Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...

 recorded the most successful version of the song for her 1970 album, This Girl's in Love with You

This Girl's in Love with You

This Girl's In Love With You is a 1970 album by Aretha Franklin. It reached Billboards Top 20 and was reissued on compact disc through Rhino Records in the 1990s....

. Her single spent five weeks at number-one on the Best Selling Soul Singles

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

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 chart and peaked at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969. .

Chart performance

Chart (1969)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	13
U.S. Billboard Best Selling Soul Singles	1

Kenny Rogers version

Kenny Rogers

Kenny Rogers

Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur...

 recorded this song for his 1981 album, Share Your Love. It was released in September 1981 as the second single from the album. His version peaked at #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #5 on the Hot Country Singles

Hot Country Songs

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 chart. Rogers' version also reached number one on the Adult Contemporary Singles

Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks

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 chart.

Chart performance

Chart (1981)	Peak position
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	2
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks	5
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	14
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	5
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks	1

Other versions

Other versions have been recorded by Johnny Adams

Johnny Adams

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, The Band

The Band

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, Freddy Fender

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, Charlie Rich

Charlie Rich

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, The Fantastic Four

The Fantastic Four (R&B Group)

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 , Phoebe Snow

Phoebe Snow

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, and Susan Tedeschi

Susan Tedeschi

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See also

• List of number-one R&B singles of 1969 (U.S.)
• List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1981 (U.S.)