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# Remembering Aretha Franklin With Evrod Cassimy, Marsha Music, Dan Austin & Detroiters
- URL: https://www.dailydetroit.com/aretha-franklin/
- Published: 2018-08-17T21:51:04.000Z
- Updated: 2024-09-17T15:58:45.000Z
- Description: The Queen of Soul dies, and a city mourns
- Author: Jer Staes
- Tags: History, Remembrances, Stories

On a very special Daily Detroit podcast, we remember Aretha Franklin through stories.

Guests include:

Evrod Cassimy, a friend of Franklin and journalist at WDIV Local 4 TV.

Marsha Battle Philpot, a.k.a. Marsha Music. Her father recorded the first record with Aretha.

Dan Austin, Detroit’s unofficial historian and a founder of the Motor City Soul Club.

Some of the people who loved her at the New Bethel Baptist Church at Linwood in Detroit.