I feel very fortunate that I grew up during

[wasupaloopa]

the period when Aretha Franklin was releasing her records. I loved the music from Detroit. I loved Detroit. I spent my first honeymoon in Detroit.

I was back there from CA last summer.

I grew up in Dayton Ohio so Detroit wasn’t very far away.

I went to sleep every night as a kid listening to Motown music. It is my favorite sound. Something about the sound of black voices appealed to me. Even more than rock and roll.

As a high school senior a group of us went to Columbus Georgia to meet up with Black teens our age to try to understand something about their lives. They all thought going to live in Detroit would be a great thing to do.

Thank you Aretha and Detroit for your music.

[brush]

1. Thank you for your post. The Temptations or The Four Tops?

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Our group used to argue about who was the best all the time.

[handmade34]

2. we have lost a great icon

of our youth, of our life... I grew up around Lansing, Michigan and Motown was our music... what a time!

[Silver Gaia]

3. I lived in Kalamazoo from the age of 14 to 22.

Motown was IT. Those were good years.

[IrishEyes]

4. My mother interviewed her for the newspaper in the late 1960s in Detroit.

The interview went well. Aretha Franklin invited my mom to a club that she was singing at. My mother brought my dad. Dad was a little nervous when he realized that they were the only white people in the club but he got over it quickly and they had a great time. Mom told me that Aretha Franklin was one of the best people she interviewed.

[eleny]

5. It was always exciting anticipating the next song by a favorite artist or group to be released

And you never knew what would be played on the radio next unless they were playing the top 40 from 40 up to #1. Music was important in a different way.