Aretha Franklin - How I Got Over (Official Audio)

The official audio of "How I Got Over" by Aretha Franklin with James Cleveland and The Southern California Community Choir from the album 'Amazing Grace' (1972). 'Amazing Grace' earned Aretha a Grammy in 1973 for Best Soul Gospel Performance and remains the best selling Gospel album of all time.
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An icon of 20th and 21st century music, the voice of the civil rights movement, and the undisputed Queen of Soul-there is only one Aretha Franklin. In her incredible six-decade career, Aretha evolved from teenage gospel star to reigning pop and R&B diva, recording classics like “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” “Chain Of Fools”, “Think” (lyrics by Aretha Franklin), definitive versions of the songs “Respect” and “I Say a Little Prayer”, and global hits like “Freeway Of Love,” “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)”, and “A Rose Is Still A Rose.”
Altogether, 112 of her singles reached the charts, with 20 No. 1 R&B singles, the most ever by a female artist. She won 18 Grammy Awards (including the first eight trophies for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance) and, out of recognition for her for indelible contribution to American music and culture, received both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and a Pulitzer Prize.

[@taijohnson9139]

This is so powerful people question how I got over Addiction, poverty, molestation, cancer, and having parents who weren't there it was God that's how I got over

[@nadyarossi5102]

God Bless you!

[@taijohnson9139]

Nadya Rossi thank you God bless u

[@Becks100]

Bless you Tai ❤️

[@queenb8953]

Amen

[@andreaandersonphd8360]

Amen!!!

[@HowardMadea]

It's 2021 Saints!

[@sweetblaqcoffey962]

Amen!

[@brendadouglas4706]

YES... IT IS 2021!!! I SAY WE ARE AT THE BEGINNING OF "THE END TIME "!!! A LARGE SECTOR OF THE UNITED STATES IS ABLAZE!!! SECTIONS OF EUROPE ARE ON FIRE!!! THE WORLD IS BURNING FROM WITHIN!!! GLOBAL WARMING ...PEOPLE GET READY ... "HE"' IS COMING BACK SOON" !!!

[@honeybozo]

Played this on the funeral for my mum last month.

[@darleneanderson7188]

🙏🏽

[@chrissmith-rv5ro]

This made me cry in Starbucks this morning. Crazy.

[@diamond_queen111]

Not crazy at all...that's joy for how God saved you 😊

[@reneehenderson6134]

Today when I read your post, I started crying. That Holy Spirit is moving all the time through distance and through time.

[@brendadouglas4706]

@@reneehenderson6134 TELL IT ... TELL THE TRUTH... I LOOK BACK AND I KNOW... JESUS BROUGHT ME TROUGH !!! BJ/ATL

[@davecoker2354]

Pretty sure this song is the cure to depression. Or, rather, the One of whom she's singing about is. Thank you Lord for pulling me out of the muck and placing my feet on The Rock.

[@cloverkitkat6917]

Me too, praise God

[@arnelevans4803]

Yesssss, thank you God

[@yolandabryant8910]

Lord bring us through this Corona virus epidemic.

[@paulinebailey2278]

Amen Sis.

[@debonyangelgirl6497]

God will provide, He will keep us, and He will deliver us. He is our Heavenly Father and He loves us so unconditionally. ✝️👼🕊️🌻🔆🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈✨🔆🔆🔆❤️💖💗

[@JoJoHernandez89]

Because of my grandmother i love this song she used to listen to this every sunday when i was child. RIP to My Beautiful Guardian Angel Grandma (2-16-23) 💐🙏🏾💓 & RIP To The Beautiful Legendary Ms Aretha Franklin ❤🌹 #AMEN

[@barbaraevans5182]

She sings real good and her voice sound nice and me and

[@DRLEWIS]

I played this at my Aunt's Homegoing Celebration. With a shocked and broken heart 💔💔💔😢😢😢 I preached her funeral.

[@michaeltaylor1017]

Sing Aretha! There is nothing in the world like to choral gospel voices in the black church! The rhythmic clapping. The smoldering energy of spirit! The release of all your worries in world, enveloped by the beautiful voices calling and responding in praise and worship. Have Mercy!

[@barbarapilon4]

If you go to a black church and don't feel the spirit of God, there's just something wrong with you! Love this song, Aretha kills it!

