I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

The ninth studio album of her career and the first under her Atlantic contract, following her departure from Columbia. The title song was cut at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals with Rick Hall credited as its producer. A fight between Ted White, Hall and a horn player stopped the session, so Do Right Woman, Do Right Man was left unfinished. Muscle Shoals musicians were flown to New York to complete it and other tracks, including Respect. The two studios' tape machines ran at slightly different speeds, and the foundation track of Do Right Woman sits very slightly out of tune with what was added later. Tom Dowd arranged and engineered, with Arif Mardin also credited as engineer.

The album reached number 2 on the Billboard 200 and spent 14 weeks at number 1 on the R&B albums chart. It went gold in 1967 and eventually sold nearly two million copies. Rolling Stone's 1967 review faulted the sidemen and the polish of the production, while Robert Christgau gave it an A. Rolling Stone later put it at number 13 in its 2020 list of the 500 greatest albums, and it is in the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die book. Pitchfork ranked it tenth among the best albums of the 1960s.