mahalia jackson, clara ward, they we re mahalia jackson, clara ward, they were all family friends toth the gospel greats, but i also saw the artists that were in the pop field, but i liked and whose records i bought as a child and as a teenager. her childhood home welcomed pop, jazz and gospel stars. martin luther king was a family friend and her father was a family friend and her father was a family friend and her father was a star preacher. he coached by a lot in singing, taking my time and working with the song, different things like that. # you're no good, heartbreaker # you're no good, heartbreaker # you're no good, heartbreaker # you're lying... #. there was another side to her. one of her producers described it as a mysterious side. she lost her mother when she was ten, she had two children by the age of 16. her private life was turbulence and her career dipped but what helped revive it was this. # the river was deep, i didn't falter #. a generation who had grown up with her, she was the benchmark of song. # the bali was low #. there is no singer who has come after her that ha

martin luther king jr., and in 1972 at the funeral of queen of gospel mahalia jackson.artment of natural resources of the state of michigan. arooe th aretha would reach a milestone by singing at the first inauguration of president barack obama. aretha's powerful, distinctive gospel vocal style has influenced countless singers across multiple generations and musical genres. justifiably earning her the number one position on "rolling stone" magazine's list of the greatest singers of all time. aretha louise franklin was born on march 25th, 1942, in memphis, tennessee, the fourth of five children born to reverend clarence c.l. franklin, and barbara and was raised in detroit. aretha's father served as pastor of new bethel baptist church in detroit, michigan, from 1946 to 1979. a nationally recognized american baptist minister and civil rights activist who marched with dr. martin luther king jr., most notably in the 1963 detroit walk of freedom. reverend franklin was known as the man with the million-dollar voice and was one of the first baptist ministers to record and distri

eventually found herself found her way to detroit trained to sing gospel the by the one and only mahalia jackson one many forget when celebrating a wreath as her pop songs are more than just a nice to know her voice more than pretty she preached to us women and when she preached we listened and still do we learned not to. just not good to do we learn to not just demand respect but learn to respect ourselves above all because of our rita a message that more importantly brought love and life to the civil rights movement the queen of soul also put her money where her they are explore and once offered to pay as much as it took a quarter of a million dollars to bail out black power activists angela davis from jail at a time when then president nixon was calling davis a terrorist forty one years ago today on the same day we lost the king of rock n roll elvis presley and now we say goodbye to the earthly body of a wreath of learning but i leave you with some words of wisdom from the queen of soul aretha franklin who once said in jet magazine you gotta disturb the peace when you've got no peace and that

mahalia jackson, clara ward — they were all family friends to the young aretha franklin.in her and performed with the gospel greats, but i also saw other artists that were in the pop field, that i liked and whose records i bought as a child and as a teenager. her childhood home welcomed pop, jazz and gospel stars. martin luther king was a family friend and her father was a star preacher. he coached by a lot in singing, taking my time and working with the song, different things like that. # you're no good, heartbreaker # you're lying...#. there was another side to her. one of her producers described it as a mysterious side. she'd lost her mother when she was ten, she had two children by the age of 16. her private life was turbulence and her career dipped but what helped revive it was this... # the river was deep, ididn't falter#. a generation who'd grown up with her, she was the benchmark of song. she was the benchmark of soul. # the bali was low #. there is no singer who has come after her that has not been touched by her approach. a sad day? a very sad day. # i had the f

gospel singer mahalia jackson whose lyrics helped inspire dr.s famous speech, was one of her mentors. after dr. king was assassinated in 1968, franklin sang at his funeral. d ♪ for aretha, her music and her past were inextricably linked to her respect for everyone who helped raise her. >> when she decided to die, she deme to the city of detroit, downtown, and that was her choice. don't forget that. >> reporter: before the funeral, there will be a public viewing on august 28 and 29 at the ugseum of african american ere ory, right here in detroit. jeff, here in new bethel baptist, you can see the memorial behind me is growing larger by the day. k glor: fantastic work to you and the whole team there in ttroit. thank you very much. coming up next on the "cbs evening news," why there could be hurricanes in california's future. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve. all day strong. when you barely clip a tpassing car. minor accident

