Aretha Franklin - The Thrill Is Gone (From Yesterday's Kiss) [HD]

Aretha Franklin sings 'The Thrill is Gone (From Yesterday's Kiss)' from her 1970 Atlantic album 'Spirit in the Dark'. This song was a hit for B. B. King. The lyrics are below with comments about the song, album, and Aretha Franklin.
Note: In its new 2023 list of the 200 greatest singers Rolling Stone ranked Aretha Franklin number one.
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The Thrill is Gone (From Yesterday's Kiss) (Singer: Aretha Franklin)
The thrill is gone
The thrill is gone away, yeah, yeah, yeah
The thrill is gone
The thrill is gone away, yeah, yeah, yeah
You've done me wrong
Baby, you'll be sorry someday
The thrill is gone
The thrill is gone away from me
The thrill is gone, oh yeah
The thrill is gone all the way away from me
Although I'm gonna still live on
Gonna be lonely, lonely, lonely as can be
Thrill is gone, yeah, yeah
The thrill is gone away for good
Oh whoa, the thrill is gone, baby
Yeah, yeah it's gone, it's gone, it's gone away for good
Somebody told me
Although I didn't know it, then
They knew that it would
They knew it would
And I'm free (free), free (free), free (free)
Free, free from all the pain (free at last)
Oh, yes I'm free (free), yeah, I'm free, I'm free, I'm free, free (free)
Hey, yeah I'm free from this pain (thank God Almighty, I'm free at last)
And as I leave you baby
All I wanna do is just wish you well
Gone, gone and gone and gone
And gone and the thrill is gone
The thrill is gone, oh, yeah, baby
Yes, I'm free (free) yeah, I'm free (free)
I'm free (thank God Almighty, I'm free at last)
There's a new world and I'm free from your spell
Free from your spell (free at last)
Songwriters: Rick R. Darnell, Roy Hawkins, Art Benson, Dale Petite
[Lyrics from Musixmatch]
Personnel: Lead Vocal - Aretha Franklin, Background Vocals - Margaret Branch, Brenda Bryant, Almeda Lattimore, Guitar - Charlie Freeman, Keyboards - Michael Utley & Jim Dickinson, Drums - Sammy Creason, Bass Guitar - Tommy McClure, Piano - Aretha Franklin.
Wikipedia states:
"The Thrill Is Gone" is a slow minor-key blues song written by West Coast blues musician Roy Hawkins and Rick Darnell in 1951. Hawkins's recording of the song reached number six in the Billboard R&B chart in 1951. In 1970, "The Thrill Is Gone" became a major hit for B.B. King. His rendition helped make the song a blues standard.
B.B. King recorded his version of "The Thrill Is Gone" in June 1969 for his album Completely Well, released the same year. King's version is a slow 12-bar blues notated in the key of B minor in 4/4 time. The song's polished production and use of strings marked a departure from both the original song and King's previous material.
When BluesWay Records released "The Thrill Is Gone" as a single in December 1969, it became one of the most successful of King's career and one of his signature songs. It reached number three in the Billboard Best Selling Soul Singles chart and number 15 in the broader Billboard Hot 100 chart.
B.B. King's recording earned him a Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance in 1970 and a Grammy Hall of Fame award in 1998. King's version of the song was also placed at number 183 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. Live versions of the song were included on King's albums Live in Cook County Jail (1971), Bobby Bland and B.B. King Together Again...Live (1976), and Live at San Quentin (1991).
Aretha Franklin covered the song on her 1970 album, Spirit in the Dark.
Spirit in the Dark is the seventeenth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, released on August 24, 1970, by Atlantic Records. It received critical acclaim, but was met with middling sales, despite having two hit singles, "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)", which peaked at #1 R&B, #11 on the Hot 100, and "Spirit in the Dark", peaking at #3 R&B and #23 Hot 100, in Billboard magazine. It was Aretha's first Atlantic album to fall short of Billboard's Top 20, but it is now considered to be one of Aretha's classic Atlantic LPs.
Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 - August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Referred to as the "Queen of Soul", she has twice been placed ninth in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". With global sales of over 75 million records, Franklin is one of the world's best-selling music artists.
As a child, Franklin was noticed for her gospel singing at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, where her father C. L. Franklin was a minister. At the age of 18, she was signed as a recording artist for Columbia Records. While her career did not immediately flourish, Franklin found acclaim and commercial success once she signed with Atlantic Records in 1966. Hit songs such as "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", "Respect", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Chain of Fools", "Think", and "I Say a Little Prayer", propelled Franklin past her musical peers.