美國靈魂樂女王［艾瑞莎．富蘭克林］早期佳作──靈魂／R&B──［Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody／迪克西旋律搖籃曲］

Rock-a-bye your baby with a Dixie melody.

When you croon, croon a tune from the heart of Dixie.

Just place my cradle, mammy mine,

Right on the Mason Dixon line,

And swing it from Virginia

To Tennessee with all the love thats in ya.

Weep no more, my lady.

Sing that song again for me.

Soft and low, just as though

You had me on your knee.

A million baby kisses Id deliver,

If you would only sing that Swanee River.

Rock-a-bye your rock-a-bye baby with a Dixie melody

１９６１年９月，１９歲半的美國靈魂樂天后艾瑞莎．富蘭克林（Aretha Franklin）推出單曲［Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody／迪克西旋律搖籃曲］（Columbia Records發行）．

歌曲出自１９１８年百老匯音樂劇［Sinbad／辛巴達］，由Jean Schwartz, Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young創作，

由Al Jolson介紹給大眾．其灌錄唱片登上當時音樂排行榜冠軍．

艾瑞莎版由John H. Hammond, Richard Wess製作成一首靈魂／R&B，

節奏中板穩定，

富蘭克林的唱腔扎實有力 ，精神十足，可聽出其豐富的生命力．

［Today I Sing the Blues］登上美國告示牌單曲榜＃３７，

加拿大＃１２．澳洲＃３７．

此曲收在１９６２年３月發行，富蘭克林的首張大碟［The Electrifying Aretha Franklin］（由John Hammond製作）中．由John H. Hammond, Richard Wess製作．

但未入榜．

Audio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UucGF5fEvfk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rwwO_-toQE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avTGGA9qAzo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G192nKl_Cg