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Aretha Franklin

Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing

1974 · via Marvin Gaye

Aretha Franklin’s earliest release of “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing” on file came out in 1974. Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson are credited as its writers. The earliest release on file is Marvin Gaye’s, from 1968. Also recorded by Marv Johnson & Carolyn Gill (released 2009), Trijntje Oosterhuis (released 2011) and Diana Ross & The Supremes with The Temptations (released 1969), among 100 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Ashford and Simpson wrote this one for Marvin and Tammi, and it went on to Aretha, the Jackson 5, and the Supremes with the Temptations. Follow the writers and you meet the people quietly handing out the songs everyone else sang.

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Credited writers: Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson.

Earliest release on file: Marvin Gaye, 1968.

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100 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell recorded Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing first, before Aretha Franklin took it on. Who co-wrote it with Valerie Simpson?Nickolas Ashford
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