The original sucks! I heard it on a Glam Rock 20 tape years ago.
Respect: an Otis Redding original, with an impressive one million listens on youtube at the time of this post:
And Aretha’s more famous retelling from a woman’s perspective. This version (one of many on the youtube) has 84 million listens (!) indicating something of its extraordinary impact:
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This frequently covered song came to mind, I didn’t even know this original version existed.
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