Aretha Franklin Live Recording Tape: The Charles Lewis Collection

The Charles Lewis Tape collection features countless professional live raw recordings of some of the biggest names in music.This one tape includes audio of a live concert by the Queen of Soul: Aretha Franklin. Complete and unedited from this performance, the audio was taken off the board by the sound engineer Charles Lewis c.1960's.Tape measures 7.5" in diameter and box measures 11.75".

Chuck Lewis started his career in sound in the late fifties at Otto K. Olsen in Hollywood. Whileworking there, he was the soundman/sound mixer for red carpet premiers at Grauman's Theater.In the sixties, Chuck was in charge of working at and overseeing performances at both the Hollywood Bowl and the Music Center. Chuck did sound for all types of performances; rock, jazz, classical, stand up, and theater. He worked with everyone from the Beatles to Baryshnikov. Chuck did have his favorites some of which were Robert Goulet, Groucho Marx, Don Rickles, Frank Sinatra, and Florence Henderson. In his later years, he worked solely for the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion as sound director and overseeing the Center Theater Group.

Several years after Chuck's passing his children started to clear out his garage. Chuck had a sound rental business for a few years after he retired and his children were selling the sound equipment. They came across several boxes of reel to reel tapes that they had no idea existed. Among these tapes there was everything from rock, jazz, stand up, classical, and plays. These tapes feature live recordings that have gone untouched and unheard for 45 years or more.

Multiple Grammy winner Aretha Franklin is known for such hits as "Respect," "Freeway of Love" and "I Say a Little Prayer." Aretha Franklin is the ultimate female soul singer of the Sixties. She is one of the most influential artists in pop, soul, gospel, and R&B.

Franklin began her career as a child singing choir gospel. Following her signing to Atlantic Records in 1967, Franklin achieved commercial acclaim and success with songs such as "Respect", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Spanish Harlem" and "Think". By the end of the 1960s decade, she had gained the title "The Queen of Soul".

Franklin eventually recorded a total of 112 charted singles on Billboard, including 77 Hot 100 entries, 17 top ten pop singles, 100 R&B entries and twenty number-one R&B singles, becoming the most charted female artist in the chart's history. Franklin has won a total of 18 Grammy Awards and is one of the best-selling musical artists of all time, having sold over 75 million records worldwide.

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