Thursday, March 28, 2024

Smokey Robinson Regrets Not Recording with ‘My Close Friend’ Aretha Franklin

*Smokey Robinson reveals in a new interview that, in the many decades that he and Aretha Franklin shared a friendship, he regrets not recording in the studio with the Queen of Soul.

“It was my close friend and I loved her very much; I still do. She was my buddy and she was one of those people I could call or she could call me and we would talk for hours about nothing,” Robinson told AARP the Magazine in a video interview.

“I kind of have regrets that we never recorded anything together. I’ve known her since I was eight years old. She was one of the greatest singers ever. I’m very happy for her and I’m very happy she was my lifelong friend.”

 

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The two briefly duet on The Miracles’ “Ooh, Baby, Baby” (penned by Smokey) on a 1979 episode of “Soul Train.”

“Soul Train was a wonderful memory,” Smokey told Rolling Stone, following Franklin’s death in August of this year. “It was impromptu, wasn’t planned or anything, so that made it even more special. She could sing the phone book and make it her own.”

He added: “We should have been a duo.”

Speaking to the magazine about life after Franklin, Robinson admitted that he is still in mourning.

“I’m still in recovery mode, because I love her and I’m going to miss our conversations and our getting together,” the singer said. “But I know that spiritually she’s in a better place. She was suffering at the end there, and I don’t ever want to see her suffer. So now she’s cool, and I’m cool ’cause she’s cool.”

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