[@MelodyJacksonPatterson1975]

Listening to this on may1,2023one day after my 65th birthday. Looking over my life and thanking God for bringing me over. Through stroke and brain tumor blood clots. Nobody but Him brought me over glorrryyyyy! I maybe in a wheelchair now but God God God thank that I can still shout Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!

[@arnelevans4803]

May God continue to bless you

[@nailahaisha1737]

I love this song by Aretha. Who's here after watching Genius:Aretha? The biopic mini series about her life.

[@adonaiyah2196]

Thought i left thiz comment because of the black profile

[@weewilliego]

I wore this album out.

[@toni20tl]

I’m here because I’m just watching “Which Way Is Up?” With Richard Pryor……THE WAY HOW HE WAS MAKING THAT GUITAR SING IN THE PULPIT 🙌🏽🤣🙌🏽

[@SteveJobs1216]

Gospel groups have THE best bass players hands down.

[@andreaandersonphd8360]

Give the drummer some too!

[@cheritabarbuto8851]

Who ever is listening during this Rona lockdown & uncertain times your FAITH will carry you thru

[@stephengoldsmith1]

Amen

[@cheritabarbuto8851]

@@stephengoldsmith1 Good Orderly Direction/GOD never fails.Keep the FAITH bro.

[@brendadouglas4706]

@@cheritabarbuto8851 Yes keep THE FAITH !!! BJ/ATL

[@cheritabarbuto8851]

@@brendadouglas4706 You Too & lets still get more SOULS for the GOOD SIDE!!spread the word about what GOD has done for you in your Life.His goodness & mercy will get ya thru hard times YoI speak from EXPERIENCE.

[@stephaniejennings2673]

💛

[@wchopkins6653]

NOBODY Living or dead can holla like Aretha!! Thank Yah!

[@tiffanyrobinson8785]

Right!

[@popcorn3149]

I take it you dont know Margie Hendrix

[@wchopkins6653]

@@popcorn3149 No, but let’s see a clip of her!

[@alanclarke8117]

Surely, God Is Able to set you straight. But I'll do it for Him, introducing you to the source of Aretha's power of wailing, Ms Marion Williams kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGLImHegi9Z6bKs

[@LadySwag502]

Sista had POWER in her voice! (And I would rock that dress and headwrap...gorgeous!)

[@arnelevans4803]

Yessss, her style was everything

[@eringray3796]

I have heard about this album (which was her biggest selling album and I believe one of the biggest selling gospel albums in history) and I am finally listening to it. This is one powerful record. I am on the job in the office wanting to shout!!!!!

[@arnelevans4803]

I'm listening to it now at work

[@THEDOORIZCLOSED]

Right! I was in the car when i first heard THIS version. Before i heard the one she did when she was older but this version made me SHOUT and clap in my car😂😂😂😂😂

[@kimlathem9235]

God pulled me out of the pit of my addiction. The abyss I made myself. He never quit looking for this lost sheep. To Him I give all the glory! Turn my will and my life over to my Savior each and every day. God is so good. Thank you Jesus for saving this sinner. God bless you all

[@NobleLady2024]

I got the Holy Spirit!! My soul is 💃 dancing. Thank You Jesus.

[@PhilMoskowitz]

All the grownups from when I was a kid have now all got over. I'm not religious yet I somehow know I'll set them again.

[@cherishoconnor8789]

My Lord, my love, my joy, my innocence, my whole answer and my life.

[@MrsM222]

Who's getting over by the grace of God in 2020?! 🙌🏾

[@slotwhiz1]

God brought me back from COVID after dieing 3 times, but I lost my brother and my mother to COVID. But I am still here.

[@gwendolynsmith6210]

He gave me one more day, how i got over. Thank you, Jesus!So grateful..

[@michelletallie9020]

How I got over!! Thank you Jesus ❤

[@chaplaintaylor2327]

God morning, when I was a child, my mom would wake us up with playing this song on Sunday mornings. She had me to learn it in order to sing It in church... This goes out to all the mothers today on this morning... Happy Mother's Day 2020.

[@DhrabUhesh]

Beautiful memory!

[@derrickcross8630]

Legendary {1972} 😮‍💨🔥

[@jessicawilliams1176]

This will forever be my song and my favorite gospel song of hers. I just love it so much, I love everything about it. I can’t wait to buy the vinyl record of this album. Today marks 6 years since we lost the Queen of Soul, and one of the greatest singers of all time, Aretha Franklin. May her legacy live on always and forever! ❤🕊️🕊️8/16/2024

[@Honeedew1LUV]

Can not sing this and not get happy, foot tapping giving God all glory, all the way!!! Thank ya Lord 🙏🙏

[@stephengoldsmith1]

While Aretha is absolutely out of this world on this track album. A big up also needs to be given to the rhythm section, Bernard Purdie on drums and Chuck Rainey on Bass

[@ellcally508]

So much rhythm.

