Watch the official audio of "Think" by Aretha Franklin from the album 'Aretha Now' (1968). Written by Aretha and her husband at the time Ted White, "Think" reached number 1 on Billboard's Hot Rhythm & Blues chart and was later re-recorded for the film 'The Blues Brothers' released in 1980.

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Performers:

Lead Vocals & Acoustic Piano: Aretha Franklin
Organ: Spooner Oldham
Bass Guitar: Jerry Jemmott
Guitar: Tommy Cogbill, Jimmy Johnson
Drums: Roger Hawkins
Tenor Saxophone: Charles Chalmers, Andrew Love
Trumpet: Wayne Jackson
Baritone Saxophone: Willie Bridges, Floyd Newman
Backing Vocals: The Sweet Inspirations

Written By: Aretha Franklin and Ted White

Produced By: Jerry Wexler

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Lyrics:

You better think (think)
Think about what you're trying to do to me
Think (think, think)
Let your mind go, let yourself be free

Let's go back, let's go back
Let's go way on way back when
I didn't even know you
You couldn't have been too much more than ten (just a child)
I ain't no psychiatrist, I ain't no doctor with degrees
But it don't take too much high IQ to see what you're doing to me

You better think (think)
Think about what you're trying to do to me
Yeah, think (think, think)
Let your mind go, let yourself be free

'Cause freedom (freedom)
Freedom (freedom)
Oh freedom
Yeah freedom, right now
Gotta have freedom
Freedom (freedom)
Oh oh freedom (freedom)
Gotta have freedom
Oh oh freedom, right now

Yeah, think about it!
You, think about it!

There ain't nothing you could ask
I could answer you but I won't (I won't)
But I was gonna change, but I'm not
If you keep doing things I don't

You better think (think)
Think about what you're trying to do to me
Oh oh-oh-oh think (What you're tryna to do to me)
(Think)
Let your mind go, let yourself be free

People walking around everyday
Playing games and taking scores
Trying to make other people lose their minds
Well, be careful, you're goin' to lose yours

Oh, think (think)
Think about what you're trying to do to me
Wooh! Think (think)
Let your mind go, let yourself be free

You need me (need me)
And I need you (don't you know?)
Without each other
There ain't nothing neither can do

Oh yeah, think about me, baby
(What you tryin’ to do to me)
To the bone, baby
Think about it right now
Yeah, right now, (to the bone, for deepness, to the bone, for deepness, to the bone, for deepness) think about it, baby, baby
(to the bone, for deepness, to the bone, for deepness, to the bone, for deepness) think about it, woo-who…

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An icon of 20th and 21st century music, the voice of the civil rights movement, and the undisputed Queen of Soul—there is only one Aretha Franklin. In her incredible six-decade career, Aretha evolved from teenage gospel star to reigning pop and R&B diva, recording classics like “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” “Chain Of Fools”, “Think” (lyrics by Aretha Franklin), definitive versions of the songs “Respect” and “I Say a Little Prayer”, and global hits like “Freeway Of Love,” “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)”, and “A Rose Is Still A Rose.”

Altogether, 112 of her singles reached the charts, with 20 No. 1 R&B singles, the most ever by a female artist. She won 18 Grammy Awards (including the first eight trophies for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance) and, out of recognition for her for indelible contribution to American music and culture, received both the Presidential Medal Of Freedom and a Pulitzer Prize.