Company (featuring Janis Joplin) came out as a single. Carolyn
Franklin never hit the top 100 as a performer, but she wrote my two all-time
favorite Aretha songs: “Ain’t No Way” and “Angel”, both of which are great
ballads. Of course, Aretha was so hot in 1967 and 1968 that “Ain’t No Way” didn’t
even get its own release, coming out as the B-side of “Since You’ve Been Gone”.
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