[@iolairesino]

Is Bernard Purdie still living?

[@TheCOUNTRIE]

Here because this song is so relatable! Jesus is real and Hulu is real one for putting Aretha’s legacy on their platform. 🙏🏽🙏🏽💯💯💯❤️

[@AsianPotatoe82]

Anyone in 2024 because I’m going through every song

[@UNbowed62]

I’m going on into Forever! 🎶

[@jld4870]

2024 soon to b 2025 Thank you Jesus!

[@thatonegirlelaine]

So, in the early 70s, my parents had all kinds of music. I was a little girl--4 years old. My mom had this album, along with James Cleveland. I remember looking at Aretha on this cover and thinking how beautiful she looked. This song was my favorite. My mom played this album a lot back then. It's been 50 years since I first heard it, and it still gives me goosebumps even now. This is the song I want played at my funeral. How I got over. Yes Lord, indeed.

[@greggriffin3422]

Hello! How are you doing today! Please pardon me for intruding into your privacy but I just wanted to know if you're a fan!....Stay safe!

[@thatonegirlelaine]

@@greggriffin3422 I will always be a fan of Ms. Franklin.

[@arnelevans4803]

I wasn't born until 1982, but I agree with you. I definitely want this song played at my funeral too.

[@devglover4198]

Goosebumps is the operative word. Amen!

[@patriciaboggs1172]

She sang that song!

[@greggriffin3422]

Hello! How are you doing today! Please pardon me for intruding into your privacy but I just wanted to know if you're a fan!....Stay safe!

[@jessicawilliams1176]

I can listen to this song all the time, as it is one of favorite songs of hers. I love it so much and I am glad that I know this song. Today marks 5 years since she left us. May she rest in heavenly peace! ❤🕊️❤️🕊️8/16/2023

[@ThaBrooklynHurricane]

Hands raised. Heart open. Stepping with my Holy Ghost Hunch. Dancing this morning like Mama’nem-church ladies everywhere😅 Glory be to God. A powerful song about God’s goodness and His Grace💪🏾🙏🏾💙🎶

[@margotmaines7427]

Sitting in my desk chair at home dancing and praising Him. Hallelujah!!!!!! ♥

[@gwenbattles4606]

The drums 🥁 😊. Thank u Lord

[@jessicawilliams1176]

I just always have to listen to this song. It really pumps me up and makes me so happy, I love it so much. Happy heavenly 82nd Birthday to Aretha Franklin! ❤🥳🎉🎊🕊️3/25/2024

[@godlygirls62]

She was a great one. There will neva, eva be another. RIP Queen

[@suzzetteroyal-jk5mu]

😮being sick for 38 years and people trying to kill me. How did I get over.

[@jld4870]

Jesus blood on the cross.

[@tonyajohnson7948]

This is the music that can bring you face to face with Almighty God!

[@DrDeADETV]

Takes you straight to the Kingdom. 🎉

[@yourfavoritegamergirl2201]

Playing this at my mom funeral today. 01/24/1956-12/27/2020 . I miss you mom

[@diamond_queen111]

I'm so sorry at the loss of your beautiful mom! 🙏

[@dwainstanley1670]

Sorry for your, but a fitting final salute to any Jim Crow era momma

[@Devinenature_8]

This reminds me of my mom too😢

[@loribrosen]

Who is here in 2019? Happy Heavenly Bday Queen 👑

[@rochellerenea4662]

When you get a chance listen Mahaliah Jackson

[@tenafrierson9674]

2020

[@sheilamills5714]

I iiiij I I i joining m min min mmmmm m mmmmm mmmmmmm m okokkkkoooonoknl Mo

[@eaqua56]

2020! Thanking God for keeping me another day!

[@tanyasykes783]

2020 All Day!

[@rodneywise1273]

Amen Thank You Jesus Thank You Lord Jesus

[@YvttDarsean]

Say it again for the people in the back! Thank you, Father!

[@Bnizzofashizzo]

This is the best iteration of this song

[@fpfp9741]

How I got over LORD ????? I been through hell and back but I’m still here 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@mablesims3589]

I am here in 2021 Who else is with me? Aretha had a great great voice!

