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Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classicsis the thirty-eighth and finalstudio albumby American singerAretha Franklinand was released on October 17, 2014.[1]It features ten covers of songs made famous by female recording artists.

This was Franklin’s first and only recording forRCA Records, her first studio album to be released under a major label in 11 years (since the release of her 2003 studio album,So Damn Happy), and her first album since 1998 to be executively produced byClive Davis, her boss atArista Records, which has since folded into RCA. It is also her last studio album of entirely new and original recordings created prior to her death in 2018; the 2017 albumA Brand New Mefeatures vintage vocal performances from the 1960s and 1970s, paired with newer orchestral arrangements.