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Forty years ago last week, Aretha Franklin's soul-shaking version of "Respect" exploded at number one on the pop charts. (Stop for a second. Think about that song. "WHAT YOU WANT....BABY, I GOT IT." Bingo. It is now in your head for the rest of the day. You're welcome!) Amazingly, it's not actually Aretha's song, it's the inimitable Otis Redding's, but Aretha's version became an anthem for feminism, civil rights, karaoke, and we'll be marking it today with Kelley Carter, who wrote this fabulous article about the song, as well as Charlie Chalmers, who played sax on the track. What I love about the song is twofold, a) it doesn't matter who you are, how old, the first time you hear it it becomes part of your life soundtrack, and b) Aretha makes singing it sound so darn easy that it's really hard not to sing along (yet horrifying to find that it's actually a really hard song to sing). So...let's TCB here. When did "Respect" appear in your life?