Aretha Franklin the label. To complete her Arista obligations, Franklin issued the duets compilation album "" in 2007. The following year, she issued the holiday album "This Christmas, Aretha", on DMI Records. In February 2006 she performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" with Aaron Neville and Dr. John for Super Bowl XL, held in her hometown of Detroit. On January 20, 2009 Franklin made international headlines for performing "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" at President Barack Obama's inaugural ceremony with her church hat becoming a popular topic online. In 2010, Franklin accepted an honorary degree from Yale University. In 2011, under her own label,
Day Dreaming (Aretha Franklin song) Day Dreaming (Aretha Franklin song) "Day Dreaming" is a soul single by American singer Aretha Franklin. Released from her album "Young, Gifted and Black", it spent two weeks at the top of the Hot Soul Singles chart in April 1972 and peaked at number five on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and number 11 on the Easy Listening singles chart. "Billboard" ranked it as the No. 61 song for 1972. Donny Hathaway plays electric piano on the single. Hubert Laws plays the flute on the single. The single version omits the jazzy daydreaming like music, heard in the beginning and the