To be young, gifted & Aretha Franklin: Queen of Soul in ‘Amazing Grace’
![](https://artsmeme.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/aretha-franklin-amazing-grace-the-complete-recordings-4-cd-606x181.jpg)
“Amazing Grace,” with two-million vinyl discs exiting record stores, was the top-selling gospel record of all time and Aretha Franklin‘s top-selling album. Released in June 1972, the album coincided with the very same month I graduated from an all-white high school in suburban Pittsburgh. Right around that time, on Sunday afternoons, I used my new ...