She Played the Same Song at Every Graduation for 35 Years.

Dorothy taught piano at a Detroit middle school for thirty-five years. Every graduation, she played the same song on the upright piano in the main hall — Aretha Franklin's "A Natural Woman." She never explained why. Twenty years after she retired, one of her former students called to tell her she had never forgotten it. 00:00 — Thirty-five years, the same song 02:30 — Dorothy arrives at the school, 1968 05:00 — The wrong song, the right song 08:00 — What she heard in Natural Woman 10:30 — Thirty-five graduations 13:00 — The phone call, 2009 #ArethaFranklin #NaturalWoman #ArethaFranklinDocumentary #QueenOfSoul #SoulMusicHistory #ClassicRnB #ArethaFranklinUntoldStory #OldSchoolRnB #SoulMusicDocumentary #ArethaFranklinFans