Aretha Franklin - Oh No Not My Baby [HD]

Aretha Franklin sings 'Oh No Not My Baby' from her 1970 Atlantic album 'Spirit in the Dark'. This song was written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin. 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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Oh No Not My Baby (Singer: Aretha Franklin)
Sweet, sweet baby
When my friends told me you had someone new
I didn't believe a single word was true (sweet, sweet baby)
Showed them all I had faith in you
I kept on saying
Oh, no, not, not my baby (not my baby)
Oh, no, not my sweet baby (sweet baby)
He's not like those other guys
Who lead you on (lead you on) and tell you lies (tell you lies)
My mama told me when rumors spread (my mama told me)
There's truth somewhere and I should use my head (my mama told me)
But I didn't listen to what she said
I stood right there (stood right there), and I kept on saying
Oh, no, not, not my baby (sweet, sweet baby)
Oh, no, not my sweet baby
'Cause he's not like those other boys
Who play with hearts (play with hearts) like they were toys
We might have had a last minute fling (woo)
But I'm so sure it didn't mean a thing
'Cause yesterday he gave me a ring
And now I'm so glad that I kept on saying
Oh, no, not, not my baby (sweet, sweet baby)
Oh, no, no, no, not my sweet baby (not my baby)
He's not like those other guys
Who lead you on (lead you on), who tell you lies (tell you lies)
No, oh, oh, not, not my baby (sweet, sweet baby)
Oh, no, not my sweet baby
Oh-oh-oh, not my baby
Oh-oh-oh, not, not my baby
Songwriters: Carole King, Gerry Goffin
[Lyrics from Musixmatch]
Personnel: Lead Vocal - Aretha Franklin, Background Vocals - Margaret Branch, Brenda Bryant, Almeda Lattimore, Guitar - Cornell Dupree, Eddie Hinton, Jimmy Johnson, Keyboards - Barry Beckett, Drums - Roger Hawkins, Bass Guitar - David Hood, Piano - Aretha Franklin.
Wikipedia states:
"Oh No Not My Baby" is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. The song's lyrics describe how friends and family repeatedly warn the singer about a partner's infidelities. The song is regarded as an American standard due to its long-time popularity with both music listeners and recording artists.
The first released version of "Oh No Not My Baby" was by Maxine Brown, according to whom the song had first been recorded by her Scepter Records' roster-mates the Shirelles with the group's members alternating leads, an approach which had rendered the song unreleasable.
Brown says that Scepter exec Stan Greenberg gave her the song with the advisement that she had to "find the original melody" from the recording by the Shirelles: "they [had gone] so far off by each [group member] taking their own lead, no one knew any more where the real melody stood."
Brown recalls sitting on the porch of her one-level house in Queens listening to the Shirelles' track play through her open window. A group of children skipping rope on the sidewalk picked up the song's main hook before Brown, hearing the children singing "Oh no not my baby" as they skipped, gave Brown the idea for the song's melody. Brown recorded her vocal over the Shirelles' track with the group's vocals erased; Dee Dee Warwick provided the harmony vocal on the chorus.
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.

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Aretha is one of the greatest singers to ever grace this planet, but I find on some song her talent overshadows the song and its message and this rendition is an example of what I am saying.

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Beautiful