Sweet Passion is the twenty-third studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin.

Following Franklin's Gold-certified 1976 soundtrack album, Sparkle, she paired up with Motown producer Lamont Dozier to produce Sweet Passion.

The album's lead single, "Break It To Me Gently", topped the Billboard R&B chart but peaked at No.

85 on the Hot 100 and dropped off the chart after two weeks.

The Bay State Banner noted that "her voice seems to free itself, even during the most stilted and contrived show tunes, stronger and lots weightier than Natalie Cole's cheery mimicry.