Aretha Franklin Debuts New Song for Tavis Smiley

To mark her 50 years in the entertainment business, Columbia Records is releasing an album of Aretha Franklin’s hits from 1960 to 1965. She also has a new single coming out — a remake of Barbra Streisand’s “The Way We Were” — which she played an exclusive preview of on this weekend’s The Tavis Smiley…

To mark her 50 years in the entertainment business, Columbia Records is releasing an album of Aretha Franklin’s hits from 1960 to 1965. She also has a new single coming out — a remake of Barbra Streisand’s “The Way We Were” — which she played an exclusive preview of on this weekend’s The Tavis Smiley Show From PRI. It’s not the full song, but Franklin gave a tantalizing taste at the end of the clip below. To hear more, go to tavissmileyradio.com.

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