<P> I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You is the tenth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin . Released on March 10, 1967, by Atlantic Records (her first with that label), it went to number 2 on the Billboard album chart and number 1 on the magazine's Top R&B Selling chart . It was certified Gold by the RIAA in 1967 . It received a number 83 ranking on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time and inclusion in both the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (2005) and 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die (2008). When Rolling Stone listed the "Women in Rock: 50 Essential Albums" in 2002 and again 2012, the album listed at number one . The album included two top - 10 singles: "Respect" was a No. 1 single on Billboard's Hot 100 Pop singles chart, and "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" peaked at number 9 . The album was rated the 10th best album of the 1960s by Pitchfork . </P> <P> In 1967, Rolling Stone chided the album for "the lack of versatility on the part of the sidemen . The drums weren't hard enough, the guitar was weak, and the production lacked polish ." In 2002, though, they placed the album at No. 1 on their "Women in Rock: 50 Essential Albums" list . In 2003, the album was ranked No. 83 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Q magazine (1 / 03, p. 54) included the album in their list of the "100 Greatest Albums Ever". Q (7 / 93, p. 106) also gave the album 4 stars and said "(the album) came out in May 1967 and was number 2 in America within weeks...now it stands untainted by time . She seemed so much a force of nature it's strange to recall that this was actually her tenth album ..." </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="4"> Side one </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> No . </Th> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Writer (s) </Th> <Th> Length </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1 . </Td> <Td> "Respect" </Td> <Td> Otis Redding </Td> <Td> 2: 29 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2 . </Td> <Td> "Drown in My Own Tears" </Td> <Td> Henry Glover </Td> <Td> 4: 07 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 3 . </Td> <Td> "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" </Td> <Td> Ronnie Shannon </Td> <Td> 2: 51 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 4 . </Td> <Td> "Soul Serenade" </Td> <Td> King Curtis, Luther Dixon </Td> <Td> 2: 39 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 5 . </Td> <Td> "Don't Let Me Lose This Dream" </Td> <Td> Aretha Franklin, Ted White </Td> <Td> 2: 23 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 6 . </Td> <Td> "Baby Baby Baby" </Td> <Td> Aretha Franklin, Carolyn Franklin </Td> <Td> 2: 54 </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="4"> Side one </Th> </Tr>

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