AN UNBIASED VIEW OF GREATEST SONG EVER

”He was referring to the knockout seem of Franklin’s backup singers — her sisters, Carolyn and Erma — chanting “Sock it to me” at substantial velocity, which Aretha and Carolyn cooked up to the session. The late Tom Dowd, who engineered the date, credited Carolyn with the saucy breakdown where Aretha spelled out the title: “I fell off