Sister Linda Jones had elite vocal phrasing... power and control and interpretive skills that cannot be learned you need to be born with! Aretha loved and respected her. Nuff said. Rest in power Queen.
as a rule of thumb to fans and producers (beat makers) alike, early music from the beginning until about the 1980's from an engineering standpoint, did what's called "Hard Panning" basically they used "Stereo Imagery" separated the channels and extracted the base music to separate the drum track...That's why i love earlier Music because the possibilities are endless with hard panning.