Some more early in the morning Rock & Roll?!! Heck yea! Its Friday!!! Son of a Preacher Man is a song recorded by Dusty Springfield in September 1968 and featured on the album Dusty in Memphis. It was written by John Hurley and Ronnie Wilkins. The rights to record Son of a Preacher Man were originally offered to Aretha Franklin, who turned it down. The song however was recorded by Arethas elder sister Erma Franklin and was included on her 1969 Brunswick album Soul Sister. It was only upon hearing Springfields version, a UK and American hit in 1968, that Aretha Franklin reconsidered and recorded the song herself including it on her 1970 album, This Girls in Love with You, and it charted only as a less popular a-side of the b-side hit single Call Me. In January 1994 while recording her final album, A Very Fine Love, in Nashville, Dusty Springfield felt ill. When she returned to the United Kingdom a few months later, her physicians diagnosed breast cancer. She received months of radiation treatment and the cancer was in temporary remission. In 1995, in apparent good health, Springfield set about promoting the album. In mid-1996 the cancer had returned, and in spite of vigorous treatments, she died in Henley-on-Thames on 2 March 1999. O:) youtube/watch?v=RInuFNw1Lk0
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 08:16:08 +0000
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