I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
This is the album on which Aretha finds her voice. She'd previously recorded for another label, but thisAtlanticdebut created the sound that has come to define her. The tracks read like a greatest hits collection: "Respect," "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man," "Dr. Feelgood," "Baby, Baby, Baby," "A Change Is Gonna Come," and the title track. She's alternately pumped full of soul or scraping her inner being to find more. A classic.--Robert Gordon