[@BrooklynHoskins-l7n]

HOW I GOT OVER IS A CLASSIC

[@apriljohnson4697]

How April got over..it wasn't nobody but God!! Hallelujah, thank you Jesus!!💗💗

[@deannajones4307]

Love, love, love this song. She is singing with the angels now.

[@greggriffin3422]

Hello! How are you doing today! Please pardon me for intruding into your privacy but I just wanted to know if you're a fan!....Stay safe!

[@DrDeADETV]

Singing with the angels, you say? Auntie Ree is playing the piano, directing the choir and singing it with the angels: Revs. J. Cleveland, C. Nicks, and Sisters: Clara Ward, Mahalia Jackson and Ethel Waters. ML will be ushering in The Host JC and He will be crowned again King of Kings and Lord of Lords and the Saints, whose names are written will March on In. This is done daily as Sabbath has no end. This is vision of Heaven given to me this day as it was inspired by your more than insightful comment born from a snippet of the Sweet Kingdom that you were blessed to see. This how the Bible is being written and prophecy is revealed today on Earth as it is in Heaven. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Amen? Amen!

[@celestineissharkeishano8048]

What a penetrating voice. *whew* my God, just what my soul needed.

[@uwaspsite2115]

I miss Aretha,of all the gospel singers who have since passed, I miss her very much. I watched her funeral I felt the loss,thanks to technology I can still listen to her as if she is still this side.May her soul rest in peace.❤

[@TerronHatter]

I miss you Ms Aretha Franklin I love when she sing song and she was a beautiful queen 👸🏽 in the house and I love when she wear a dress and high heels 👠 ohhhhh honeyyyyyy baby she can wear some heels now yes lord my god today

[@jayharris6947]

Lord I thank You for all You have done for me

[@debonyangelgirl6497]

Aretha Franklin's voice is angelic and always will be, she is singing God's Glory in Heaven and my mother is up there , praising God's Name. Hallelujah!!!🕯️👼🕊️🌍💖💖💖🌻🌻🌻🤗🌞🙌God is good all the time and all the time God is good 💖🌺🌈🌞.

[@sharonpeppers3341]

Queen, you are missed.

[@arnett.h6276]

Lord use us for YOUR GLORY! My God in Heaven Aretha was truly anointed! 🙏🏽🕊 Have mercy on us 2020/2021

[@tanyapeterson667]

HAIL TO THE QUEEN OF SOUL RIP MAMA ARETHA FRANKLIN I KNOW YOU GOT OVER IN TO THAT HEAVENLY CHOIR! YOU ARE TRULY MISSED!

[@thessaloniasmith7475]

😪Yeah Lord thank ya

[@Joygirl827]

@@thessaloniasmith7475 Thank You Lord Amen

[@PeaceFan1]

YES!! I want to THANK YOU, JESUS for Saving my Soul!!!! I can't wait to PRAISE YOU FACE to FACE!!!!

[@armywife2248]

This is the version I was raised on. The new ones are great too!!

[@chrisloumurpjy8840]

Thank You Father God 🙏

[@thingsweignore4972]

Super powerful...my soul look back and wonder how I got over!

[@science7713]

I miss them church services.

[@patriciagreen8245]

She had power in her voice? She STILL has power in her voice

[@uwaspsite2115]

Hi there I am listening to my all time favorite. I used to listen to this when I was a student nurse,then, I was looking back at the hustles of poverty which nearly stopped me becoming anything.Tonight I am looking at 2020/2021.The situation where lockdown has altered my plans to travel home twice..I am still alive , I thank God.Thank you Aretha,yes I know you are at the other side,sleeping peacefully.You love on in music.

[@roville225]

Can't wait to hear Aretha sing in Heaven ...always loved the way she scraped the sky @2:13

[@nadezhdawall-rossi2864]

YESSS!

[@dianneclayton1361]

PRAISE GOD, GLORY GLORY GLORY 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙂🙂🙂💖💖💖💯

[@deedee-pt5ky]

SingQueen❤

[@gloriawest370]

Keep praising God even if you don't see it yet...but its coming...hold on...your blessing is on it's wayyy!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏❤

[@deedeelinn]

She rocked this

[@paulettewashington9388]

Thank you Lord just because of who you are and for bringing us throw all of our trials and tribulations. Thank you for gracing us with Aretha Franklin’s beautiful voice during her lifetime. Even though she’s with you, we can still listen to her music. Hallelujah-Amen🙏🙏🙏🥰

[@ninashirley432]

Thank you Jesus I love you 🙏🏽💚🕊️🙏🏽💚🕊️🙏🏽💚🕊️🙏🏽💚🕊️

[@nadezhdawall-rossi2864]

I bought this album in 1972 and still love it.