mahalia jackson, diana washington. reverend james cleveland directed the choir at new bethel.s baptized in singing, struggle and service. in 1942 when she was born not in detroit, she was born on the mississippi river in memphis, tennessee. the river that carried oui’ tennessee. the river that carried our people up and down for 246 yea rs. our people up and down for 246 years. that is where hirzel comes the mississippi river. and it is cradled between tennessee and arkansas, mississippi. 233 blacks we re arkansas, mississippi. 233 blacks were lynched in tennessee. 492 in arkansas. 654 in mississippi. she was 13 when emmett till... she had money and could not buy ice cream. had a carand money and could not buy ice cream. had a car and could not stop to buy gasoline. aretha came out of the bowels of our struggle. her father led the big march in detroit in 1963. he worked for doctor came, stayed in his home until the march on washington. doctor king was facing bankruptcy. he could not go any further. was the money coming from, cannot get it from the banks, the white banks were ve

many would stay at their home, mahalia jackson and sam cooke and people like that who we got a chanceshe had that gospel feeling in her -- it was in her voice, it was in her tone even when she was singing jazz it was soul fu. there's a thing in show business called it and aretha had it. >> i think aretha franklin defined it. if you'll humor us for a second, i want to put up a clip of you singing with aretha franklin on "soul train" in 1979. this is something i think she wanted to do with you together and after we listened -- we'll play it in just a moment -- i want you to reflect on her voice. it was a four-octoberive voice. she had a gift that we were lucky enough to have shared with us for so long. let's listen to the two of you together. ♪ my heart went out to play, but in the game i lost you ♪ ♪ what a price to pay, i'm crying ♪ ♪ ooh, baby, baby -- [ applause ] >> i can see the smile on your face as you're listening to that. when you hear that voice, how do you explain it? ♪ mistakes, i know i made a few but i'm only human -- ♪ >> i can see the smile on your face. explain to us t

and she grew up in the culture of sam cooke and the caravans and the staple singers, mahalia jackson,o out of that cultural situation. but also in the sense of she had a dignity level. when she first began, one sunday night reverend franklin mentioned, my daughter is going to sing tonight. listen to aretha. she sang "never grow old." and from "never grow old," she became a star. and then "ave maria," the other extreme. and then the two records on columbia, one dedicated to dinah washington, and then "highway," and then "r-e-s-p-e-c-t." but apart from her singing, she used the platform to share with a woman, a tremendous artist out of atlanta, georgia. she had her to sing twice at the annual aretha party, giving platforms. she couldn't make it to our rainbow/push convention last summer. she sent a tremendous opera artist, audrey dubois harris, to stand in for her. her range was from juilliard to the small church. she was a gift that never stopped gifting. 60 years really, andrew. 60 years of singing. >> what do you want people to remember about her? we know the talent. you have generat

mahalia jackson is around in her childhood home, right.urch, the gospel tradition, is very much part of what she did as a singer. so much great music. >> people don't realize from whence she came. two children by the age of 15. she walked away from music for a few years. she came back. big in the '60s. huge in the '70s. then kind of disappeared. and then a movie helped relaunch her career. and one of the few artists, especially these day, whose music transcended race and class and geography. listening to people remember her, everyone was an aretha franklin fan. >> you couldn't not be an aretha fan. the music was so real, so gritty. you want to sing it quietly, she could do that. you want to belt it, she could do that. even luciano pavarotti, when the gravies find out he cannot go, the head of the grammys goes to aretha and says "we need you." and she said, i can't do that. and he says, yes, you can. and she says, ken, what key? she knew she could do it. and she was brilliant. she had an ear. she taught herself the piano by ear. i mean, it'

