No Other Love by Irma James

Rev. Franklin insisted that his eldest daughter had to finish school and go to university before she could become a professional singer. Berry Gordy offered her a song he'd written with his sister and Raquel Davis, but Irma thought of herself as a jazz singer and didn't want to do R&B. She eventually got up the nerve to make the move into secular music. But Etta was very insecure and said that church audiences weren't critics but worshipers. They went out to New York to see Phil Moore, a legendary vocal coach and arranger who had helped make Lena Horne and Dorothy Dandridge into stars. He refused to take her on as a client saying: "She