On March 10, 1967, Franklin released her tenth album, which became her commercial breakthrough. It marked her first release under her contract with Atlantic Records after departing Columbia Records, where she had recorded nine unsuccessful jazz standard albums.
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You became her first top 10 album in the United States, peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. Two singles were released to promote the album: a cover of Otis Redding's “Respect,” which topped the Billboard Hot 100, and “I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You).”
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"Aretha Franklin’s first album of genius bursts with the unstoppable freedom of an artist finally allowed to be herself, which is only one of the dozens of reasons its opening cover of Otis Redding’s 'Respect' is such a milestone," the publication began.
"But Atlantic Records’ Jerry Wexler brought her onto the label with the goal of letting Aretha be Aretha. 'I took her to church,' he said, 'sat her down at the piano, and let her be herself,'" the tribute continued. "The result – recorded at iconic Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama – was a new kind of soul power, pulling from gospel, R&B and rock & roll. This was the album that made her a legend, inaugurating a run of LPs for Franklin on Atlantic that’s up there with any other series of records by any solo artist ever."
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