{"id":26759,"date":"2011-08-06T08:42:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T15:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=26759"},"modified":"2024-05-26T10:34:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T17:34:12","slug":"whats-the-freeway-looking-like-where-you-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2011\/whats-the-freeway-looking-like-where-you-live\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s The Freeway Looking Like Where You Live?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favourite songs from the 80s was Aretha Franklin’s Freeway of Love,<\/em> from her 1985 album Who’s Zoomin’ Who? <\/em>The song won her the Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, and became Franklin’s 15th Top 10 pop hit in the United States. The song peaked in the #3 spot in Billboard’s <\/em>Hot 100 chart.\u00b9 You might say that Freeway of Love<\/em> became one of Aretha Franklin’s anthems for that decade. It certainly was a dance club staple.<\/p>\n

Undoubtedly some of the elements that always attracted me to the song were the strong saxophone lines and the solo by Clarence Clemons. Clemons<\/a>, who just recently passed away due to complications from a stroke, was of course a charter member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band.<\/em><\/p>\n

Until I found this video on YouTube this morning, I don’t remember seeing it in the last 25 or so years. It’s a nice flashback to my youth. Ah yes, the 80s… The decade of big hair\u2014when many women<\/a> and men<\/a> had dos<\/em> that resembled those of standard poodles<\/a>. \ud83d\ude09  \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n