Music from the Warner Bros. Picture "Sparkle" is a soundtrack
album and twenty-fourth studio album by
American singer
Aretha Franklin, written and produced by
Curtis Mayfield. Released on June 1, 1976, the disc is the
soundtrack album for the 1976
Warner Bros. motion picture Sparkle, starring
Irene Cara. The songs on the soundtrack feature the instrumental tracks and backing vocals from the film versions, with Franklin's voice taking the place of the original lead vocalists.
This album returned Aretha to Gold status after two low-selling albums. The first single release, "
Something He Can Feel", was a
No. 1 R&B hit for her and reached
No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100. However, it was Aretha's only Pop Top 40 hit during the second half of the 1970s. "Something He Can Feel" was nominated for the Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female Grammy at the 1977
Grammy Awards. The album itself reached the Top 20 of Billboard's main album chart and was
certified Gold for US sales of over 500,000 copies. In 2009, it was reissued on
Rhino Records' budget
Flashback Records label. The songs "Something He Can Feel" and "Hooked on Your Love" were covered by
En Vogue on their 1992 multi-platinum hit album Funky Divas.