Dining-Drinking
August, 1967
A soul singer par excellence is Aretha Franklin. There are two current LP examples of her extraordinary craft: I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (Atlantic) and Take It like You Give It (Columbia). Of the two, the Atlantic recording has the edge in the electricity that's generated, possibly because it hews closer to the soul-gospel bag that Miss Franklin does so well; but the Columbia offering is a delight in its own right.•There's no doubt about it; the Buddy Rich Big Band is loaded for bea...
