After 10 years at Columbia,
Aretha Franklin signed with Atlantic Records in 1967 and unleashed a stunning
array of hit singles during the mid sixties to the mid seventies including
Respect, Chain Of Fools, Spanish Harlem and Until You Come Back To Me (That’s
What I’m Going To Do).

Aretha signed with Arista
in 1980 where Clive Davis restored her hit making status with United Together
and Love All The Hurt Away reaching the top 10 of the Hot Soul Singles
chart. Aretha’s third Arista album
paired her with producer Luther Vandross. JUMP TO IT became her most successful
album in a decade spending an incredible seven weeks at the #1 spot in the
R&B album chart and reaching #23 on the Pop chart. It also spun off the #1
R&B hit title track single which also made #28 Pop, Aretha’s first top 40 showing
since 1976.

LOVE ME RIGHT, the follow
up single, became another successful R&B radio hit and the album was seen
as a bold new direction and return to form for the Queen Of Soul.