[@keedag2127]

"How I Got Over" Thank you Jesus 👋👋👋🔥🔥🔥💜. Dec. 2020

[@keedag2127]

Thank you Jesus👏👏👏🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🔥🔥🔥

[@isaacherder7304]

I just saw AMAZING GRACE it’s a must see.

[@robs7189]

getting ready to go see it again with more people I really enjoyed it now im recruiting folks lol lol

[@tylerhackner9731]

Just saw it on DVD loved every second of it

[@queenroyalty2141]

Astounding We need it right now

[@miadrummergirl1]

Which amazing grace video of hers? There are several! ❤️❤️❤️

[@rosemaryglover9119]

@@miadrummergirl1 the live recording from 1972

[@billyoumans1784]

One of the greatest gospel recordings ever! Thank you for posting!

[@cristalpleshette7822]

Her voice send chills down my spine rest in paradise queen of soul..😇

[@EuropoopianPigskin]

Nice

[@itsnunu101]

I grew up listening to this way before I even started preschool. Thank you Jesus! Thank you Lord!

[@kervinfondren9226]

Most black entertainers began in gospel and branched out in secular music later in life for more money except Mahalia Jackson, Shirley Caesar and other gospel legends. Gospel is music for the soul and Aretha was Queen of Soul. R.I.P. Queen Franklin!

[@StrongnBeautiful]

Gospel music, is praise to the Almighty God, the LORD Jesus Christ! Period.

[@telfairgraves5146]

Now that's singing

[@melissamerrill168]

Let us get all of this what's going on in this world lord.

[@xoliswafaith8735]

it's a fact now that I'm broke n out but the truth is I'm loaded with potential which proceeds my purpose. God created everything with potential principle n placed the seed of everything in itself. I believe soon I'll be singing this song with testimony How I got over.

[@22jaydogg]

I never knew Aretha did this song.along with mahalia Jackson. first time hearing this was on the movie ( uptown Saturday night).

[@lonellrichardson4108]

Every time they sang this at my church when I was growing up me and my friends would laugh about the movie.

[@remylebeau8934]

22jaydogg what’s crazy is that Aretha recorded this like 3 times for this amazing grace album. Each version is performed slightly different.

[@DBMe33]

Uptown Saturday Night is where Ive always known this song from. Wonderful song. 🎶

[@joghiwilliams364]

THATS were she got her chops train by mahalia jackson was her dads woman oops

[@bigwill9421]

Same Here!!!!

[@rachelbenoit1350]

Incredible voice that makes you feel the glory of God. Thank You Jesus and praise Your holy name!!

[@sandrastephens9610]

I Love the verse in this Song she’s sings, I’m going to walk me some streets of Gold👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@313Renee]

Love this song👏🏾❤️

[@josephhayes1727]

Jesus is how I got over!

[@Elizabethanderson-u3m]

HALLELUJAH

[@imjustlooking888]

Play it James! (Rev. James Cleveland)

[@lashundreerenitajenkinscra8241]

Good father God forgive all our short comings forever AMEN I thank the good Lord for being my good overcomer forever overcame jealousy additions to prescriptions dependency and anything not like the precious good gift of the Holy Ghost.. forever. AMEN ain't that just like the good Lord Jesus Christ.

[@brendaamey5932]

This song is so anointing and so was Aretha Franklin. Thank you for the holy spirit that got ahold of me thru this song!🙌

[@aljones9314]

Hail to the Queen...may she rest in peace

[@barbararhymes4179]

The question? and to know the answer. Hallelujah !!!

[@vhunter2225]

Here in 2021! This album is All That and All Right!! Thank you Queen Aretha!

[@SusanAngelettiMusic]

Lord I Love this Woman!!! ❤❤❤

[@jessicawilliams1176]

One of my favorite gospel songs of hers. Happy heavenly 81st Birthday to Aretha Franklin! ❤❤🥳🎉🕊️ 03/25/2023

[@sebastianpadilladextre9136]

REST IN PEACE ARETHA!