martin luther king in 1968, spurred by mahalia jackson's death, franklin returned to her ♪ ♪ musical grace." but that decade saw her career slip before turning to the top of the charts in the eighties to with an album featuring "freeway of love." ♪ we going riding on a freeway going to love in my pink cadillac ♪ she was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame in 1987 as the first female. she was invited to sing at the inauguration of president bill clinton in 1993, and barack obama's in 2009. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in 2005, she received the nation's highe civilian honor: e presidential medal of freedom. and here she was at the 2015 kennedy center honors, in typical aretha fashion in a full length fur, paying tribute to carole king, drawing a tear from president obama. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪o a capstoner career was an invitation to perform for pope francis when he visited philadelphia in 15. gwen sat down that fall with franklin to talk about her life and work. >> ifill: tell me, how do you think of yourself? >> a lady next door. >> ifill: but nobody thinks of you that way, none of your fans, none of the peop

. >> -- >> reporter: when gospel greats like mahalia jackson or clara ward would visit the house, thed get up and peek down the steps to see who was coming in and who was going out peeping through the railing of the staircase. >> so it was special. yeah, very special. >> who did you like most to see? >> sam. any time, sam. >> reporter: aretha's life was also marked by tragedy. her mother, who moved away when she was 6 died four years later. in her autobiography, aretha wrote, i cannot describe the pain. in 1979 her father was shot during a burglary in their detroit home. he lingered in a coma for five years before his death. aretha asked the city to she wanted us to see it. but as we approached the park, she was overcome by emotion. you all right? that still means a lot to you. >> reporter: it took a minute for her to come pose herself. >> it's a beautiful park. >> it is a beautiful park. >> i'm glad they dedicated it to him. >> reporter: reverend franklin envisioned a great career for his talented daughter, but likely even he did not imagine she would live to perform at the inaugurat

decades ago, aretha would tell her friend mahalia jackson of her plans to record a gospel album, quoteese burdens alone. today fans are thinking about how aretha's music lightened their burdens, giving them hope, giving them strength and making them feel. robin. >> can you think about mahalia and aretha, the choir of angels right now? >> i know. >> as we mentioned overnight aretha's music taking the top five spots on itunes and number five is "think." four is "chain of fools." number three, you're hearing it right now. "i say a little prayer," was number three. two is -- this is your favorite, michael, ironically. "natural woman." i know you were singing it, and at the top, many of you have guessed it, of course, it's r-e-s-p-e-c-t. the last time i saw aretha franklin perform, it was at the white house. the obamas, it was a pbs special, a white house special, a gospel tribute. she was the last one on the stage and it was -- she brought down the white house. she brought down the house, and she brought down the white house. she really did. >> when she sang "natural woman," she was in her

she had a real crush on at the time, came to their house, the blues singer dinah washington, mahalia jacksonr her very roof so she had all of this inspiration, this raw talent, and i think that the problems she had as a teenager were something that she could forget when she enveloped herself in her music. and you said that in her personal life, she was vulnerable to being taken advantage of by men. the way she wanted to tell her story and communicate with people was to her music and, of course, respect, the anthem of empowerment that is probably one of her best—known songs. absolutely. that song works so well for her because she had a father who tried to dominate her, she had herfirst husband who physically abused her, she felt that she was being pushed around in life, so by the time she got through herfirst recording contract at columbia records, where they really didn't know what to do with her commercially, though they came up with some beautiful recordings, she got to atlantic records, she was put in the studio with jerry wexler. jerry spent time with her, realised who the true aretha wa

by celebrities including martin luther king junior, the singer sam cooke and the gospel singer mahalia jacksonrst musical school was the church and her performances were powered by what she learned there. bill clinton says he will always be grateful for her support, including her performance at his inauguration and also his chance to be there for what turned out to be her last performance in november. he says she will always be the queen of soul and his heart goes out to her family and countless friends, and still with me, lizo mzimba, our entertainments correspondence, and warmth of these tributes reflecting how big a this is. over the last few days since this news broke that she was terminally ill, social media has been full of people remembering the power of what she meant to them but now that this sad news has happened in the last bar, a great outpouring of people because she was more than a musician too many people, she was somebody who portrayed through her music and her art like kind of things that happened in their lives. she wasn't put on a pedestal of having a perfect life, she had p