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"Son of a Preacher Man" is a song recorded by Dusty Springfield in September 1968 and featured on the album ''Dusty in Memphis''. It was written by John Hurley and Ronnie Wilkins. The song was originally offered to Aretha Franklin, who turned it down. However, it was recorded by Aretha's elder sister Erma Franklin and was included on her 1969 Brunswick album ''Soul Sister''. It was only upon hearing Springfield's version, a UK and American hit in 1969, that Aretha Franklin reconsidered and recorded the song herself including it on her 1970 album, ''This Girl's in Love with You'', and it charted only as a less popular a-side of the b-side hit single "Call Me". Springfield's version was produced by Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd and Arif Mardin for her first album for the Atlantic Records label and became an international hit reaching No.10 in the United States and No.9 in her native UK when released in late 1968. The album ''Dusty in Memphis'' was released in stereo though its singles were remixed and released in mono. "Son of a Preacher Man" was to be the last Top Ten chart hit for the artist for almost 20 years until she teamed up with Pet Shop Boys for the single "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" in 1987. ==Legacy== The writers of ''Rolling Stone'' magazine placed the release at No.77 among ''The 100 Best Singles of the Last 25 Years'' in 1987. The record was placed at No.43 of the ''Greatest Singles of All Time'' by the writers of New Musical Express in 2002. In 2004, the song made the ''Rolling Stone'' list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time )〕 at No.240. In 1994 the song was featured in a scene of the film ''Pulp Fiction''. The film's soundtrack reached No. 21 on the Billboard 200, and at the time, went platinum (100,000 units) in Canada alone.〔Billboard; 1/28/95, Vol. 107 Issue 4, p62, 1/2p〕 "Son of a Preacher Man" helped to sell over two million units of the album〔Billboard, 00062510, 4/20/96, Vol. 108, Issue 16〕 and to help it reach number six on the charts according to SoundScan.〔Christian Science Monitor, 08827729, 9/8/97, Vol. 89, Issue 198〕 Quentin Tarantino has been quoted on the "Collectors Edition" DVD of Pulp Fiction as saying that he probably would not have filmed the scene in which the song is featured had he not been able to use it. The song is also featured in the film ''Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room'', during scenes depicting Kenneth Lay, ex-Enron CEO and son of a Baptist minister, and on an episode of ''Hindsight''. In the 2008 television episode of the American series ''The Office'' entitled "Baby Shower", Jan Levinson, played by Melora Hardin, is filmed singing "Son of a Preacher Man" as a lullaby to her newborn daughter Astrid.〔The Office (), Season 5 Episode 3, aired Thursday, October 16. 2008〕 Samples from "Son of a Preacher Man" were used on Cypress Hill's "Hits from the Bong" on their album ''Black Sunday'' in 1993 and on Adil Omar's "Known to Kick It" in 2008. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Son of a Preacher Man」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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