Erma and Aretha Franklin’s youngest sister, Carolyn Franklin wrote some moderately successful songs: ‘Without Love’, ‘Baby Baby Baby’, ‘I Was Made for You’, and ‘Sing It Again-Say It Again’ are among the various Carolyn Franklin compositions. She was one of ‘s background vocalists five years, and also recorded as a solo artist for RCA. Her most successful release was ‘It’s True I Gonna Miss You’, which reached #23 on the R&B charts in 1969
An American singer, she found acclaim and commercial success after signing with Atlantic Records in 1966. Hit songs such as ‘I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)’, ‘Respect’, ‘(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman’, ‘Chain of Fools’, ‘Think’, and ‘I Say a Little Prayer’ propelled her past her musical peers. By the end of the 1960s, Franklin had come to be known as the ‘Queen of Soul’