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”He was referring on the knockout audio of Franklin’s backup singers — her sisters, Carolyn and Erma — chanting “Sock it to me” at high velocity, which Aretha and Carolyn cooked up with the session. The late Tom Dowd, who engineered the day, credited Carolyn with the saucy breakdown by which Aretha spelled out the title: “I fell off m