Sisters are doin'it for themselves

  4:30 Sisters are doin'it for themselves [7" version]
  4:04 I love you like a ball and chain
uk   rca PB 40339
ger   rca PB 40339
ger   rca PB 40339 - with promo insert
sp   rca PB 40339
aus   rca 104472
usa   rca PB 14214
can   rca PB 14214
jap   rca RPS 197
     
  4:30 Sisters are doin'it for themselves
    ?
jap   rca - acetate - Yuusen Broadcasting Radio Station

  4:29 Sisters are doin'it for themselves [7" version]
  4:05 I love you like a ball and chain
sp   rca PB 40339 - promo
peru   rca 01-44-710195
safr   rca PD 2418
     
  4:29 Sisters are doin'it for themselves [7" version]
  4:29 Sisters are doin'it for themselves [7" version]
usa   rca JK 14214 - promo
     
  5:54 Sisters are doin'it for themselves
  -:-- other artist - Midge Ure (If I was)
it   rca JB 7538 - Jukebox single

  5:54 Sisters are doin'it for themselves
  7:56 Sisters are doin'it for themselves [E.T. mix]
  4:04 I love you like a ball and chain
uk   rca PT 40340
ger   rca PT 40340
jap   rca RPS 1017

  5:54 Sisters are doin'it for themselves
  7:56 Sisters are doin'it for themselves [E.T. mix]
  4:04 I love you like a ball and chain
uk   rca PT 40340 - white label promo with press release
usa   rca PW 14243
usa   rca JW 14243 - promo
     
  5:54 Sisters are doin'it for themselves
  5:54 Sisters are doin'it for themselves
usa   rca JR 14206 - promo

  4:30 Sisters are doin'it for themselves
  7:56 Sisters are doin'it for themselves [E.T. mix]
  4:04 I love you like a ball and chain
aus   rca TEPK 0556

Sleeve notes

released: october 1985
art & design: Laurence Stevens
vocals: Aretha Franklin

charts: uk 9

Remixes / Versions

5:54 album version
4:29/4:30 7" version
7:56 E.T. mix
2:50 short version
9:34 live, part of the Peace gospel medley

Available on

Be yourself tonight
Greatest hits
It's alright (-baby's coming back)
17 again

Aretha Franklin - Who's zoomin' who

B-sides

I love you like a ball and chain

Lyrics

now there was a time
when they used to say
that behind every great man
there had to be a great woman
but in these times of change
you know that it's no longer true
so we're coming out of the kitchen

cause there's something we forgot to say to you,
we say sisters are doin' it for themselves
standin' on their own two feet
and ringin' on their own bells
sisters are doin' it for themselves

now this is a song to celebrate
the conscious liberation of the female state
mothers, daughters and their daughters too
woman to woman we're singin' with you
the inferior sex has got a new exterior we
got doctors, lawyers, politicians too
everybody take a look around
can you see there's a woman right next to you

now we ain't makin' stories
and we ain't laying plans
don't you know that a man
still loves a woman
and a woman still loves a man
just the same though

Covers

The American Film Orchestra
Rosetta Stone
The Simpsons
Marina & Hazell Dean
Natalia meets the Pointer Sisters
Raffaëla
Spice Girls
Viola Wills
Xena