Aretha Franklin

Known as The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin (1942-2018) was a popular soul, jazz, R&B, gospel, and blues singer. She attended the 2005 Daytime Emmy Awards, and was interviewed by Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, for a segment on The Tony Danza Show.
Her first Billboard Hot 100 number 1 hit was "Respect" (1967). She is one of the most awarded performers, with 18 Grammy Awards, and two additional Honourary statues.
==References==
* Cookie Monster eats an Aretha Franklin record while scrounging around for cookies in Oscar's trash can on Sesame Street in Episode 0044. He's scolded by Susan who says, "There are some things we can tolerate, but an Aretha Franklin record?..."
* Aretha Franklin is one of several people named by Roosevelt Franklin's class when he asks them to identify some great people in a 1973 Roosevelt Franklin Elementary School sketch. .
*Aretha Franklin is among the many wrong guesses that Count von Count makes (and counts) in a game of "Guess Who?" in Episode 0899 of Sesame Street.
* The Fraggle Rock character Aretha is named after Franklin.
* Appearing on Dolly in 1988, Miss Piggy drops her short-lived country music career and suggests trying soul music as an avenue of expression. She asks Dolly Parton if she has Aretha Franklin's number, and leaves the stage singing "R-E-S-P-E-C-T, give it to me, give it to me, give it to me..."
* Elmo references the song "Respect" in a Word of the Day segment with Henry Cavill in a season 44 episode of Sesame Street, in which the word of the day is respect. When Henry mentions this, Elmo says, "R-E-S-P-E-C-T, baby!"
* A photo of Franklin performing at The White House features among a number of inspirational women on Doctor Doc's Shero Wall in Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock.
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