Picking a Song of the Day can be tough. Just like everybody else I tend to listen to recent acquisitions more often than I do older tunes in my library. That often leads to recommending a sequence of tracks from the same album or of the same genre and may seem boring to the readers of this blog.
But since I write mostly to amuse myself and I'm probably the only reader, what the heck. Let's have two this time around! So we have Aretha Franklin's "Think" from The Blues Brothers soundtrack and "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" from the Blues Brothers 2000 soundtrack.
In some ways I like "Think" better than her classic "R-E-S-P-E-C-T." Both are powerful songs not simply because of Miss Franklin's extraordinary talents, but the orchestration and backup vocals in these versions are terrific. The former seems fresher, though. Almost like the latter was included in the movie just because everyone expected it. Or maybe it's because she was younger when it was recorded. Nah! Or maybe it's because the latter is overplayed as her signature piece. Who knows, really. And next week I may change my mind. Let the chips fall where they may when you play the S.O.D. game.
